Possibly but I've done some PvE with friends and sort of tanked easy heroics as Inf spec in combat stance with a shield and I tell you.... I absolutly cry after my first project. I lose Circling Shadows buff, so my project takes sooo much of my force, and I also lose the force regen buff just for being in shadow stance(Profundity I believe it is). So yea.. you could maybe hurt some in combat stance or possibly survive alittle longer, but after like 2 attacks your force starved and blackout can only help so much. I like the idea but we dont gain any real benifits to me being in combat stance. We dont have the talents that gen us more force when hit, shield, parry, dodge, whatever in that stance like kc. Personally I'd rather put as much hurt on someone if i'm going to die rather then burn all my force to change to combat, allow my shield to go off to not help stop much incoming dmg, and to hit like a wet noodle lol. But thats just my 2 cents =P

You guys make me so happy lol. I love the inf spec so much I find it incredibly fun! I did kc and considered going back since 98% of the shadows/assass. i see are this spec with the remaining 1.8% being balance. I think i'm like 1 of 2 inf spec'd shadows on my server who seem to take it seriously. All the others I think are just trying it out due to their gear being survivor/force-masters. But I have to agree on all the points you make, I love my burst its one of the things that drew me to this spec. I've changed a number of fights in WZ by poping out of stealth with spin kick and just destroying a healer or unsuspecting person. Even after that I feel my sustain is ok, but the lack of hard force regen outside of stealth hurts me so bad when i need it the most, i.e. burst one healer down and focus another to get them to 10% only to have no further force to finish and they pop off a big *** heal for half their hp, really makes me sad face . I would enjoy more play around utilizing force cloak to our advantage and shadow strike. I think it would be most helpful to be able to vanish and come back multiple times in a big fight to really be a threat. I mean as of right now I feel I"m a pretty big threat in some WZ's but it depends more who I'm up against. Even out of stealh as I mentioned my sustain is rather good, and I'll still hurt ppl if left unchecked which happens more then not on my server unless I'm up against the Imp premades later in the evening. Then they just dont take any dmg b/c they are all in BM gear where as I am only cent with some minior champ gear(**** you champ bags!) I've even managed some 2v1 just b/c of our burst, but I would like to cloak and come back for some more lovin and force regen . And I wish I could use resiliance as my "cloak of shadows" but I tend to use it more offensively then defensivly .

I love Inf, I find the play style fun and despite being rather squishy I have some rather good sustain or survivablity at times, and I can be pretty nasty if left alone. Sadly the imps on my server run premades and are roughly 5/8 of the other team and are mostly BM geared... not to mention about 5-6 of the imps are sorcs so you can kinda guess how that goes. But I do have another question about stats. I have looked at Shina's vids and such and they are amazing a good guiding stone for me. But given we are a burst class, would a crit/surge build be rather good for us? Big hard hitting numbers to help drop ppl faster or is that was just so unrealiable? Thanks again!

I'm Inf and I've gotten some gear and its helping alot, I dont die as easy and I'm putting the hurt back on people again. I can only imagin what I could do with champ/BM gear @.@ the burst is fun and I love it. The only issue I have is sorcs... my server is absolutly flooded with them and I just cant seem to do anything.... If I manage to get the bubble down its nothing but lightning and everything they do seems to stun me or root me. And its rather annoying getting them constantly down to like 10% and being out of force, or they get off some big instant heal that puts them to like 40%... makes me sad face indeed.

I tend to do alright in situations like this, and I move around a lot. I can see it throws more ppl off in PvP in this b/c there's alot of back peddling and keyboard turning compared to what I'm used to in WoW. The only issue I have is once I'm engaged I'm not really sure what my most helpful cc is. I know I can ghost and cc, but I know i can use force lift but it kinda sucks. If you guys have any additional tips I more then welcome them. Thanks again for all the help!

I appreciate the help! I just solo'd Illum myself probably as you wrote that haha, and I read the quest again and was on my way back to do the armaments just as I was reading your post. It helped a lot, i knocked out my daily and the vast majority of my weekly so far. I looked it up on ToRhead and someone commented that I could destroy the walkers/cannons to count towards it too but that doesnt seem to be the case. I would have finished my weekly too, but yay for stupid Sith and having to 2v1 me out of there . But I appreciate the help.

Just gotta suck up getting owned I guess? lol oh well, would be easier if republic were amazing on my server but its not the case . Everyone wants to be empire, curse you!!

Greetings Fellow Jedi, I have a small issue I'm hoping some of you can help me resolve. I just lvl 50 today on my shadow and I love pvp'ing. Of course I'm behind the power curve a lot when it comes to the area of gear but I'm having more of a slight issue. Unfortunatly I didnt do a lot of pvp research as I lvl'd so my valor is only lvl 34, and of course champion gear requires lvl 50 valor. Now I dont quite have any yet, but the issue I'm having is I'm alittle behind in the gear department, to the point that most empire players can just shrug me off or ignroe me b/c the little amounts of dmg I do. Sadly I even have trouble trying to break thru a sorcs bubble lol.. But the question I'm asking is, is there any easily abtainable gear whether it be PvE or not that will help me in the survival/dmg department? I'm not familiar with end game really at all aside from the little bit my guildies have told me. So if you guys could point me in any direction it would be much appreciated. I thank you all for any assistance you can give me! -Kied