Hey what if imm pyro specced? would it be worth it to lose 15% crit to railshot?

So for those people who are regularly hitting 5k+ railshot, can you provide me a little detail about your gear setup? 1. Are you using any pve gear? 2. How much expertise do you have? 3. Are you using the BM accuracy/crit/expertise mods or power/surge ones? 4. What kind of stats do you have? Thanks!!

Hello, I would like to know what everyone thinks is the best gear set-up before warhero gears? I know that the BiS gear would be augmented weapon and armor with warhero mods in them. However, for now, what would be the best gear-setup? I have crit-crafted rakata belt and bracer with epic augment mods in them. The rest of my gear is full BM, rakata weapon and matrix cube. My expertise at the moment is 779. I am wondering what I should do now to get better stats. 1. Should I wear BM belt, bracer, weapon, relic instead of rakata belt, rakata bracer, matrix cube, rakata weapon? 2. Should I still use power/surge enhancements? or should i max out expertise by having pure pvp set? 3. How much expertise should I aim for? 4. Shoud I use +41 power crystal or +41 expertise crystal? Lastly, I feel like by going pure pvp I lose so much aim and power. What stats do you guys have to be able to hit RS for 5k+? Please provide me with your gear set-up too.

Some guy earlier was saying how the set bonus is attached to the armoring instead of the shell. So then your alt can crit craft a whole orange pvp set for you. That's better than anything in this game since you now have augment slots with set bonus?

Wait, let me get this right. The first railshot after IM doesnt start the internal cooldown. So for example, IM>railshot>RP>railshot would work if you want a back to back railshot. However, im confused about what you mean by 3 secs. You are saying as soon as it procs and after I use the railshot, i only need 3 secs till new proc? So after I railshot on PPA proc I use two abilities which is 3 secs then a RP/flame burst to get next railshot?

Exphyrl, the orange pvp armors that you crafted...do they give you set bonus? and what kind of mats they require?

So to get two railshots back to back, you HAVE to use incendiary missile first. If you open with flame burst, there's a chance to proc PPA and therefore it will start the internal cooldown. If you hit a normal railshot when it's off its normal cooldown it doesnt count toward the PPA.

Guys, I still dont understand. So now after every railshot i have to count 6 secs in my head and save my rocket punch for that? in other words, i should only be using rocket punch to proc PPA when 6 secs is up in my head? And I find that using railshot as early as u can (before detonator) to get proc on cooldown as soon possible give me better burst. railshot>detonator>rocket punch>railshot?

Wow you dont understand at all. Listen. There will be two sets of war hero gears. One that doesnt require ratings and one does. There is no point to get the one that required ratings because you can just get the normal war hero gears and swap the mods out to crifted craft gear. In other words, there is no actual reward to get high ratings in rated wzs since you aint gonna be using the war hero gears that "look different".

Did you even read what he wrote? read again. There's no point in getting a higher rated war hero gear (the one that looks different) when everyone's gonna be using crifted crafted gears anyways.

and good luck keeping up with marauders, juggernauts and tank assasins this patch when you could barely beat them this patch with luck (talking equal skill and gear). No team will pick a powertech over marauders now. The top rated wz team will be 6 sentinels + 2 healers. Why? because their bloodthirst stack and if needed to wipe a team, they just press it at the same time and wipe the other team in 2 globals. Good luck seeing 12-13k smash crits (smash buff from 1.2 + 6 bloodthirst stack).

ROFL this is definitely a nerf. "significantly increase" from 30% and 45% proc rate to 45% and 60% is not significant!!! There will be situations where you wont get a proc for 10 secs just like now, but however, you wont get it before 6 secs either! Also there isnt going to be anything to tell you when it's 6 seconds. You have to count it in your head. Good luck keeping it counted when you are fighting.

Sigh at all the people who dont want combat log. Combat logs will allow us to know more about the mechanics in the game, and thus, improve our knowledge of the game. It will also help the devs in terms of data gathering. If you dont want combat log it's like you dont want technological progress in the real world. You rather be a caveman huh?

Listen, noone would pvp and try to achieve top rank just for a mount. They need to provide incentives like titles, gears, etc. It's sad to see a guy on my server who doesnt even know how to play his character properly just to have war hero and full bm by being on all the time. It's sad to see that being good and trying hard in pvp give me the exact same rewards as the person who doesnt try and doent even have huttball bound. Seriously, if you dont have the skill or the will to be good in pvp you dont deserve even the gears.

Roff, that's not his point. Right now, there is not incentive or any reward for high-ranking pvpers. Setting requirements on gears is one thing you can do. Sure bioware doesnt have to do it, but they better come up with a way to provide rewards for people who are better at pvp. Good luck keeping competitive players in this game if this is the way it is in 1.2. By the way, you know when a game loses its competitive player base? The game dies. It's just simple like that. Games that have competitive player base such as starcraft 1, starcraft 2, warcraft 3,etc were/are popular for a long time for a reason. Bioware is catering toward casual players because they want more subscriptions. However, that is false. Casual players leave the game all the time. The only thing keeping a game alive is competitive players. Games with good competitive community will last years and games without competitive community will die by the end of this year. It's as simple as that.

Is bioware adding cross server pvp? Someone says they have said it. Can anyone link me to the post where bioware actually says it?

I see that's very similar to what im doing. People such as Taugrim and others have been saying 2 points in rebraced armor only give u a low single-digit increase (like 1-2%). So, I put those 2 points in Ion overload instead. I also have 3/3 puncture instead of 1 point in neural overload as I find armor pen on railshot way better than a chance on slow (since you dont even have ion overload for guaranteed procs, and stockstrike has 9 sec cd). I mean I dont usually have trouble with people trying to kite me. Let me know what you think.

For people who use Ion cell with 31 points in pyrotech/assault, do you use shield or generator? and how is the whole spec compared to full dps spec with plasma cell?

For people who use Ion cell with 31 points in pyrotech/assault, do you use shield or generator? and how is the whole spec compared to full dps spec with plasma cell?

hey man can you post the spec you use? thanks much appreciated.

Im not understanding what you mean. Flame burst also refreshes railshot right?

lol in a best case scenario it crits for 3.5k at most. Stop spreading lies.

What happens if they dont use tenacity on neural surge? I mean if they pop saber ward(they dont have to)on top of cloak of pain they will not take much damage from u in that 2.5 sec stun. Furthermore, their spammable crippling slash slows your movement by 50%, so how exactly are you kiting them? I find that the good ones always save their tenacity for the cryo nade near the end of the fight where they pop undying rage (99% damage mitigation).

Why put 2 points in sweltering heat when you dont even use plasma cell? you could have put them in rapid recharge, degauss, etc.

To the OP, Can you provide me with some advice on how to beat an equally geared and skilled marauders/sentinels in 1v1? I see you run full dps spec with plasma cell and I want to know how you keep yourself alive against their massive amount of cds. The above poster suggested ion cell and I found it to be much better and gives me a better chance of killing one. Anyways, I would really love it if you can provide me advice on how to beat maras 1v1.