My 21/2/18 build is dead once 1.2 hits Live. Even Pyrotech is annoying on the PTS atm, never used Rapid Shot so much in my life to keep heat managed. Mar/Sent has been a lot of fun at 50 though. Outrunning everyone whilst having Windfury based attacks, Master Strike taking someones health from 100% to 20% in 3 seconds while they can't move and have no armor, it's lovely!

You left one Con out, 99% of SWG player cities were dead and uninhabited, just taking up useless space with more useless space.

The main issue is the Master Strike buff +Talents that buff it + Talent that makes it root you in place+ 100% armor pen. As a Sent, I easily took someone down from 100% to 27%, just with Master Strike, it was quite fun. And that's not even including the other nice damage tweaks the tree received, it's quite fun right now in the PTS

For DPS, quite simple. Normal Mode EV is separate from HM/NM. So you can have some help clearing to Infernal Council. Activate the event, pick a marauder and start timing. Doing multiple attempts you can test a rotation for optimal damage. Figured everyone knew this by now.

There's a lot of theory crafting. Multiple posts in fact showing builds and how they work, along with how to use them in various situations. If you're wanting certified numbers based on damage done or healing, we won't know that until some semblance of a Combat Log is added for parsing purposes.

Hmm, I don't remember that much walking except for starting planets. Though it may because I'm playing the game not thinking of stupid things to complain about.

Mine is currently being sold to a friend, once they come back. The keys have poor refresh rate and feel, little tactile feedback. The screen is a gimmick with delay in response and poor display clarity. The keys are placed poorly on the right hand side, as if they expect you to use the screen over a mouse. If I wanted to do that, I'd use my Wacom Tablet. Sticking to my plain Ducky keyboard, should have known it was just a gimmick device of poor quality.

They not only feel stronger, but are substantially stronger. 31/0/10 does more damage then Powertech/Vanguard 21/2/18, more burst, more survival, more tools while still going 31 points into the tanking tree! It's why I made a Shadow tank on another PvP server, she's 21 now baby, and rocking those Warzones. lol at Heatblast change.... dear lord it made me laugh reading it.

I never thought a build I made and enjoyed would be embraced by a community as much as this one was, though I hated the name a certain Trung and Chain gave it(Specialist was cooler imho! Who cares if Vanguard only QQ) It was a fun run while it lasted. Taugrim's builds should still work post patch, and are also quite fun as well, so there's still some hope for those who want a DPS tank with good control. RIP It was a good run!

Welcome to the internet population, you've just encountered what is called trolling.

7k TD huh? I'm sure you have a screenshot of this or a video to back up such a ridiculous claim? You do know that it is mitigated by armor, right? Not even in PvE using it on a boss with 0% Armor(love stacking armor debuffs) can it hit this hard.

My highest Rail Shot has been 6.1k. On a fresh level 50(Or I assumed fresh since they had under 13k HP). This was wearing 4 Piece Rakata for 8% bonus damage to Rail Shot, rest PvP gear and with Expertise buff. Versus equally geared opponents? 3.5k-4.1k depending on their armor and natural damage reduction. Highest TD has been 4.8k on a fresh 50 yet again, mitigated by armor. If people want to remove Pyrotech damage, sure but on one condition. Give them more survival. Even with 30% DR and Energy Shield up(Our only crap defensive CD) a Tank Hybrid Assassin/Shadow or Sent/Maur completely chews through me. Or make it so Grapple is no longer affected by resolve since it's our only gap closer. Better yet, reduce the heat costs of our abilities so we can spam them more like most think we can do, see how others like us then.

An equally skill and geared Tank Assassin/Shadow Hybrid will beat a Pyrotech 1v1 anytime. If you meant Sages/Sorcerers, we eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner.

All of this was covered in the Guild Summit that was live streamed, was it not?

Well, due to the fact that the strafing angle in this game prevents you from using abilities, unlike other MMO's, and jumping makes you move slower then just moving thus jump turning is out of the question as well... Ya, S key is bound to backpeddle, especially since the freaking camera keep auto facing as well if you move.

The other side of it could possibly be that since it's so easy to level to 50 and max a profession, many have alts to farm and craft for their characters, thus the GTN isn't needed and only used to try and make a bigger profit then vendoring excess materials.

Generally at choke points in front of my team members if Huttball or Aldaraan. On myself is trying to heal. Near the doors for Voidstar or near enemy spawn.

Yes, it's so giving it away. /sarcasm God forbid those of us with bad RNG. 64 bags, 4 BM tokens since changes, 0 Armor pieces before that.

I'll just say the same thing everyone else has said. "Pure DPS" classes can still take advantage of it just as any other class, especially if you PvP and PvE. If you choose not to play the game fully to take advantage of Dual Spec as a"Pure DPS", then you won't even notice nor care about it.

Pretty much agree with others who posted in the thread. Battlemaster never has meant anything other then time played. It is in no way related to skill, nor are the other titles from Valor. And yes, I'm above Battlemaster, without doing Ilum. Warzones were more fun for me then zerging around on a laggy planet that was poorly designed.

Speed hack, seen it in Huttball as well. Hopefully they fix it Soon.

I'm questing, so using my tanking companion. Hence, can only send 1 currently. Still leveling my professions. Maybe that's the issue? Concentrating on crafting full time instead of questing and just sending what you can?

I can only send 1 at a time currently, since I just have two. Leveling Diplomacy and Biochem. It's actually making me money selling my extra materials.

I know, but I'm saying it's not a major investment. It only requires credits which are in abundance as you level. A Major investment would mean that it's very difficult to obtain or time consuming.

I currently have 129k Credits, level 21. Are you skipping quests? Buying from the GTN when you should avoid it since gear is replaced as you level? Seems odd that people are having monetary issues in this game, when credits seem to fall all over.