Err, I didn't think I gave the impression about being pleased regarding said changes. If I did, my sincerest apologies. Reverting the [Reverberating Force] nerf would be helpful, since that would effectively constitute a buff to Thundering Blast because of the change to crit.. I think with this change and then a buff to, say, Lightning Bolt would be sufficient. Another possibility, although this one is less likely, is buffing the focal procs. Say increase the damage they do from 25% to 50%. This would help compensate for our inherently weaker criticals by giving us another avenue for a chance at bonus damage (and a critical + focal critical would likely bring our abilities in line with some of the other classes' capabilities)

Although these survivability issues are rather important, they could be more than off-set with an increase in damage. They want to make us more true to the wizard like class we are? That's fine, as long as we have the damage to go with it. Being a glass cannon without the cannon isn't good. Even before the damage nerf, our damage (and not to mention our burst. Classes can do in one ability what takes us 2+ assuming we get lucky on focal procs) was lower than classes more durable than us. If they want mercs to have the mobility, snipers to have the tankiness and sorcs to be the squishiest, we have to have things that off-set this trade-off. In all honesty, I am completely fine with nerfs to survivability (and I'd even be willing to trade away a bit more) for the sake of buffing damage.

Although I was running as a dps, I tried out all three types of companions to see how they performed with the revamp. The dps companion was pretty solid, it actually surprised me. Not quite as good as an epic'd out HK-51 was pre-KotFE, but almost.

My crit % is just a hair under 30%, BUT critical damage is horrid, sitting at 61%. So Thundering Blast hits basically the same as it did pre 4.02 (because the 20% off talent and then 10% off surge is made up for by crit), everything else is critting for significantly less ( 61% + 10% instead of 70% + 30% )

And apparently the [Reverberating Force] talent got a nerf that wasn't listed in the patch notes. 10% boost to critical damage down from 30% before. I was so excited thinking sorc got a buff to thundering blast with the change to crit only to see that we have a pretty sizable nerf

Thank you so very much. My confusion is undoubtedly because I've been playing since beta (but intermittently), and accuracy was only for ranged and melee, not force and tech, until recently as you said. I greatly appreciate your assistance.

So, I've read conflicting reports. According to general chat, sorcs needing accuracy is a ridiculous notion. However, Dulfy's sorc guide said that sorcs need the same 10% that melee does. Can anyone confirm either way?

I'd really like something along the lines of Force Push and Force Choke. I know sith warrior has those abilities already, but I just find it terribly irksome that in dialogues and what-not my sorcerer is able to push or choke people but I am not. In regards to the push, this could easily be a "Lightning Push" or "Shockwave" (I rather like the latter). Does moderate amount of damage (A little less than lightning flash, say) on a CD around 30 seconds. For the Force Choke, I don't really see a good way to make this lightning, but force choke is plenty sithy to me regardless of Advanced Class

Thanks, I appreciate the quick response! I had been looking up Dulfy guides the other day to see if they had any insight on finding the pieces quickly (3 hours on Taris, sigh), but someone mentioned that the piece was random drop. Must've been changed or a bug. Thanks!

Good Morning! I know this is a way, way old quest line (like, back when the cap was till 50. Were we ever that young?), but I am redoing it on another character. Is the HK Component from False Emperor and Foundry still a random spawn, or is it guaranteed? All I know was that I got it in first try on my Merc, and have not done it yet on my sniper (I did it on my merc back when the cap WAS 50, so it's been a while). In summary, is HK component random drop of False Emperor and Foundry?

The thing is, to the vast majority of people wanting the same sex romances in, they want it as more of a novelty, which means they won't necessarily leave without the implementation, but its something they'd "like" to have. I can just about guarantee 90% of it is guys wanting their jedi knight or bounty hunter to "do it" with kira or mako, respectively. The other side of the spectrum, people who are opposed to it, will likely leave the game if such a thing is implemented. Its quite a bit of a risk for them, in reality, and although they have a rather large following asking for it, the opposition is just as large, if not larger. Now, the rest of my post has been as an objective/economic side of things. I personally would leave this game if such a thing were implemented, as I am strongly against it.

If there was an option during false emperor, my merc definitely woulda shot my group-mates in the back of the head and joined malgus

Lorewise, I would say the sorceror would win. The sorceror is the master of the dark side of the force, the very essence of destruction. Channeling dark lightning or crushing darkness with a power unmatched, I dont see how anything could defeat them in a "fair" fight. Not to mention, the senses of such a master of the force would be greater than that of the jedi knight or sith warrior, giving him greater warning to assassination attempts.

What seems to be your problem? I completed the BH story when my merc was just level 48 and had no issues. What was your issue?

