You either play an Imp, are extremely resentful, or both. Playing with people in nothing but pve gear with 700expertise is a joke. Why people enjoy face rolling people that have no idea what they're doing is beyond me. Total bore.

the companion mission isn't helping either....My subs is ending in a few days anyways. I can only handle this game in very short bursts...

Oh, so I was wrong. This ability is plenty useful.. Getting banned from groups is my favorite thing. That won't work. Especially if you're switching sides with the enemy. If it does that then they'll also have to modify a passive that resets the CD on Storm.

It's called Explosive Surge and Flaming Ballerina Twirl. I was just playing this discipline again, and it is the biggest joke out there. Other DoT builds (Sorc) brought be down to 25% while they were still at 75%... and fire pulse only crits for a measly 9k while cell burst can hit for 20k. yeah...................................................................

Is there a server where they do not suck? Every time I join a wrz I end up in a team where I'm one of two in actual pvp gear...while everyone else has 1400 expertise vs imps that are fully geared...so, is there a server where there's actually some balance?

Adrenaline Rush was NOT buffed, it is finally working as intended- a year later.... This discipline is fun to play- sort of- but it is currently the weakest and most useless discipline in the game. Simple HoTs can easily out heal your damage output- DPS-wise, you shouldn't even bother with it unless your like fluff damage. That said, they have buffed the discipline since it was first created- to an extent- a very minor one- pulse cannon only requires 2 stacks to maximize damage output- still bad- pulse cannon now spreads DoTs, before this was the only sustained damage discipline that could NOT spread DoTs by design- Explosive surge now properly applies DoTs... The DoTs are just too weak...they should really just reduce their duration...on the flip-side... they only Flame pulse makes your next Ion pulse free- the nerf to shoulder cannon hurt this spec the most as it was the only semi-burst it had...adding a DoT to it might've help..........other stuff...other stuff. off to bed. To sum it up: Worst discipline in game

Bringing Juggs into convos is never a good thing, especially when talking about the usefulness of an equivalent ability. Intercede: Instant: 20second CD: Reduce threat and 20% Damage reduction Transpose: 1.5 second (interruptible) cast: 90second CD: Reduce threat can't be leapt to or pulled for 6 seconds or fewer. Let's face it, Vanguards/PTs got the booby prize...and before you say the devs know what they're doing, please take note of the fact that they originally wanted to make Storm/Charge the level 61 ability (currently shoulder cannon.)

Aside from the VERY rare huttball swap there is not much use in pvp. And no, it does not have much value in PvE either. VG/BH already have two range taunts that they can cycle through and you can also steal aggro back from another player before you complete the cast time for Transpose....so- useless.

So by that logic, Scoundrels and Operative should have a cast time to roll and lucky strike as well as for disappear. Same with a sentinel's and shadow's disappear. All of there attacks are instant, so their defensive ones should have a cast time right?

You do know that Gunslingers/Snipers have 20 second stun/push/etc immunity that no longer ends when you exit cover right? Guardians/Jugs are OPed..but that's not why.

It's not. Transpose is just a horrible imitation of Sage Rescue, aka pull, which only has a 1 minute CD instead or 1.5 and is an instant cast vs a 1.5 second cast + time it takes to "stop moving" before you can even cast it. So no. It's not "very powerful" it's very useless. Even in PvE where classes can just use their instant cast drop threat abilities. As for teleporting with the Huttball...Assassins and Operatives can do it as well- but there's is an instant cast. It's a stupid ability with very little value. It makes you wonder about the intelligence of their devs and internal testing teams. Clearly they're just trolling Vanguards/Powertechs.

Isn't quick travel a a "beam me up" ability? Or companion swapping? Multi-grapple would and would not be a good thing...For one, the tank spec already has a forced replacement ability, so two would be overkill.While it might work in pve (to an extent)- in pvp it essentially helps guardians and juggs with leap which then leads to a free dispatch. Not good for a perma-oped class. Last thing they need is another buff.

only if you can cast it while moving. otherwise it's just as useless. especially in pvp where you're constantly moving.

They broke it way back when RotHC was first released. Rolls, pulls, sprints, teleports, jumps, charges, flees... They should disable these "escape" or "mobility" abilities when carrying the ball.

.....and the ability is easily interrupted. Nice work Bioware. One step forward, two steps back.

I've tried using it like that... but aside from Commandos/Mercs the other healers can get away easily....or again, before the cast completes. I find that it's more useful for annoying teammates than anything else.............................................................................

Any real value? By the time the cast is done, the player is already out of harms way....or dead. So why have it at all? As it is now it's just taking up a slot on hotbars.

Although not in the patch notes, Muzzle Augs has been nerfed. It no longer gives Ion Pulse a 5meter increase, now it is only 2meters and the radius bonus is down from 2 to 1.

Nope. Shoulder Cannon is a level 61 ability now- since they gave Shield Specialist a new ability they needed to give Vanguards a level 61 skill to bring it in line with the other classes. Storm was originally going to be the Vanguard's 61 skill but it is a vital ability, unlike Shoulder Cannon- so it was an obvious choice. ...or they could've brought back Full-Auto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They've always been top tier but now it's gotten even more out of hand. Their dmg is off the charts and their ability to outlast every class is insane. ..and now the devs are considering giving them yet another buff? Aside from tanks, no other spec should have that many defensive CDs....and now there's talk about "Robust" becoming a t1 utility- sage bubble stuns are going to be completely useless. --- The best way to gauge whether a class is OPed or not is to see how many of any given class are popping up in wrzs vs how many there were before patch xyz. 3.0 VG/PTs became shadows+sage and now those are becoming jugs/guards. Just the way things work. ---- 5 jugs in my last match.

haha, but what does that mean????

Anyone know which mods and enhancements we should be using? My dmg is only at 1500~ but I've seen others with 1900~

Vanguards are getting nerfed in places they do not need to be nerfed in. Full-Auto...Plasmatech... Shoulder Cannon nerf is fine. I rarely use it anyways. Shadows are just getting their ranged reduced to what it was before 3.0 So no real nerf there. Their damage is still the same and they still have the best utilities around.

Plasmatech gets a -15% dmg reduction from dots... but even with that reduction your health will still drop below 50% in a few seconds. Plasmatech is clearly just there for the "fun factor," aside from that it is just fluff dmg with no burst that is easily out healed. What they could've done is increased the dmg done by plasmatize but made it so that only one target could be affected by it at any given moment or reduced it's duration. It is currently the most useless discipline in pvp and should not be used if you want to be even slightly useful. 15%*

Why would they? Each "advance class" is a class in its own with a different play style. Only reason we have them is because the Devs could not afford to create 16 class stories. A Commando is nothing like a Vanguard, just like an Assassin is nothing like a Sorc. They might as well give us the option to change classes all together.