Returning player (2012 hah!) seeking guild. Played from launch up until just before Terror from Beyond. Raided in Nerf Dialogue, and tanked our world first EC HM. Getting caught back up to speed (level 71) and looking for a guild to raid with and such.

PvE mainly. PvP for fun but not competitive. That flowchart is perfect for what I was looking for thx!

Played at launch up until a little after 1.3. Was a member of a progression guild then, Nerf Dialogue, and we smacked some baddies around. Getting back into the game, and it has grown a lot since 1.3 I've started with the prelude to Revan chain. Any advice for a returning veteran who feels like a scrub? For reference I'm a Kinetic Shadow on Satele Shan

My hunch would be that it doesnt take Primary Stat crit chance into account.

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rcrozrskrZZf0cRd.1 27/0/14 in DPS Gear obv.

If it wasn't for your attitude surrounding this then I wouldn't respond as such but.... Non timestamped videos weeks after is hardly proof of anything.

It is killable but, on 8man at least, but it keeps hitting you outside the purple. Check out our stream on mmomechanics channel (http://www.twitch.tv/mmomechanics) from tonight to see the bug and our 8 man kill from tonight. And before on 8 man you had to get out of the purple. Only 16 man was bugged before. Now only 8 man is bugged from what I am reading (havent tried 16 man since patch).

I would use BM and WH power relic personally. Bigger burst, more expertise, and theyre on seperate 20 sec CDs.

Watch The sundered guards stream from last night on mmomechanics channel to see it bug.

Ya. If you kill firebrand first then Stormcaller does ultimate destruction on everyone (a big dot)

Campaign gear is very absorb shield heavy with little defense so defense augments are prob best for the least remodding possible.

I'll give you a ******* if you contine the SA with set and debuff graph up to 600 shield and post a picture of it. With the distribtuion of shield all over 1.2 gear I am curious as to the proper ratio of absorb to defense now.

http://www.torparse.com/a/7049 My parse from offtanking HM EC tonight.

that mount is from hard mode

Theres no point in threat gear... I run absorb augments but plan to run defense augments with Campaign Gear.

I posted a BiS setup in a thread. I would use the WH saber just for the expertise. I havent looked at WH gear much but you should be able to buy the force mystic mainhand and move it into a crit orange iirc for BiS. I will work on a BiS pvp setup.

300 or 76% with nadia buff is the softcap. Personally ill run a lot higher than that due to accuracy suckage.

Yes. The hilt.

Until I can use the dummy ror accuracy testing ill continue to use 95/105 accuracy. I will be posting a setup for kinetic shadows tonight or tommorow. It will require a lot more analysis of the best way to hit the sweet spots for shield and absorb. Also our tank gear has a ton of shield... Too much rly.

I beat our full rakata+ with some q61 sentinelon some fights the other night. The only person who always beat me was our DPS sage who haxors his dps. I usually beat all our other DPS and im nowhere near BIS. Do some raid parses then decide.

Story Modes one day, EC HM 1-2 Days, KP/EV one day, Nightmare Pilgrim one day. Dailies also.

I posted a thread with a BiS gear list for Balance Shadows. Dunno if you want to use it in your guide but feel free.

I run 7/3/31 for Shadow Strike and Elusiveness. The reason I said not to Project was for the force and because I'm shadow striking once every 10 seconds not projecting.. I will run some parse with and without project and see how it does. With the rotation I have I think Saber strike is MAYBE 5% of my DPS if that (hardly ever use it due to no force issues due to no projecting) and double strike is 20-25% of my DPS. Parsed 1350 DPS over 6 minutes.

The points you want to hit as a Balance Shadow in PvE are 300 Crit, 300 Surge, 150 Accuracy. The list of gear I typed uses the gear available for purchase at the vendor and doesn't include other options available through chests as forget the RNG there. Mainhand: Campaign Force Mystic's Lightsaber slotted into Crit Orange with Crit Augment Offhand: Black Hole Strike Mk1 Generator Relic1: Crit Crafted Rakata Power Relic with Crit Augment Relic 2: Campaign Relic of Dark Radiance Bracers: Orange Bracers slotted with Advanced Resolve Armoring 26 and Advanced Mettle Mod 26 Belt: Orange Belt slotted with Advanced Resolve Armoring 26 and Advanced Mettle Mod 26 Implant1: Black Hole Striker Mk1 Motivator Implant2: Black Hole Striker Mk1 Motivator Earpiece: Black Hole Striker Mk1 Chip Head: Campaign Stalker Head with Advanced Aptitude Mod 26 and Advanced Adept Enhancement 26 into Crit Orange with Crit Augment Chest: Campaign Stalker Chest with Advanced Aptitude Mod 26 and Advanced Adept Enhancement 26 into Crit Orange with Crit Augment Gloves: Campaign Stalker Gloves with Advanced Aptitude Mod 26 and Advanced Adept Enhancement 26 into Crit Orange with Crit Augment Legs: Campaign Stalker Legs with Advanced Aptitude Mod 26 and Advanced Adept Enhancement 26 into Crit Orange with Crit Augment Boots: Black Hole Striker Mk1 Boots with Advanced Aptitude Mod 26 and Advanced Adept Enhancement 26 into Crit Orange with Crit Augment This gives 736 Power 279 Crit 342 Surge and 171 Accuracy. Take the mods out of Black Hole Striker Mk1 Gloves or Campaign Boots or Campaign Head for your Orange Belt/Bracers and replace all the Mods and Enhancements from all of your Campaign Gear with Black Hole Striker Mk1 Mod and Enhancement. I chose to go with Crit Augments and Power Mods because my guilds Armstech is a slacker and the guy who does our Crit Augments is our resident crafting crackhead. Obviously if you wanted to keep some of the mods crit and go with some power augment that might be easier. Post any thoughts or critique.

I'm unsure how Jurugar would have access to parses in Ops as he never raids. I run 300 Surge 300 Crit 150 Accuracy rest power as balance. All power augments in orange gear and power is a higher priority then willpower on mods. Black Hole Striker Mk1 Boots are a perfect example of optimal itemization.