You can make a case for this in PvP, but for PvE Dirty Fighting is really very, very, good.

Ahh, okay. Nice. Good parse, btw. Mine are similar with zero alacrity and no sabos. I'm.. at work or I'd show you, but now you've motivated me to try this out and see if I can sustain it. Appreciate that.

You don't need any alacrity to maintain flyby on cooldown. You can actually cast it when you're close to dipping into bad regen due to the lengthy castt, you'll basically be right back where you started when the cast is completed. Alacrity is really a ruse. It's a stat they changed to get us excited and talking about it, but you really need...... zero. If you can sabo on cd with massive alacrity, that's cool, but I'd be interested to see how badly your power as suffered as a result. Not saying sabo is bad or doesn't have it's purpose, just saying it's energy cost is prohibitive in using it on cooldown when sustaining your dps with other abilities. It's clunky and doesn't fit well into the rotation at all.

Our dps specs are great. Unfortunately, we carry a stigma that we can't shake off due to the kneejerk nerfs we took around release. The sustained on both of our DPS specs is quite high, so really play what you want. If someone only wants to take you as a healer, that's kind of their problem. This class does a ton of damage. Our healing is pretty prime, also. I don't heal, so I won't comment on it.

I wouldn't call anything we have defenses. Defense Screen is absolute trash even at best. Dodge is great if you're about to eat a master strike. Stunning us and destroying us is how it's done; I'm not sure what happened in your particular scenerio but if they gave this class stun immunity... oh man, we can dream can't we? You can level as pretty much any spec and do fine. The class itself doesn't even start to come together as a dps until 30ish. You can go scrapper and get sucker punch earlier, but without some of the talents connected to it it's fairly lackluster. Dirty Fighting is nice when you get wounding shots, but really until 30 or so all the trees play about the same, the only real difference is you get a HoT if you go sawbones.

Alot of people don't run parses in this game. They have no idea our dps is actually good now.

Get invited to premades regularly. Ranked and unranked. I dump on snipers better than any shadow ever could.

This is a good idea. Two Upper Hand stacks make it a bit too restrictive though; maybe make it just cost energy or something, or one Upper Hand, and drop the cooldown to 10 seconds or so, put it in line with other peoples executes.

You probably need to remod your gear, as the baseline mods that come in the enforcer, or really any of the smuggler pvp sets, are absolute trash. Buy a million field tech boots, then go for other the seperate pieces for armorings. Class gets alot better with gear. 5k hits on equally geared players, the opening salvo on everything but tanks is around 12-15k. It's also fun to be able to completely prevent a sniper from playing the game because you're sitting on him the entire match.

Haha, oh my god these Sents/Guardians are serious about this. That's hilarious. I'm sure you've been told this before, but if you play a melee in this game and are somehow struggling, learn to play. You have ONE hard counter in this game.

You need some better gear. Also, hold the backblast until your Flechette bleed wears off, so that you can reapply it. Should increase your dps a bit.

But alot of that is wrong and corrected by using your skills, placing points into talents, and breathing through your nose.

36, when you get your opener from stealth. Gets better when you get 40 and Flechette Round. After that, enjoy 9 levels of dominance where you can basically kill who you want when you want, then hit 50. Things are not so good for you there until you get gear Once you get your gear, you'll enjoy picking and blowing up almost any target you'd like again. Unless it's a tank. Man, I hate fighting tanks... sadly after you've killed everyone else, that's just all that's left.

1. Perceived as weakest dps. Actually parses competitively, though increased backblast cooldown hurt the spec substantially. Considered gimped by most of the community as no one generally runs with them. 2. In PvE, my Scrapper does feel a little weak. A small buff to sustained damage is really all this class needs. In PvP, my rated team would not dream of replacing me or queueing without me. Scrapper ability to simply drop and control someone is unmatched. We are very soft, defense screen is not very useful. Overall ok. Minor tweaks required. I cannot summarize DF problems in a few sentences.

Just buy the Battlemaster Field Tech boots, then the War Hero ones and strip mods.