Dear BioWare, Today, I completed my 19th flashpoint. 19 flashpoints without getting a single item (not even an earpiece, focus or implant. NOTHING!). 19, BioWare! 19!!! And I got no items to show for it.

All I see here are people complaining that they have opened 20 bags and don't have a full set of gear yet. This is not a lot of bags people. Come back when you have opened 100+.

http://knotor.com/item_sets

I think they should just add some expertise on the level 20 and 40 gear. Seems kind of pointless having a bracket for level 50s. It's going to be funny seeing all the same threads pop up again complaining how they are getting destroyed at level 50 by geared players. Way too much crying over this, its an MMO. People with more time have better gear. If you don't enjoy the challenge of fighting people who out gear you you are playing the wrong game.

Nobody is going to have much accuracy over 100%. First it caps at 120% afaik and secondly due to diminishing returns you would be giving up a crazy amount of other stats to actually reach the cap. As I said earlier I would be much more worried about not being able to shield crits as crit rate already seems to be very high even in mediocre gear.

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rcrokrskdZZf0cMo.1 That's my spec so far at level 47. Harnessed Shadows hasn't really been as useful as I hoped so I will probably switch to the following at 50: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rcRokrskZ0MZf0cRr0z.1 Force in Balance is a fantastic spell for interrupting people on objectives and I really miss it from when I tried out Balance.

If you find a good healer to buddy up with its amazing fun as well, if they are any way decent you can have some epic battles.

Don't have any pics but here is a vid on my Jedi Shadow

Probably defence for pvp. Even if shield stacking turns out to be the most optimum damage reduction overall, you can't shield a crit. I'm not sure what kind of crit rate mobs have so it may be irrelevant there but with some decent gear and buffs it is going to be pretty high in pvp 30%+ and likely higher with trinkets/procs. At level 45 I'm already at 29% with a proc that's pretty much always up.

Put up this video for anybody considering Kinetic in pvp. The majority of Shadows I see in pvp are Infiltration and I just wanted to share the awesomeness of a character who can stealth, take a fair beating, guard his comrades and still bring the pain. I'm level 42 in the video with 27 points in Kinetic and starting to put the rest in Balance and using dps gear. Just don't let those Sith Assassins in on it, I already have a hard enough time against Powertech Bounty Hunters and Sith Juggernauts they don't need any more pvp tanks! Its all from one match, I cut out the waiting bits, guarding the same objective and ending up with 10 medals and 0 deaths. The usual disclaimer applies, most fights are against lower levels (though there was one level 41 who kept coming back for more), if you don't like the music mute it and crank up your own tunes :~)

I wonder how fast Kinetic Ward/Dark Ward will get used up with a high shield chance and tanking a few mobs at the same time and how much would it effect overall mitigation. You might end up wanting to balance the amount of Defence so that Ward is up 100%.

Wonderful post, thank you.

Since leaving the starting area it has felt like I have been playing a game with maybe 3 or 4 other people. Its like some coop rpg. I still love it, it just seems really strange.

Is the chat by instance as well because I see very little chat going on even though my server shows high population?

Yep noticed the same thing as was mightily disappointed :/