Ugh just this morning I realised our AOE Vigilant Thrust does more damage then Blade Barrage does.....what the hell Bioware?

It also used to be our highest hitting ability...now its just mediocre.... Atleast buff the dmg so its our biggest hitting ability again Bioware!

Finally the actual use of the emergency escape pod has been found!

Having played both I can say for sure that the Guardian is a lot easier to handle.

Sure if you're into that robe...and that horrible belt you're wearing.. Then...sure

Have you messed with the settings of Unleashed? By default its performance gain is minimal if you mess with the settings a bit especially if you have 4+ GB of ram you should see quite the improvement. And yeah I am running Win 7 64x.

Havent read the whole thread so dont know if this has been suggested yet but I also have a GTX 680 with a good amount of ram and an i7 processor...and SWTOR ran like absolute crap and often had serious performance drops. This will until I installed SWTOR Unleashed....night and day difference. So yeah get SWTOR Unleashed and see how that goes for you! Here's the link to SWTOR Unleashed thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=529567

Very much doubt a bop item is a random drop... Just need to find out where it drops Ah well medium armor/heavy armor...just a tiny armor amount of difference care more about the look

Yeah quite amazed how many people dont understand the concept of not hitting the CCed target... I often give people scares in FPs when I use my AOEs when there are CCed targets but I got a good grasp what the range is of my AoE so I dont break up the CCs...that is quite fun to do btw haha... But soooo many dont grasp this concept! But yeah...not a lot you can do about it Im afraid.

Very true...Guardian has always been a great DPS class but for some reason many just didnt see it. 2.0 made it even better as you said but there's still so many ignorants out there haha... Quite fun to startle people in FPs when they see what a Guardian is capable of DPS wise

Heh yep tried to point this out when you posted but havent been able to post on the forums all day...until just now

Sorry it took a while had some weird forum issue over the weekend...kept logging me out when I reached the forums could only access account settings...weird forum bug seems to effect other people as well. Anywayz... http://imageshack.us/a/img827/7201/screenshot2013042113353.jpg Pristine Ardent Warrior's Vest

I was completely surprised when this dropped for me...and very happy as I love the black robe and white armor look. It dropped for me from the mando raiders HM I believe it was the fight where you face the 4 imperials (or republic..if you're of the evil kind).

Current look of my Guardian: http://imageshack.us/a/img62/8642/screenshot2013042020173.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img4/7804/screenshot2013042020172.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img211/5984/screenshot2013042020183.jpg

Ah...the regular once.

Mission seems bugged for me.. I zoom in and it mentions on the screen "nothing happens"

Oi now my Bodytype 3 bulk of a man Twi'lek Vanguard is one awesome big fella! Whats wrong with playing him? eh?

Dang that must be a serious subtle visual haha...tried looking for it this morning when I played for 15 mins before work...didnt notice a damn thing. Ah well...so far I find the Guardian to play quite smooth in 2.0 and the scream is quite prominent so you notice quite well when MS is available again..and I got Dispatch in such a prominent position the bright yellow icon is a notification on itself.

They were a bit OP in PvP yeah...but getting overnerfed is a bit much and in PvE they werent OP in anyway. So yeah they underperform in PvE and PvP now compared to other classes. Buuut I care a lot less now as Im loving my Guardian

Really? Mhmm will have to try that out tonight The Zen Strike has no visual notification right?

This may be true if you face someone 1v1 at the start of a warzone but most of the time I find people having already used their knockbacks or breakouts or simply find out tolate I am placing a Master Strike on them. Even so if that is the case you can always hit them plasma brand and overhead strike after. Not using MS in PvP imo you miss out on a lot of dmg...I love using it! And if you cannot initiate with a charge and they do notice you...you can always quickly get the first two hits in, which already hurt a ton, and then follow up with plasma brand/overhead strike/dispatch.

Then I have to say well played

At work at the moment so cant test but its not the glowing of the eyes thing is it? Haha thought that was the worst proc indication ever as you're looking at the back of your character 99 out of a 100 times Anywayz I placed Dispatch to a prominent place on my hotkeybars so I see when I can use it right away still be nice to get some more obvious proc indicators.

As a Vigilnce Guardian I have no problem getting my Master Strikes to hit a target in full just be sure to do it after a charge. Make sure to get Stagger so they are rooted longer and Master Strike has a far longer range then pure melee to finish off its attack so when they start moving away from you dont move yourself as there is a very good chance your Master Strike will finish even though they are 5 to 10m away. Combine this with Unremitting and I get my full Master Strikes in most of the time...and now almost always followed by a Dispatch it is immensely damaging!

Vanguard got nerfed pretty badly but good thing I had a Guardian gathering dust...and dang is it fun to play in 2.0. So yeah...Guardians are overal in a really good place right now!