The final set bonus is a large contributor to why we have such high burst damage. I'm curious if this burst damage is what has caused you to not fix the Vanguards terrible survivability in PvP the entire season? As a primary PvP player I've been dying for my Vanguard to see some survivability buffs, playing ranked and spending almost every game running away from the enemy team while trying to do damage before I die is completely boring for me. I'd like to see the class changes the expansion will bring before judging the set bonuses but survivability needs to come from somewhere because our defensive CDs don't prolong death for us any more than a few more seconds if we are lucky. I must say that I don't have so much of a problem in normal warzones with the balance of survivability and dps but as ranked PvP is the focus of any competitive PvP player that is where I focus my attention when it comes to balance.

Congratulations Sins, Sorcs and PT tanks.

I'm Kinetic specced. I sometimes get the old animation, it seems 50/50. Much prefer the old so no idea why they have done this other than a mistake.

I definitely saw the full old Spinning Strike animation tonight, but on other occasions saw the slightly lame low slash animation, it's kind of annoying because like others I use it as a visual queue and I loved the old animation.

Am I going crazy but does Spinning Strike now use the animation for Low Slash? I seem to remember it being a much better take down type move than I was using tonight...

Hi guys I found a work around for this ages ago and have put this up as a bug report and in these forums but I think it seems to get burried pretty damn quickly with all the threads. When you get this bug and a skill wont activate DESELECT your current target. For me I have it so it deselects my target when I click terrain, you can set this in the options. So Force Cloak WONT work, click terrain, use force cloak, problem solved.

Now that the Imperials have been handed rank 60 on our server you going to spare a thought for those that are willing to play the underdog? I think it's way beyond the point of you needing to address the faction balance, Trayus Academy EU is a joke.

I take it, I currently get a 4.5% damage mitigation from it from the majority of all damage I take, for 2 talent points I think it's worth it.

I worked out a lot of different specs in PvP, I tried and discounted a lot of the builds posted on the forums because I could find better, you have to realise that a lot of it was just people playing with the calculators and thinking they had found a great build when they weren't 50 yet. When I was undergeared this was by far the best build I had: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rcrokrskdZhGbMzZz.1 I used a shield instead of Focus and the rest of my gear was all dps gear. I could be stupidly survivable, amazing at defending a node. And back in the day before crazy gear, level 50 bracket and higher expertise I wouldn't think twice about taking on 3 people to capture a node. Use Force Potency on 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows or for when you need to stop a cap on a node up to 30m. You get loads of free kills in Hutt Ball with Force Pull, especially from stealth. And you can do some real flair moves jumping in to the pit before the touchdown zone and Force Pulling as you fall to take the ball carrier with you. Sit in Combat Technique, only use Guard when you have a good healer with you because you will be focused a lot. Always keep Kinetic Ward up. 1v1 I would only lose to Clairvoyant Strike shadows amusingly and Operatives that opened on me. This build has been buffed since the days when I used to use it with Combat Technique changes, I tried it again and swapped back quickly when I realised the groups I go with needed the higher dps.

I've tried it, with full damage PvP gear and the damage didn't even slightly compare to Clairvoyant Strike spec. If you have others around you doing all the damage then great, it's definitely really nice for PvP. Perhaps when they fix the Particle Acceleration bug it will be even more worth considering.

I would swear by this spec: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601MZGGbRkG0btzZf0c.1 AOE damage is massive in this game and with gear the extra armour of Shadowy Veil is something like 4.5% reduction in melee and ranged damage. I do not need Force Cloak more often with good play and I have never ever felt I lost out on Force Slow in a Warzone. If I was to move anything to reduce Force Cloak and better force slow I would drop some in infiltration tactics, you really don't need it once you are well geared. Warzones often need high dps like a Clairvoyant Strike spec can give but this makes you squishy, the survivability talents in this spec really do make a nice difference and in warzones survivability is bloody important!

Sorry if someone has already posted this. I hope I'm not the only one in PvP can spam their Force Cloak key binding and have nothing happen. I have had this with Force Cloak, Deflection and other abilities for no reason whatsoever. I have finally figured out a work around that works 100% of the time. When you are spamming the button and it refuses to cast just deselect your current target and it will work no problem. I have it in the settings that when I click terrain it deselects my target so as soon as I get the issue click the ground and Force Cloak will work. I've been doing this for quite a while now and now I'm sure it is connected I thought I would share.

From testing of taking away what would be 30% armour it was around 2% mitigation, of only Kinetic and Energy. Not a big deal. It may not be linear of course so could be even less.

I suggest you take Force Focus over Jedi Resistance. You have taken Exit Strategy and you are trying to nuke and kill, 2% damage resistance is useless for that play style. Edit: Scratch that only works in Force Technique, you have to take the 2 in Resistance.