Hello Amber, I play a Shield Specialization Vanguard and when I've noticed this happen to me it's when I am guarding my guildy who is a Consular Sage "Seer". Edit: I've noticed this bug happen when either A) I die and come back and try and reapply guard or B) When my healers goes out of range, I use my guard ability to take it off, reapply guard to someone else, then try and reapply guard when my consular seer buddy comes back. In these two instances I am given the "target is already guarded" when this person is not guarded (i.e., no icon and he has told me so in a VOIP).

/signed Death from Above and Mortar Volley are the same thing, but the animation and ability delay is horrid. The CASTING for Mortar Volley begins at 1.5 seconds, but the actual damage doesn't hit until the cast timer reads ~1.0 sec left. The ability continues firing after the cast bar is gone. It's absolutely HORRIBLE. Anyone who thinks differently, just go start up one of each and get the abilities and go to a nice quiet place in PVE and use them. The difference for the sides is mind blowing in just regular 60fps PVE. Edit: And yes, Full Auto is interruptable (i.e., nullifying a tick of damage) vs the BH equivalent.

Um, taunting a target DOES NOT reduce damage to the tank when someone is attacking them. I repeat DOES NOT reduce damage to the TANK when someone is attacking them. You only have armor and HPs to protect you (and medpacs on cooldown).

Dude...your screen is white.

BWAHAHAHA! Nice additions! +1 sir~

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Yes. I have seen Jedi running around in trooper armor on my server, Jung Ma. Both Guardian and Trooper wear heavy armor, so you can wear each other's. The only problem is that the stats are different, but this is alleviated by pulling out the mods needed from the set you don't want and putting them into the set you do want.

I'll give this a whirl tonight and see.

Vanguard, even if specced as DPS, was never meant to be a true DPS. They created two archetypes, the tank and the DPS for this reason. You can get higher DPS with using a DPS spec, but you should NOT being out DPSing a DPS class who is specced for such, assuming they are players of equal skill. Your DPS specs are an added/off DPS. With that said, if you're guarding someone of importance (i.e., healer or DPS), then your procs should be going off OFTEN. The guard absorbs half the damage that the person being guarded takes. I've never EVER had an issue with this. See the above two points and if you're still not happy, then feel free to roll the class you want to be: DPS = Commando or Smuggler. Otherwise the others who say "you're doing it wrong" are correct. Just like real life, not everyone is good at everything. Sorry, but that's the truth.

Stock Strike seems fine. I never played a BH in PvP so I can't speak on damage of Rocket Punch vs. Stock Strike in PvP, but in PvE it seems fine. I can, however, agree wholeheartedly with the OP that Mortar Volley is delayed too much compared with Death From Above. Full auto seems fine though. I'm a Shield Specialist spec in case anyone is wondering or can't read my sig.

Operative has a healing tree. Perhaps this is what you saw.

There should be a 15 second immunity to ANY form of CC once you use your break CC ability. A 2 minute cool down and I'm CC'd again immediately after using it means that it's completely situational to one or two types of instances - usually 1v1. That's fine and all, but how many true 1v1s do you REALLY get?

It takes longer that way. You'll slow down at higher levels, especially is wait times for queues are longer. I do a combo of questing and PvPing.