Read a bit of this. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=558226 Lot of attacks arent shieldable, still there are some. Therefore kinetic ward isnt completely useless in PVP, otherwise its stacks will not go down during figts. Theres lot of discussion about this topics. My personal preference is to go always with shield and kinetic ward both hybrid and full tank spec. Have two sets of gear, full tank one and DPS one. For DPS im using shield with DPS mods. For full tanking (guard switching, interruption, overall pure deffensive gameplay oriented on guarding rather then damage) full tank gear for sure. For pocket tanking (put guard on healer and go to do some damage) DPS gear is nice. But as I said, still with a shield. So wanna be tank? Never go with focus. Its a nonsence. Even you wanna sacrifice deffensive stats to get more damage, in tank stance shield is your friend, whatever mods are in it.

Ok ill read this, when im sober. Its too much after bottle of wine

OK, starting to understand, why Kitru love walls of text While I agree, that first set of gear, which PVP tanky shadow with 31 or 23 points in kinetic should build, is sadly DPS, still tank gear has purposes. In last days im runing mostly kinetic/infi hybrid. In normals im usually staying in DPS gear. To guard and hit attacker of my guarded person by crited 5k+ shadow strike and 3.2k+ project pretty much changing mind of attacker from "ill kill you, healer" to "ok mb not, im running for my life". On the other hand tank gear giving much more survivability and its not the difference of 4.5k hp between my tank and dps gear only. While lot of attacks are not shielded, any shielded reducing CD of Resilience. I guess all of us knows, what does it mean to have Resilience on CD, when we fighting Tech damage, DOTs and force attacks.

Your reply a bit confused me. Good players dont attack you, cause youre able to shiled their attack, therefore you drop deffense shield and absorb to get more endurance and willpwr?

You dont do PVP at all, still you came to PVP forum to cry for nerf for the other class. You dont know mechanics of other classes, still you came to PVP forum to cry for nerf of the other class. Can you explain why? This is main difference between good pvpers or pvpers at the begining, but with future and bad pvpvers. Good one will ask friends, class forum etc. how to counter different class, what and why hi did wrong. Bad one will make another nerf thread. /sigh

exactly

And i thought we will be talking about ball toss. E.g. why i cant toss it on opponent in wz? It everytime hits my own head. I tried it in hutball 5 meters away from scoring and it just didnt work. /sigh Yeah love the game. As mentioned, lot of things could and should be better but still im having lot of fun with friends and thats the most important for me.

Hi. Were aiming at 30/60/50 deff/shield/absorb with kinetic ward up. So augments should be chosen accordingly. Im not on my PC, so cant check atm, but in full wh moded im roughly on 29.7/59.xx/54.xx with 1199 expertise 25098hp fully buffed with exo fortitude stim using just two def and two absorb augments. Rest is willpwr/endu one.

Normal warzones are quite ok. Waiting up to few minutes in prime time. Weekends morning worst ofc, but still possible to play. Speaking about both under and lvl50 brackets. Ranked warzones is a bit different story. Only few guilds playing. Pugers stop to play them long time ago, as they were insta dead. Server populations im basically not checking so oftern, but after merge we were on three full instances on the fleet. In each around 230 ppl i guess. Now depends, were still ususally at two, two and half instances during prime time. Even i know you were not asking about pve much, after releasing of terror from beyond i saw my friends in instance 46 of this ops. So i would say our server is pretty much ok from population point of view.

Ok thank you, you explained everything here. If ill just ifnore your vanguard (geared one can just use /laugh on scounderel until his health drop to 50 perc and then still kill him), ill ignore your sage, dont know level but on certain level with bubble stun spec you can kite stealthers pretty succesfully. But to qq with pretty geared slinger, who is actually one of the worst enemies for stealthers is just ridiculous. Seriously sir, youre not doing it correct. Think about advices you get from ppl here playing this class successfully. PS: Next time pls go to your class section and put the question like "have serious problem to defeat certain class, can anyone help me?" before you visit pvp forum and start to call for nerfs. And as the others mention, try to play both stealth class. You will see that youll not be the king of the battlefield as you think they are. Thank you again.

