Hi everyone, I've just come back to the game after about 9 months away. My Assassin is level 43, and I've gone for the classic 23-1-17 build, put my points in etc. But I have to admit, I can't remember how to play this class AT ALL, can anyone help me with the very basics. silly questions i need help with are : what abilities are my bread and butter - and should be my main key bindings? what abilities do I rarely or never use (ie more for sorceror, or different build) whats a good basic rotation? I'm going to focus on questing until I get back in the swing of it ;-) Thanks for any help

If I'm not allowed to move my characters off the dead server they're currently on, for free. I wont resub... If I cant move them very soon, I wont resub.... In fact Bioware are gonna have to work damn hard to get me to resub anyway, lost all faith in them

Balmorra worst by far, then Alderaan. balmorra just has irritating geography, stupid canyons, its always 100 metres to your destination but you have to go 5 miles around. Alderaan just seemed like it was too spread out for the content, and boring. edit - yeah Ilum has issues too, but I dont really consider it a planet like the others, ie a levelling one. It's pretty much just a pvp area with some of the worst fps issues i've ever seen. Thank GOD they removed the weekly and daily quests there. I had to drop every graphical setting to minimum to get those done, and still crashed every 15-20 minutes.

prior to 1.2 I loved playing my Jugg as Rage spec. I know it had weaknesses and might not be the best spec for premade groups, but I really simply enjoyed the playstyle. I was nervous about the patch just reading the patchnotes, but having reached full BM gear post patch, the damage output hasnt been nerfed too much, although its certainly lower than before. However... Rage spec simply isn't as fun anymore, I can live with the longer cooldown on Slam. It's actually the overall cooldown reduction from the Rage Stance thats done the damage. I repeatedly find myself waiting on cooldowns for several abilities now. Each individual one would be tolerable, but to have the increased cooldown universally? pretty much killed it for me. yes I tried Vengeance, just dont like the playstyle at all, plus even more waiting for cooldowns. Just posting in case I've missed something and someone can show me a solution. Would be nice as I loved the class, but now I've lost interest in playing

well, Biochem, supported by Bioanalysis and possibly Diplomacy (that last one is optional) the reason being, anything made by any other tradeskill, can be bought from the AH, Biochem is the ONLY crewskill that has items that require that tradeskill to use...

Focus is still somewhat effective, just not as much as before. The higher cooldown on Slam/Sweep is irritating but tolerable, however the removal of the overall cooldown reduction from the Rage/Focus stance (I forgot its name) has killed the spec for me. It's just not as fun anymore, I find myself waiting for things to come off cooldown too much. I'd stick with Vigilance if I were you, the gear is at least itemised correctly.

Agree on all your points. ESPECIALLY point 5. I levelled 2 toons to 50, then had to abandon both due to my server being a ghost town. Having levelled yet again on a high pop server, I am utterly sick of the levelling process. I'll add a point 6 - proper communication from Bioware. There must be over 100 posts requesting server moves or character transfers, and a couple of threads going over 50? pages, certainly a huge number. Yet Bioware make give no info, make no announcements. I thought they were supposed to be better than Blizzard?

I feel for you, I was in the same situation having played from launch, I had 2 50s and another toon in the high 30s when I finally accepted my server was a ghost town too. I rerolled on a high pop server like many will tell you to do, It took ages, but I hit max level on the new server and yes, it's possible to do HMs now, although the grouping system is still inexplicably awful. However I really miss having my characters on the old server, I'm sick of levelling and there's NO WAY i'm levelling up YET AGAIN. I've been waiting for server transfers, but frankly Bioware have ignored scores of posts on this topic, to the point that I've lost all respect and trust in them. If you're loving the game still, you HAVE to reroll, meaning all the time and effort you've spent up to now is wasted, it sucks I'm sorry to say. Wish I could give you better news. Cant see myself renewing my sub personally.

This is the best thing in this thread.

I have a 50 Sentinel and a 46 Juggernaut. if you're not interested in PVP, it mainly comes down to 1 question. Do you like Tanking? if yes, take the Juggernaut/Guardian. the Sentinel/Marauder does tons more DPS, so if you're mostly playing solo, or not tanking, it's better. The Jugg/Guard isn't bad, before people start flaming, but unless you're tanking, the sent/mara is better. Another thing to consider, the sith Warrior class (leading to Juggernaut/Marauder) gets a healing companion as the 2nd companion around lvl 18, the Jedi Knight gets it as the 3rd, around lvl 32. This makes levelling an Imperial Sith Warrior, whichever advanced class you pick FAR easier than a Republic Jedi Knight. I've done both, yes both can be done, it's simply far easier and thus quicker, as an Imperial.