Definitely needs to be a live stream. That is the only way people, including me, will accept that you're not cherrypicking. And it has to be solo and random as well. Regardless, doing this as a healer is rather pointless. You dont have to deal damage and you dont really have to survive longer than a particular enemy. This would make a small point with regards to survivability, but healers are squishy anyway... The gear complainers are mostly DPS players, healers tend to complain about class imbalance much more.

If Master Strike stopped channeling after 4m, you could "interrupt" a non-Combat-spec Master Strike by _walking in any direction_. It would be a waste of a keybind (as it stands, there's little reason to use it outside of Combat anyway.) Imagine if Force Lightning only targeted the air at the spot you were standing when it was activated and stopped when you took a sidestep

Look at the CC breaker description, that one is "all incapacitating and movement-impairing effects." Force Camo is "all movement-impairing effects." Roots aren't stuns in this game, as such "movement-impairing effects" aren't "incapacitating effects." As to the rest of your question, every sent/mara should put 2 points into this simply for the 80% speed buff to trans/predation. Besides, being able to break a Sniper's or specced Sorc's KB-root is a godsend. Also, wrong forum.

I don't think you've ever played solo against 2 premades of the same guild.

Resolve isn't broken, it just isn't enough. The bar goes down way too quickly and the cooldown of the CC breakers is too long in comparison. I personally also think knockbacks should add more resolve. There's a difference between "dying under focus fire" and "dying under focus fire while unable to do a damn thing about it."

This game has a PvE gear progression and a PvP gear progression/grind. Do we agree on that? The PvP gear grind is manageable at first and somewhat irrelevant later if you do everything right pre- and post-50. Do we agree on that?

A significant increase in combat efficiency over PvE gear. And that is what it's supposed to do. The difference between BM and WH is not a significant increase in combat efficiency. If you're going into PvP in Rakata (and I mean close to full Rakata, not some hybrid WH/BH set) that is your problem. I'll retract what I said about evening out the gap, illogical math on my part. But no, it does not create any more of a grind. The very existence of PvP gear creates the grind, which is a separate issue. Expertise is just one stat.

This is absurd. Fun fact: Expertise isn't the only stat on PvP gear. You still need the high-end PvP gear for stats, and Expertise helps to even out the ridiculous stat differences between Recruit and everything else more than anything. You get an easy 900 with Recruit, and over 1200 by the time you're in BM. When people are on their way to War Hero, many are already swapping expertise out for better PvE mods. For example, is there anyone out there who runs with 2 Expertise crystals in their weapons?

930 power? How do you have 400 more Power than me with the same acc/crit/surge ratings?

Low Slash is required, but also extremely versatile in PvP (And PvE, if only on trash and dailies, heh). My favorite is using it on a Marauder casting Ravage. If they're Carnage spec, you pretty much gimp their burst by letting Gore run out. And it's the best setup for Shadow Strike.

OK, so I'm an Infiltration Shadow in about 80% BH and the rest Rakata gear. Here is my current gear and spec. Can anyone give advice on my distribution? I'm wondering about my HP and Willpower for the most part...Most other players have 21-22k hp in ever so slightly better gear, and higher mainstat despite stacking Power augments instead. Am I optimized properly at this point, or is my choice of stats lacking?

I haven't looked at logs in some time, but I believe Massacre, which has two strikes just like Vicious Slash, auto-procs 2 Ataru strikes as well. Not sure if this is possible with Vicious Slash (Or any offhand ability for that matter.)

I haven't looked at logs in some time, but I believe Massacre, which has two strikes just like Vicious Slash, auto-procs 2 Ataru strikes as well. Not sure if this is possible with Vicious Slash (Or any offhand ability for that matter.)

Would you be saying the same thing if said person with superior stats could pull off a 10k hit on you and kill you before you could down 10% of his health? That isn't possible with current gear, of course. Recruit/partial BM is enough to stay competitive, assuming your class, skill and ability to avoid being noticed is up to par. But what if gear was like that? Would you react the same way? Is there any point at which a "good PvPer" would say "Hmm, maybe this gear thing is a load of crap"?

I prefer Charge > Deadly Throw* > Force Choke. There's no fire when you walk in. There sure is when you're trying to get out . *carnage