Do not gag my giggle! I will not be silenced!

I'm confused, she goes between American and British accents at random times. I'm sure an agent has to have different accents but this really breaks the immersion in stories, especially when she changes mid-conversation.

still good info here for fixing Sawbones.

Well, the only real use of Dirty Fighting is going to get nerfed - interrupting captures on points. This spec needs a hell of a rework now to make it even desirable. gg Bioware, you've done it again.

Do yourself a favour and reroll Sage or Commando now, save yourself the pain. I did and I don't regret a thing. This is coming from a Battlemaster geared Sawbones that I played from day 1 until 2 weeks ago.

Inquisitors are ridiculously OP, tis why I'm rolling one and changing that to my main. I guess the 50% of Inquis/Consultars in every match just got a bit higher. I'm tired of them (particularly Sorcs) being best at every role they fill and Bioware do nothing about it. Badly designed class but I don't have to worry now, I'm OP too!

Scoundrel for PVE DPS is a waste of time, when combat logs come out you'll never get a group.

Yes, you did. Reroll now before its too late. Scoundrel is sub-par in every role compared to other classes.

The bottom line is, from a PVP perspective there are no good Scrapper hybrid builds. The biggest problem with Scoundrel hybrid builds is that we simply don't have the resources (energy) to pull it off well. Most of the best spent points are to reduce energy use in our core abilities. Drop energy costs and suddenly hybrid looks more viable, but at the moment, none of the builds provided above are as effective as 31 point builds. As much as people single out Kolto Cloud, the numbers may seem small but over time they are very helpful. I think everyone agrees that Kolto Cloud needs a buff though. A sawbones based hybrid is the closest thing we have to a half decent hybrid, but it still sucks. Scrapper and Dirty Fighting Hybrids are a joke and not viable in any way. Scrapper doesn't even exist without Fletchette, you're useless. Haemorrhaging Blast is the only thing that makes Dirty Fighting even half decent against a single target, the spec sucks badly with it, its 3x worse without it. This might change if we were able to stack more Upper Hands and they were able to be acquired from more abilities.

DF sucks in every way compared to every other spec/class combo in the game. Worst of the lot, can't heal, can't DPS, and all your damage is purgable. The only thing you can really do on a DF Scoundrel is help stop caps in WZ's. Don't bother, seriously, its just an exercise in futility.

Good post imo. Sorcs/Sages are way OP in PVP. Its just the most frustrating fight when you're knocked back, then rooted while lightning tears you up as you run towards them in slow motion. I'm often dead before I even get back to them a second time and that's with full PVP gear. If I'm not dead, then I get stunned/or whatever that lightning spin thingee is and I'm dead shortly after, nothing I can do about it with 1 CC break on a 2 minute timer. I think bubble is too strong too, does guard and other damage mitigation effects change the way it works? It just seems that sometimes I hit bubbles forever without knocking them off and other times they seem more reasonable. As a Scoundrel with Defense Screen I can tell you they are a long way from each other in terms of power, what always seems 1 or max 2 hits shielded can be 5+ on a Sorc. Their speed burst doesn't seem to work properly when I snare them too, almots like they're unaffected by it while the speed is up.

You can tell you're not 50 with your Scoundrel. Please, get 50, PVP against people that aren't scrubs and then come back here and repost the truth. Sawbones isn't even close to Sage healing in any way shape or form, they have less mitigation, less survivability and less healing. Play against any decent player and Disappearing Act is useless, Dodge is useless, Defense Screen is useless, HoTs are slow and useless. The only thing that keeps us even remotely alive is the below 30% EMP spam heal that renders us useless for anything else but delaying the inevitable death.

Agree, Dirty Fighting needs some serious love.

Try having 2am-6am your 8pm-midnight and then it sucks x10.

Thankyou Bioware For seeing a problem that wasn't in any way game breaking for a chunk of whiners and taking the servers down another night so Oceanics can't play.