Also, as a Sentinel, you are meant to be a Glass Damager. You have lower defenses, but you hit harder. And, we fulfill that role really well.

Rage is naturally squishier than Vengeance, and it's "mirror" spec Fury. If you were to want to level a DPS Jugg, do it as Vengeance.

I would not bother with gearing up when we are only 9 days away from KotFE and an entire new level cap. I'd focus on grinding out ALL toons to get maxed Elite and Ultimate comms, since they are not going to be removing or merging them into Basics, you can have unoptimized max tier gear pretty quickly when you hit 65. Also, there will be no Weekly Comm cap anymore, so you can grind as many Elite and Ultimate comms as you want when 4.0 hits!

Mind Crush: If you can learn to start at 9.99m and move backwards to 10m for Force Pull, you can get tons of Threat. It's hard to do though. Shadow Strike: Use it to replace a Double Strike in your rotation when it procs. Spinning Kick: don't use it to open, or nearly at all. use it like a Stun if you need to stun a trash mob.

I just use a standard UI that I use for all my toons. Also, stop taking Snap Shot people... It's 100% useless. It does not increase your DPS by anything, all it does is increase your APM, Also you don't start with Snipe in the proper opener. Proper MM Opener: LT + Orbital > Ambush > Buffs + Cdart > FT > Pen Blast > SV + FT > Pen Blast > Rotation So, you are wasting a Utility Point by taking Snap Shot.

Annihilation - Low Duration High Damage DoT spec. Has a long buildup time, and before 4.0 a really long rotation, but can deal great damage. They are a paper tiger though, and can go down with some moderate burst Fury - Burst DPS. You can get some sick 14k chain crits in PvE, and in PvP too. Medium defences. Carnage - Hybrid DPS. You have lower Burst than Fury, and lower sustained than Annihilation. but you also have the most defensive capabilities. And you get free 100% Armor Penetration during your Burst section of your rotation, so you can boil tanks through their Armor.

Gotta learn to Cleanse yourself when you get rooted. Most Sorc Roots are temporary though, Chain Lightning has a 1.5s Root. Also the Counterstrike Utility in the Masterful Tier makes it so that when you use Countermeasures you break all Slows and Roots. And our new skill in 4.0 will have a Heroic Utility that allows it to be used while Rooted, and it will Purge all Roots, Slows, and Snares.

The Negation of damage roll is only for Scrapper. As Ruffian, you get a free instacast Kolto Pack after rolling on a ~10s ICD. For your utilities... Well, the Dulfy Disciplines thing is not up, so IDK what Utilities to take... I don't remember them off the top of my head, especially not in Scoundrel terms...

IO Merc severely outparses Arsenal merc on both the dummy, and bosses like Bulo where you can stick on one target 100% of the time.

You must either Spend 200k to get Legacy Field Repec, or go to the Skill Mentor (they are on the Fleet in the Combat Training section, or somewhere on Drommund Kaas or Coruscant.)

We have nothing that isn't datamined. You can look into the datamined stuff though. The set bonuses are not changing at all for 4.0, so that's good.

I don't see the point in leaving a Warzone. It's not like you get nothing for losing... You still get Credits, Comms, and Valor (and EXP if you are <60) it's just less than winning...

Replies in Bold. Concealment will get a pretty good buff in 4.0, so just wait till then. You will get 5% damage on Laceration when Acid Blade is on a Target (auto-granted by Backstab now) and Holotraverse is a godsend.

Level Sync reduces your Stats and actual level to the Highest Level for that planet. But you retain all of your skills. So, as a level 60 Merc, I will still have Mag Shot when playing IO, or Blazing Bolts when playing Arsenal.

Don't look at the Dulfy guide. it's kinda crap. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=785291 this is a much better guide.

I would say that it is also a byproduct of the Republic Side being rushed in the dev cycle of the game. They develop everything for Impside, and rush the Pubside. playing a PT isn't anwhere near as boring as a VG.

Annihilation is getting a major buff in 4.0... No more are the days of Leaping Backwards when fighting the Core in Revan. We now are going closer to our roots as a DoT spec with low duration high DPS DoT's. And the Swift Demise change is pretty nice, because it grants us another new filler that deals decent damage. Vicious Slash can hit for like 6k-7k Crits.

