I don't expect my damage to be high like a pure dps class, that's not what i am referring to. I was referring to what I have seen other shadow tanks put up for numbers, and that I have never come close to those even against new 50's in light armor that you would expect to hit harder. Sorry if I didn't make that as clear as I should have in my original post.

So I have been trying to improve my gameplay and become better at my class, while i know there are aspects that I need to work on damage the I am currently doing seems low and that it will not ever get up to what I have seen in some of the Vids posted. Right now i'm wearing, mostly Centurion, Champ weapon, legs and earpiece, with BM Gloves, and implants. I have 1295 willpower, 412 power and 975 Force power (shield). The best I have ever gotten and project to crit for is 2.5k and that was with using the +450 power adrenal. Also he was a fresh level 50... other than that I am lucky to hit 2.1k crits. Not sure if its just me, or the fact that every WZ i get has 6 imps that can heal and dps, and has a guard up on them. Also i was wondering if focus would be better then shield cause when i die or refresh after a fight that are usually 6+ wards still up... that's when fighting assassins or mara's. I would appreciate and helpful tips thanks.

So beside occasional ability lag, unresponsiveness and animation delays on of the issues i am facing is that when i try to melee dps on my shadow i constantly get you must be facing the target on my screen. More then half the time they are hitting me but im not hitting them even though we are facing each other. This is a major problem cause i will lose fights cause the whole time i get this message and end up land very few hits on my target. On my gunslinger this is not an issue as he will just twist his body and continue to shoot at the target. Any thoughts on how I could fix this or adjust my gameplay would be great.... and yes I do turn with my mouse.

I'm looking for ways to improve in pvp. I seem to lack any real damage, especially burst. I do have ability lag and with animation delays it just horrible to try and hit anyone. Hopefully these will get better with upcoming patches. One of my big problems is movement speed, as soon as i get hit I slow down as sprint does not work in combat but my targets seem to keep moving as if their sprint is still up. I have looked and i do not have a speed debuff on me but the just run away or around me like its a joke. This just adds to my frustration. Its bad enough when i go to use spinning strike and even though its instant i get a delay and if the target is standing still another second and half of animation before it hits, but when they are moving i have seen it take 5 seconds to go off trying to as i try to stay with them. Yes I could turn and have it stop but now im at range and dead. Vs. other melee i've seen them strike me 5 or more times with melee attacks and all i seem to get is message's of your not facing the right way or your out of range, yet they are hitting me and i am facing them. If anyone has suggestions on what I could do that would be great. I am currently running a balance/kinetic build at lvl 44, I have tried a Infiltration build as well. P.S. On my lvl 12 jedi sage and lvl 14 sith assasin, i have less issues with this. Not sure why but the higher my level gets the worse my ability lag seems to be.