It's you who needs to work on reading comprehension as he stated they're not considered "special" attacks. Therefor you only have 96% accuracy with those shots while abilities like explosive probe and orbital strike do count as "special" attacks. I'll say it one more time so maybe you'll understand "special" attacks are classed as force and tech damage and NOT abilities like snipe and followthrough!

The extra cunning given by the enforcer pieces far out weighs the mediocre set bonuses given by the field tech set. Though the only time I'm not sure this is true is for pure MM in which case take down with the four set bonus becomes your highest DPE ability.

I know how you feel I just started gearing my BH tank on my first server and was really enjoying it when I got pulled to another server to tank for a group of friends who needed an assassin tank. Now I'm thirty four and I'm just completely burnt out of assassin. At this point I just spend my time begrudgingly getting two or three bars and then windowing out.

Seems a bit low but like everyone is saying BH tanking seems to focus more around shielding rather then simply avoiding the attacks with defense. However that being said I'm currently running 19% defense, 52% shield, and 39% absorb with a mix of epics bought off the auction house and through PvP.

I've not personally gone through and soloed hammer and athiss but I've soloed black talon at level eleven on sorc. As for the rest I've two manned hammer, athiss, and mandalorian raiders all at the recommended levels with sniper and mercenary so I would imagine given enough levels they shouldn't be to rough aside from raiders which I wouldn't dream of soloing till long after it would be worth doing.

I've only done this fight once and only in a two man group (25 IA sniper and 25 BH marauder) but when we did down it after the first wipe we end starting with the consular followed by the knight then the smuggler and finishing off the trooper last. As far as the actual fight the BH tanked the knight while my companion tanked the rest. Also one thing that made the fight a lot easier was after my companion died with the smuggler and trooper still alive the BH ended up kiting the other two around the crates on the left which gave us enough time to to regain my energy and vent his heat.