If you are pvp hardcore, it would only take about 3 days for full set BM, and 2-3 days for each WH piece. If you are a casual pvper like me, it would take a week for full set BM, and 3-5 days for each WH piece. Getting gears is so much easier than pre 1.2. Pre 1.2, it took me 1-2 months just for full Champion set.

Expertise is a must to separate PvP and PvE players. Mix them up only leads to unhappy players who do not like to do both. Typical whines could be "PvPers get the best gears so easily!" or "I have to raid to PvP? But I do not want to spent 3+ hours in an ops and fight for loot." or "I have to PvP to get the best gears to enter xx NM ops? But I hate PvP" So i would vote for "YES, Expertise is needed."

The story is pretty cool except the very last boss (lack of epicness IMO). Love how my scoundrel hooks up every single female NPC he meets. Fight against Imp? Nah, they just happen to get in the way. Fight for Rep? Not really. It is all about girls and money. Only sad part is you dont really get money after all.

An edited video shows only his best fights mostly against a bunch of 11k - 14k hp players. Exp Adrenal+ Relic then bam 5.7k crit! Wow so OP! Oh wait, it was just a sorc and a sage with 14k hp and without bubble. And the best part is where 2 snipers were trying to gun down a shield up Trooper, while totally ignoring the unstealth scoundrel happily running around and punching them until...well too late.

Welcome to the Underdog land! LoL Energy issue? Spam more basic attacks. Less DPS? Lets drain your energy.

Reason? After 6 seconds initial burst, the sustain dps is laughable to any healer with half brain. Even hybrid sawbones Slow Med Pack can out heal the sustain dmg of Scrapper...

It is just a way to attract more "CASUAL PLAYERS" to pvp. 3 wins or 6 loses is also helpful for "bad days" of one side. I have been pvp-ing everyday but there are days that I am so bad luck that I keep getting into bad PUGs and losing for straight 3 days. 99 wz and 99 ranked comm reward is not that much game breaking thing (A bit helpful to closer the gear gap though).

By "very good", you mean sawbones and sawbones hybrids, right? Because pure Scrapper or Dirty Fighting is a joke to compare to any other DPS classes.

Huh? 8k hit and not from stealth and by a Scrapper? Even Pyro Powertechs in their beastmode only spam 4-6k hits after fixed. What is your expertise anyway?

Unless BW throws some event in Outlaw den/ Illum with some sort of incentives like unique armor/ weapon shells, crystals, pets, mounts, titles or tool kits to make augment slots for gears only for Open World PvP, there is almost no reason to do Open World PvP, not mention to the lag and DC fest when 50+ people show up at the spot (Illum for example).

Tip 1: Remember that Scrapper Scoundrel or Concealment Operative is a "6 seconds burst" class. After that initial 6 seconds, they are totally suck. Tip 2: Dont use cc breaker when you got knocked down by their opener. Save it until they use their main 4 sec stun (kick nuts/delibitate). Tip 3: Use Knock back ability right after you get up from their knock down, and snare them. If they use their main stun right after knock down, just happily cc break it then knock them back and snare them. Tip 4: Do not panic or run away if 60% of your hp disappear if you fail to do tip 2-3. Pop your defensive skill, do tip 3. Start kicking their ***. Tip 5: If they pop vanish, throw AoE on your feet to prevent them open from stealth again.

This is an bug exploit which can also use in Civil War. Technically, you HAVE TO GET OUT OF STEALTH to interact with objectives because the system always warns and will not allow you to click on the objectives until you pop out of stealth. Anyone who can interact with the objective while in stealth is a bug exploiter (might be caused by Smuggle/Inflitration, since I have never been able to interact with objectives while in my normal stealth) or a cheater using a third party software to modify the client side. I caught one operative do it red hand (3 times in a Voidstar). Luckily enough, right after he ninja planted one of the doors, one of his teammate near by got hit by an AoE and that made him exposed long enough for me to see his name. At the last door, I was alone at door in stealth, and I was close enough to see him in stealth with the casting bar of planting the bomb. Reported and never seen him since then.

This would help to closer the gears gap between factions, and of course save time for alot of people. It is a hell when you keep facing premades of full WH guys pwning you face every day while trying to finish the daily. Good change!

Currently, It is very difficult for Scrapper to burst down a healer by yourself, unless they have no defensive up, at 50% hp or a lowbie. We just dont have enough juice (energy drain) or tools (our main attack out of stealth aka Backblast has 12 s cd) to do that. The best thing we can do is annoying them so that they focus to heal themselves and let his teammates get whacked by your teammates. In other games, for example RIft, healers (cleric for exact) = godmode, they can 1v6 for few minutes. So, I dont think healers in this game are at insane lvl (after 1.2).

