A decade is a long time guys, thats practically an eternity in gaming. I'm all for this game, I like it a lot, but only a handful of the best games ever made still get played by a significant audience after so long. Its much more realistic to say you'll be playing this game for another year or so and then you'll see whats what.

Corruption is powerful healing, either yourself or someone else is just a matter of who you've clicked on most recently. Madness self heals are pathetic, one hard casted heal will give you more self healing then 30+ seconds of full time madness dps. If you want a class that does not use melee, but instead uses force powers then your class is a sorc/sage. Assassin is a melee class, and aside from a few moves will always require melee range to be effective. Even force lightning has a shorter range as an assassin than a sorc. Lightning is very "unlimited power!" when you have cools rolling, however if you want to be able to tank a few hits as a ranged dps, a merc would be a better option. Sorcs are notoriously squishy. For pve though you'll never notice it, especially in group content (use khem or xalek solo). It only becomes apparent in pvp.

As you know, smash's damage is tied to the animation, however the animation is not tied to your location. If you move while you're mid air, the actual aoe will still hit about where you were when you first pushed the button, not necessarily where you land once the animation is finished. So if you're trying to hit someone running away from you with a smash, you'll generally miss unless they're sufficiently slowed. Unfortunately smash can be doubly hard to land because in addition to the above problem, if you're cced mid animation (and its a long animation) the damage never lands. The way damage is so tied to animations in the game is frustrating, silly, and a hallmark of both terrible design and a bad engine. I've never played an mmo with an issue like this before. WHY does damage have to be tied to animations (especially when the dont even complete 1/10 of the time).

Sentinels have two trees that have ways to get around armor. Watchman (anihilation), is centered around burns which bypass armor, and combat (carnage) has an ability called precision strike / gore on a 15 sec cd that makes all attacks preformed within the next few gcds have 100% armor pen. Both trees have amazing burst potential that they time around those abilities allowing them to take down high armored targets. As a sentinel I can say that if you're dieing in 4 seconds (which is obviously hyperbole, but I digress) its probably against combat/carnage during a precision slash. Since you're unfamiliar with the class I wont go into detail on how we burst exactly, but I will say that if we have precision slash up you cannot let us get a full master strike / ravage off. If you do let us get the full 3 hits, it will easily take 40% of your health. If you ever need to limit a sentinels damage (say against a healer, or in a 1v1), make sure to always save force push, choke, or backhand when you see one start casting master strike (and of course dont let them get full resolve until master strike is on cd). It wont neuter our damage, but it will prevent some huge burst. knowledge is power

I do wish sith had more dark flowing robes. Kind of like what Darth Maul wore when he fought Qui gon on tattoine.

You've probably beaten him by now. But as you know the fight is actually 3 separate engagements. The easiest way to cheese it is to heal up, and wait on all of your cool downs (even your heroic moment if you need too) before you talk to him the second, and third time.

And so saith the Kalgan, for now and forever.

If you're still around 30, dont both with combat. The spec is terrible until 40, bare minimum. The spec doesnt really start to shine until around 45-47. I strongly suggest sticking with watchman until that point.

For seriously, I love lowbie healing. It makes me sad my op is 50 now But I still have a sorc at 47 > http://imgur.com/a/HEQxr#0

You're flat out wrong. I've broken 500k plenty of times, and kolto probe has been at least 200k of it. Its a proactive heal designed to smooth out incoming damage, and excels at healing groups. providing it will heal for its entire duration, its your strongest hitting heal, as well as your most efficient (when refreshing). Its not meant to save someone under heavy pressure, thats what surgical spam is for. Kolto probe is amazing, and I would delete my operative (seriously) were it for some reason taken away, and I pvp exclusively.

Sorc pve dps is acutally the 3rd highest. Lightning is right behind annihilation mara and lethality sniper. Everyone thinks their class is terrible. I mean, I had a sniper in general chat today that told me (in a very condescending way), that lethality snipers are bottom of the barrel dps after I mentioned they were doing well do someone else. That particular guy was usually very nice too.

As someone who has pvped competitively for the last 7 years in various mmos, I personally list it as a must have talent, especially for watchman which is more focus starved then combat. I would bump it down to "optional" if it only procced off of direct damage, but a focus generator that procs off of dots and aoe, as well as direct damage? Can't live without it. There is no such this as too much focus. For watchman it means more merciless slashes, and for combat its just one more cd spent on blade rush instead of strike (which also translates to more opportune strikes). Sad part about it is you have to give up stagger which is a total bummer for watchman (which has a much harder time landing full duration master strikes, and is more easily kited). If rebuke was a 2 min cooldown, even a 1.5 minute cooldown, I would take stagger over it. But over the course of a medium length game, crusader alone will give you at least 20 extra focus. Thats either 4 merc slashes, or 10-15 more blade rushes. It allows me to burst much more often, on demand. Its an amazing talent. However given that I pvp exclusively in most all mmos, I cant really speak for pve.

I reserve the right to complain when everybody goes mid on alderaan. Nevermind you why I didnt go left. I gots to pew man. >.>

I do have a poor connection so I can only view the video at 360p without buffering for 20 minutes, but the large letter boxing really hurts the video. I can't really tell whats going on with the giant black frame. Can you reupload it without it?

I'm getting 350k games all the time and war hero mercs and ops are a ***** to kill, and impossible to solo with guard. Sorcs are more susceptible to burst, but they can still tank me too. TTK is too low, no doubt about that, but if you buffed heals to compensate you would have unkillable healers. 2 healers and a guard (or two)? You're not taking them down without 3-5 people, and thats the way it should be.