You can use tank stims on dd. In 3.X some used it for sorc and sages low dmg reduction. In 4.x you can do that on all classes since the dps required is pretty low. Have someone call out the mice target and have your healers keep an instant or bubble reserved for them.

Remeber it's all about the 4 GCD "rotation"! You want to proc your HIB every 4th ability. Filler - Filler - Proc - HIB That means you use your Tactical Surge or Stockstrike as ability nr. 3 every time. Using HIB on a target with your bleed on it gets you some energy back + HIB itself is free of energy. I would suggest you train your opener a bit. You can actually start better by using explosive surge out of target range to proc HIB and then do your opener. Just normal run to your target, dont leap. The old dulfy guide for 3.0 is still valid in terms of rotation and energy management. http://dulfy.net/2014/12/07/swtor-3-0-vanguard-tactics-and-plasmatech-dps-guide-by-kwerty/#Rotations Edit: And don't use your free shots till you actually used both your energy regens first.

Just a slight addition to the orb mechanics: As said before have a dd take the orb for extra damage. If you really want to abuse the power of that orb you should wait a few seconds after it spawns, pick it up and then leap to the adds (usually spawn next to eachother). This way you do damage on both adds (=twice the damage) and your ranged dd will love you for that. Next way of getting more damage on the tentacle could be vanguards aoe taunt (threatdrop) with the buildin reflect. Once used the ones with the reflect buff can safely move in front of the tentacle for the next big slam (cleave) and then move back again. It does help aswell if you need every bit of dmg.

Maybe you should have just asked for help in improving your healing and your groups survivability. As you might have seen now there are a lot of good sage/sorc healers in the game and they are willing to communicate. From what you write you and your group do have to learn a bit about the fights and your classes to go on to harder fights. From my opinion sage/sorc is still the easiest class to get good healing. Getting towards "awesome" healing just got a bit harder now even thought scoundrels/operatives and commandos/mercenaries still need to work a lot harder in terms of managing energy.

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They seem to be quite similar in damage output if you look at the tooltip: Rapid Shots = 2537 - 3143 [energy] Flame Burst = 2961 - 3140 [elemental] First to notice is that the lower end of the damage range for Flame Burst is higher and second is that the type of damage is not the same. Elemental damage is "harder" to absorb/mitigate/reduce then energy damage, therefore Flame Burst is better in terms of damage output. Quick test on a Operations Training Dummy (with Armor Reduction on it) shows for my powertech that I do around 2.6k damage with Rapid Shots and 4.4k damage with Flame Burst per activation. Your damage may vary but overall Flame Burst is way better then Rapid Shots.

Patched 20mins ago and no changes for my commando. Medical Probe not trainable.

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