our toxin scan cannot remove all dots, and with the changes to lethality makes it even harder. so yeah, wed be able to blow CS alot.. but Evasion which is almost a neccesity to use in conjunction with CS would still have a minute CD. Hell, to balance it out id say put evasion on a 2 min CD. We can blow CS and get away NOW. this would just increase the frequency. Any kind of organized PvP usually means that people are travelling in packs spamming AoE's. We can still be seen pretty easily in stealth when at close range if the person turns the right direction. On paper it sounds game breaking, but its not. I would love to have a real gap closer/utility ability, but lowering the CD of an already existing ability is far easier for BW to do than to dream up something new for us.

still not healing.. not really, it will heal for like 10% of what its supposed to.

1) So i have to use an entirely seperate CD just to make the first one work as intended? also, Evasion doesnt remove delayed damage abilities IE Thermal Det. 2)if this is true, then hallelujah. 3) So the ability to drop aggro and use our hardest hitting ability along with more uptime on Acid Blade is nothing for a boss fight huh? And as far as trivializing PvE questing, you can vanish when you make a mistake now. no difference except the frequency.

CS does give us a considerable speed boost when talented. i think this would give us higher uptime. you get KB'd.. CS and run up to the boss to HS, this would also make the usage of a GCD a non issue. you also forget that this gives higher uptime on acid blade as well.

ive been thinking, maybe we dont need a gap closer. yes, assasins can stealth and THEY have a gap closer. but what if, instead of something that homogenizes us with the other classes we make a simple change that makes us stand out? Our class, and specifically Concealment, revolves around us being in stealth. my proposal: Cloaking Screen can be talented down to a 30 second CD. now before you go saying how OP that would be, lets take a look at it. we can already vanish every 2 mins. so vanishing mid fight is nothing new and shocking. CS is incredibly unreliable as a get away tool. DoTs, AoE, Scans, Delayed damage abilities can all yank us out of it. so i do not think it is deserving of the immense CD that it currently has. we are squishy and can be blown up very quickly. HS now has a CD. So we wont be double HS'ing people every 30 seconds and instagibbing them. CS provides a healing debuff to all but Concealment Operatives so its not like healers would be able to abuse it to become unkillable. we have no distance gainer, gap closer, Z-axis mobility. instead of us being a cousin to Assassins, we should be very distinct from them. i believe this change would do that. Yes Assassins can vanish as well, but we will be able to do it alot more, it will make us THE stealth class. It will improve our performance not only in PvP, but in PvE as HS will be a viable addition to the rotation in an encounter. So what scenario, if any, would make having a 30 second CD on CS Overpowered?

you are speaking in best case scenarios for the Operative and worst case for the person facing him. unlike operative healers other healers have 3-4 casted heals. so even if you interrupt one, they got a bunch more. operatives pay a 70% mobility tax to all of our heals. you probably didnt know that did you? its not being "abused" its working as intended. spamming SP at 30% is a stop gap measure to keep us from dying. we dont have speed, a uber shield, a knockback, or any of the other "get out of danger" tools the other classes have. try killing a merc healer with his shield up.... come back and tell me how thats being "abused" as well.

my biggest gripe about Sins, is that not only is their burst better. its ON DEMAND. pop recklessness and you are GUARANTEED a 5k shock. thats if it doesnt proc the second shock which will make it 8k damage total. we can use our abilities and pray for a string of crits. but thats it.

i use cover all the time. People forget that Acid Blade applies armor penetration to ALL OF YOUR ABILITIES. Including snipe and Exp Probe. its also really handy to keep people from leaping to you. Snare that warrior, gain some distance, then drop to cover... chip away at him as he has to slow walk to get to you because he cant use his gap closer.

oh healing is definately gonna get a nerf, its like, not terrible now. cant have that.

i think they should just give us the Engineering tree until they can figure out what they want to do with Concealment.

they need to just make Engineering the shared tree already.

Sniper buddy of mine uses the same build for PvP. from what he says its pretty money. although with the buffs to Plasma Probe incoming i would give a full 31 point build a shot before you stick with hybrid.

might be neat. till they shield themselves and drag you through poison/fire. if another operative did this to me id just jump of the bridge in voidstar.

i wish.

Explosive Probe now has a 10m range for Operatives. BUT, it can now be used while in stealth and does not break stealth. Edit: you creep on someone, drop Ex Probe, then immediately hidden strike.... can you see it? can you?