Tactics Vanguard is one of those classes that uses one attack as main filler. That is Tactical Surge. Assault Plastique and Stockstrike are your high damage skills, and HiB is your main builder for Energy Burst. You build up to Energy burst, then you let it fly for 15k+ crits at level 60. You also always want to put Gut on your target before you start laying into them, it's a free 3% damage buff that gets refreshed each time you use HiB or Sticky Grenade. Sticky Grenade does not quite deal enough Single Target damage to be placed in the Single Target rotation, but it's really close, like 5% more damage would make it Single Target viable.

Edit: Ok, a quick google search later makes my post really stupid. Wow...

Consular Story: This one was pretty much the most rushed story in the game. It's an unfinished story. Inquisitor Story: Actually pretty good. Animations: Sin>Shadow You will want to do both classes eventually, because if you complete all 8 Class Stories, you will get a neat little Icon next to your character name on all toons signifying you have done that. And you get all 4 class buffs on all toons.

Interesting, Did you somehow end up taking the Neutral option in the Jadus encounter? (There's an option to make Jadus just leave. It's a very specific combination of options, and so it's rare to do) My Neutral/Light Sniper got 3/4 options (Take for self, Give to Ardun, Break) I know you can only get a max of 3, but in all reality all 4 options (Take, Give to Ardun, Break, and Give to Empire) should be open at all times. You could say as a Light agent, that you were double crossing Ardun when you give it to the Empire. Or the other way around as a Dark Agent.

I'm gonna roll a Sentinel or Sorc. I don't have a 60 Sorc, but I have a 50 Sage, so there's that. Sentinel would purely be for PvP, since I have a Marauder already for PvP.

I main a merc, so I can input on their effectiveness. Leveling: Not really sure, I level in a Duo with my dad 99% of the time, and when I leveled with his Sin tank on my Merc Healer, it was piss easy. that was back in 50 cap. I did recently make a Commando to level 60 with him, but that was still piss easy. I will say that without Treek you probably can't solo Heroic 2+'s. Dailies: Never do dailies anymore since I have 192 SB gear on all of my raid toons. Last time I did them though, it was piss easy, even with HK as a Healer Merc back in 55 cap, i could solo most Heroic Dailies (Oricon Daily specifically) Ops: This is an area of experience for me. Mercs are *********** AWESOME in raids. You can output metric F-Tons of damage, and you can even save a tank here and there with a quick Emergency Scan. You also are pretty versatile for each boss fight type, for bosses with next to no Target Swapping, you will want Innovative Ordinance, and for bosses with high Target Swapping, you want Arsenal. I'd level as Arsenal, and learn both at 65. You could also use your free 60 to get a Merc and learn from there. PvP: Merc PvP is difficult. Electro Net is not on a low enough CD to make a it a large threat, and you don't have any Anti-Focus tools. So it's burn or be burnt for Merc PvP.

There are no tips for PvPing with a regular keyboard and mouse. Find yourself a Steelseries Merc Stealth on Ebay or some other place, buy it, no matter the price (they are out of make now, so might be a little pricey) and begin to dominate the inferior scrubs that don't have one. Your alternate option is an MMO Razer Naga.

You will want to turn on Detailed Tooltips. It will make your gear show the actual stats that it contains. Before you start trying Hard Mode Flashpoints. You will want to obtain these things. Relics: Purple 186 Crafted Relics for DPS you will want Serendipitous Assault and Focused Retribution. Implants and Earpiece: 190 Ziost for your class Normal Gear: 190 Ziost for your class Mainhand and Offhand: 186 Hilt/Barrel and 190 other modifications. General: Read the Dulfy guide for your class and have a general grasp on EVERY HM 60 fight (an I mean ALL of them. You will get kicked out of PuG groups if you don't know how each boss works, look em up on Dulfy if you don't know how they work.) Role Specific: DPS will want to obtain 100% Melee/Ranged Accuracy and 110% Force/Tech Accuracy.