I currently have a few of these RDPS at mid level and was wondering what people who are at endgame feel about the Sniper/Gunslinger what is prompting me to ask is that it seems after I hit lvl 50 on my virulence Sniper that it lost all it's potency. Seems like I don't do enough damage despite me stacking 3 poisons then culling a target. My Marksman is lvl 62 and the dps seems ok same for my slinger. My engineering sniper is fun spreading plasma probe snare bots everywhere but it gets old.. So what in your opinion is the best DPS spec for endgame WZ?

Dont go by this guide. Its a parse vs a dummy. I found Marksman Sniper to be fairly close to engineering. It all depends on the fights. AOE fights virulence and engineering will parse highr. 1v1 Marksman wins. You would really be doing yourself a favor by learning all three specs.

Actually that was very very helpful. I'll have to settle with what I have and just get better as an underdog for now. Will help me later on. Appreciate the time you took for a very nice and detailed post.

Thanks guys. I started a sniper on Shadowlands and as assassin and a marauader on Harbinger. So far I have been happy with both.

I am currently lvl 20 and so I do not have many of the abilities that I see in endgame guides so I am having some issues in relating to how I can be the best levelling assassin I can.. I am focusing on mostly warzones. Right now I have basically a few abilities. The free saber strike, thrash, lacerate, shock, electrocute, reaping strike, force speed and slow, stealth, discharge and overload. I may have missed some. So here go the questions: 1) What utilities should I be taking? For my 1st one I took Searing slashes so I could snare some people with the 2 abilities I do currently have. When I hit 24 I thought I would take Formless Phantom for the 30% less dmg when stunned 2) What abilities are not worth keeping on my hot bar? Which ones are must haves and priorities? 3) Are abilities like Mind Trap, Mind Control and Mass Mind control good for a deception sin? My playstyle is to stealth and get in there and get off a yummy reaping strike and then go to town with some of my rather weak attacks and then stun and pray I don't get ganged... I would really like it if a good PVP Deception sin could give me some advice so I can level up to be a good assassin. Love you all!!!

I am a US east coast player currently on PoT5 and it is completely dead. I have a republic character on Jedi Covenant and it seems to be more populated, but not sure how alive the empire population is. I would like to raise a few Empire characters that will have access to pvp and operation while leveling and at the end game. Anyone know which server would be best place to play? Jedi Covenant, Shadowlands, Harbinger???

Wow I think it's kinda ballsy for them to show the server loads as all standard or heavy while discussing the server transfers. This game is almost dead. I log in and there are 31 people on fleet when there used to be over a hundred last month and that is at peak time. Sad that all the money they put into this game and it's a total fail and it's really because despite all the developments they had none of the features that were considered basic in other MMO's. It's like being stuck in 2002. I will continue to play but these guys take forever to release anything new and fall short usually. I say it's way too little, way too late but only time will tell.

I think part of the problem or most of it frankly is that their are cheats out there that people use. Speed hacks, damage hacks. I don't mind losing and there's always a better pvp player on the other side. BW needs to address the 3rd party programs and I think quite a few issues will disappear. Regarding premades I don't see what the issue is with them. They are viable and you need to sit there and use the 90s u get before the match starts to come up with a plan to deal with one of these.

I am looking for a good build post 50 to help me out. I am getting hammered and obviously its a gear issue but in a few days I have gotten 380 expertise. My build is the 24/0/17 and I wanted to know if this is a viable build or if I should be looking at something else for 1.2 and beyond. Any and all ideas are welcome. thanks.

Please do exactly that. Leave and don't post again. Honestly of all the classes to come here and say are OP you pick Gunslinger? I mean do you suck that bad? Please leave go down to the local Gamestop and buy World of Warcraft and you will find it more to your liking I guess.

It gets real easy when you get Lokin and also Scorpio is a good tank if u gear her up. It also depends on the spec. Marksman is super high single target damage while engineering and lethality are aoe goodness. Try out a few specs and most definitely keep the companion gear up to date and things iwll be easier. Biochem is also good to have as u can get stimpacks to heal u and companion. Cheers. The sniper is awesome fun at 50 in pve and pvp.

I doubt that as other classes can hit as hard or harder. I mean really what else is there to nerf? the days of 7-9k shot kills are over.

I have a 4 /17/20 conc/leth spec and it's ok but it's off the original topic. Not asking for the world here. Most classes have a gap closer/pull/charge except agent. Give them one. Evasion is broken. Period. It does not work & it most certainly does not remove dots. Evasion: http://www.torhead.com/ability/69OZPvu/evasion description is increases your chance to dodge ranged and melee abilities by 100% for 3s (4 if u got the 2 piece enforcer set). Does not break stealth. Does not remove dots.

Sookster. Evasion can be lowered to 45s if you spend 17 points in Lethality which means you do not get the best abilities in Concealment. People do not choose operative to play lethality. They either heal or play the concealment tree. very few play hybrids since they rarely work. If aomeone was dumb enough to go this high in lethality to get 15s off evasion cooldown (btw did I mention it is not working?) they wouldn't get Jarring Strike or acid blade or meticuluosly kept blades which just happens to increases crit damage on hidden strike, backstab, sever tendon and acid blade by 30%. So I guess we should all run out to lower our broken evasion and lower our damage another 30% to appease the masses who don't play the class. Problem is hybrids dont work with operatives.

I agree. I would like this to be an IA/Smuggler talent too.