I haven't played since February. Mainly cause i went DPS Guardian and was told that i couldnt compete with other dps classes far too often with no proof. wondering if there is a general consensus on the DPS rankings of classes/specs? ie, who is top dog melee? Who is top dog range? i rerolled from DPS guardian to Gunslinger in hopes of raiding as a pure dps without hassle, but quit during the leveling process. (was slower cause i went to a new server that fit my play time better) any opinions or data on the subject is welcome, thanks.

I got to tier2 pve armor. i thought i was doing just fine... until the solo bosses in EV. I ended up being the last person to kill their guy (other than the healers and the big tanky one) was pretty alarming. I wasn't terribly behind, but i was at least 15 seconds longer than any other dps. maybe longer, i didn't time it. was a big let down. granted, they can't guardian leap and force leap, but dang... felt gimped. i've since rolled a gunslinger to give me my dps needs. i'll play guardian as a pure pvp char i guess and play them seperately.

tried carnage, pre-gore, and hated it. felt so much weaker, holy crap.

currently using annihilation, but wondering since there are so many 'weak' enemies if carnage wouldn't be better for grinding. i like the dmg i do on champions, but curious if im making it take longer than needed. thanks for input.

safe to assume armor > arms?

i have a multitude of characters ive leveled using biochem, and my first was synthweaving. basically, i'm wondering if the bonuses of having top notch gear while leveling outweighs medpacks and cunning/power. i spend a lot of time bouncing ebtween pvp and pve while leveling, so having a stim that lasts an hour get cancelled after 10mins due to entering a pvp match and dieing is a bit limiting. wondering about leveling to 45 as armor, then switch to biochem. thoughts on which would serve me better during the grind to 50?

hey guys.. due to work, i can't raid with pretty much any guild due to time conflicts, so i was aiming to reroll (sigh) to a europe english server, but i specifically want to find a high pop server as i'm kind of tired of not seeing anyone outside of the fleet for hours. can someone recommend a high pop europe english server? The only one i've seen go high today was a pvp server, but i'd rather stick to pve server. PVE only, mind you.

Depends on fight. A lot of marauders are really bad, but quite a few are exceptional. snipers/gunslingers tend to be much closer on par with each other. so if it's a really good marauder, i'd take them if hte fight was melee friendly but i'd take mostly any sniper/gs over a poor marauder. seems a lot of sent/marauders just arent as good as they could be. combination of lacking gear and not playing the class to its full potential.

I'm not sure what part of that made the least sense. councelor = consular are you saying a lvl 12 consular will out damage a lvl 40+ JK? what? .....

theme park is a reference to anyone can get in and have fun and experience the entire "park" meaning, it's entry level at best and everyone can see everything. it's handed to them practically. i don't use this term personally, just letting you know.

i'd take eq's group/solo mechanics over any other mmo out there. daoc and shadowbane are my love childs as well, but the eq group/solo mechanics were still tops to me.

i can't see going away from biochem. I was synth400, but respec'd to biochem. 136str,40pwr 2hr, persists through death and reusable is awesome. the health pack is an after thought now., the purple ultimate pack is just fine and dandy, the rakata is a bonus. also, i use both the power adrenal purple and the surage adrenal purple that is 4 things that increase my character quite significantly that contuinue to improve me regardless of gear drops/upgrades. most of the good loot in synthweaving appears to be tradeable after making it (ignoring the 2 rakata pieces), so i'd rather just spend 100k on a piece of armor and have all the benefits of biochem and trust i'll eventually get loot drops and pvp armor (currently working on battlemaster gear)

can also pvp... champion/cent gear has no requirement other than lvl 50, and it's very good. do pvp, buy champion bags.

in reference to people being pushed in unexpected directions.... if you force leap, THEN push, they often travel in an odd direction. Reason appears to be (by my eyes) that their "position" doesn't match what you see visually. Ever notice when people come out of stun after a force leap, they warp like 1meter? It's my theory that that is where the game registers them for physics..... my work around to this has been to exagerate my positioning further in front or behind to force the game to recognize their position and it has worked much better for me.

always go left on civil war (alderan pvp) lower gear/levels are more useful there than at center because often times it gets ignored and u can just go cap/defend it while others do other things. sure, you're less invovled, but you're useful. on voidstar, see if you can't lure people to the back (away from door) when attacking, to give planters more space. on hutball - do you best? if you're open to the idea, change to focus spec until you get more gear. this will let u do hit and run tactics. Just guardian leap out of it when you're starting to get focused (if possible)