Playing as a gunslinger, I would rather get rid of the ball due to the fact that gunslinger only get two defensive cool downs that are usable out of cover....but only one lasts for 4 seconds.

Out of all the nerfs that the operative and scoundrel took people are still complaining about them? I think this is a more of a learn to play issue. If you know anything about a an operative you would know there big attacks come from stealth and on the back. IF you catch them out of stealth before they suprise you will most likely burn them down very easily if you dot them.

Smugglers would win.

Alacrity is more of a healer's stat. Accuracy is not needed unless you feel like getting the endgame gear which has so much accuracy but for gunslingers crit rating is probably the best to use for a DF slinger since one of the stats says that if you get crits you gain energy.

Op and scoundrel is basically a melee class with a gun so if you can snare/root/stun them before they do anymore damage to you they're basically dead. I would pop hunker down if you're in a 1v1 situation because that couple of seconds stunned can do a lot of damage in that time period. Pulse denator>leg shot>shock charge (if have)>Aimed shot (if 10 meter spec). Do this rotation and they won't be able to go invisible or manage to attack you.

Gunslingers THE ANTI MARAUDER CLASS.

Behold the anti melee spec! Great spec very los friendly and great burst damage with the right rotation I almost always score the highest DPS in a warzone with this spec. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#700bsrddRoRZrI0bRR.1

The insane amount of warzone commendations?

Even though I'm a gunslinger famous spec for us is a 23/16/2. (Use entrench when you get it ) http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#400bsrddRoRZrI0bRoZb.1

Really like the PVP section but the best way to counter your enemy is to play their class, know how many stuns they have and the big bad attacks/heals to spam you with.

I would suggest going Sharp shooter tree since most of it's DPS comes from the cover system. I also would not advise for you to use the dirty fighting tree until you get to a high level (starting 40s) Since your damage output isn't that high until you atleast get the move wounding shots.

I find the speeder on voidstar unlogical. It makes sense on Alderaan but voidstar it actualyl wastes so much time and when I get to the end of the speeder my team is already fighting sith while I have to wait for another long period of time to even get out of that point.

Yea, I have been noticing this also but when I first got the game I didn't encounter any lag problems but when new patches start to steamroll in the games seems more frustrating on the lag problems that pop up in the most unwanted time.

Can't tell if OP Is serious or trolling it's hard to tell

I think the OP is confusing scoundrel with gunslingers since it's impossible to heal yourself as a gunslinger unless it's via medpack which has a 90 second cool down.