Honestly on HM we spread around the room and let him hit you, since if you're running around and have people in the wrong position for his swipe people die VERY fast. So we just stand there take the hit and let the healers heal us up without a loss in dps.

I find a good Mara / Jedi equivalent, give me almost the most trouble, assassin / shadow are next since the inturrupts can be a pain but with good movement you should be fine. Juggs / guardians can burst me well, sorcs and snipers are ez for me, ops can be a pain but they're not as much anymore.

Yes there was perma-death it was at the VERY beginning of when jedi's were first coming around, it lasted maybe a week though and they changed it. You really brought back some memories from this thread, I remember the system wide message we all got when the first one was unlocked. Personally though I think jedi's of Pre-Cu would be a lot tougher AFTER they put in lightsaber dmg since the original dmg was kinetic, Once they threw in the lightsaber dmg though they would melt face since jedi's were limited at one point. So that means BH's, Troopers, IA's and smugglers armor would be show against a jedi's and have increased dmg against them soooo SWG wins imo.

Hey everyone, I'm reading these forums and laughing at how everyone is giving Merc so much hate especially in pvp. Here is a instance on how I killed 2 assassin's last night (and im in full PVE gear no pvp) I was playing Aalderaan I was going to the west side where there was no one guarding (Obviously people are stealthed) so when I ran up I stealth scanned and poped them out of cover I electro darted the one (so he would burn his CD) and he burned his Cd and than I poped my power surge to hit the same guy with conc dart to CC him, and burned his buddy down and than him and capped the point. Mind you I have to pop a stim use all my defensive CD's (Kolto overload with vent heats healing and my shield, Jet boost to get him away to unload snare him). The way I look at a Merc is like a Wiz in eq1 but with heavy armor, He hits like a truck but in a pvp bout you have to make yourself un-noticed to do any real damage especially in groups. My usual skill set I use when people like to clump on each other is power surge, Fusion missle, thermal Explosive dart and than DFA the whole lot. As I stated earlier I'm using pve gear and 95% of the time in the top 5 for dmg overall and thats including scoring in huttball and capping points in Aalderaan, this maybe a pointless thread for some but people really need to check their toolsets for this class because you have a lot of good skills with merc and yes you're immobile when you're shooting tracers but whats wrong in huttball throwing an explosive dart on someone shooting 1 tracer using heatseakers and shooting a railshot and the dart blows up, most times you either kill that person or drop him enough in health where you teamates who like to just kill people see him low health and drop him just because they want the kill. edit: at work so I had to post fast

Tbh guys I never found any purples until I unlocked a purple BP from reverse engineering. im 105 in underworld and once I did that I've found 5 from about 20 attempts. Ozmun