Logging out has fixed it. Thanks dude!

Anyone know how long it takes after pre-ordering to receive the XP bonus? I pre-ordered an hour ago and still nothing in game

Sure, it's taken you longer to grind Brutalizer gear than it has taken YOU to grind Dread Master gear. Not everyone is in a guild that has those operations on farm ;-) But yes, at least we can agree on something; gear grinding is a hazardous and often tedious task!

Ok, it's like trying to reason with a brick wall, but assuming as you are that operations groups are on an even level and can farm 4/5 the moment it goes live, you will not get several upgrades a week. 8 people, 4 bosses once a week. How does that equate to several upgrades a week? I agree that it takes a long time to gear up in PvP. Is it really so difficult to admit it takes a similar effort for PvE players to do the same? Or do you have to be always right?

Evolixe, it is totally relevant. Why? Because you can start earning ranked comms straight away. In NiM ops it often takes weeks to down a boss and then months to min/ max. So you're 100% wrong. Next time your guild begin their progression in the next level of NiM content, join them from the beginning. Not when they have all the bosses on farm. Then tell me how long it takes you to min/ max. You'll find its a lot longer than you think.

Again, you're not even factoring in the time it takes to down these bosses. You're taking a very simplistic view. You're assuming all bosses are on farm AND you get 1 piece of DM loot and DT loot per run. In the real world, this doesn't happen. And as someone who participates in NiM operations, you know this already. I'm not arguing that PvP needs some attention. It clearly does. But this argument has gone away from the OP and is totally irrelevant in any case.

Still not a true representation of gearing up from NiM progression. It takes weeks to clear a NiM operation. Even the best guilds have spent weeks on the PTS before it hits live. Then they have 8 guys with 14 gear slots to upgrade, not to mention the ridiculous enhancements they put in these gear pieces which we have to swap out. Let's just say it takes ages to min/ max in both PvE and PvP.

You've nearly fully geared up your PVE gear in 3 weeks? So in 6 raids you've nearly completely min/maxed? You have a verrrrryyyyy generous guild there Evolixe. In reality, in a NiM progression guild, when there are 8 people competing for every item drop, Dread Touched and Dread Master, it takes a LOT longer than 3 weeks to gear up. That is a really poor comparison you made there. I know you're biased more towards PvP but I expected more from you than that.

That's awesome dude. This (and your recent most unhelpful post on hybrid rotation ) really helped me iron out the kinks in my own hybrid sniper. This should be stickied as required viewing for all snipers!

You really don't want crushing darkness eating your deathmarks as it's dot ticks are the weakest if your 3 dots. And 3 LS is far better than an extra force lightning as wrath buffs it's damage by a whopping 35%. I'm not even gonna argue. Put up a parse and show me your dps. Then we can compare.

Whoa whoa whoa! There are so many things wrong with that madness rotation. Firstly, you put max dps and no LS in the same sentence. You do realise LS is a core part of your rotation? You also used Recklessness after DF.....why? This is your madness rotation: Opener - hard cast Crushing Darkness>affliction>adrenal+recklessness>Death Field>creeping terror>polarity shift>force lightning>lightning strike(do this 3 times)>force lightning>crushing darkness>affliction>death field>creeping terror>rinse and repeat. This lines up your dots nicely. And always use recklessness before death field.

My Sorc http://imgur.com/quzvm1b http://imgur.com/e7XxWUd

You know that's not what we meant. That was tongue in cheek. But if they're so serious about balance, at least fix the exploits in other specs. We neither put out enough dps to compete nor do we have the survivability to make us viable in certain fights. We're a light armored class with practically 0 DCD's. Why would any team pick a sorcerer over a mara or pyro merc? They wouldn't. That needs to change.

Not to toot my own horn here, but I'm one of the top parsing Sorcs, I know that means nothing in raids but I put out high numbers there too. But I'm not selected for my guilds top progression team. Why? 2 reasons. Dotsmash maras and Pyro mercs. Dotsmash shouldn't exist. It's a freak. Pyro has an exploit that is being used to put out ridiculous numbers too. Please break us too so we can be the next OP FOTM. Also it's been mentioned here already and sone have said it's not worth mentioning, but we need something to happen regarding DCD's. Either take unnatural preservation and barrier off the gcd or, preferably, give us a new cooldown that increases our armor for a short period of time. Cos on DF NiM Draxus, when your on the bulwarks at the side with 2 dispatchers and they start focusing you, you go down quicker than (insert joke here). It saddens me that a class I've spent 2.5 years playing is still like the black sheep of the dps family when it comes to being picked for the hardest content. We have to perform unbelievably well to even get close to an average pyro merc or Dotsmash mara. That's not balance, that's bulls**t.

I'm also skeptical of Sejv's parses. He always comes top on the leaderboards and looking at his parses I'm not sure how. His crit % is about average and as the previous poster said his abilities just seem to hit harder than sorcs in exactly the same gear. I could be wrong, and will admit so if I am but I think his parses are edited. As for the rotation, it is pretty static. It's far more of a rotation than pre-2.7. My opener is the same as has been posted previously. It's quite an easy rotation. You know when FL and CL are gonna proc so there's no reason, with practice, to get around 40-41 apm. I run with 0 alacrity and I consistently hit 40-41 so it's about hitting those buttons quicker :-)

I would love if they put back the named weapons that used to have at tionese, columi and rakata level. Stuff like, qel-droma's ancestral blade, hatred, fear, the unslung hero, fast credits, etc. Maybe have them.as a reward for completing something similar to the dreadseed quests.

Underpowered? In the right hands, it's not. But it takes a lot of skill to put out good numbers. And a lot of people have neither the patience nor the skill to do so. The reason why they haven't buffed it is because doing so in the traditional increasing damage sense would make it OP in PvP, where it performs exceptionally well. So in order for the combat team to make this spec on a par with the other dps classes in PVE requires careful planning. And so far I think they have no clue how to do this.

Can't speak for PvP as I don't PvP on my merc but whoever said they weren't good at end game pve has his head stuck up his......or you were being trolled. Pyro merc's are top two in terms of damage at the moment. They can do over 4k dps on the dummy. My advice is stick with your Merc and l2Pyro

Nice parse! (and nice crit too ) I've noticed a slight increase in dps with the new changes. Consistently hitting 3350 - 3420. Been unlucky with my crit% tho as usually am hitting 33 - 34% compared to your 38%

I may be wrong but number 1 looks very like the RD-07 Vendetta armor. Can also be found on the gtn but it's a bit pricey. Or it was when I bought it!

That's incorrect. Comms gear gives you advanced proficient enhancements which are not BiS. Advanced initiative enhancements are what you will need for BiS. You will need 5 of these and you can only get them from running Dread Fortress and Dread Palace HM. All BiS gear drops from these operations including the dread forged relics, implants, earpieces, armorings with the set piece bonus and mainhand hilt.

Do you guys accept social members?

Don't click the link, it's a referral link.

Do not click that link. It's a referral link. And I hope your account gets banned for pulling such a cheap stunt.

Most obvious thing for me is that your accuracy is too low. It should be at least 99.5% melee and 109.5% force. So another initiative enhancement will help. Your gear looks fine apart from that. Rotation I'll leave to more experienced Juggs as I only play mine once in a while. I'd recommend checking out paowee's guide on swtorboard.org. It's an excellent resource for all dps classes.