IMO: - As a DPS, you want crit > surge > power. Crit caps about 40%. Surge caps about 80% (maybe higher but unnescessary ). Power does not have any cap. - A perfect balance between crit/surge is about 1:2 (35:75 for me), the rest will be power. WH gears (Enforcer set) have alot of crit/surge but lack of power. Thus, the best customization is balance crit/surge to 1:2 ratio as above then use enchantments of feet of Field Tech set which give you Power/Surge and also use Overkill Augment (+ 18 power) for every single slot. Crit is important in both PvP and PvE, a non crit hit of Scrapper is weaker than normal hit of any other dps classes. -I Dont think there is an Accuracy cap. But with Enforcer BM gears (Assume you dont replace the original enchantments by other for min/max purpose), you can get over 103% accuracy (103% for white dmg and 113% for tech/yellow dmg). In PvE, some bosses have high parry/dodge/reflect to both kind of dmg so accuracy is needed. In PvP, Accuracy can make your white dmg attacks (Flurry, Quick shot, Charge Burst) more effective (way less miss/reflect/dodge with 100+ accuracy). -The maximum expertise you can get right now is about 1.3k (full WH), only available for dual weild classes since they can use 2 expertise crytals. Others can get 1.2k with full set of BM and near 1.3k with full set of WH. To maximize your dps in both PvP and PvE, along with the crit/surge ratio (35:75), you need to maintain your power so that your dps should be at least 880. Ofc, in new raid, aka Denova, you need to dumb your PvP gears for PvE ones. But for anything below that, BM or WH is enough.

1) Too easy to defend with a decent team with people knowing what to do. 2) Range classes have huge advantage here since 2 doors are so close to each other. 3) Both 2 reasons above lead to long and boring or even frustrating fights when there are 2+ healers on both side. No one or just few dies and a tie game after 14 mins.

At lvl 36, you get the infamous Shoot First, the Scoundrel's opener from stealth. Assume that you only put points into Scrapper tree, at lvl 39, you have K.O, which knock down target for 1.5 seconds and Fletchette Round, which applies DoT + 30% armor penetration to yor Shoot First and Back Blast, at lvl 40. Those are 3 key talents of Scrapper. Without them, a Scrapper is not truly a Scrapper. For leveling, There are many factors, such as the cover mechanic, the positional requirement, auto facing mobs, no gap closer while being melee dps, energy drain, lack of decent defensive skills, that make this class kind of pretty annoying to play, especially when you used to the way of lvling of other classes. Only thing you can do is try to over level the contents, especially the class quests.

Running dailies on Corelia, Belsavis, and Illum would give pretty much more than 300k for like an hour. Seriously, since when money is so hard to earn in this game?

"I pay to play this game so I can do or wear anything I want. End of story!" A typical answer from those "ignorants" enter 50 pvp bracket with greenies or PvE gears (which does not work after 1.2) then go to forum and QQ about being useless. For example: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=446915

Wow, for the 1st time, there is a person complaining about one of the best classes in this game (currently) being useless. Complaining about stat boost in 10-49 bracket which gives lowbies some chances to beat higher lvl guys then complaining about being rolfstomped by veterans in 50 bracket, why so much contradicts between your statements?

NC is the best one currently, which actually gives the losing team a chance to turn the table..

There is a bug in Voidstar that when the door is broken through by bomb, the door locking revived players also blows up exactly at the same time and kill players who are trying to get out.

If you are stuck in stunned animation and not able to move after the stun or cc worn out, it is a known bug. I have reported this several times already, but it seems not to be fixed yet. Note that this can happens with AoE mez, AoE blind, or stun of all classes not just Operatives.

Hate to be that guy, but when you are in PUGs, eventually, you have to speak up to ask people do something meaningful in WZs, such as "mark/focus healers" or "fight at objectives" or "call inc". There are countless times, some solo defenders do not call inc or call it too late(wait until he almost dies to call). Thus, causing the team lose the objective or even worse lose the match. Excuse? The lamest one i ever hear is "no one said I should call inc". The worst thing when being in PUGs is there is always some people acts like a fool and does not take any advice. For example, a fresh 50 sage keeps queuing with greens and 100 expertise, other guys say "Hey, you should buy recuit gear, 100 expertise is so sad for pvp in 50 bracket". The answer is "I thought I pay to play this game" aka "I can do whatever I want, you guys must carry me because I pay for it." Result? He only dies 20+ times in every WZ.

Scrapper...well BW pretty much scrap everything we have. The tree can be summarized into 3 words - "6 seconds burst". We are infamous for 1.5 sec KB from stealth + 4 sec stun. After that 6 sec opening from stealth, there is not many thing this tree can do to the target or like the guy above me said "we need to plan to escape if the target do not die". About defensive skills, Scrapper tree mostly improves Disappear Act (Vanish), reduces its cd from 3 min to 2 min, increases movement speed by 25% when using Vanish, allows to be healed while in Vanish effect and finally a LoL 3% hp tick every 3 seconds (which buggily keep you in combat and thus prevent you to go back to stealth). About utility , this tree provides a flat 15% movement speed talent which does not stack with sprint (thus, can be assumed as combat speed) plus increases stealth lvl by 3; 2 second root from 10 m; and increases stealth detect lvl by 2.