Silly of you to necro an obviously obsolete thread... Post a new one about your query, since anyone who reads this thread has wasted their time. Anyway crippling slash is very much replaced by seeping wound in most cases if you can get it in your spec, but there will be times you need to snare things when Rupture is on coodown or you want the possibility of incapacitate CCing them after they have been slowed so I wouldn't take Crippling off your action bars just yet.

Taking this as my sig.

I am not qualified to speak on stats at high level, but for leveling, crit and strength basically seem to make things go smoothly - having more damage means you can just kill things that would otherwise kill you first. As for your last issue - use crippling slash or get the Seeping Wound talent to keep the enemy slowed. That way the mob isn't hitting you but you can just keep on it and stab it in the back while it crawls after your companion.

'Root?'??? WHAT ROOT? I WANT A ROOT ON MY MARA... I have a slow...and that's it...

'Face-roll'....I do not think it means what you think it means..

EPIC troll is epic. 9./10. So many feeders.

I support this message. The game really works now, it's in a good place.

Orly?

What nonsense. Everything in this thread. Nonsense. "Don't 1v1 us?" Try 1v1ing my sniper with any marauder. I GUARANTEE you will not get a SINGLE POINT OF DAMAGE on me. The actual title is "Don't try to 1v1 a marauder in melee range." Which should be obvious. They are the highest damage melee class. Duh? Marauders are so easy it isn't funny. They have NO snare or root breaks at all unless in the middle tree, then they get 1. And they can do no damage outside of 4 yards, and can't even generate their ability resource outside that range... Combine these concepts. I see bounty hunters and snipers try to take on maras in melee range ALL THE TIME. I imagine they all go to the forums straight after getting their face ploughed in. Kite them! Snare them! Their 'spammable' snare costs rage, which they can only generate in melee range and they can't break roots, ever! Accuracy debuffs work on them! They are one of the only classes on who abilities like obfuscate work since 99% of their damage is from melee hits, not tech or force attacks. They have no CC at all! Just engage them in group pvp. 2v2. They can't mez or kite or stun, at all, so you can focus them down...undying rage lasts for FIVE SECONDS PEOPLE. And it has an obvious animation. Maras are really easy, you just need to l2p.

I don't think he means to split the region over an unexpected outage. I think what he's saying is they shouldn't do the Australian servers at the same time as the US one, leaving us without a game to play from 5pm-10pm twice in one week. Because that's just common sense, which apparently escaped BioWare on this occasion. I work in server maintenance quite a lot. And believe me, if we took people's servers down for 'unexpected issues' during their main operating hours I would not be working there for much longer. Staggering the downtime seems like a great idea. Aussie tech workers overtime isn't THAT expensive, trust me.

Just received a warning for forum ‘violations’. They deleted my thread “http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=918787”. This post contained no bad language or abuse – only criticism of your game mechanics. It was quite detailed and specific as to the issues at hand. Let me get this straight: You removed a thread which contained provoked over 30 pages of in-depth discussion of your broken PvP systems, under the pretext that its humorous presentation made it ‘trolling’? Are you really, seriously that sensitive to criticism that you silence valid dissatisfaction and discussion? I must really have touched a nerve with this. I was apparently correct, then, that you are fully aware then that the deliberate removal of world-pvp from your game is tantamount to false advertising, since this ‘feature’ was hyped and promoted and was the reason for my purchase. I don’t mind good moderation of forums – in fact I was rather pleased at receiving a warning before for bad language. Don’t want the forum becoming a cesspool, and that’s fine. But this is quite different. This is censorship of valid discussion – again which you misleadingly place a forum there for - and disrespect of the customer of the highest order. I was already pretty disappointed with the state of PvP and was probably going to cancel my subscription, and encourage the ten or so friends that I basically got to buy the game to do the same. However the recent announcement regarding future PvP changes gave me back some hope that the game would turn around, and I was changing my mind. But this is appalling. I will not stick around and invest time and money into a game system and company that makes so free with its power over me. This act has made me cancel my subscription to The Old Republic. Sincerely; Alec Wilson

You're doing it wrong. I've done just about every boss for every quest - including some 2 and 4 man heroics - solo with the assasin. Make better use of your cooldowns, put decent gear on your companions, dance aggro back and forth with Khem - or just use the heal droid for easymode, and always hotkey your medpacks.

Your post makes the assumption there's something wrong with the current system. I'm not at all convinced of this. I was a doubter, but the resolve system is a unique and apparently functional solution to CC balance. In small group combat the CC is extremely moderate compared to even WoW, while not feeling totally ineffective - and in zergs, well zerg is zerg: You get trained you're gonna die CCd or not.

1 v 1 and 2v2 is always most fun. When WoW killed 2v2 arena it was the last nail in its coffin for me. Long live 1v1 - it's just, fun, and I could care less about 'balance'. I dueled folks for hours in vanilla wow as a feral druid when they were literally the weakest spec of any class - still had a ball coz 1v1 is fun!

Literally the first thing I looked for when I loaded the game in beta. STUNNED when it wasn't in final release options... Can't have situational awareness when you can't even LOOK (and holding left click isn't an option since you can't mouse-turn properly with it and you certainly can't click on targets).