Simples, give us the old 4-piece set bonus in place of the new 6-piece set bonus

You've obviously never tried Revan HM then. Or Council NiM at 55. What a ridiculous thing to say.

I love how people are drawing conclusions about what content (or lack of) is gonna be in an expansion that was announced minutes ago. Why not wait and see if they announce if there's new Ops or PvP? And if there isn't, then complain on the forums. Doing it now is pretty sad

The ones I know of that killed Revan are Enraged, Dxun and Technicians on Rep side and Disciples of Babylon on Imp side. I'm sure if I've missed anyon, they'll let me know

Favourite boss: hands down has to be Tyrans NiM. Honorable mentions go to all of the bosses in DP and Soa. Least Favorite: Anything in the new op, but probably Revanite commanders.

Ok ok. Shock is HIGHLY situational. If you're parsing, sure go ahead and use it if you wish. However, the number of times you'd use this in a raid is quite small. Sure it has a CHANCE to do more damage than LB but look at what LB does for you: 50% chance to increase alacrity by 1% Chance to produce a second arc( Forked Lightning) rises to 60% while PS is active Which in turn reduces CD of PS Increases force regen rate by 10% for 10 seconds What does Shock do for you? ............does slightly more damage aaaaaaaaannnnndddd........that's it Remember Alacrity is really quite useful now in 3.0 so I'll take LB's utility over Shocks slight edge in damage thx

Using Shock in your rotation....... Alternatively, check out the proper Lightning guide by Ktap on these forums

I believe he was referring to raid buffs akin to unlimited power et al which we don't have. We have ballistic shield. The corrosive dart DEBUFF is called marked and increases RANGED damage only, and by 5%. Assailable is the corrosive grenade debuff and increases elemental/ internal damage taken by the target by 7%.

Your group buff is your Ballistic Shield.

The 2% buff is activated once every 30 seconds for a fifteen second duration. So you don't have to Lethal Shot more often. If you do the regular 3 cull rotation you'll use more than enough Lethal shots to get the buff. No offence intended man, but your rotation seems overly complicated and has less dps than the regular 3 cull.But if it works for you, then go for it :-)

You're not using takedown after your first cull. Why? What are you parsing with that rotation? I'd also agree with all the above posters regarding cover pulse. There are far better utilities to pick in a pve environment.

Yeah you're right, that's what I meant to say, it should be 4 blocks, or even 2 as you said with the fillers being used in rotation.

Yup, that works for me too as the dots are just about ready to fall off as you reapply them. I like to think of the rotation as 3 blocks Cull>TD>SoS>Filler Cull>TD>Lethal Shot>WB>Filler Cull>TD>SoS>Filler With the fillers being Dart, Grenade, Lethal Shot /Rifle Shot /Overload Shot one after the other in that order.

Well get your accuracy to 100/110% and then work on getting the 6 piece set bonus. This will bring your parse up. And having played with Vulkk, his guides are excellent as he knows the class inside out so keep watching his vids. Practice those rotations until you can do them in your sleep. They have to be second nature with 0 hesitation. Getting those high parses requires gear, skill, luck and lots and lots of practice. So don't be discouraged and keep at it

Your accuracy is waaayyyyy too low. You're missing out a lot of dps by not having your melee accuracy at 100% and special accuracy to 110%

I have no idea why they've used carbine burst as the dot spread ability instead of corrosive grenade like Virulence snipers....

Your parse is perfectly fine considering your gear. Don't be put off by those "scary" parses. What those parses don't tell you is that for that one awesome parse, they have gotten 10 others that aren't as good. Some people spend hours on the dummy trying for that one epic parse. I've been guilty of that in the past! So don't worry, your numbers are fine

The difference is negligible overall tbh. Go with either. I've gone mainstat with a couple of surge augments.

You don't use SoS after you get Penetrating Blast. Remove it from your taskbar. Also Gz on the guide guys. Nice work!

Yeah, was parsing a bit today and it failed to proc twice on a 4:30 min parse. This must be a bug I think

/5char all you want. But you might wanna read the TITLE of the post first. Best sniper tree for operations. And if you knew what you were talking about and actually played a sniper in operations, you'd know that your advice to the op is wrong. Engineering can parse really high on the dummy. Because you utilise wallbang. Most bosses hitboxes aren't big enough to utilise rollbang. So stop offering bad advice.

He asked what is the best sniper tree for operations. And the fact is Engineering is the worst of the three trees for operations as it stands now. Rollbanging is useful on very few boss fights. OP, learn Lethality on top of what you know for Marksman. Those two specs will be more than enough for any boss fight in any operation.

Best spec if you can rollbang? Rollbanging is highly situational and in the grand scheme of things, not entirely useful in most operations. Rollbanging is great for dummy parsing but has limited use other than that. To answer the Op's question, marksmanship is perfectly fine in story mode and hard mode ops. It's only when you go into nightmare ops that you'll want to change it up a bit. Certain fights suit certain specs and it's best to know all 3. Lethality is great, especially on fights with lots of adds as your corrosive grenade can hit multiple targets. But at the moment Engineering/ Lethality hybrid is the best sniper spec. Until 3.0 hits that is.

Fascinating reading through this. Lightning is hands down my favourite spec in the game. Played it from launch until the Great Madness Buff. And while KBN makes some compelling arguments, the simple fact is, as Pelara says, Madness simply performs better than Lightning in the majority of boss fights. And as he also states, those that lightning can push ahead in, Madness isn't far behind. It's just easier to do better in Madness. But christ is it boring!!! I try and use lightning as often as I can tho, Draxus, Corruptor, Brontes, Calphayus and Raptus is where I usually switch.

You have to quit the game and log back in for it to take effect