I am a bit disappointed with my merc, as seems the general consensus. But to the poster above me, I dont know when you quit, but all from wotlk to cata any spec shaman is great in pvp: if you're good. Heals has actually been the weaker side of things. But back on topic, bioware seems to be taking the same route with merc as they are with sage/sorc, almost forcing them into hybrid heal/damage. I was playing dragonage: origins again and I noticed a stark similarity, they made sorc, mage, and merc the same way. Not in the idea of caster class, but that they play as a hybrid heals damage or as utility class. I for one rolled both merc and sorc expecting the idea that Im gonna spec into lightning/arsenal respectively and blow stuff up, but little did I know bioware for some reason does not like the idea of casters doing good damage. Bioware, this mistake is very easy to fix. Buff high end talents to prevent hybrid opness, to make the damages viable. And merc healing needs a complete overhaul, the heat to heals ratio just isnt working right now.

Although the mage had many many more ways to get away from the melee, and when the mage DID get away the melee was dead due to arc mage burst being largely unparalleled. The mage would nova, run away, cast, warrior would charge, mage would blink, cast cast warrior dies. The merc has no real way to do this, as the CD on force leap is less than the jetboost (equal with talents, I think) and the only slow mercs have is when using unload. Maybe a passive speed increase would help? Although this would do nothing against carnage marauders (cant remember the name of the sent version)

I've been going as arsenal merc, with mako out. Currently she's in recruit pvp gear. Its not just the talz area, that was just the specific one I encountered today. I havn't actively been sneaking up, as that would take even longer than just charging and dying would lol although I have tried sneaking in the past, I always end up aggroing 2 groups. Its just my main issue is that even after bordering on outgearing the dailies, A wandering strong will often end up killing me before I know its there. The damage they deal is just too high, which is something I found out when I first brought my sorc there (first to 50,) anything more than a strong and a normal would kill him, even when pausing dps to heal xalek up a bit.

Good afternoon, folks. Recently, I've begun to do dailies again, and I noticed a few things. Even after acquiring some moderately decent gear, namely columni and tionese, I found the damage of the mobs are still rather high. At first, I attributed it to a lack of gear, but any higher gear would make the dailies pointless except for credits. I've found the damage the mobs can deal is rather comparable to the adds in the hardmodes, although slightly weaker. There is a specific spot I have in mind, in the talz area, a strong and 3 normals, guarding one of the posts where you loot the communications. Very often, they will take anywhere from 60-80% of my health, even with the new gear. Is the level of difficulty intentional? Because, atleast in my opinion, and that of other I know, making dailies such a pain is definitely a discouragement. Thoughts?

I also have a level 50 sorc, who as cybernetics, kept items up to date as far as they could be, so its not the bolstering of items. Sage is too far in the middle of the damage spectrum, they aren't high enough sustained damage or high enough burst. Like i said in another post, i realized what they should do. They need to improve the burst for TK and the survivability of balance, but put each buff in a high tier talent making grabbing both of them impossible. I was doing more warzones today with a sorc friend of mine who after i pointed this out, completely agreed. Sage isnt a bad class, or unplayable as most seem to think, but it needs a small damage boost.

Sepp, increase in expertise is a double edged sword. What would help sages is a much needed buff in damage, possibly to a high level talent (second to last tier maybe) to avoid hybriding to op-ness. If they buff to a mid or lower tier then hybrids will take advantage and it'll wreak havok and the nerf hammer will smite us into 5 digit damage. What should be done is a damage increase for TK and a survivability increase for balance, so that way hybrids could get a bit of each, but fully speccing into either one gives a higher bonus to that role.

LOL thats hilarious I wish i had thoughta that. Telekinetics does quite a bit of pebble tossing too though

Yeah, sage damage has been a bit low for quite a while, its more akin to a glass handgun rather than a glass cannon as of recently. Pretty much, until damage is buffed, if you want to cast dps go with gunslinger, otherwise sage heal. I like telekenetics as much as anyone, but it definitely needs a damage boost .

I was pvping with my sniper yesterday and was SHOCKED both at how easily it was to be mobile and the very high damage i was pulling. My sniper was far more mobile than my sorc or sage was, except possibly when proc lucky in balance/madness, not to mention my sniper would always crit 3-4k, whereas my sorc/sage strongest ability, tele wave, crits around 2k. But, the amount of damage on crit isn't the issue per se, its the fact that a class BASED on cover is more mobile than a regular caster class, not to mention the CC of the sniper is infinitely better than that of the sorc/sage. AND coming 1.3 gunslingers/snipers get a damage BOOST. (normally, i dont mention favored class, but thats a bit ridiculous. Sages will be in a dire need of a damage boost after that, in addition to one for their current weakness. Either give them a survival boost, in the dps trees to avoid OPing the healing tree, or, the far far better way, give them some damage boost to each of the dps trees.

I think this is the crux of what fourtwent above me was saying, that everyone assumes all melee are tanks, regardless whether or not they are dps. However, i agree sages need the increase in either damage or survivability, most likely damage to fit in with their play style. Melee can and should do good damage, as dps, like they are currently. The issue is not that shadows in balance spec do good damage, the issue is that shadows in balance spec with their force powers do more damage with the force powers than the sages, in addition to having melee abilities. Edit: Forgot fourtwent's name