and that would also bring back the old animation

For tactical item: To be able to make ravage great again: Make ravage a channel and increase its dmg substantially.

I have accidentally rolled up on pillars with my sniper when entering cover. You know when you have an enemy targeted and a "green" spot shows up where you roll into cover automatically. This way you can reach pretty weird places both in pve and pvp

There is definitely something weird going on with these guys as (most) previous posters have stated. I had done this two times before 5.0 and it was a walk in the park. Now I have cruised through the chapters on veteran difficulty with my mara (230-236 gear) but suddenly against these two guys I wiped. Had to do it several times and use heroic moment, DCDs in optimal situations, CC adds, peel for my comp etc before I managed to kill them. So probably not working as intended.

Good point, I just assumed that you would not be able to pick that utility any more because of the change. Fingers crossed that it will still be there

I personally do not like this change. I play both Jug and Mara and with both I use ravage to keep targets in place (in Huttball, stopping the enemy to prevent a cap, rooting someone so they can´t get away from a teammates burst etc). I don´t feel that the channel would hinder my overall mobility either. But at least Carnage get a new move (new gore) that slows the target now when ravage is changed.

I disagree with you @WayOfTheWarriorx on Maras being glass cannons. I regularly play Vengeance Jug and Carnage Mara and in my opinion both are equally "tanky" or "squishy" (depending on how you want to put it). Mara DCDs are very well suited for PVP and undying rage and force camo are stronger than anything a Jug can pop against multiple enemies ganging up on you. Sure, enraged defense is a second health bar but a couple of competent dps will burst through that. I used to struggle with my mara (compared to Jug) but with experience I learnt to use DCDs better and now I would even dare say that I die less often with my mara in WZs.

If we are talking about regs, it depends alot on the situation (how many are focusing you, is a healer and/or tank backing you up, which DCD are available, does it matter for my teams success if I die now). But I usually a) break the net and force camo out (if 2+ attacking me) or b) if a melee is also on me I might pop undying rage, stand still and just bash the melee while waiting for the net to wear off. If the merc is alone attacking me I would probably break>camo>move towards merc>VT>gore>DB directly from stealth and then go from there. But I am no pro, just a tryhard In ranked you would need to be more careful when you use your breaker (not too early) cause you might just get stunned again by let´s say a PT and then watch helplessly as energy burst and heatseeker missiles detonate in your a**hole

I think Maras are in a good spot right now (and Veng Jugs also). I also main a veng Jug and she is pretty much every wz in top-3 medals and dmg or dominating in Huttball so I don´t really agree with the statement that veng Jugs are in a bad Place. The only thing that gets frustrating with veng is trying to kill healers, sure I can pretty much shut them down but ´good ones are not going down. ATM I really enjoy playing my carnage mara in UWZ. Sure, I´m not as durable as a Jug but the smart use of DCD will actually keep you alive atleast as long as AP PT, Sniper, Merc etc. And with the amount of burst at our disposal healers actually go down rather easy if not cross-healed, guarded or really really skilled. In sum, I will probably not get as many medals with my mara compared to my jug but I still feel that I contribute to the match, albeit a little differently (bursting down enemies, funtioning as a "speed beacon" in huttball etc.)

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I have found running starparse when pvping really helpful when evaluating the use of different abilities like saber reflect. In some fights within a WZ match saber reflect has been my highest damaging ability when I have been lucky and popped it when getting focused By multiple enemies. But as stated before, I love it when those pesky AP PT land their burst on me just to get destroyed by the combined dps of me and them

Do you happen to use Treek or HK as your comp during the conversation? I was stuck on an agent class quest once becaused it required one of the original comps to advance and I had Treek active

I personally use a dps comp (Temple) because it is a lot quicker or respecc to dps myself and use a tank comp. Same goes with my sorc heal, I use dps comp (HK) or respecc to dps.

I do not feel they are more difficult than the rest. I guess its more about how many times you run them. For example the last bosses in Cademimu and Hammer require more focus than the last bosses in Czerka FPs but we have done them so many times (in SM and HM) that you know the fights inside out. And has been pointed out they can´t be compared to HM LI that had an own tier back in the days.

There are plenty but in my view not that good looking. I personally like Kallig´s countenance (the one you get in your class story). If looks doesn´t matter just go to the GTN and you will find a relatively cheap one.

I play as a sorc healer and in the new lvl55 HM FP I have experienced that I get alot more aggro when healing a PT during trash mob encounters. I do not however, see this as a problem when you get used to it because I still feel that PTs health bars aren´t dropping as fast as for example Sin tanks. You just have to get accustomed to this and not go "all in" with the healing when you have a PT tank. I cannot say anything about OPS because I don´t run them. So from my healing point of view I do not mind having a PT tank, I just try to act accordingly.

I´m also new to syntweaving and would like an answer to this question. Thanks in advance! PS. Great thread!

Thanks for all the helpful comments!

I´m having trouble getting the required gemstones (from Treasure hunting missions) for my purple schematics for example purple guardian hilt lvl17 requires grade 5 gemstone (ice-jewel) but I do not seem to get those. This probably has an easy solution but feel free to share it to me =)