Yup I have it available now as well, someone suggested that it might be that steam released the patch at the advertised time that servers would be live again.

Logging in through steam and the game isn't patching - no available updates on steam either. Anyone have any ideas?

Team Duffie Izax Kill 14:25 BST https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/315955192635850762/634744104143552533/unknown.png?width=1201&height=676 Edit: Big thanks to Majestic Goat, Tom, Ayur, Caiban, Fudu, Oresta and Sinister Sorry to both Run away and Roommates, but now I have Izax world last

yeah its been a while since I played it, Im having energy problems at the moment and Im hesitating a lot in the rotation because it

Hey guys So I've been parsing in saboteur recently on my slinger to get good at it, and hopefully get in the top 3 on the leaderboard but for some reasons all of the good ones I do aren't shown on the leaderboard, like I did something illegal. Here is the latest parse in question - http://parsely.io/parser/view/350971. I know about the Sharpshooter energy bug which people used to do and how they fixed that on parsely, but I can't work out why this wont go up All the best!

Oh wow thanks for the info!

Ah ok, thanks! I’m most interested in the WS ticks - can I blame this on the cast bar bug??

OK here is a video of me parsing and the log of this parse - would anyone mind taking a look and tell me what you think? Thanks ^.^ http://parsely.io/parser/view/333534

Given that we now dont have to worry about crit for energy purposes, what do you think the new reccomended stats are? Im tempted to try over 1860 alacrity, and see what that feels like. As it happens at the moment I and not having any energy issues at all, and on.y have to use roll 5/6 times in one parse (but this may be, as you pointed out, a lower apm),

Hi All, I don't know if many of you have yet had a chance to try parsing with the new energy changes yet, but I'm going to raise this issue anyway. The new energy feels great (thanks BW!) and makes a whole lotta sense. However, for whatever reason a few friends and I have all lost DPS in our parses, ranging from 200 DPS to 800 DPS (thanks BW!). We suspect that it might be to do with the lingering effect of DoTs, but I had a quick glance at the logs and didnt notice anything immediately wrong. It could also have something to do with the new castbar 'feature' as well.To those who are more technically capable than I am - do you reckon this is just a bug somewhere which needs fixing, or is this what we are left with? Thanks all!

Noo this isn't pre/post nerf, I moved 2 days ago!! xD

Hey guys! So recently I moved back to my uni accommodation where I can plug my laptop in to the router and have faster internet. What this has given me is a fast APM, and with that comes harder energy management. I would be willing to put up with it if it meant more dps, so I could find a balance, however my dps has sunk considerably, which I cant really understand given the higher APM (I havent changed my rotation). I wondered if the slinger hive mind would have anything to say about this, because I cant work it out...

Arsenal merc is EZ mode (easy). It is probably the easiest spec in the game to get something vaguely decent. MM Sniper is also quite easy, but has the added benefits of being a sniper... People talk a lot about Arsenal defensives being way to op, however people dont talk about sniper defensives. Mercs have 3 very strong defensives; a sniper has Ballistic Dampers (ALWAYS take this utility), shield probe, evasion, roll, entrench, bag of tricks and last but definitely not least, the glory shield. IMO these are more useful in the game; in pvp a little, but in pve a lot more useful. I tanked the bonus boss on hammer station (although I was in engineering) and I healed for 1k, and absorbed 3.5k. Thats a total of 4.5k mitigation without dropping dps. Try and get a merc to do that. The rub is that for a sniper to use these optimally takes much more work and practise (hint hint, its harder), but if you can do that then I would definitely go for sniper. (Having said all this I dont like MM in pvp, too many casts...)

I'm resurrecting this post! Parsing is now going really well! I am now up to 9743 dps, which is great. However, I am finding that in all of my parses I can sustain upwards of 10k dps for about 60-90 seconds, but then very quickly I will get a dip in dps to anything from 9.6k to 9.2k, and then only sometimes does it recover and start going higher, but sometimes not and I get a 9.2/9.3k parse. I wanted to ask if this was up to RNG with crits, or could there be anything I am doing spectacularly wrong...

