As much as I want the damage he was doing to be a good representation of how Annihilation can do he did go after the 13 and 32 alot and no amount of bolstering can make up for champion gear. Expertise % is just too much for a lower player to overcome. Even when he was fighting 50s theres no way to tell what their gear was like and whether or not the had expertise on it. Most of the damage to the 50s would have been easily healed through.

I avoid Quinn when ever I can unless Im fighting multiple elites or champ mobs solo his dps is horrible. I geared both Quinn and Vette as well as I could at 40 and things die so much faster using Vette. There may be a small amount of downtime requiring channel hatred for 5 seconds between fights but the faster killing speed makes up for it. When I get to 50 I'm gonna get Jaesa geared again because I still think she was the best. Does anyone actually use Broonmark for anything at all ugggh I hate him. Might give Pierce a try also. Ive tried Carnage and Annihilation and honestly even at at 46 I dont see much if any appeal to use carnage...I may just be playing it wrong but the damage seems very lacking compared to Annihilation and it seems like more of a button masher Battering Assault, Force Scream, Gore, Massacre, Ravage, Massacre, Massacre, Massacre, Massacre, Massacre, did I say Massacre...I do however love all of the roots carnage gives for PVP Ravage 3 second root every 30 seconds(or Less), and Deadly Throw 3 seconds every 15 seconds, add in Force Choke for another 3 seconds. Have yet to try rage but have seen people pull really good numbers with it and have been out dps'd by a lesser geared Marauder same level, fighting the same Elite mobs. He was using Jaesa and I was using my newly geared Vette(43-45 blues). On 2 Elites he would kill them about 5-10 seconds faster than me and singles still about 5 seconds faster. Maybe it was an issue of skill but I think it was the rage tree.

You cant get an offhand with crit??? seems like the offhands are vastly superior to a single color crystal.

Im not complaining about marauder since mine is only 20 and as far as I'm concerned I'm hardly an expert on the class soo far, but whats the point of posts like this. If you are trying to brag about your results in pvp atleast back it up with some evidence(screen shot, FRAPs) etc. Beyond actually demonstrating the class can be good or played well you add a pointless topic about how you're awesome and clearly all the naysayers suck. You just tryin to raise your post count??? Done with my non constructive rant.

Both Synthweaving and Artifice use Archaeology as a primary resource skill. Synthweaving also benefits from Underworld Trading for blue/purple materials not obtained through Archaeology. Artifice uses Treasure Hunting for blues/purples. As far as which to choose well thats always a matter of opinion and everyone will give you a different answer do you want to be able to make your own armor or mods for light sabers and other equipment slots.

One is a mission skill and the other a gathering skill. Gathering skills get the bulk of your crafting materials while mission skills give you high end materials for crafting blues/purples. Gathering skills you can use to physically harvest materials in the game as well as send companions on missions to do it for you. So having both isn't going to be required, but if you ever want to craft anything better than a green you need them both, or you have to buy the blue/purple crafting mats off of the GTN.

Ok first off in what game are you playing where you get 6k per slicing mission per companion even at 400. I just got to 400 slicing today and on average I net between 500-1500, and occasionally 2500 creds per companion thats after removing the cost of running the mission. Maybe if you are using high end slicing missions you are buying off the GTN, can a slicing mission gross you 6k per companion, but then you have to remove cost of buying the mission and cost of running the mission. So enlighten me what is it I'm doing wrong...is there some magic button sequence I have to push to get my companions to be able to run the uber epic 6k missions... Oh and by the way 10 creds a minute is 600 creds an hour not 6k there are after all only 60 minutes in an hour...10x60=600. Your arguement is now 6k per alt every 10 hours...or 100 creds per minute either way thats like 2-3 grade math...

I got tired of reading by the 7th page...class sucks, no it doesn't you suck...etc. Would be more constructive if people that were defending the class would list their basic spec/rotations. I'm only 17 as a Mara, have a 20 Sin, 21 Merc, and a 16 Op, and I'm thinking about making the Mara my main... Sure the Merc has DfA and it slaughters small groups of enemies just with the one skill, and has several more really strong aoes, still not a lot of CC though atleast not at mines level. One of the more annoying things I've experienced on my Mara is the best way to solo a strong and elite group is to put Vette on the Elite then I jump on the Silver. When the silver is dead I switch to the Elite, but by the time I get to it shes usually almost got it killed solo. I do find that kinda strange that our dps companion tanks better than we do and her gear is horrible compared to mine.