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I have updated the Utilities section of my guide for 5.0. As I am unhappy with many of the changes in 5.0 I am leaving the game and I may or may not make other updates to the guide. The DPS section is clearly in the most need of updating as several abilities have been removed. However the output of the remaining healing and dps abilities relative to each other appears to not have changed.

Hey Coldcite, I can confirm that Battlefield Protocols is working. The buff is consumed and your next heal is significantly improved according to a student's t-test (P<.01). However you should never spec into this utility, it's total crap. If you were using stealth scan 3 times a minute to get the buff, which is almost on cooldown, and lets say you even managed to hit a stealther with each scan, you would actually have 5% drop in HPS. The GCD that is wasted by stealth scan is a much bigger hit to your HPS than the benefit you get from the subsequent buff. Stealth scan is fine to pop someone out of stealth but don't try to use it to improve your HPS, it will have the opposite effect. The legendary tier of utilities has a lot of great choices, you should be taking Trauma Regulators, Smoke Screen, Supercharged Defense, or Thrill of the Hunt instead. And as a side note I totally agree with you that its annoying that they've put utilities in different places for commandos than mercs.

Bumpity, bump, bump this thread. PT tank dps is essentially unchanged from 4.0 due to the excessive rapid shot use with this bug.

Absolutely, you are both right, the fight is much easier with the bug. I'm glad that you killed it without it. However even with the bug, the fight is still a pretty reasonable challenge for a PUG group. As far as I can tell this is the first youtube video of a 16m clear from JC. My goal in posting here was not to lessen the accomplishment of those who have done it before but to: 1. Post the link in a central place where all of the participants could easily find it. 2. Showcase the overall raiding community on JC. We had 10 different guild tags in the group, and I think its pretty cool that there is a willingness and ability to put together groups to clear bosses like this outside of a single guild or prog group on JC (and have a good time doing it).

Grats to the JC raiding community for be able to put together a PUG group to kill 16m Revan HM in 4 pulls.

Sure, your best single-target dps abilities to use at range are electro net>unload>railshot>death from above>power shot. Unless you have an extended period with no healing to do, stick to the first 3 abilities to be the most energy efficient.

Starparse actually has stats on how frequently each class is played. Sorcs are definitely the most popular, but mercs are still more common than Ops. http://ixparse.com/stats/ And I would argue that when played well they are a lot better than "ok ish"

The end of DvL is just a few weeks away and I know there are still people who need to get their hm fps done. I'm organizing members of several guilds to offer runs through Blood Hunt, Battle of Rishi, Depths of Manaan, and Lost Island. We will provide the tank, heals, and 1 dps. You bring your best level 65 dps. Run cost will be 2.5 mill per group member per fp. I think that is a reasonable price considering people often experience a substantial amount of time spent in queue only to get a group incapable of completing the fp. Our runs should take less than a half hour. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=898975 Runs can be done Imp side or Pub side. PM me here or in game at Palydin to schedule a run. Cheers!

Well with a merc you can do 3k dps on a 500k dummy (in healer gear). http://parsely.io/parser/view/180542 If you want to know your best dps abilities as a merc healer check my guide.

Haha, definitely some trial and error to figure out the best place for the boss to stand and how to coordinate elevator timing to avoid having my companion pulled into the force storm. I used youtube to edit the video, if you happen to look at it before the editing process is complete jump to 44 minutes for the kill.

Arsenal merc. Chaff flare helps take care of his force lightning channel and I use rocket out for lightning storm.

Just solo'd Garold the Dark. Video is uploading to youtube now, will take about 2 hours to finish uploading and I'll link it here when its done. I'm also on NA servers: JC, Harb, and Shadowlands. If you can't work something out for the prize at least I have bragging rights .

Ha was just browsing the forums when I saw your post and I had been thinking about organizing something to offer runs anyway. I am busy tomorrow night but Friday would work fine. I'll be on around 8pm server time, probably imp side.

Be on at 9pm server time. If that time doesn't work just reply with a time that would work for you.