Having done that one both as a sniper and an operative, I would say use your interrupts but only use them on the one ability that hurts a lot.

If I have 67/67 datacron achievements and my +10 to all attributes datacron, it means I have all the datacrons available to my faction right?

Line of sight.

Rival sith and republic factions could work.

I didn't feel like flipping through 20 pages to see if this was addressed but someone on the first page said the Sith were busy owning up warzones and Ilum while we were doing nothing. What you don't know is that most of the people in that ops group are already battlemasters, me included, I just don't care for titles as my epeen doesn't need anymore stroking. What is left for us battlemasters to do other than grind to War Hero and do dailies? We do our dailies in like an hour because we crush the Sith in warzones preeeeetty often. They do have some good premades yes but most of their pugs are just fail trains. They just have no idea how to communicate effectively or protect healers, or you know, say anything at all in ops chat. I have a level 50 Sith alt I actually leveled AFTER making Battlemaster and yes, I can attest to the situation of Imperial PVP on the server. In fact, the reason we didn't end up forming like 6 premade groups was because all we would get was same faction huttball as we had done so earlier in the day. The Imperials don't seem to want to queue anymore thinking there is safety in numbers on Ilum. So sure, when Bioware removes the dailies and adds a tier of gear/rated WZs/incentive to keep WZing, we will form our 4 premades and go at it. Until then, we're going to go amuse ourselves. Also to augment/update, they went back to it again last night, on Ilum this time. Was still a massacre, but it was just Ilum so everyone loses in the end.

I was in a sub 50s Alderaan the other day and a lone defender (think it may have been a reroll) called out snow, no one moved. I realized a few seconds later what he meant and yelled the appropriate east/west and the team takes off to defend it. So it really must be server and faction dependent because no Republic on my server uses grass/snow (I ws on my empire alt).

24/7 Huttball isn't appealing. Also the animation on the flamethrower is kind of lame, I can barely tell what the cone of damage area is.

bump.

Mirror classes.

Anyone crunch numbers to figure out what's better for PVP? I'm currently running a aim/end matrix cube on my Trooper with a expertise/endurance relic and I'm wondering if it would be better to double up on relics.

I've done the Raina Temple and Elara Dorne ones so far, I thought it was cute having Elara as a by the books Republic officer trying to resist my advances only to fold in the end. As for Raina, she has the most adorable voice.

Anyone know the name of the pre battle Alderaan warzone theme or where I can find it? I love that song.

I heard a rumor they were planning to implement a generic token system for the bags, so it would still technically be a RNG system, but you could trade that token in for any piece of gear for that tier. Edit: It was in the patch notes found here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=1276185#edit1276185

I think snipers have amazing burst (I play one) but I've been hit pretty hard by sorcs/ops. My damage isn't consistent and is most effective when my cooldowns are ready of course, problem is sorcs like to AOE a lot and break my CCs so the guy I'm trying to burst down continues trying to maul me. But I have a field day when I'm being ignored (which is often).

If I had known it would turn out like this I would have backed Jaydis.

Mobility is an issue for snipers in Huttball, basically since the objective is to keep running that ball. We don't have the ability to leap onto catwalks to intercept and if we camp up there that just results in their warrior carrier just being able to use you as a stepping stone to capping. Note that this really only applies to Huttball, HOWEVER, it's extremely significant since the Sith get Huttball 90% of the time. If you're sitting near the middle of the arena and people are just fighting each other and ignoring you, you will destroy all of them. But if they are playing Huttball how it's meant to be played, you will have issues keeping up as the CC enters diminishing returns and the carrier keeps running away. Ambush is also really really buggy in PVP and when you lose a 2.5 second cast to doing 0 damage, it's rage inducing.

I interrupt the force choke with whatever that 8 second interrupt we have is and just stun him whenever my health is getting lowish so Lokin can top me off. But then again I'm also using stims so I have an extra heal.

I'm a Imperial Sniper because I used to always play melee in all the other MMOs, figured I'd give ranged DPS a try. It kind of worked like I thought it would, I can get crazy amounts of damage on a target but the whole cover mechanic + warzone input lag is making PVP harder as I level with the higher levels knowing how to harrass and LOS ranged DPS.