cover screen colour change?......yes snipers having a stealth mechanic?..........no thanks. More important would be to change MM's problems with mitigation rather than add another mechanic to the class. Imo other than the mitigation and the stupid flashing 'come and gank me' lights MM sniper is fine. edit: Maybe making all abilities 35m and not just some would help too

Cypher Agent Sakara Kerrigan (SC2 ftw ) And my song would be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfi6mH_cwM&feature=related Paranoia, Paranoia, everybody's coming to get meeeeee:D

No, the 10-49 bracket is superb atm, very close matches and a chance to win even @ low levels despite the lack of abilities (have a level 18 IA). Splitting up the 50 bracket would make Q's sooo much longer.

My god, so much whine........I love my IA so far (level 50, up to 33 valor). You can skip most of the cry posts, while some of them have a point (some), the IA is a cool class and in the right hands can be capable of good things, however many drawbacks it has it is still viable and enjoyable.

stumbled across this stream while browsing twitch, two enthusiastic thumbs up from me

It's a pain in the a55 and needs changing, I have re-spec'ed to leth due to how annoying this is. I loved MM spec in pvp, but with low gear (new 50) and getting deflects on long cast skills is not a good thing. Not sure if any stat decreases this as accuracy only gives armor pen over 100%. am sure someone will correct me if there is.

even a spell lock (like unstable affliction for you former wow'ers) would work and make weakening blast put itself at the top of the debuffs (first to be purged). Not all targets will have WB on them and there is a decent CD on blast so I don't think it would be too op.

I kinda get a perverse sense of satisfaction when i don't get mvp but I know that I helped in the win. It means my work has gone unnoticed, which to me = job done If my team-mates missed that I was nuking the ball carrier from afar or missed that well placed orbital strike while the fire was up usually means that the enemy team missed it too:D

also don't forget to do your daily space battles, they are 'ok' fun wise and give massive amounts of XP. combine them with daily pvp Q you get a nice boost for pve questing.

tbf it's a direct quote from the film "your droids" (replaced with Australians) so yes it is implied that he has his own Australians like the droids in the film.

before you do, make sure to RTM first I'd flash her drive any day lol

cybertech gives armoring and mod..mods

Check out this guy to see how terrible MM is for pvp then.... http://www.twitch.tv/daniteh

Try this http://db.darthhater.com/skill_calc/imperial_agent/sniper/?build_id=404#::f2ef17de8fe8f8df5ef4ef alacrity is not my fave for a sniper build..you will use your energy faster = not good. Maybe for top end pve but you won't miss it for pvp/pve reduced CD on leg-shot is awesome for pvp (learn to love it. it does not count towards resolve).

Hmm I would argue the alacrity points, sniper volley and directive. There have been a few discussions about alacrity and if it is any good for a sniper. Imo i don't go for them as it just hastens your energy usage. Also if he wants to do a bit of pvp in between there are a few points that could be swapped about, but it is a good base to work off. I am going for something like this build (once I hit 50) http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#400bsrddRoRgzZbfZh.1 The extra point to reduce leg-shot is a god send in pvp and reduction in the CD of orbital strike seems too good to miss.

add shift to all of those and you have just doubled your key-binds also I use shift-tab (for cover)

I started with having the cover bar off (I always rebind keys on mmo's to my mouse etc) but every time i zone in to a new place WG/area etc the cover bar option is re-enabled again in preferences Was this a bug? and has it been fixed now?

I would try something more like this http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#400bsrddRokZ0cZh.1 sniper volley is not good imo as more haste just makes you use your energy bar quicker I also run with 3/3 lethality for the crit in pvp but you could swap those points and fill energy tanks and top out recoil control. Sector ranger is cool for the snare after the knock back too cover screen is a bit meh as you would want to be in cover most of the time so 20% def out of cover is a bit of a waste of 2 pt's, plus that lets you put a point to reduce the CD on leg shot (learn to love leg shot )

I'll give you that, op's are a snipers worst nightmare:p I will usually try to escape the initial stun and run like hell and hope they don't have flashbang or vanish up. Catching one out of stealth is fun though as they drop very quickly

Well, lets say you are fighting someone and you burst a bit of health down, they start to LOS you........ 1. pick on someone else. The person is running away from (hopefully) the objective you where defending (door, cap point or ball). They will think twice before coming back that way. 2. chase them, leg shot, cover, insta snipe, follow-through.......chase a bit more debilitate, cover insta snipe, explosive probe....chase, overcharged shot (out of cover to blow the probe up) etc etc. you still have flash-bang and leg shot is back up very quickly (even with 1 point in the talent) Granted there is a lot of lag in warzones and a few bugs with cover atm, but mostly this is (Im sorry to say) a L2P issue.

Strangely enough I first rolled republic smuggler (male) Han solo style But once irl friends rolled sith and we decided on a server, the IA sniper just seemed to 'fit' as female. Gotta be the uniform tbf

I'm currently in the same situation as above. I have cybertech at a high'ish level 230ish but thinking of dropping it to get biochem. My only worry is that BW with nerf biochem or buff cybertech by the time I get it leveled up again. With the amount of small patches and how many things they are fixing/adjusting atm it is very possible that this could happen. Especially if all high level deeps go for bio over other crafting proffs. I think i may stick it out while i'm leveling (33atm) and have another look once 50.

I am kinda on the fence with this one, yes a dps meter would be nice to perfect rotations etc, but I can see people having to re-spec out of utility/different role because of lower dps (even if they are a min/max'er) it's just the spec that cant pull as much deeps. I would rarther a target droid on the fleet (or home world) which would give you a damage reading when you hit it, but nothing in grps* *damage reading not dps so you can run a few rotations and see how much damage you have done, change a few things and run the same amount of rotations, granted RNG etc. etc. but it would give you an idea on how hard you are hitting. plus a target droid kinda fits with the lore