I'm completing my set and since the Surge stat's only replacements(on Enhancements) are either accuracy or Alacrity, I find my self with accuracy and surge stats both being too high. I'm tempted to replace some surge with alacrity, It would speed up the cast times of some of the MM abilities and give better ROI over the wasted surge. I don't find energy to be an issue in MM anymore, so the faster rotation might allow me to get an extra rifle shot into my current rotation. Looking at the stats from above, they have more rifle shots than I usually get in. I could be way off base, I too get much better DPS from Lethality. I just like the feel of MM better and want to max it's potential.

Advanced skill augs are best for PVE and PVP, but the OP was asking about implants. Since I haven't looked at the PVP implants I can't answer which are best. I know for PVE I use the ones with accuracy and crit , since I have no other gear except for Offhand that has accuracy, these 2 implants make me hit the accuracy andc crit mark I'm looking for. The rest of my gear is mostly Power surge.

This is why I like the Infernal Council fight. Everyone needs to solo an easy mini boss. This fight should be first instead of 4th because it determines if everybody is geared. We took an undergeared marauder thru and on this fight he died or timed out everytime. His gear wasn't even that bad, he had almost 15K hitpoints. We tried him on the Healer and he kept dying. We moved him to the one with the next lowest hitpoints and he would get closer to killing him before dying. Luckily on the 6th try, Another player got there just as he got killed and got off a 6.5 k crit to finish his boss.

I always ask them to kill the droid and tell them nobody can make that jump, Then when someone insists its easy I say go ahead, and right before they jump I range attack the droid putting the group in attack status and watch as their jump lands short and they die.

I would like a puzzle where there is a sword in a box, and when you hit the box with your saber......just kidding. An encounter where teams of stunlocking Operatives would spawn from stealth and kill all the healer classes. Then the boss would laugh and then call in a healer to heal himself while the raid attempts to kill him without healers. If someone ninja rezzes a healer, the stunlocking operatives would reappear and kill the healer and whoever rezzed them. Basically a winless fight so everyone would stop complaining that "They already did the content and they are bored"

Just goes to show you. You can't make everyone happy. No matter how many Op's they put out the top guilds will chew thru them and spit them out and ask for more. I hope they make the next new Op so hard that no guild can complete the hard mode. Then you'll be complaining that it's too hard and unreasonable. I'd like to see the first boss spawn 8 teams of stun locking operatives to wipe the entire raid. I'd pay to watch that on youtube.

^ this. Those set bonus's are too good to pass up. Due to the limitation of the BH stats -the top priority campaign pieces for snipers are the Chest-helm-MH-OH. The rest of the BH gear have ( BIS) Skill armor mods.

My opinion -Med shield. If you need to heal yourself, you want to do it quick to get back to healing the group. As the op healer, you NEED to stay alive more than anyone else. The tank is a real close second, but he won't be able to revive you during combat if you go down. And having the other healer revive you usually reults in a wipe.

Get rid of lingering toxins. Try this simple rotation CG>CD>WB>Cull>SOS>OS or Ambush>Cull (again) >repeat. The SOS and OS will give enough time for cull to be ready for a second cull just before the dots expire. If they are still ticking you can rifle shot or EP(energy allowing) .

Your Crit is too low. I like 35 unbuffed for Lethality, but others swear by less due to the crit buffs in Lethality. Your accuracy is close, best to run some parse and use TORPARSE to check your misses per attack, If you don't miss, your fine. You can also check your Crit % per attack and adjust accordingly. Check your rotation- I like this one - CG>CD>WS>Cull> SOS>OS or Ambush>Cull >repeat. Simple and easy. If energy is an issue then your crit is too low, and you can add a rifle shot before the CG to spread energy usage a little at the cost of some DPS.

I'm not l33t . No ranked wants my A/C or spec, even thou I have 1200 exp and 1900 main stat. So unless they allow solo queue, I won't be invited to play in their reindeer games.

1. How do you think your Sniper spec is perceived by other classes? By opponents that are currently most active (Marauders and Sentinels) they hate us and want us nerfed because we are their only counter. By our own guilds, They'd rather use a marauder to fill their PVP ranked teams unless we spec to plasma probe for node defense. And for PVE DPS, a marauder does better. 2. How do you perceive your own spec? I like the gameplay of full marksman, but it's not the optimum spec due to mitigation, therefore I'm forced to play Lethality or someone will compare my DPS to a marauder and not want me in their group.

As long as you are using your taunts and not your detaunt(enraged defense or something for Jugg) If the DPS steals agro and die, it's their fault. As a DPS they should burn down weak mobs first. Then strongs, etc. A good DPS should burn those down fast unless it's just a bad pull. By the time the DPS get to the elites and harder, you should have good agro built up and they can just burn them down, DPS have a threat reducer and defensive cooldowns, the smart ones will use it. the dumb ones will die.

