To be honest, DPS tankasins , marauders, pyrotechs, and op healers are perfectly balanced. The other classes just need to be brought up to par. It's also that people don't want to get good at pvp and learn to counter classes, they just wanna herp derp faceroll i win. For instance, against tankasins, just watch their buff bar and when they get 3 stacks of harnessed darkness, just cc them and there goes their self heals. Most tankasins play really one-dimensionally and are easy to beat with any skill at all. Unfortunately, it seems SWTOR has one of the least skilled PVP communities of any MMO I've seen. In addition to the fact that buffing the other classes up to par with those 4 would overall be a lot better for balance, at this point Bioware doesn't need to do any nerfing that would cause them to lose subs.

go to your character pane, under melee, mouse over bonus damage. i can guarantee you that willpower is under there. willpower increases force AND melee bonus damage. otherwise there'd be people running around with strength and willpower in their gear. people need to get their **** straight. to the OP, power has a 15% bonus damage increase, but willpower has a slight amount of crit built into it (it does have a DR though). personally i would go with power since we have so little power in our gear.

I've been running your 0/13/28 spec ever since you first announced it (before you made the video , I have your mrrobot page bookmarked) and absolutely love it. I was curious about stats though. It looks like you run 900 power but only with 18% crit unbuffed. As of right now I'm at about 400 power, 28% crit unbuffed, 76.88% surge, 96% accuracy, 1600 willpower, and 1123 expertise. 18% crit sounds a little disheartening for me, even with recklessness thats only every 75 seconds with stalker set bonus, so I wanted to know why you think the power is worth the loss in crit.

i'm also a bm madness assassin, played it all the way from level 10 to 50 (though i tried out the others and always came crying back to madness). i provide insane damage for my team, decent utility in protection, and i can somewhat hold my own in a survivability situation through good use of force shroud/kiting when cloak is down. the only thing i think that madness needs for survivability is for bioware to fix the death field healing bug. as of right now it only heals 2% (with the devour talent) no matter how many targets you hit, instead of 6%. this would make the tree working as intended as the self healing does feel somewhat lacking. deception assassins just need a lower cooldown on force shroud and maybe a talent switched here and there with darkness or something. i cna't say much since i don't play deception.

Wake up in the morning feelin' like Darth Malgus (hey, what up satele) Grab my dailies, I'm out the door, I'm 'bout to hit Belsavis When I leave, check my missions for my bio mats Cause when I leave for Nar Shaddaa, I ain't comin' back I'm talkin' jedi on all our warzones, zones Consulars throwin' all their stones, stones Agents blowin' up our nodes, nodes Drop dead and run that hard mode BT Jaesa startin' to look kinda freaky Gotta deactivate 2V... Don't stop, make it pop Trooper blow my health bar up Tonight, I'mma fight till we finally wipe Tick tock, on the clock But now my wife is raging at me no No woah-woah-oh No woah-woah-oh Don't stop, make it pop Trooper blow my health bar up Tonight, I'mma fight till we finally wipe Tick tock, on the clock But now my wife is raging at me no No woah-woah-oh No woah-woah-oh Ain't got a care in the fleet But need a lot of repairs Ain't got no credits in my bag But I'm already farmin' And now Darth Baras is linin' up Cause he hears we got cake But we kick him to the curb Cause he looks overweight I'm talkin' bout errybody gettin' BM Boys tryna touch my implants Gonna smack em cause they're centurion Now now we goin til one point two, two Or George Lucas shut us down, down George Lucas shut us down, down Lucas shut us down... Don't stop, make it pop Scoundrels, bottom of the charts Tonight, I'mma win till we see a sorcerer Tick tock, on the clock But now my wife is ragin' at me no No-woah-woah-oh, oh No-woah-woah-oh Don't stop, make it pop Scoundrels, bottom of the charts Tonight, I'mma win till we see a sorcerer Tick tock, on the clock But now my wife is ragin' at me no No-woah-woah-oh, oh No-woah-woah-oh Bioware, you buff me up You nerf me down My boss, he frowns, yeah you got me With my rent up You got me now My grades are down Yeah you got me Bioware, you buff me up You nerf me down My boss, he frowns, yeah you got me With my rent up Put your plans up Put your plans up No, the trolls don't stop till Bio comes in Don't stop, make it pop HK just blew my whole group up Tonight, I'mma fight, till valor seventy-nine Tick tock, on the clock, I've been on for 36 hours now Woah-oh-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh-oh Don't stop, make it pop HK just blew my whole group up Tonight, I'mma fight, till valor seventy-nine Tick tock, on the clock, I've been on for 36 hours now Woah-oh-oh-oh Woah-oh-oh-oh

I've toyed around with every spec and have always come back to madness (7/3/31). I absolutely hated darkness and enjoyed deception but not as much as madness. I've always done extremely well in warzones but I've started to play against some of the best on my server and I'm beginning to question if madness is still more effective than deception. It seems deception can drop even the best healers, and seeing as how madness doesn't have the burst to do that (although I still dominate lesser skilled players), I'm starting to think maybe i should reroll deception to be more effective against more skilled players. And don't bring up darkness. I'm not going darkness.