what was the spinning saber skill that you used alot? or more exactly what is its mirrors name?

by base i mean no skills, just talents and passive's, but i will def look into it marauder/sentinel more

i want to know which class has the best damage mitigation, for example... a powertech/vanguard gets 5% damage reduction from ion cylinder/cell and 2 more percent later in the shield tree with another 2% from the arsenal/gunnery tree where as assassin/shadow has 10% internal & elemental reduction (class buff) and not sure on the talents but i know they have a few too sorry for the two tank examples as so far thats all iv looked at in this, i pvp alot and do mostly the objectives so damage and healing isnt on the cards, i just want to survive so again which class has the most base damage mitigation (any tree or hybrid)

i was re-checking the the talents and found that i had miss read the tooltip for battering ram, i thought that it proc it to skip the CD, i was wrong and it only makes it ''free'' meaning that it has no resource cost, bad times its ruined my life

2 points from static field? and one from static surge? i can live with losing 15% crit damage for more procs on the attack, and static field is useless if you cant A) be in range of the attacker and B) only be attacked by one person

love the spec and its what i been building towards on my PT, but i do have a question, why not also get in 2 points of ''battering ram''? as most of your damage is coming from stokestrike, wouldn't it be more feasible to get SS to proc as much as possible? im going to try it sooner or later i just want to know your thoughts.

that was the point of the first sentence, along the lines of ''if you are making assumptions please tell me what you know for fact and what is coming next'' but i just tried to keep it simple, there are many theory's about whats to come but what we know for a fact is that they are making crafting more viable.

sorry armourmech, i hope you didn't lose sleep over it? Answering a question with a question is just stupid and childish. As i am asking questions and not stating facts, it means can you please answer the questions and stay on topic If i cant RE blues or purples to make oranges, is the only way to get orange schematics by underworld trading only?

this question is for now and for 1.2, please state which your answer is what is the lowest level i can make my first orange? and i mean this as crafting level not char level. can my first green be RE'ed into blue then RE'ed into orange or purple then crit craft that orange/purple for augment? to be honest this sounds like it could be done but would negate endgame, aside from customizables of course (not tried so please fill in the blanks, and i dont mind the cost or how much i need to RE) is there any oranges CANT i craft? like gloves, boots, (if there is any) looks arnt an issue for me as i will get around to that at a later date, for now i just want to be full orange geard with aug slots and not be 50...is this even possible?

lol i did mean force lightning so im glad you saw through the mistake

im 19 and got a skill reset from lightning tree, im not sure what to level up as, i seem to be 50% healing khem and 50% attacking, and if he dies i tend to follow mostly, so do i level up as the healing tree to keep my companion alive (an players in heroics) or DPS tree to kill before we are, being a glass cannon sucks thats why i tend to keep comp alive then let him die while i DPS at 20 does the no CD on chain lightning become a game changer? this is not in any terms related to pvp this is to level up in pve only

so the DoT crit regen is really viable? not for the heal medals but for survive ability? can i cast my DoT spells and see me die alot less? also if i took just parasitism for the 1% and the rest into my healing tree (to be a main healer) and cast a couple of DoT's while healing others. will it keep me alive though Boss aoe's? so say a nasty badie aoe's and hits me for 50% of my hp, can i cast all my DoT skills and it get me back to full HP before he aoe's again and kills me? one last question, if i went all the way in the madness tree and got the 2% what should i work on in gear, endurance (as it heals for % of my hp) or willpower (adds to bonus healing, altho not sure if bonus healing effects this talent but i still want it to be a good healer)

defense = evasion...not damage reduction that 2% is not affected by diminishing returns just saying

