Pyro is a lot of fun and it's definitely more interesting managing your heat resource, but I'm pretty sure that fully geared it can't out parse Arsenal and it definitely can't compensate for the armor debuff from TM.

Yeah because when burning down that healer or fighting that boss you probably won't use your relic or adrenal.... There's no reason not to use every tool you have for parses.

http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/b94606f8-52a7-4427-9899-9aec5d2d7f9c I have yet to get my crit crafted implants or relic, so with those I'll have a bit more aim, also, there's no way to show a stim in the askmrrobot armory, so my aim/power are a little bit higher than that self buffed (2116 and 762 with stim up)

My stats for that parse were 2222 aim, 37% crit, 75% surge, 101% acc, 762 power ( 648 bonus damage) I could most definitely do a better parse, but I just posted the first 6 min one I could do to get a quick response. I have campaign chest, gloves, pants, boots, and am using BH armoring for my helm. I've redone all the gear to be pretty much power/surge with some power/acc thrown in and a few crit/acc. I've definitely been entertaining the idea of a more acc setup by dropping my surge to 73% or so, but I need a few more weeks to farm enough comms to pick up the enhancements.

Nope, I think I bumped over 40 once or twice, but that's usually when I do TMx2 and Unload procs, so I hit that instead of Rapid Shotting, and I end up dropping back down to the 20s during the duration of Unload. Basically you are gonna be hitting Rapid Shots at least two or three times every rotation, and by rotation I mean during the CD of HSM/RS. You get into a pretty comfortable rhythm with it after a while, usually after an Unload proc I'll TMx2 and if it hasn't proc'd again, I hit Rapid Shots.

http://www.torparse.com/a/43985 It's the second one, first one power surge screwed me over and bugged out the fight.

You use rapid shots all the time. It should be ~5% of your DPS.

pick powertech.

Oh, well that all changed after I stopped using RS without 5 stacks and switched to the alacrity build. But ok, point to you I suppose. This is a more accurate and up to date parse from me http://www.torparse.com/a/40944 Sure more gear will probably help you get up there, but you need to ask yourself if it's worth losing out on the RW DPS from the armor debuff.

My memory does need to be jogged, could you find this parse for me pls sir?

The only good thing about EQ2 raiding was contesteds and all the **** talking. Aside from that every fight was: Joust AoE, kill adds, kill boss.

Rift raiding was pretty good, but people seem to forget that their first 2 raids were a JOKE. The only good raiding Rift had was Hammerknell. It was hard, there were a lot of fights, and most of them were fun. I might still be playing Rift if some stuff hadn't come up and I didn't get left behind by my guild. Either way, you have to give games time to get their raids up to par. Everyone wants to remember the tough raids and people always forget the loleasy ones that every game has at release. Rift has a much more aggressive content release schedule, but they also had a lot less invested in their non-endgame encounters. ToR has to deal with things across the board, so it will take them time to put out quality raids. Give them time. The progression of EV/KP > EC was very good. The EC fights felt difficult and learning them was a lot of fun. Let's hope that BW continues that trend. I also really hope to see larger Operations, Maybe 7-10 boss Ops.

Funny that you quote EQ2. Oh, you want to carry more money? Buy the ability to do so. Oh you want to level up a certain class or race combo? Buy the ability to do so. Oh you want to have more than 4 characters? Buy the ability to do so. Oh you want to be able to use epic quality items? Buy the ability to do so. Does any of that sound good? No. Just stop. Not sure if trolling, but stop.

Only 1300?

Is Unload worth using if it's come off CD and hasn't proc'd? I know it doesn't happen that often, but when it does, I've always wondered if it's a loss or gain to use it.

Aerro, which mods are you using? I only ask because you say you're buying the sniper gloves, which means the mod in them is useless for you. However the black hole mercenary healer boots have the same power/surge enhancement as well as a 53 aim 41 power mod, which is our best mod IMO. I just would hate to waste all those comms

Yeah, I'm at about 37% crit, 75% surge, 600ish power? I'm not really sure since I can't log in to check atm, but I'm taking the mods/enhancement out of the BH Med-tech boots atm, then I'll grab a few of the boltblaster to get some power/acc enhancements. Switching over to the alacrity build I lost some accuracy, I think I'm at 99 right now, but one piece of gear will put me over it, so I'm not too worried about it. We're clearing 16 HM EC in one night now, so it's just a matter of time.

Not to nitpick or anything, cause I know our HSM can crit pretty damn hard on a fully debuffed boss, but do you raid with a competent sniper? Ours has hit several 7.5k+ crits on either ambush or followthrough, I'm not sure which it is, but I'm going to do some parses with him and see what he's doing.

Definitely liking the alacrity build a lot more than the endurance/accuracy build. Broke 1500 on the dummy for pretty much I think the first time ever last night. http://www.torparse.com/a/33754 I used to fire railshot on CD because I figured it was free damage, but waiting for 5 stacks is definitely the way to go. Also, I had been using TSO with Unload but using it with HSM is such a better idea, so much more heat efficient since Unload pretty much costs nothing/vents heat for you if you cast it under 40. The only thing I'm iffy about is accuracy. I'll probably have 101-102 with all my gear, but I'll have a bit more surge than you, IDK yet, I'll be doing tests with more accuracy vs more surge, and I'll see how it goes. Props to you for that post though, definitely some good info for anyone looking to end game DPS.

In a raid with 5 diff armor debuffs up it should be.

Snipers would still do more DPS. They can cast and forget about OS while pew pewing.

I like how no one stops to think that maybe the AP transfers and other foreign stuff is just Bioware using them as guinea pigs to make sure they don't break anything for the U.S. people.

Snipers have an armor debuff, AoE bubble, Mara's have BT and predation plus minor AoE heals. Stack snipers/maras, stack the sniper armor debuff, #winning. EDIT: the problem is that does the lower arsenal DPS get made up for by more armor debuffs? I don't think so. Our Mara is doing 1800 DPS on some encounters. That is stupid when I'm fighting for 1400 and our Snipers have np getting up to 1600.

From a PvE PoV, an equally played/geared Sniper/Mara brings more to the table than an Arsenal Merc in terms of DPS and utility. That's unacceptable.

All of my rakata gear has been reitemized for maximum DPS. Every armoring/barrel is 61 aim, I took out all the 55 aim ones. I have never touched alacrity (lol) and don't stack endurance (lol). I even have a full set of augmented gear waiting for the campaign stuff. Although I do use augmented pants/blasters because I can give up one set piece since I only need 4. My sniper friend and I have compared power/bonus damage scaling between our characters and he even gets more bonus damage from power. I don't understand why they would make classes scale differently, but since he hits harder than me, it doesn't make sense that he would scale better with gear. Before, when HSM hit harder than anything he had, it made sense, since it would be dumb for me to scale better AND hit harder.