Correct me if I'm wrong here, but accuracy over 100% reduces enemy defense, not resistance, and defense doesn't affect non-weapon attacks anyways. [EDIT] The first part of my statement is wrong. Accuracy over 100% reduces force/tech resistance, at least according to the paper doll tooltips. It's just that force/tech resistance is unaffected by increasing the Defense stat, which only increases melee/ranged defense. That is an odd dichotomy: it's very hard to increase force/tech resistance, but very easy to increase accuracy, so force/tech resistance in small quantities is basically useless.

Single-bladed lightsabers deal significantly less damage than double-bladed at the same hilt rating, so you're still gimping yourself even for the abilities we have that don't require a DBLS.

I'm about to start gearing myself up for PvP as a kinetic/balance hybrid, and I'm not sure which set to get. Since defense and shielding don't do jack against non-weapon-damage attacks, it seems like stacking them would be a waste of stats in PvP.

You're absolutely losing something: you're losing 25 force and a third of your damage if it doesn't crit. There's no reason for force-starving yourself this early in a fight. Opening with Project seems like a poor choice.

I'd like to know this too, if anybody has an answer.

1) No search feature, so the same questions get asked over and over again. 2) No "you posted in this thread" icon, so you quickly lose track of threads you posted in as they fall off the front page. 3) No way to subscribe to threads without posting in them. 4) No way to rate threads without posting in them. I know there are plenty of game issues that need resolving, but is there a minor upgrade anywhere in the forum's future?

Rolling one now, thanks.

Just discovered a potential bug: Force in Balance doesn't appear to increase its healing if you hit more than 1 target.

I think everybody can agree that it wouldn't hurt if there was a "try-before-you-buy" feature so you can actually know what each AC plays like.

This is the Jedi Shadow Handbook: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=458 Read everything in it that's relevant to your playstyle. It is really, really important that you understand the fundamentals, because soloing in this game at higher levels is actually quite difficult if you don't.

So, I just got Nadia Grell, and I'd like to give her a single-bladed saber so she looks different from me. But, before I do, I want to know what the differences are between a single- and double-bladed lightsaber, statwise. Assuming even-level mods, what are the differences between these two weapon types?

Hard? No. Pretty irritating with this UI? Definitely. One of WoW's best updates was the one where they gave big flashy UI feedback when you hit an important proc. Staring at the tiny buff bar for an entire fight is not particularly fun.

I hate the Double Strike animation, and it really needs a change. There are some very cool Saber Strike killing blow animations that we never get to see because we're usually finishing with Spinning Strike. Those animations could go to better use as alternate Double Strike animations.

Wait, what? Why would you only use Project every 20 seconds if you have Circling Shadows?

Interesting. How do DBLs compared to single-bladed in terms of min/max spread? (Or are they identical?)

You're saying you open with Project? Why would you do that?

Within the GCD != no lag. It just means it's less than 1.5 seconds of lag. If you put that in latency terms, it's around 800 ms, which is quite a significant delay. Effectively, Project has a 0.8 cast time that you can use while moving. That's a reasonably bad disadvantage when you're trying to stop cappers or land it when Particle Acceleration is about to wear off. It's not so much that the delay bothers me. It can be played around. It bothers me that the factions are not symmetrical. If it is something that has to be played around, everybody should have to play around it, not just one faction.

Not everyone is watching the front page of the forum at the same time, and I'd much prefer a bump to a repost, TBH. @OP: Kitru answered most of your questions, but if you're wondering which spec has the flashiest saber moves, Infiltration does, though it's still not really Darth Maul-like. As for the armor aesthetics, it's entirely a matter of opinion. I think the hats are rather doofy-looking, and some of the endgame gear looks pretty silly, but custom gear solves most of the armor aesthetic problems for me. Remember, as a light armor-wearing class, you can wear social gear with no penalties.

Since it doesn't stack with Sprint, and whenever you're stealthed you're Sprinting, this talent does absolutely nothing for you speed-wise while stealthed. It's an in-combat boost only. The stealth level bonus is nice, however.

Or making our most spammed attack double strike not look like poop, that would be nice too.

This is correct. It improves your speed both in and out of stealth. Unfortunately, since it doesn't stack with Sprint, you gain no movement speed bonus while in stealth, and the out-of-stealth benefit only really serves to make you slightly harder to kite in combat.

A focus and a shield that are the same level and quality will never have the same stats. The focus will have higher stats and the shield will give you a shield chance.

Huh? The OP asked for a leveling rotation and Kitru provided a solid leveling rotation. Why tell newbies to branch out when all you're doing is letting them fall into the many attractive "traps" the Shadow class has, like opening with Shadow Strike? No, you don't need a "perfect rotation to survive" but let's start by giving newbies good advice and let them decide how they want to use it, hmm?

Whirling Blow triggers Particle Acceleration on cast, not on hit. Just spamming it in an empty room will give you Particle Acceleration procs. This also presumably means that having more targets around you when you use Whirling Blow does not increase the chance for PA procs.

Does anybody know if Particle Acceleration and Upheaval procs interact in any way? [EDIT] They do not.