neither our ap spec isnt that good and from a dmg standpoint our hybrid specs are terrible use something like one of these 2. Depending on prefrences you can switch around some secondary pts to prefrence in the pyro spec http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#301hMhZ0MZfhMddGuMs.1 or http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#301bMZMsZfhMddGuMs.1 I prefer the first one by far and some may reccommend a spec without 31 pyro but the burst from a TD crit as you fire a railshot crit is too amazing to consider dropping like if your geared and poping cds its a 100% hp to dead combo

When i quote the 5k **** its when im messing around in pvp with full rakata for big hits otherwise in bm with rakata weps its mid to low 4ks and as far as dmg compairsons for classes I can top dmg in every warzone i do while only doing single target and death from above when its up. In pve dmg compairisons its best to use the council fight 4th boss EV to compare dmg as its a mob with a large ammount of hp that each person solos. I always finish first with my 150k hp mob and can norm beat second place by a solid 15-20 sec. Everyone in the raid is using a mix of t3 and t2 so theres no major gear difference. The happy thing is that in my pve gear my hp pool, base armor and the guard on me lets me survive pulling agro constantly

meh its not hard to both and get a full champ set and a full rakata set just takes 1 night a week for raiding

First of all respec pyrotech to give yourself a massive increase in dmg since ap is only able to do full dps in a completly static fight and even then its arguably worse than pyro. That said our dps in single target is prob the best if not one of the best in the game. I am easily able to strip agro from a full rakata geared jug with a guard on me for minus threat. You will not get crits quite as big as other classes but this is counterbalanced that you will hit far more often and get slightly smaller crits than the other classes. Like some classes can top out with a 6k or so with a big lead up when i pop cds my railshot crits over 5k every time and TD is over 4.5k.

For offtanking you spec pyrotech and where full dps gear when you need to ot you turn on tank presence and put a shield on. This way you can ot when needed fine and when your not needed offtanking you can do massive dmg

Thats fine if your extreemly stubborn about refusing to get thermal detonator Zue but do yourself a favor and pick the skill up its a huge increase to your single target dps and your posible burst for me detonator can crit for 3.7k and combined with the 3.7k crit rail shot used at the same time sometimes targets just fall over dead. And explosive dart is good and useful but just in aoe situations.