After every patch I've been disappointed with lack of attention to the class that could use some love. Link included to very good list of Vanguard issues. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=190674

Not sure, could be I know of him from WOW days. He has a blog too http://taugrim.com/

Combination of Tech and Commando gear with 0/xx/xx spec is probably best. My suggestion is go to Vanguard forums and look at Taugrim's post. He has all kinds of specs he has tested for you to use.

Either way you spec you will still hit like limp biskit. I just do my dailies on my Vanguard (VR57) and then I switch to 4 man Sage team and have a blast

I've played TR from early beta and watched it progress into cool game but in the end it was plagued by some of the same issues that SWTOR shares, from loot to everything else... I loved the clone idea and XP kill streak bonus in TR. I hope GW2 delivers on dynamic content and NPCs taking over places just like in TR. Rift's invasions was fun too, I mean losing control of the whole zone is pretty cool/annoying depending on where you are in leveling...

You've lost me when you wrote AOE MORTAR. HA!

Vanguard forums pay them a visit. You will learn a lot more then asking in here. Tugrim has full on guide for any spec you want to play as. Edit: just saw your posts. At 50 with almost full champ gear it takes a bit to take me down but we don't have much utility unless we spec into it and even those are limited option.s

Is that item limited to Empire only? I am in the dark on it. I know it is used for Magenta crystals and that crystal itself is Empire only, but other then that I am not sure. Or am I running with really old info here? Thanks

You can always check maximum number of players per warzone. Upper left corner of your screen it shoud say Warzone name: ##

i've found reddit thread. I hope this helps http://www.reddit.com/r/swtor/comments/p38lx/official_tip_on_vastly_improving_your_framerate/

You can't just reduce damage of one skill that drives others. without increasing something else (disclaimer: I play Vanguard) As annoying as Tracer/Grav is they need to change whole class then jut nerf one ability.

I know of one Marauder that tears me p on my Vanguard and a sentinel on my side tht tears things up. Both of thos classes are fine if you know what you're doing. F*** even noob Marauders kick *** when face rolling on keyboard...

Sorry for slow reply. No do not delete DX11 I don;t think you could even if you've tried. You see someone made post about DX9.0C one day after game launched and if I had seen it then it would've solved a lot of my problems. I found out about it via reddit.com/r/swtor. Forgot to mention, use ASUS power gear or power hybrid util and set CPU/GPU to 100%.

Hope you are still reading this. I have G73JW-XT1. First my main problem was cloged up vents, my second problem was lack of DX9c on Win7. I had used forced air on my laptop but because it was under warranty I had it cleaned by ASUS, I mean I was running at 100 degrees celsius. After laptop came back I tried plying agan and it was solid at 25fps in Aldreaan warzone. I then installed DX9.0c from microsoft.com and BAM! 45FPS in alderaan and no more lag. Also make sure you are running at full power. All of the little lag spikes are your GPU readjustig its speed. There was a video guide "3 steps to improve SWTOR on nVidia card" there is same video for ATI cards as well. Get throttlestop and observe your cpu/gpu temp/speed. sorry for typos I am responding from train while on my tablet

^^^^^ This I have level 19 Guardian that hits harder then my almost full champ Vanguard (vr 56.8) and I've tried all kinds of specs. Funny thing is that some dps classes can out live my Vanguard when in Tanking spec/gear.