arent they impefect mirrors? I know one of the smuggler classes is almost exactly like operative but the rest are somewhat different between sides

Weird, when I was using the calc I thought I needed to dump 2 points in the dart talent. You are absolutely right.

OMG! they voted for the guy with 9200 objective points and not top damage??? this is an outrage

Again, if a healer shows up at the last second, that's part of team/map dynamics. You don't counter it, except by getting off a good CC and maybe chain crit. You're basically describing a situation in which your team got "outplayed." Your team gets punished for it by you not killing your target. If there was a way to counter every shift in map and death momentum, the game would be pretty pointless wouldnt it? Its kind of like asking how you counter a 2 on 1 in a real life sport.... you don't. you just hope for luck, or you get beaten.

you lost me there. anybody using that old wow lingo automatically loses tbh

apparently you get them from the world pvp objectives which nobody can do

Well that's just team dynamics. Allies come to their aid, and if you don't have your allies with you, you probably die. You can counter by CCing the healer and finishing off the DPS, but generally speaking a 2v1 situation just represents the flow of the battle, and theoretically your team has a mismatch somewhere else of the map.

no... theoretically (very theoretically) the healer should keep himself alive exactly long enough to kill the dps the same moment the dps kills him. that would be the definition of 1v1 balance- not that the game should be based on that. But your idea of a dps needing to be better than a healer in 1v1 makes zero sense whatsoever

didn't you hear? healers are supposed to be lifeless target practice

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=84556

What, because winning matters right now?

lol i love the analogy. i actually watched a kids soccer game last week and was thinking how much better it is than pro soccer because they actually do unconventional things (they actually shoot the ball often, something you dont see in real soccer). That's what huttball is right now. Hopefully people can embrace it and get better, but not to the point where everything is so calculated and cookie-cuttered that it becomes the equivalent of pro soccer.

Healing is fine. I primarily heal and its tough, but it works. If I am left alone, I can keep up a teammate who has 2-3 people on him. I can keep myself up with 1-2 people interrupting and hitting me. This is about where it should be. I think it encourages CC and more creative play from us, not just heal spamming.

Does anybody know if all lvl 50 rich yield slicing augment missions share the same probability and quality of rewards? It is very unclear. You would think that more expensive and time consuming missions would be better, but I'm not certain. i.e. if I want the best of the best slicing augments, is there a specific mission (perhaps one i need to buy) or are they all the same?

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#401MffMdoRozZbIZGb.1 I left 3 points on the table, any suggestions? There are a couple possibilities, most likely into healing talents. I think full medic spec is probably going to be the best because of the aoe heal, but I think this is a pretty solid, more solo/single-heal and survivability spec. If anybody has alternative hybrid heal specs, please share.

And how was that in terms of pve, story, visuals, etc.? I don't mean to hate, but if everything was good in that game, it would be a lot more popular.

If dps > healing, then healing loses all its value... healing classes would just spec dps. The whole point of healing is only some people can do it, it can be interrupted, and it takes skill. There is absolutely no reason that a dps should be able to button mash and kill a healer. OP, i assume you havent played a healer in this game. It takes awareness, attention, and decision making. On top of that, try doing it with the awful targeting system. The healers who you were unable to kill were a lot better than you. If they weren't, you would have won, because healer is a pain in the *** atm and is anything but overpowered.

Great info. My guess was around 290 missions were the best, which wasnt far off, but i wouldnt have guessed 175. Also good to know that equal level missions are not created equal.

3v3 is really no better, it is just complicated enough that FOTM and gimmick comps are less obvious. More coordination is required, but good team coordination stopped being impressive years ago.

1. It really depends on the encounter. Energy regen decreases below 60 so its probably not advisable to dps unless you know there is a lull in incoming damage, but auto attack is probably more useful than di scan unless its an ultra high-damage fight. I'd say 85% healing, 5% damage, 10% stun/cc. 2. If there are mobs you can conveniently shiv, that is by far the most effective dps move you can use because it does decent damage and gives you TA. Sometimes a grenade or carbine burst can provide good aoe dps but generally leave that to the dps roles. 3. Why not? Sometimes it can bug or screw up LOS so be careful, but theoretically you should always use it. If its available I always use it.

bump. anybody care to talk about something besides arenas and world pvp?

this. The input lag and ui need fixing. World pvp would be nice. But otherwise it is fantastic. Haters will hate.

Exactly. Arena is nothing more than a duel between multiple players. Is it fun? Yeah, i played arena in wow and had some good times. But I still think BGs, if done correctly, are vastly superior because there are more people, more options, bigger environments, it isnt just a staged fight with all your cooldowns which is subject to intense scrutiny, crybabying, and developer attention.

look on the bright side, at least they gave us a way to pvp against each other. No pvp at all would be even worse.

yeah exactly lol. thanks for putting $60 towards future content for the rest of us