This is insanely high for a sniper, which training dummy did you use? The only training dummy to be used in these tests is the Operations training dummy.

IA does not affect shrap bomb, you would be surpised at how many of our talents and skill tooltips are wrong.

As much as I would like you to be right, your sample size is way too small. From your post: Series of Shots Non-critical damage: 628 628 x 1.8 = 1,130 1,130 is less than all values listed in ur Series of Shots Critical Damage section....

Smuggler and Agents were the hardest nerfed by the surge change, which is easy to see by comparing the base crit of abilities with talents. I doubt anyother class has 23% crit from talents\skills (5% Smug Buff, 12% to Dots, 6% crit talent) on their core dps skills like a Dirty Fighter Smuggler (53% - 55% crit on these skills with top gear). Though overall most classes are getting a 2% nerf where as smugs\IAs are getting a 2.5% to 3% nerf. Edited, because the post below made me realize that I listed our crit too low.

I have two repubs both about 35 who have done none of the same planetary quests. You get so much xp for completing all the quests on one planet that its a necesity to story quest only the next planet for content to stay challenging. So my repubs have been alternating planets and both have done 0 bonus series. I will do this for my upcoming sith as well and by ding this it keeps replayab ility high.

Hmm kinda suprised with all of these responses. I thought people roll empire because they love Huttball??

You can alteady do this and this is one of the reasons why slicing was nerfed

are you a republican? The empire outnumber the republic on every server sometimes with ratios of up to 5:1, that could be your problem. Even full servers could feel empty on the republic side. Of course if you go empire the only pvp you will ever see is huttball.

WARNING: OP has no clue what he's talking about.

Yea big mistake, as there are many more android users than iphone users these days

Sounds like you screwed yourself there.