It's not just them. I'm swiftly learning it's basically pointless to even attempt to engage a Mercenary.

I'm not quite giving up, but I'm definitely not having fun in PVP this week.

To be fair, it was 9 days. They almost gave us a week and a half!

Thanks for completely ignoring all the concerns of the Scoundrel/Operative community. It's nice to know you don't care about us at all.

I notice that in the patch notes Scoundrels and Operatives are still losing the knockdown on Shoot First/Hidden Strike. Are the devs not aware that there are literally 40 pages of posts talking about why this is a terrible idea, or do they just not care?

You don't have to hold off until Tuesday, you can put it in now. I can wait.

What I'm wondering is if it's worth dropping the 4-piece set bonus for a couple more 78 armorings bought with comms. I suspect the answer is yes, but I haven't done the math myself.

The change to Flying Fists alone is a HUGE improvement. The disparity between the Flechette Round duration and the Backblast cooldown is still ridiculous, but this looks like a good set of changes.

This is really the kind of problem that merits an off-schedule fix.

Thanks, I didn't necessarily doubt this, I just never saw it actually explained. The rationale seems obvious in hindsight.

Given how bad crit is generally, could someone explain to me why mainstat is better than overkill? I keep hearing this, but I've never seen the math for it.

So yeah, after playing some today, Quick Shot is still worthless. Mission not even remotely accomplished, Bioware, unless that mission was to just insult Smuggler DPS some more. Maybe next time you could try paying attention to what people who actually play the class say it needs.

Given that we just had a class representative thread which was roughly 20 pages of suggestions which were almost completely ignored, and the fact that the community has been raising the issues with this AC and potential solutions for those issues for over a year which were almost completely ignored, why should we expect anything different to come from this thread? EDIT: I want to make clear that I am not trying to be sarcastic or flippant or dismissive. This is a serious question. I really want to know what makes this thread different than previous times we've raised issues. Particularly after the insulting survivability nerf we're getting at the same time that Shadows are getting a damage buff.

No, I didn't play much yesterday. What did they do to it?

Woops, way lost track of time on this one. Let's see if it gets me back on the chart. Character Name <Guild Name>: Neyrya <Is This Real Life> Character Class: Scoundrel Character Spec: Scrapper 3/36/7 Torparse Link: Parse

Please stop scheduling events the same week as major gaming conventions. I missed almost all of the August event last year because it was scheduled with GenCon, and so is this Bounty Hunting thing.

I'm concerned this parse of mine may have been overlooked. Did I do something wrong in it or am I just misjudging what will happen to the dps when the end is clipped off? I know it's a little bit long.

He can get there if he's using 2 each of the old pvp and pve armors, to stack the set bonuses. This should no longer be possible (or should shortly no longer be possible; I can't remember if this already got fixed or if the fix is in 2.2). Here's mine: Character Name <Guild Name>: Neyrya <Is This Real Life> Character Class: Scoundrel Character Spec: Scrapper 3/36/7 Torparse Link: Parse

I am actually doing this myself. My alacrity before any procs or use of Pugnacity is currently at 7.14%, and it allows me to fit both XS Freighter Flyby and Sabotage Charge into my rotation. While I hesitate to say this is clearly a better way to go than others, I can definitely say that there are advantages to pursuing more alacrity.

Not at all. Power and alacrity don't share the same side of the stat budget. It's accuracy and surge that trade off with alacrity, while power trades off with crit. I always stick to the high-power versions of enhancements as well.

It's about 7% before any procs (I put points into the alacrity boost in the Dirty Fighting tree). I actually am cheating on accuracy a bit, and I'm not really suffering for it that I can tell. My current tech accuracy is between 106% and 107% (I can't remember exactly). My surge is sitting at 230 and my crit rating is 0. I'm still at a point where power is just worth more. Yeah, that was wrong. I've edited my post. I'm not going to lie, it's hard to do and I'm pretty sure my high alacrity is the only thing making it possible. I only started trying it yesterday and I don't have it down perfectly yet, but I'm close enough that I know I can do it in a sustainable way. I am usually following sabo charge with a flurry of bolts, though sometimes I'm able to do something else. Here's a link to my parse on the dummy: http://www.torparse.com/a/269198/1/0/Overview

I've been doing some tinkering with my Scrapper's rotation, and what I've found is that if your alacrity is high enough (mine is around 370), you can actually fit both Sabotage Charge and XS Freighter Flyby in on (or nearly on) cooldown. I've preferred Sabo Charge to the Flyby for a while both because it requires less down time and because it doesn't require the target to be stationary, but being able to use both is clearly better than just using one or the other.

Hrmm.... that's not telling me anything I didn't already know. Do you have a log on torparse or something I could look at?

I'd love to know how you're managing that. If I was running an S&V HM I wouldn't even let anyone with just 63/66 in the group, so you must be doing something special. What's your rotation?

I actually wondered about this myself, but it turned out that using the armorings with the higher Cunning made up for the loss of the Backblast crit chance. My dps actually increased, and energy management got significantly easier with the 5 extra energy.