I was wondering which skills these affected the most and before which skills it would be best to use it while in the middle of the rotation. At the moment Ive just been using it so I can get an extra skill in so I dont have to use a 0 energy filler, but Ive been playing around with it and found that I can put it anywhere in the rotation to get the energy benefit, so was wondering where is best. Thanks for the replies

Im going to hold the flag for virulence here. I love virulence in pvp as the 'long burst is great' - if a target is out of defensives and you open up on them they are usually dead after 2 culls, which is great (especially if people ignore you and let you free cast). Target switching is great, but you can usually DoT spread very easily and end up with DoTs on 4/5 targets, which is netting you roughly 3k dps without doing anything else. Kiting isn't the easiest, but you have good utilities for that and Snipers have enough skill to slow/immobilise and run away from melee that you should be fine. I tend not to play MM because there are SO MANY CASTS. Once you're entrench is up and someone wants to interrupt you you're kinda screwed. Not saying it cant work though, but the kiting isn't as good as Viru or Engi. Engi is useful for being annoying, but I think takes the most skill to have the most impact (although if played well an Engi Sniper can carry a whole team). This includes things like probe placement, knowing when to burst, when to stun etc. Another pvp tip. Learn to use the skills that you dont use often in PvE very frequently. Leg shot, maim, diversion, the push etc. as these are the things that will keep you alive. Snipers cant face tank anything, but you can usually do a v. good job of keeping people away and then when they catch up to you, you have shield probe and evasion before all the other skills come off cooldown again. Lots of buttons, use them all...

Thanks so much for the tip! I have been trying this all day yesterday and this morning, and I've managed to get my parse up by 200 and that still had quite a few mistakes in) so I'm definitely getting there. Although, what I am noticing is that energy management is that little bit harder, and I am now praying that I get a high crit on my DoTs so I don't have to use resort to flurry of bolts D: I did a parse and get 35% and 37% crit on my DoTs, it was horrible... I will keep practising this and hopefully get over 9.5k, and then in a few weeks when I have full 248 I can get 10k! *This space is reserved for future video* Thanks again

Here is the video and the accompanying parse, I could have redone it to get it a bit better but going in to an ops now. http://parsely.io/parser/view/308423 There was a funny bit where I rolled and it did something weird, but that didnt hinder me too much.

Hi, My alacrity is 1587, which according to band should give 37.7 and my current APM is 36.2 so yeah that could be the problem.Just doing a basic sum to see what my dps would be if my APM increased by 1 (not that the maths is that easy) I would get ~9500 dps. However, I dont know how to get more APM, which seems like a silly question. I have a 1 second skill queue and I 'pre-click' all skills apart from when Im channelling wounding shots/cull or speed shot/series of shots. Could it bant assumes 100% uptime on the off GCD skills, which I am certainly not doing and I dont want to. Also, would posting a video of me parsing do a better job for sorting this out?

So I recently geared up to full 242 left side and 246/248 right side (with god knows what armourings) sticking as much as I can to what good ol' Bant tells me and this is my best parse: http://parsely.io/parser/view/308276/0 - 9189 DPS I'm quite happy with it, but I see people on the leaderboards that are upwards of 9600 DPS and I don't think that gear would be the main factor there, but I can't see anything that has gone the equivalent of 400 DPS wrong. Could any of you give me some tips of point out where I may have gone wrong at all? Lots of love

As far as I know there isn't one for Dirty Fighting yet, but the virulence one by veldix is a good place to start. If you look through your skills and compare them you should be able to make a list of the mirror skills and go from there.

Questions in the title, let me share my thoughts... Mercenary - Well Arsenal has been nerfed into the ground, so now it is the worst parsing spec. Hey ho. How ever its still very handy in a lot of boss fights which need short sharp bursts or a lot of target switching, where it can compete and sometimes out do much better parsing specs. However even in this case the numbers still aren't brilliant. IO is a nice DoT spec, but I feel that the investment, and risk of the spec (how easily it can go wrong,, if you dont know it well enough) makes it lesser than other specs given how the numbers are not that much better. Sniper - Engineering is great fun, and can still pull decent numbers in single target if you can keep the rotation up (but thats a big if). Shame it sucks for target switching. Virulence is, IMO, one of the best sustained single target at the moment, and its not that difficult which means its easy to get back on track either if something goes wrong or the fight requires it. Marksmanship sometimes sucks, but I end up usually topping the tables on a fight like Draxus which is always fun. I guess with this spec only take it if you need it. Sorcerer - I'm really not experienced with Sorc DPS, so perhaps someone can fill me in. From what I gather lightning (with bug) is the best single target burst spec, but a bit sucky without, and madness is only good if the fight needs AoE. Someone correct me if Im wrong... All in all I think Im going to have to go with Sniper...

When they say there is NO ETA, does that mean there is no ETA at all?? For example, are the servers more likely to be up in half an hour, 2 hours, 5 hours, a day (etc.)?? Or would even this be a wild guess.