You'll need to show a parse and your gear or we won't be able to help you out. Full 180 =/= full BiS 180. 1 thing I can do is link you to my parse: http://www.torparse.com/a/727846/2/0/Damage+Dealt See if you have about the same ratio of uses of abilities (and aren't using anything NOT in there). As for your spec: I personally take "Holdout Defenses" instead of "Black Market Mods" in the DF tree. Gives you more mobility in fights (and the alacrity will only cause a possible missed Vital Shot tick). I also prefer the Root on Tendon Blast over 2% endurance. These don't affect your parse really, but it's something to think about when going into an actual operation. Other than that I can only give small hints Always have at least 1 stack of Upper Hand. Keep Blaster Whip, Back Blast (+Flechette) on cd and refresh VS asap. When you have 2 stacks of Upper Hand, use Sucker Punch. When multiple of those are off cd, priority is: BB > 2*UH VS > 2*UH SP > BW > VS Make sure not to run out of energy, it's better to use 1 extra Flurry of Bolts than to drop below 60% energy. Do NOT use Combat Stealth + Shoot First unless you have Cool Head up. Also make sure you use it exactly between 2 Back Blasts and when you have 1 Upper hand to maximise uptime of Flechette Round DoT Make sure when refreshing your VS to not clip the last tick of it. Especially during Pugnacity. Either use 1 more attack before it or just do nothing for an extra .2s (personally I do the latter to keep my rotation a bit more static). All these tips are mostly for the combat dummy. In actual operation fights you will find yourself refreshing your DoT more often or less often depending on the fight and group composition.

Pretty much this. I always have youtube open when doing a pug FP with a lot of cutscenes. Rather have you wait on me being slow in picking a conversation option (or not picking one at all) than the other way around.

Yes, it's what I've been using in Pve for a few weeks now.

Alacrity does not affect cooldowns. 6% alacrity is not even close to a 6% dmg boost.

I have played Guild Wars, and I prefer a game in which you don't have to wait 2 hours just to find a healer, and most likely it won't even be a good one. As for playing one yourself: I enjoy healing with dps'ing during breaks more than just "buy the right skills for the right content and equip 'em".

I would just like to chip in and add that you could do section X between ec and tfb for even more dread guards things (although all quests are from a terminal so you only have the quest descriptions and the intro to section X on the fleet for actual story).

Soloing Snowblind is entirely luck based since his roar 1-shots you with 10 stacks and enrage (and does way too much damage if you cannot heal from it outside enrage) Just gotta hope you resist all those you cannot CC-break / Force Barrier / Resilience out. Both gj anyways, I tried it on my shadow tank and just Force Cloaked after seeing that I couldn't possibly outheal his enrage.

Pink and blue

Healer: Mako Ranged DPS: Vette Melee DPS: Jaesa (srr Nadia and Torian ) Ranged Tank: 4X Melee Tank: SCORPIO

It is just like Kitru explained. every ability has: a) an attack type b) a damage type a) Melee / Ranged / Force / Tech b) Kinetic / energy / Internal / elemental On live: Defense = all Melee and all Ranged (so M/K, M/en, M/I, M/el, R/K, R/en, R/I and R/el) Shield = same On PTS: Defense = same Shield = all Kinetic and all energy (M/K, R/K, F/K, T/K, M/en, R/en, F/en and T/en) So you can no longer shield M/I, M/el, R/I and R/el (and none of these exist currently btw) You can however now shield F/K, F/en, T/K and T/en.

I read this as dieting at first

I'd love to tank in some proper dress for once as well, Slave Bikini + pink skirt is getting old

1) Get BH comms for BH gear while also doing ops that give rakata gear (which just happen to all give BH comms with a weekly ) Once you have full rakata+ start doing EC HM + getting BH comms. Once you have BH+ do TfB HM + EC NiM. 2) Columi+ needed for an ops that gives rakata. So yes you can do EC SM and TfB SM.

Are they behind regular cover and not the shield? When you roll into cover and an enemy is in front of you (they'll have a green shield above their head) all attacks miss when not doing anything like casting or doing the animation for an ability. At least that's what I read somewhere, I don't pay attention to things like that in PvP.

I used to put the kb on my cover bar and recuperate on cover bar in it's place. Changed it because I wasn't able to start casting Aimed Shot while still rolling in cover with the bar enabled half of the time.

Not a bug. You need someone to slap him in the face to disable his 'sniper mode' during which he is immune to damage.

Love: Quesh Korriban (it 'feels' shorter than the other starting planets ) Hate: Corellia (I just wanna finish the damn story whenever I get here )

3 months of playing SS. Randomly specced DF and parsed myself. My DPS increased by 200. Clearly SS is better on static fights No point trying to figure out possible buffs to it when the lvl cap increase is in the near future

Lvling as a DPS: use a DPS companion to get through content faster Lvling as a tank: use a DPS so fights don't take ages Lvling as a healer: use a DPS because it's not even hard keeping them alive anyways Srr but I have to disagree with your suggestion

6. Are you wasting as little time possible on the small adds? (aka letting your good AoE classes kill them) Ex: BH - Explosive Dart -> Death From Above -> go kill Jealous Male Sorc - Force Storm 'till they die (+ procced Chain Lightning or Death Field) -> JM Sin - (Death Field ->) JM Agent - Orbital Strike (-> Plasma Probe) -> JM Warrior -> JM Healers could use a single AoE as well if they can afford it and your group has almost no AoE DPS.

Slowly getting there myself as well. Got 9 to lvl 50 and leveling 2 more atm Never gonna make a second trooper/BH though. Leveling as them (especially powertech) is boring and the story is kinda meh. It's nice having all those options though. Had so many moments of 'This class is the best, gonna be my main for sure!' Think I finally found my true love in the gunslinger although I still shadow from time to time.

This is almost how my char looks like atm: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/2e1f9695-ca53-4447-8458-09606584fe6c Although the chestpiece is actually the Honored Adept's Shroud (which I couldn't pick) and the belt is a different random orange. That is near BiS 61 mods (with 2x63 barrels and a DG relic thrown in). The only bad things are the mod in my offhand, the 58 mods in my belt, the non orange bracers and my lack of +10 datacron. Use the exact same setup but with all 61 mods replaced by the same 63 version of it and you should be BiS (or at least very close to it). EDIT: forgot to add: leggings are actually rakata and the chest armoring is with the PvE set bonus Giving me as set bonus: ° 1 extra tick of XS Freighter ° +10 energy when using Illegal Mods Until I get the dummy on my ship I cannot do a parse in case you wanted it though. Fleet is lagging me so much I end up with a terrible 1600 for my gear =/

Just because their rotation is harder and 95% of the players suck at it doesn't mean scoundrel DPS in PvE is bad. (and for the record: I myself suck at it )

I've heard the other way around DF for PvE and SS for PvP. You really, really, really don't want a spec that takes 20s to get a full usage out of their energy. By the time your DoT is halfway, the enemy has been killed by a teammate and you're sitting there looking at your CD on Corroive Grenade. Also PvP is about burst so SS all the way.

Yeah...I really wanna know my DPS in a perfect situation (aka the lazy *** dummy rotation) but miss about 1 GCD every 4 attacks making me unable to get decent numbers Also dropping combat half the time due to Followthrough -> Freighter Flyby -> Charged Burst cast + slight lag is annoying.