How about this setup? http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#401MffMzhMZZG0rkrbhz.1 I think dropping Surgical Probe and picking up Cull is worth it. Opinions??

I got a question. Can you be knocked back, pushed off a ledge, pulled, etc if you are in Cover? Scenario: I find that after my opener rotation which is: AB/HS, Shiv, Backstab...then as the player is getting up he knocks me back before I can pull off Lacerate to finish him. Normally people are < 20% health at this point. After I perform Backstab...can I go immediately into Cover to prevent his knockback? Then stand up out of cover and finish him off? Will this work?

True, but the way the mods/enhancements are made..if you devote to POWER, you will lack on crit rating overall. Sure you may do more base damage, but in PVP it's about burst for our class. You get in the damage fast, and get out. I'm not saying ignore power but you want to make sure you DO in fact crit and get the damage in before you get destroyed, etc. =)

Don't worry my friend. Once you do get it, it's amazing. =) It's worth the wait.

Here are my stats right now: 1250 Cunning 1100 Endurance 38% Crit 87% Surge (Crit Damage) 93% Accuracy 2-3% PVP expertise And I can't remember my Power for the life of me right now, but I have been stacking +crit and +surge lately. Might need more power though. Last night after I did my weekly and got 4 bags, I got a Champ bracer from one of them, Cent Comms from the others. Then I did a few more WZ's, got 200 merc and 200 wz comms....grabbed my last bag of the night, and popped a Champ Chest piece. I was pleased. =) Right now, if I pop my relic and grab the expertise powerup in Huttball, I can lay down a 4.7-5.2k crit on my opener.

Level 50 Concealment Op here, and I don't have any champ gear yet. Cunning: 1100 Endurance: 1050 Crit Chance: 38% Crit Damage: 80% Accuracy: 97% Don't know my power. All my gear is 116 rating with some 126 I believe, and I'm squishy as hell. Not sure what the OP is talking about. If I do not kill someone in my opener then I am dead as dirt. Plain and simple. Almost every other class destroys me unless I get the jump. And there are some classes that even if I get the jump I still can't touch them...like Vanguard's.

Ugh...why do my crits completely stink?

Frivolous...see Bekkal's post. What are you talking about bro?

Is there a point to this troll response?

I was told that Eviscerate doesn't work in PVP because the skill only works on incapacitated normal and strong targets. Players are considered "Elites" ....aren't they?

Yea I've been using the +crit relics, but maybe I need +power relics because with the normal buff we get I already have 38% +crit. I need either more surge or more power before I attack with my opener.

I just turned level 50 and the most I can crit for is 3800 on my opener. Is this because of my gear? Another question I have is: What is order of importance for a full conc op...stat wise? Should it be: Crit first, then Power, then Surge? Edit: I have 1100 Cunning, 38% Crit, and like 80% Crit Damage. 1050 Endurance also. I believe 97% Accuracy....and I don't know what my Power is.

Eviscerate works in PVP now?

^^ This. Sooooo this... Vanguard's completely own me. I can't even dent them.

Title guys. What is your rotation? Let's pretend Huttball just started and you stealth up, you see someone by himself..maybe half health or so. Go. (include your consumables, relic buffs, etc)

Operatives need Champ gear to be that effective. I just turned level 50 yesterday, and Vanguard's I could not kill ..even with my opener. Granted the ones I fought were probably decked out.

To the so called 400,000 subscribers that are going to leave the game: Can I have your stuff?

Yea, brackets are not the answer. The answer is being PATIENT and waiting for more people to be level 50.

Why do people think this is the answer? By creating brackets, the low levels will have LONG queues. Dur...

Brilliant. =)

That other one is broken too. I forget the name...I think Defending something. It's the daily thats northwest of the map. When you try to click on the item it says it's already in use or something.

OP, You can crit repeatedly with your tracer missle for 3.8k or so every what...2 seconds? We crit from stealth, with expertise buff, with relic buff, acid blading our weapon, and THEN hidden strike. If we don't kill our target in that opener, we're dead. Then we have a long cooldown on cloaking screen. Also if an enemy has their bubble up, guess what...our big attack goes nowhere. You can bring down someone's bubble with one tracer missle, then repeatedly fire it to destroy them. We can't. There's always a tradeoff bro.

Power is overall base damage increase. Crit is the chance to crit. Surge is the CRIT DAMAGE. ...Power does not increase CRIT DAMAGE, that is what SURGE does. Learn to read.

And to think I got flamed cause people told me to l2p when I said that an even leveled concealment Op has alot of trouble with this encounter.

Read my very first post in this thread. I talked about Chapter 1 boss. But people said they were able to do them.