guard and capping objectives, that IS all i do and able to do to be honest, i came across a sentinel in a recent pvp and he lept towards me and all i could do was just watch my hp drop as im smashing my mediocre attacks, i too understand that im giving up DPS for my ability to take a smack to the face, but apparently i can take a smack to the face but i cant take kick to the ''no no's'' or a chop in the gut as they are ''different'' types of damage??? REALLY? im not asking that i be able to kill a DPS in a fight im asking that i be able to hold off an attacker for a little more then a healer could, i mean that what im built for...right?, just until say backup arrives or my healer can heal himself i dont want to win, i want to survive

powertechs have a similar system called cylinders. you use it with guard gives 50% bonus threat and a 5% damage mitigation, for PT's its called ion gas cylinder all the tanks have this type of skill, with a single taunt and a mass taunt

for all the razor naga fans, i would love to get my hands on one but i refuse to spend £120 on a component that cost more then my laptop. a previous poster got me when he said ''dont over complicate things'' that being said i decided to keep it simple and got a 5 button mouse and bound shift and ctrl to 2 of the buttons, i now have over 30 keys open to me and i still use WASD (i never played games when ESDF was the norm so i never got used to it) 1-5, Q, E, f1-f5, MMB....these are my spamm or my ''oh cr*p'' buttons or any skill that i expect to proc in my rotation shift+(above).............these are my skills that are not in my rotation or are just good openers ctrl+(above)...............these are buffs i.e shield's/bubbles, medpacs, relic's, adrenal's etc any out of combat skills are key bound to other easy to reach buttons like R, F, V, C, X, Z and wouldnt be too difficult to just add the shift or ctrl to these either.

can i get a breakdown of why i would want set ''A'' over set ''B'' if (with the right mods/enhancments) i can make any orange the same as end game gear, apart from pvp gear that gives expertise

i agree, as long as real attacks stop a cap then we will just have to up our game

i love my little potato gun, makes me feel warm inside when i kill a commando

exactly what i meant to say lol

if we had all of their strengths and none of their weaknesses we would be nerfed in a week im not all that clued up on the subject but not to put a fine point on it, you are comparing a tank with heavy armor and the ability to shield (alot if your built for it) to classes that do not?

ion cell = ion gas cylinder =IGC plasma cell = combustible gas cylinder = CGC i have been looking heavily into doing this but the fact is that you WILL be wasting 3 points on some form of combustible gas talent that will be totally useless. if you put 8 points into IGC you make it into a DoT instead of a proc with the added slow plus with IGC you get to use guard and have an instant 5% damage mitigation CGC has the slow that you can also get in IGC, the DOT that you can also get in IGC plus the talent for the 9% damage boost to a burning target can come from incendiary missile i personally use a shield gene but thats because i dont know which is needed out of that and the IGC to be able to proc the shield... if you are going to invest in the ST tree jus go for it up till 21 where you get jet charge like the other 90% of pvp PT's that are not full pyrotech i just woke up as i typed this so if its wrong in some places i will be sure to change it and own up to my mistakes -Rocco

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=158355 its for vanguard but powertech is its exact copy

i have the same type mouse, but i made these buttons into modifiers (shift and ctrl) makes life easier but takes a few fights to get used too

its a matter of what makes you feel more comfortable, every other MMO (that i have played) put the main bar (1 - =)on the bottem so people set it to do the same including myself, personally i set up left side shift+ (1-5) and CTRL+ (1-5) then right is f1-f12 while top bar is all my letters and mouse buttons.....main bar is all my instant cast, left is all my CD related skills and my letters are my ''oh cr*p'' buttons while my function keys are buffs and out of combat stuff. again its just what im used to, if you are going to make a drastic change to your keys in this fashion i suggest you make a new char for a couple of levels to get used to it with WASD and ESDF i set up a thread to ask the same question, to be honest unless you are a mara or sentinal its not going to matter all that much as long as you can use shift/ctrl or alt modifiers, i personally use WASD as i dont have a mouse with a thousand buttons on it as WASD is a little easier to hit shift were as ESDF opens up more letters and one more number it also depends on your spec and if you do pvp or pve as some skills wont work in either and some trees require you to use ''this'' more then ''that''