Don't get me wrong, I'm loving the spec for Flashpoints and PVP. You put out a boatload of burst damage and you have a couple good CC options there as well. The problem is that I just don't think they're enough to solo a lot of the quest mobs in later levels. Which is odd because usually for an MMO it's reversed.

Very much this. On Voss you're often forced into a "fair fight" and more often than not, you get your tail handed to you. It's just frustrating.

I didn't mean that they weren't viable strategies or that you shouldn't use them. I just must meant that you can't always use them. Some fights don't have anything to LOS around and some enemies you can't kite because they're ranged. It's THOSE fights that give me headaches because you're forced to sit there and soak the damage somehow. And, in general, as Infiltration it just feels like you just don't have the tools to do that. Just my opinion.

I honestly think that it's an Infiltration problem at this point. I don't think anyone here is arguing that it's too hard to level as Kinetic Combat. I'm 46 and there are still lot of regular quest mobs on Voss that you can't take on by yourself unless you're able to gimmick the fight by kiting using LOS. There are at least two fights that I can remember that took me at least 6+ tries to beat before I gave up and went and did something else. Generally as Infiltration you end up being either too squishy for Theran to keep up or Qyzen or Iresso don't last long enough because you can't heal them.

I agree. Aside from questing, I'm having a blast with the spec. In fact, I procrastinate doing solo quests by PVP'ing and running Flashpoints, both of which I think Infiltrations hold up really well. It's not you, it's Voss. That whole planet had me banging my head against my keyboard. Last night I went through about 100k in repairs before I just said screw it and begged some random stranger to help me through the solo quests. And this was AFTER going out of my way to level twice and then coming back to old quests. I'm not asking for them to be easy. I just think the difficulty (at least for this particular spec) is WAY too high at the moment.

I find that I'm having a LOT of trouble with gold elite mobs as an Infiltration Shadow. It just seems like there's no way to solo half the mobs in my story quests. I hadn't really had a problem until right around level 40-45. Now it seems like every other quest has a gold elite mob that's even one level higher just slaughters me. I've tried everything; stims, medpacs, tanking companion, dps companion, healing companion--nothing works. I usually just end up dying for or five times and giving up or having a friend come help out. So instead of questing to level like any normal MMO, I end up skipping most quests and PVP'ing or running with a Flashpoint group until the quests become green and I can actually do them on my own. I'm tempted to just re-spec as a tank and level that way, but that doesn't sound like any fun to me and I'd rather not do it. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same way.