Because you dont like have a higher top end and a tighter damage range apparently. The rifle matters a lot.

People like getting stuff. There are 3 grades of purple gear right now from pvp and pve you'll notice everyone has champions mostly, or tioneese gear. While a small minority is holding on to the best gear.

If it's locking you are doing it wrong

You are comparing a 7 year old game with a 4 week old game. The development time is orders of magnitude larger at this point. They have had the TIME to iron them out. So comparing SWTOR now to WoW now is like comparing a startup to IBM in term of current performance.

Clearly you never played launch with the hillarious caster staves with strength.

Lethality is terrible compared to 23/16/2

Or I could be the first 50 sniper who has more than enough experience to know that lethality sucks. I mean I'm not saying you're assuming things but your assuming things.

I can tell you why you have no energy, you're playing lethality which is the worst spec. End of Thread.

Tier 3 is only 4 rating higher than 2 so its not as big of an upgrade as from 1 to 2.

By 300k damage you mean 30k damage? You hit like a little *****.

You so funny with your rubber banding and knocking back outside of cleave arc. :3 Best buggy *** boss fight of 2012?

Any 'blaster' type weapon will detonate it. Meaning BH pistols, OP rifles, Sniper rifles etc, the restriction prevents lightsabers from blowing them up.

Hey so lets give away this huge secret to Bioware's stupid puzzle. ON HARD AND NIGHTMARE MODE YOU MUST SOLVE THE PUZZLE IN 8 TURNS Here is the *********** solution to it. Find where you start then count the optimal path Right Panel Purple -> White -> Yellow -> Blue -> Green -> Red -> Purple and so on Left Panel Purple -> Red -> Green -> Blue -> Yellow -> White -> Purple and so on Problems 1) You cannot solve the puzzle in 8 turns every time (We have had solutions as low as 7 and as high as 13) 2) The puzzle does not reset properly without a zone reset You make an encounter with 0 room for error and then make it so the zone has to be reset each time and then does not work properly each time. Rule one of making a puzzle that has to be solve din X turns, make sure all possible solutions occur within X or make your win condition the maximum value.

So there is this really tricky thing called balance, and in MMO's you need this balance stuff in droves. Giving a class a 50 meter range, while having it maintain immunity to interupts, immunity to charge in a 120 degree arc, and large burst damage would over power the class. Even if snipers could start damaging you but the damage was 50% of max at max range but the time any other class closed to 30 m they would be dead or nearly dead. More range is not needed sorry please go back under the bridge you came from.

Any comment on the fate of operatives or healer/dps hybrid specs?

Soa is movement heavy during the transitions. You can setup in places that dont require you to move much if at all to kill mind traps, and if you are just trying to get to 35 m pro tip his room is only ~50 m in diameter.

Your ability to post huge numbers in a WF is directly dependent on how much movement you have to do. If people harass you at all you start losing damage in a large way regardless of spec. I have posted games over 400k damage if I am either babysit by another DPS or a healer, or the other team derps out completely and ignores my existence.

Simple answer no. Eng/Let builds all suck and are 100% terrible.

23/16/2 puts out around 1000k DPS (measured on champion mob on illum) while I have no solid metrics on MM spec (31/5/5 or 31/7/3) when I did switch from 31/7/3 to 23/16/2 I noticed a marked decrease in my time to kill at low gear levels. Where I am now I suspect that MM will out pace the current spec but I have not had a chance to test it.

Except that Jorland's reflective shield doesnt drop when you kill Massey. If you have good DPS (which you didnt really in that video) they suicide on the shield. I setup my burst and as soon as I popped all of it I was dead because of that stupid shield.

Also remember they have not actually cleared nightmare mode. Nightmare mode is currently bugged and nigthmare bosses are not spawning as nightmare bosses.

Boarding Party Commander Jorland Killing Lt. Massey does not cause the reflective shield to drop on Commander Jorland Solution: None Workaround: Suicide rush the boss

The battlemaster weapons are fine, 505 topend lvl 58 mods. The Rakata stuff is bugged.

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Right now Rakatta weapons is stated at level 126 (lvl 51 mod and enhancment and level 58 mod). So buying rakata weapons right now is useless when Columni weapons are level 136.