I have no idea why they would do that either Government, I would assume the person's response would be along the lines of "Because it's channeled and interruptable" or some other inane response. To which I preemptively respond "You, sir, are the dumb."

Natural. Cover. Needs. To. Affect. Tech. And. Force. Damage. I have no words for how tired I am of being behind hard cover and being smacked with attacks that aren't kinetic/energy and having them just completely ignore the fact that I'm in cover like it's not even there. I know we're not supposed to be crazy durable, I'm not saying make it give us the cone of complete immunity to white damage if you don't pop your head out of cover, but damn some damage reduction, like 15% or 20% would be nice. Same as we get to defense against ranged attacks in "soft" cover (the holoshield)

Thanks both of you, and I looked through the sticky Riiquiem, I did see a similar build on there, my bad for not having given it a glance earlier. And yeah, this is mostly just for PvE, I get the feeling I'd be cleansed a lot or just simply smacked about due to the high energy cost of the build in PvP, that and the lack of talent points in defensive areas, don't have the reduced CDs from DF or the increased strength of Defense Screen in Sabo. Straight DF or Sabo would be better for PvP methinks.

Hmm, I was just wondering for some criticism on this, I recently tried an alternative spec I'd been thinking up looking at the trees. It's an odd mix of Dirty Fighting and Saboteur, for PvE mainly, since it seriously lacks the defensive talents one would need for use in PvP, but I suppose one could give it a shot Here it is, 2/16/23 I did a parse after my guild's run of normal KP/EV after tonight, and on Karagga I averaged 1149 DPS, on Annihilator Droid I averaged 1362. I dunno what caused a DPS difference of just over 200 between the two fights. Could just be adapting to the sort-of rotation over time. I am currently in mostly Rakata or Black Hole level gear, and have my 4 tier Rakata set bonus. Here's a link to the parse Here're also my stats, with a Specialist's Skill Stim in use. Ranged Damage (Pri): 794-1023 Damage (Sec): 80-149 Bonus Damage: 525.7 Accuracy: 100.68% Critical Chance: 35.21% Critical Multiplier: 68.74% Tech Bonus Damage: 794.0 Accuracy: 110.68% Critical Chance: 34.20% Critical Multiplier: 68.74% Activation Speed: 4% Ratings: Cunning: 1911 Aim: 126 (Since it does have a minor effect) Power: 406 Critical Rating: 239 Accuracy Rating: 357 Surge Rating: 159 No Alacrity on any gear, talents only Any comments or constructive criticism would be much appreciated. Thank you! Edit: Just did another parse on the training dummy in the fleet to test the staying power of this spec, went at the droid for a full 20 minutes, Parse is here.