I have more than doubled my total damage in warfronts by following the advice in this thread. I would like to thank you all for the help! Working on leveling to 50 now so I can get the rest of my moves.

Thank you for explaining what I need to be concentrating on. Your priority list just clicked in my head and I have a much clearer picture of what makes this class and spec go. Off to melt some faces! Thank you again!

I recently made a Jedi Sentinel as my first character on my new server and I have decided to spec Watchman. My current level is 27 enabling me to grab Repelling Blows for the extra 30% damage boost to Cauterize. All I'm really interested in is pvp and the occasional dungeon run. No issues so far in dungeons, but my pvp damage is atrocious. For example in my last pvp match my hardest hit was for 1,428 and my total damage was 97k. This was with a person healing me for 1/2 the match. Without a healer I typically do 65k damage as I die way too fast. If by luck I get to fight someone 1 vs 1 I typically win, but pvp is about group synergy and in a group I'm dead meat. So to me it seems that I am obviously doing something completely wrong. I very rarely live long enough to stack Centering for my buff and if I do it's when I'm at 5% health. I'm playing in Juyo form in an attempt to generate more burn critical procs but it rarely seems to heal me or either I'm just dying so fast in group pvp that I don't notice it. I can solo a healer if I'm not getting interrupted, but in a group that isn't likely to happen. What moves should I be most concerned about using in pvp? I have been popping Overload Saber and then Cauterize; is this wrong? What moves do you typically use it with and which do you avoid ? Master Strike doesn't seem to do much damage at these levels; should I bother using it? Blade Storm never finishes a healer off like in the level 50 videos I have watched on Youtube; it does hit hard later on right? Or am I watching videos of guys in ridiculous gear going up against badly geared opponents? Right now I just feel like I am rolling a boulder up a hill. I'd rather not spec another tree as I like the ability to sit on a healer and interrupt them. There's nothing more frustrating watching them heal to full! But it seems that I should be able to make more of a difference in a warfront than feeding the enemy kills. Thx! Side note: I have some old characters on another server that has died. My level 31 Assassin that I abandoned absolutely wrecks warfronts. I liked it so much that I have a level 50 Assassin tank on the dead server that's geared enough to run the new EC raid. But this Sentinel is making me very sad. The only thing keeping me going is watching videos and dreaming about getting higher up in the tree for more skill synergy with Cauterize. I got this far leveling strictly by pvp, thus I want to finish what i started.

This what I do when I pvp now. Guess it's time for Billy to die as Mike over there seems to be killing more people. I can't keep two of them up at the same time so sorry Billy! Oh crap I am getting targeted! I need to get my heat down fast! I can't shoot myself! NOOOOO! /dance /Return to Medcenter /rinse and repeat

Just logged into Sanctum of the Exalted for some 50's pvp. There were 11 people on the Imperial fleet as of 9:55am. Not 11 50's; just 11 people. Off to play some Steam games.

What the Devs should do get rid of the talent trees and integrate all of our moves into our class. That way it doesn't cost my nephew 100k to respec. He hasn't respecced since December. My respecs are free if I wait a week. Both of us are level 50. I don't see why the pvp talents are skippable in the trees if they are going to charge us 500k+ to respec. Nobody wants to go to a raid 1/2 specced dps and 1/2 pvp. Especially when the boss enrages and you wipe. Just kill the talent trees and integrate all moves into the classes.