Hey Claimed, can you post one of your better DF parses? I'm trying to find more DPS and I'm not sure if its APM, more Crit, or something else. Normally I dig through good parses to try and figure out. I tried looking at some of yours the other day and they were pretty much all Sharpshooter that I found.

I had the same experience in CZ running the SM heroic 2+ version. I used to clear a side on my own with Flyby - full 78s BiS. I had removed the 2x php stuff over a month ago. I drop flyby and manage to kill not a single mob after 3 full ticks. Maybe I got some not so lucky crits….but thats pretty brutal for an AOE attack.

Claimed, I noticed your parse over on the Harbringer forums as well with the 36/4/6 what did you swap out from the 36/3/7? Just curious to see what you changed.

If you are in Sharpshooter you can decrease the cast time of Aimed Shot with a combination of Charged Burst, Charged Burst, Trick Shot (each Charged Burst/Trickshot seems to decrease it a .5 seconds, i.e. the combo I mentioned will drop the cast to 1.5 seconds, where a CB, TS combo will speed it to 2.0). If you are under the Alacrity boost of Burst Volley you can shave some additional time, where I have seen 1.3 second cast. However, the only time I have seen the "instanta cast" seems like a display bug where either the screen is behind drawing (but I am casting already like rolling into an alacrity boosted flyby -> aimed shot) or it bugs out where it animates but does not actually cast. Just my 2 cents.

I used to run solely Hybrid, but moved to the 36/3/7 SS spec because of its overall utility. For fun last night I re-spec'ed back to hybrid to fool around on the dummy and it was a disaster energy wide. Thanks for the guide, I'm going to try this out today on the dummy today.

I seem to have run into a wall with energy and dps, when I am pushing 40 APM plus I can rip through my energy consumption on the 2x2 set. If I slow down some around 37/38 APM I can manage energy for a full 5 minute parse, but see around 100-200 DPS fall off. It is incredibly useful in boss fights and energy management is not nearly as difficult - I only really start to see any energy issues on the Warlord fight on S&V. I'm just curious on how you manage your energy effectively. I noticed when I slow down if I open with XS, AS, FS, TS, SS, VS, BV, TS, SS, TS, CB, CB, TS I can through that fine with the added energy re-gen on BV and do not need to pop Illegal Mods until the second XS flyby. But I am completely skipping sabo because of energy issues and occasionally I will skip the quick cast CB to get the extra energy re-gen slowing down APM. I'm just curious what everyone else is doing. What are your parses like if you do not get lucky crits?

Are you running the 2x2 PVE and PVP set, or the full 4 piece set?