"What is the role of the DPS sage anymore?" To do DPS.

I suspected as much. I will also be picking up a Razer Naga hopefully next week, which should help a ton once I get used to it. I do melt incredibly quickly under pressure, so hitting 2 and 3 when attempting to jump around like a clown like everyone does in PvP (I'm assuming it either happens, or people just assume that if a cast finishes when you are behind the guy it won't go off with the "you must be facing your target" error)... yeah that's not going to happen very easily xD EDIT: I mean I personally don't handle pressure very well when I say "I melt under pressure" - just to clarify as I realised it could be taken to mean I expected not to die if I was being focus-fired in PvP

What about Pacify? Wouldn't it be an idea to slap that on after Leg Slash (or possibly "instead of" in the case of a Sniper)? I tried to figure out what attacks it applies to via the spell details on Torhead, but from that it sounded like it was only Force attacks that was excluded.

Hmm I just realised, what about getting away from a ranged? If, say, a Merc spotted me and I need to get away, what then? (I say Merc because they are the most mobile ranged class I know of, in my limited knowledge of anything that is not an Assassin or a low-level Sentinel). I'm thinking; Force Camo and leg it as far away as I can, and if that's on CD then Force Leap towards someone in the opposite direction even if you have no intentions of engaging them. That sound about right?

Awesome tips, thanks I wiki'd Pickett's Charge, and I caught myself thinking "hah that was dumb" not realising I probably do the exact same thing in every PvP match. I'm really glad I didn't post this in the PvP forum like I originally planned, once I calmed down I rewrote my post so it was less mindless QQ and more actual "okay, I admit, I have no idea what I'm doing" You guys are great

Lol yeah xD The number of skills don't help me either as I sometimes tend to melt under pressure Rebuke + Saber Ward is what I was referring to primarily, as thus far they are the only survivability CDs I have. I am Biochem though, of course low-level medpacks / stims / adrenals don't do much of anything at my level xD I still think ranged is OP in this game though. rageface.jpg

Hmm, is it balanced to have to rely on 1-2 minute CDs to stand a chance against a certain archetype? Considering ranged classes currently do not have a "minimum range", it's not like they are entirely useless against melee if we get right up in their faces - especially because 1v1 there are (to my knowledge) no true "stunlock" capable classes in the game. If they have so many tools for getting us off them / keeping us off (immobilise where we can't even Force Leap being the biggest PITA), then why are they able to attack in melee range still? =/

Those of you who expected a QQ thread... Well you're kinda right actually xD I play a Jedi Sentinel, currently level 25, but I also have a lv50 Sith Assassin on a different realm. My question to you is, what is a melee supposed to do with the amount of knockback and immobilise ranged classes have? From what I can tell (I may be wrong in some of these): Bounty Hunters / Troopers have a knockback skill that applies a slow, and is on around 12 second cooldown. Consulars / Inquisitors have their knockback that Sages / Inquisitors can talent into an immobilise. Gunslingers / Snipers have a talent that knocks you back further than any other knockback and immobilises you for 6 seconds. Now out of those, a Shadow / Assassin's knockback is more or less fine, you can counter that as a Sentinel by using Leg Slash as they will most likely only use that if they are trying to escape. But all the others just eat me up. If I walk up to a ranged target, they have taken me down to ~50% health before I'm there because they have ranged slows. If I Force Leap, they instantly knock me back and then kill me. I know that later I will get Force Camo and as a Watchman, I will be immune to damage during its duration, but that has a hefty CD compared to the CD of the aforementioned knockbacks. Considering I meet so many more ranged classes than melee classes in PvP, I reiterate: What am I supposed to do?

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Can you give us an update on the prospects of same-sex companion romances?

Given the fact that we can't seem to freely decide how many bottom quickslots we can add, macros are badly needed. Please, don't take this request as "we need /castsequence and programmatical macros like vanilla WoW", I simply need something that would allow me to hold down the modifier key of my choice (Team Alt! GO TEAM!) and see the skill icon on my skill bars update. Ceiling Cat compels you!