[[Guide] Vanguard Tanking Endgame PvE]

Great post, as always Dulfy! However, in the rotation section a picture was mixxed. The picture of the Ion Pulse is incorrect. This is the picture of Ion Cell.

[2.0 Carnage in PvP]

Impressive....most impressive

 

The healing on the bottom is even more impressive, 1.2mil

[Cartel Market Shipment Two: The Contraband Packs]

yeh I hear ya , I've bought roughly 3 packs from each type as they were released and have never got any speeder , just some legs that look exactly like every other pair of legs some bracers and other junk that sells on the GTN for approx. 1k credits just saying it would be nice to actually get a speeder ...once. :-\

 

I bought 30 packs or so and got really lucky. Got 3 aratech nethian speeders and 1 skiff and a hole bunch of orther great stuff!

[Strafing]

Strafing helps for avoiding hits by melee encounters who want to do damage on melee range <5m.

[Best looking Blaster Rifles]

I use the battlemaster Eliminator. Also nice and big and fully modable. Looks a bit similar to the E-313 wich i used until i hit 50.

 

http://www.torhead.com/item/8Xkq7yZ/battlemaster-eliminators-rifle

[I'm confused about this Assualt Nerf]

Vanguards are not melee, nor are the ranged. They are a hybrid of sorts. 10m's is our optimum range only closing to 4 to stockstrike and gut then back to 10m's. You can strafe away to 30 to deliver sticky grenades,assault plastique, and HIB's but then it's back to 10m's. Vanguards are very mobile. Most of the attacks are instant. So really with a vanguard you should be always moving between 30-4 m's depending on the situation.

 

Doesn't assault plastique have a 10m range?

 

Anyway, the VG is still awesome. You can strafe/kite melee players and burn them down in pvp. Pve is even more easy cause of the predictable mechanics of mobs. If you don't like it play a real ranged type, like GS, commando or operative.

[Gearing HK-51]

Dailies, questing (we wont always be lvl 50 you know, open world pvp while questing, anything besides ops/wz really

 

And not to forget the legacy ability to unlock him for your (lower level) alts in your legacy!

[Very strong Vanguard dps hybrid]

I think there is a problem with torhead. All the links are bugged.

[Grimoir's "Terminal Velocity" 0/23/18 PvP DPS spec]

Grimoir: Love this build! I only know it as a run-and-gun build, mentioned in one of Taugrim's post earlier but never been descriped as thorough as this, great! I currently use the 1/22/18 spec. I wonder which rotation do you use?

[Class quest I need suggestions for]

I had problems with this 2. I just finished the miss yesterday. I first tried it at lvl 43 with an undergeared Skadge. I did not succeed. Through other quests/HR/WZ I lvl-ed to 44 and also geared Skadge with some better armer and impants/earpiece etc. I just barly made it. Btw, i'm dual-specced 'run-and-gun'.

What i did is the following:

Just start with the normal rotation. The problem is those 4 droids who come in later in the fight. When the droids show up, put everything in, relics, shield, hydraulic etc. Skadge should attack those droids, I stay'd on Barrows. You can, however, walk away a bit to avoid being hit. Barrows will not follow you. When you almost on 0-health you should walk away, pop in a med-pack, let skadge attack Barrows after he defeated all the droids. When Skadge almost gets killed, return, stun an finish Barrows.

 

Hopefully it works for you!

[Is it possible to lock mouse look?]

I'm looking for that too! Just like the previous Kotor II