Stealth is shadow´s best friend. Providing to us lot of advantages other classes dont have. During story it can really speed us up. We can use it to pass areas, where we dont want to fight, while other classes have to fight their way there and probably also the way back. We can do some H2 missions solo, while we dont need to overlevel them. Flashpoints/H4 missions has also alot of situation, where shadow can speed up progress. E.g. some button need to be pressed and its guarded by one mob. Stealth>blackout>cc>press>leave area. Group will appreciate this. E.g. Battle of illum has nice area with switching off 3 generators. Two of them one shadow can switch off without fight. For third two stealthers are necessary or you need to kill mobs. It save something like 5-10 minutes of trash fight i beleive. So be creative and you will have lot of fun in stealth.

Try to visit http://www.redeclipse.eu section Recruitment. As far as i know, there are some imp guilds currently recruiting. Regards.

At the moment im wearing WH chest and white legacy skirt + purple crystal in saber on my female body type 1 shadow tank. Head slot hidden ofc. But im excited about new possibilites comming with this adaptive armoring. On the ohter hand ill not stick with heavy armor type. Shes small and cute, she dont deserve to be nothing but running armour.

Any wz, things going well, were winning. Half time to go. Wife is comming and saying: "Common honey, you have to switch it off, my mother came to visit us"

Tested this build too. In DPS gear i was able to beat pretty well min maxed combat senti guildie. Problems started in full tank gear in warzones. Rotation is pure melee and possition depending. So its necessary to spend lot of time to get into possition for shadow strike. As full tank I had much less time to focus on the situation in the battle, which led to worst guard switching, taunting and the other funny tanking stuff. So tested, left back to 31/0/10. At least now i know, how many other tasks I am performing during standard rotation of this build.

Lag indeed. I experienced this alrdy several times with my Shadow, luckily in normals. CCed over Resilience in short time frame after pop up. Noticed 2x by sorc, 1x by assasin and 1x by scounderel in last two months or so. Usually happens to me in the pit during passing the fire trap ofc

This... Made my day. Thx

Theres everyday some new thread about removing whatever from PVP. Remove pulls, leaps, adrenals, force speed and now grenades... Do you people really want to make PVP pure DPS fight without any utility, which making it so big fun? Do you wanna remove all stuff, which can give to one team tactical advantage, if used properly? Yes remove grenades, but then remove aoe cc from all classes, as it is unfair advantage.

Not sure with lvl20 but i guess you can buy even them in advance and you cant just equip. I did this with lvl40 set on my alt. Bought full set alrdy at lvl 34-35. Btw even lvl 40gear is possible to wear at this level, mods itselfs are 1lvl lower. So if you have orange gear alrdy and enough creds, you can rip the mods from lvl40 and use them at lvl39.

Compare deffensive skills of senti/mara with other melee DPS, hell even with tanks. Try respec your shadow to infi DPS tree preferably before 1.4 go live and compare your performance in several matches. Judge it again. My main is shadow full tank. And yes, im playing combat senti as alt.

Guess you covered most usefull moments. Sometimes i just decide to pull e.g. healer away from enemy ball carrier if ball carrier is attacked by enough dps. Also there are some situation, where u can save it. E.g. non leaping class carry the ball down in the pit and theres enemy waiting for pass close to scoring line. Then you dont need to attack ball carrier. Just aim at waiting guy and pull him while the ball is in the air.

Not using it so often, but if i remember well, it is matched. Only those two stripes changing colour, the rest remains white.

Ah forgot. Using legacy skirt on offspec. And surprasingly have even the picture. Not best quality, but ok for imagination. http://beta.xfire.com/users/djcoturnix/screenshots/124688097?type=user

Coruscant social vendor - female social gear skirt. White with some gold ornaments. Costs 300 credits or so. Looks great with WH chest on my female shadow. I tried some brown skirts, but the appearance is a bit boring + Purple crystal for lightsaber is must ofc ;p

Can someone explain me, why in my unbeliavable stupidy did I destroy (or sell, dont remember) both stalker and survivor mainhands when i put mods to more "cool looking" sabers? **** appearance. ... Shame on me ... I want them back :'( ... Sorry for not constructive post, but i just had to...