First tip would be for you to read the stickied Handbook thread. I leveled as kinetic all the way, and it was fine, definitely made easier after you pick up your healer. Others recommend starting on the infiltration tree, then switching to kinetic later.

50! Still on Voss! And I forgot to grab my stats; will try to do before my guild gears me up and we start hitting the HMs.

He's probably asking from the perspective of a kinetic shadow. I will use it occasionally on tougher mobs, where I will mind maze the champ, and then lift a gold to burn down the trash before getting distracted by too many other targets. Those few seconds can make a difference.

I am also new to MMORPGs, and the Shadow tank was what I learned on. With the information to be gathered in this forum, the practice of leveling, and your experience with another toon already, you should be just fine.

There is a trainer on Taris near the spaceport. Check your map, click on "trainer" radio button, go to spot. Profit. Also, be sure to not do what I did and walk the entire planet opposite of the direction of your quests...

Respeccing costs progressively more each time you do it per week as I recall. This gets reset on Wednesdays.

Standard advice is to build your main tree first, in order to get those top talents, then fill in the rest.

Loads more reading on Stark here. I'm also a casual player, but only got wiped once. My successful battle was won despite having issues with pulling actions off my quick bar, which had come unlocked for some reason or other. So there I was, LoSing Stark, trying to remember which actions went where in the heat of battle, and keeping Tharen alive. Was a bit of a gong show. But, I over leveled him a fair bit too, which really helps (beating him put me at 47).

Just crashed to my desktop for only the second time this morning trying the patch out. Not sure if this is patch related; however, it was annoying because I had just started a fight with a gold, and got back in time to see my toon die... Other patches gave my system a significant FPS boost. Last patch fixed some issues with my class, and it is now running very well so I am mostly delighted with the patches. Will next see if I can turn in that bugged quest on Voss.

Thanks for the vid LW, I will check it out later today. Level 48 - On Voss. Kinetic Combat Strength = 98 Presence = 219 Aim = 50 Cunning = 48 Endurance = 947 Willpower = 800 Expertise = 0 Damage = 413-529 Bonus damage = 179.8 Accuracy = 91.360 Critical chance = 16.88 Critical multiplier = 54.77 Defense : Health = 11804 Armor rating = 4951 Damage reduction = 34.25 Defence chance = 19.58 Shield chance = 24.52 Shield absorption = 28.68 Just got the +4 End datachron before taking these stats. I'm not intentionally stacking End, but its hard to avoid, as Kitru has been saying all along.

Will have to try this again tonight then. Have hit both print screen and ctrl-print screen and its never generated that folder that I could find. Thanks.

So the game doesn't autogenerate a *.jpg like in other games, but just copies a print screen to the clipboard? That's...huh. Interesting.

With respect, I was in that thread and this never happened, except in your perception. You posted your opinion, and someone else, Kitru (one of the most knowledgeable people in the Consular/Shadow subforum), pointed out that some of your suggestions weren't ideal given the game mechanics and the way the numbers work with our class. It wasn't an attack, and it wasn't a troll. Certainly isn't a plot by a guild to bring you down. Kitru is blunt in pointing out errors, granted, and you obviously took offence at that, but nobody is "bashing" you. I am very sorry you took it as personally as you did, to the point of thinking of quitting, but be assured that no one in that thread was out to get you.

I had my run in with Stark the other night, and at the same time somehow my quick bar became unlocked and I lost lots of actions. So there is me trying to get an attack off and nothing happening--look down and there is no action assigned there anymore! So in the middle of the fight I ran out to the bulkhead door to duck behind and reconstruct my quick action bar/config. I expected to get wiped and have to start over, but for whatever reason Stark either just stood there or attacked Tharen and did no damage. Got it fixed, came out from hiding, and finished him off. So dramatic, but for the wrong reasons. Plus I over leveled him a fair bit.

Depends and IV drip?

I think (being charitable) he is trying to tell us to not make the same mistake as he and spend loads of cash on gear now since priorities will change later. I haven't been doing that because of this thread at all. I'm just trying to get a basic handle on how tweeks to certain stats affect other stats. I've been taking the best gear that I've found as I've leveled and done flashpoints. But if I WANTED to try to optimize my gear, well, I'm sitting on 400k in credits so it wouldn't be unreasonable. I think so far I have bought one item off the GTN, a nice purple resolve hilt.

Anyway. When I ticked over to 47 I was at: Kinetic Combat (31/0/7) Strength = 102; Presence = 216; Aim = 51; Cunning = 49; Endurance = 950; Willpower = 821; Expertise = 0. Melee : Damage = 399-507; Bonus damage = 184.1; Accuracy = 91.38%; Critical chance = 12.29%; Critical multiplier = 50%. Force : Bonus damage = 281.5; Bonus healing = 101.0; Accuracy = 102.30%; Critical chance = 17.24%; Critical multiplier = 55.2%; Defense : Health = 11750; Armor rating = 4951; Damage reduction = 34.68%; Defence chance = 19.65%; Shield chance = 24.616%; Shield absorption = 22.77%. Since then I have (on Voss) started getting level appropriate resolve armouring (finally). I'm sure my stats are already very different from this.

Its usually said after a headshot to the enemy too. Tharen doesn't bother me in the slightest. But, since I'm a scientist, I've known a lot of IRL Tharens...

First group I ran with, I thought selecting "greed" was unfriendly...

Not everybody speeds through leveling. I started this thread to track stat progression towards 50, and it has been useful in that end, for me at least. I'm new to MMOs, and all of the things that need to be tracked, fiddled with, altered, and just plain considered to optimize stats for one's preferred play style makes for a bit of a steep learning curve (over FPSs, which come down to twitch reflexes and connection latency). Good for you for flying through gear and levels though, I guess. For post 50s, there are other stats that should be added to this tracking to make it in any way meaningful. I've already suggested tracking valor levels, but also what gear is being used.

Its not a waste when you are below 50.

What the heck are you wearing Lonewolf? Those are some seriously strong defense/end stats.

I'd love to hear about duelling with this spec in more detail, because as it is I'm only running around 50%, and have lost some duels that I have no excuse for (the time the enemy was near half health and 3 levels below me springs to mind). I had attributed it to the low DPS and L2P issues, although a guild mate suggested they might have a few pieces of epic gear.

Elsewhere on Coruscant. You are doing all of the side quests right? If you do you will usually be on the higher end of the level range for the planet (if not over it entirely). Also, rest in cantinas to get an XP bonus.

Played a bit this am...and having HS proc on use of Slow Time is AWESOME.