I'm not sure if Republic finish on Corellia, but Imps do. If you've completed your last planet and your class quests, you can start the Ilum quests. I believe you get the quest from a Fleet mission box. I started those at level 45 or 46 on most of my toons. They'll level you fast. Then at level 47 you can start your dailies on Belsalvis and Ilum. Those dailies will make you level fast also.

If you un equip all of her gear, she wears a bodysuit, unlike the other female companions that wear basically boxers and sports bra. I don't think they they can match the clown pattern skin tone they used on her face. Oh and by the way, the first PIC- that's the outfit I want to see her in... geez, I really need a life.

Yep, all work. My ambush knockback makes the tanks mad in PVE, but I try to work around that. It's also mostly the tanks fault for tanking near the range and healers.

I'm going to tackle this question "Are Marauders really that much better?" CURRENTLY in 1.3 -Pretty much, yes. A poorly equipped and poorly played Marauder will do better DPS then a poorly played Sniper. To get the most out of a lethality sniper, you need optimized gear, and the correct rotation(which has been covered here already) and the ability to optimize your energy usage. If you ever have a time when you can't use an ability from your rotation because you don't have enough energy, your DPS will suffer. It's alot easier for a Marauder to build rage from zero then it is for a sniper to gain energy from the bottom regen rate.

Are you sure that wasn't Padme's stand in during that scene. Meaning Padme really didn't submit the vote. Darn, now I'll have to rewatch that scene.

What? no love for the MM sniper? Just kidding. I know MM can't put up boss numbers like lethality, mostly due to lethalities internal damage. That's why I think engineering also can't match Lethality numbers on Op Bosses. Mitigation is the DPS' Nemesis.

When I pull the level armoring mod 26 from BH gear, It states research unavailable in the tooltip while I have RE activated. I do not want to try RE'ing these if all I'm getting back is mats. Clarification on this would be nice. I have seen someone selling armor mods 26 on the GTN, I'm curious if they were dropped or the schematic was dropped or the person RE'd and got a schematic.

You really just need to pull the mods from the better pieces and put them into your Rakata/BM shells for the set bonus. This is my guide to how I buy BH gear. The Trappers Gloves and Legs have skill armor mods - get them Trappers feet and Menders feet both have skill armor mods - Trappers= Crit/Accuracy - Menders Feet =power/surge - get the one that you need the stats from. The trappers Head and chest have patron mods- Don't get them, buy 26 skill armor mods from GTN.(save up) Then to replace the mods in those 2 pieces I usually get 2 more sets of trappers gloves. They are cheaper and they have power/surge. Trappers Gloves have power/surge Trappers Legs have Crit/surge Trappers feet have Crit/Accuracy - Menders Feet have power/surge This is usually a good starting point, and you only needed 5 of the cheaper BH pieces to do it. Then you can play with getting numbers just right with the augs, and other pieces like moddable belts and bracers.

you are correct. But my point of get more Crit still stands. Try replacing your Power Augs with Crit augs, this is simple to do and is cheaper than mod swapping... Check your DPS. You could also replace most of your accuracy then with surge(as corrected). 78 % surge is where I'm at. that's 77 base 1 % companion(vector). then check DPS and see which one gave the biggest improvement. When you start replacing Rakata with BH gear you'll run into the problem where the armoring Mods on some pieces are Patron and not Skill. Patron is not BIS - Skill is what you should be looking for, good luck with that hunt.

Crit chance: 35.7% (crit rating =221) If this is your Crit chance with your self buff and the 1 % companion bonus, then your Crit is too low. Replace your accuracy with Crit Rating. Your buff gives 5% and the companion buff(Temple -I think) gives 1 %. You need to subtract that from your total. So your unbuffed CRit % is actually 29.7 . This is at least 5.3 % too low. You should be at 35 % unbuffed. I had the same problem, I got Base accuracy down to 99%. Then got my Crit chance to 36.7% +6% buffs for 42.7% total. It increased my DPS by 200. If you are Lethality, you can even go a little higher in Crit chance because your energy demands crits. The thing about Snipers is our Cunning increases Crit chance, then Crit rating also increases Crit chance, The Crit rating is on it's own(seprate from Cunning) diminishing returns so you'll need (about)350 Crit rating before you start seeing DR. Your base accuracy is 91%. It doesn't take more than 150 accuracy to get over 100% Pull those accuracy enhancements and replace them with Crit/ Surge. You can play with power later .

It's a carbonite mezz. It breaks on damage, but he's capable of recasting it rather fast.. It should make you look like you're a carbonite statue. At least that's what it looks like from the agent's POV.

I only have energy problem when I get knocked out of cover and mess my rotation up. Whenever I Sniper Volley, I don't use SOS immediately. I use Orbital strike. With pillbox sniper my Sniper volley and orbital strike are now on the same timer. 45 seconds. The alacrity and energy regen helps OS the most. then after OS I use my SOS. Since my energy isn't much of an issue anymore I can concentrate more on maximizing my DamagePerCastTime abilites instead of my DamagePerEnergy abilities.