dont know why you're sticking with that pvp 2set. the pve 4 set is really good, especially for DF. maybe that's why you arent liking DF, the energy regen goes up big time with the 4set

I hate it. They made the new rotation too simplistic and you never run out of energy. there is no bonus for being a good player (energy management). used to be great, i have trickshot up every 6 seconds, now you have it up every 3 seconds and it's boring. You barely have any time for charged burst, and you're supposed to do it twice before and aimed shot? The spec is dead to me, gotta go DF now.

okay, i just tried ss tonight and I hate it. you're pretty much forced to trickshot every 3 seconds, it gets really annoying. my opening rotation is: CB TS SS TS CB CB TS AS TS really, 3 trickshots by the time I cast aimed shot once? this really sucked the fun out of this class.

Why does this game still track ALL the debuffs on a mob? This is extremely frustrating in a 16m raid. I do not care what ANY of my other raid members are damaging the boss with, why cant I have an option where I only see my debuffs?

so? do the meters matter that much to you? do you cut yourself when you're low on the meters?

ya, and that is why it's worse. if both your dots are ending at the same time, you cant refresh them effectively. but you're right, that way would be the "easy" way to do it. I prefer VS first. You WANT the dots out of sync. btw, this is coming from a top dps GS in a 16m 4/4 nightmare EC guild

well, you should be using orbital on the walker, not the trenchcutters. the raid needs that walker down, the trenchcutters just melt anyway. and even if you do use orbital on the trenchcutters, you'll most likely pull aggro and die (this has happened MANY times in my raid, NiM kephess [the other gunslinger, not me])

dont bother using shatter shot while leveling, unless it's a boss that's going to take awhile to kill.

hopefully they make the capstone talents good enough to kill hybrid builds

vital shot before shrap bomb If you do shrap bomb first then both dots will end at the same time. I never understood why most people say you should shrap bomb first.

I always found the pvp 2set useless for raiding, and I refused to ever wear it. You aren't going to be using orbital strike every time it's up. It's just not practical, you need to save it sometimes, there's no point on using it on a boss that moves around a lot. Most adds will be dead by the 3rd tick anyway. I really cannot understand why anyone took it in the first place. It's only really good for hitting the target dummy because the pve 4set doesn't work on the dummy.

I've heard of this bug. it doesnt do much on single target. but if you're doing multi target and shrap bomb is on cd you can vital shot and shock charge and you'll get the full "2-dot" benefit of wounding shots.

dont buy the EWH implants/earpiece it's literally an upgrade of one power

the hp they have is minimal, just dps them

you most likely wont hit them no matter how much acc you have, you gotta use illegal mods

the returns go down slighty but there's no reason to stack accuracy anyway. I'd rather have more surge than hit tanks slightly more often, you're supposed to use illegal mods for tanks anyway. you can easily get to 78% surge while keeping 100% accuracy

dont bother with scatter shot while leveling unless it's a boss fight and sniper volley is very good, and there's nothing better to get by going hybrid anyway sniper is all about energy management, SV helps a ton

the kinetic one is only good for gunnery commando's that have passive armor pen on their cell. all other tech users get internal. it has nothing to do with the armor debuff on the boss from guardian/gunslinger/commando

eh, it's been debated tons before. You can read the argument by googling it. The bottom line is that I don't believe bioware made the field tech bonus desirable enough. It's just like when I played my shadow priest in cataclysm and we all used the healing set bonus cause the shadow one sucked.

even for sab, I'd still recommend the enforcer 4-set. The set bonuses for field tech are extremely situational and are rarely useful. Enforcer will give you an extra second on dodge and 5 more energy.

that build doesn't have any really good abilities like trickshot/followthrough or cull/wounding shots. you'd probably be wasting a lot of time between cooldowns on too many snipes/charged bursts

df don't go df til 30 though

your crit and surge are both low. you want like 77% surge and 40% crit buffed

I took shiv off my bars when I hit level 10

how dare you sacrifice personal dps for the good of the raid! the only thing that mattters is your personal DEEPS!