besides stealth, your closest ..mirror? would be shadow tank. lots of self heals, double bladed lightsaber, force pull, decent mid range abilities

guard a healer and escort him/her around anywhere he goes. you'v got a ton of peels so time them right and watch you and that healer carry half your team =p

pretty much been said already, but once you start hitting around columi and rakata tiers, you wont have to much choice in the matter, your def is gonna hoover around 25%, absorb will be mid 40's, and shield will be 50 ish with ward up. any 'stacking' will just offset the 3 stats by a few% at the greatest. and i need i say your gonna be accuracy capped whether you like it or not =p

im kinetic, and once i got theran, everything was easy mode

mostly people forget what gaming in the mid cent' was like i think

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why? because they are MASSIVE

read the blog this time

DPS wise, it doesnt make a diff on paper. even if a sith and shadow just sat there beating on each other with lightning/project. they would still kill each other. kudos to those who understand that activation time isnt a cast. once a gcd is initiated and both the client and the server agree on its legitimacy. the spell is activated and there is nothing beyond that point that will recall said action. the rock is on its way. it will even slam into a dead body but in practice, its a double edged sword, i may have more time to tack on a bit of burst right after that rock smacks my enemy in the face, wich in a span of.5 seconds may seem like two instant hits to the unprepared. but he has just as much time as i do to see it coming and pop a defensive, make sure he isnt juggling his hp to low, etc etc, assuming he isnt just standing around with a free gcd of his own, as people in pvp tend to do stuff

yeah, i have a pretty outdated setup and i'm still pretty happy with my performance on medium-high settings