So I'm doing my daily on my brand new level 11 Guardian and its Huttball. I've targeted the enemy ball carrier when I realize I'm on the vent. I realize this because I'm now flying through the air trying to orient myself while spamming Force leap. Next thing I know, there he is just before the fire near our endzone and I've come flying in like a boss. One master stroke later, killing blow (total props to the mara who was beating him down before I arrived but still, I was laughing like mad).

Nice vid Jack.

I got to about the 6th page middle (taris) before I absolutely had to close the window ( RL). Love it. I'll try to finish catching up later.

Didn't I respond to this? Was that in Jugs?

Thanks guys.

Must have posted this right after I got off youtube, going to watch now.

So, I've hit 15 with my mara and I'm not sure about my play. What I'm tending to do now is force leap in, Rupture, Battering Assault, Force Scream, Viscous Slash (most solo enemies are dead now with Vette shooting them). Then I'm usually going to Assault spam. I'm in Juyo form if it matters. I hit 30 fury really quick but don't pop beserk to much as I only have Rupture for bleeds and the creature its on usually dies to fast. Any thoughts on how I can do better?

Well, I was thinking more about it killing the target but if the number is truly that close, watch out mom, here comes the vibro mara.

OK, that's what I thought. For PVE that would be fine but when your looking to burst someone in PVP, wouldn't it be better to have that higher max crit potential, in the moment (I also recently started playing D2:LoD agian while waiting for my computer that can run SWTOR to finish being put together, and there, max damage seems to be king offensively [along with Increased Attack Speed] and SWTOR seems to have everyone stuck at the same GCD/attack speed)? Or is that just gambler's fallacy (I think I recalled that right)? *Edit* I know I'm going beyond the needs of the OP. I'm trying to convince myself its OK to actually do a vibroblade warrior to be like the darksiders that turned Ulic Qel Droma in the KoToR comics (who used an ancient alchemically forged Sith sword that could withstand lightsaber attacks). Because I'm probably going to be doing a lot of PVP with the alt, I would like my arguement to be destroyed. Thanks.

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Can you direct me where to find the numbers? I ask because I haven't really done CRPG number crunching and I am literally coming from doing 4E D&D DPR* calculations (I normally don't like math but that really attracted me for some reason). While that calc is different from SWTOR due to base damage being maxed prior to crit bonuses from magic weapons, even without magic bonuses, the difference (though minor) between a 1d8+1 vs 1d10 weapon was noticeable. I'm guessing SWTOR just modifies the normal damage roll by the crit damage multiplier (seems to be ~50% on my current toon) but that was why I was guessing that the glowstick has a higher max crit damage. * Damage Per Round, the expected damage a character will do with an at-will attack every round based on normalized at-level target defenses and accounting for critical hit percentages, etc.

While the average damage is the same, I'm not sure how crits work in the coding and that gives me some concern (also, lightsabers have a higher crit max damage (due to higher max damage) would be my guess) so that might skew things upwards slightly for the glowsticks.

Uh, avi be hawt. Looks nice.

+1 Seriously, this isn't rocket science. Organized Disciplined groups beat disorganized undisciplined groups, that's been a fact of warfare since oh, the Romans at least (Macedonians before that?).

As someone who primarily queues up solo unless my friend who got me into the game is on, can I just say I find Doomsdaycomes posts to be reasonable and correct? Unfortunately, as often in life, it seems that being right is not enough, people want to get something for nothing (why should I work for it, I deserve it, give it to me for free. That guy over there didn't really work for it, it was handed to him by his friends). I never thought I'd post this in an internet forum as it goes against my idea of basic politeness but my God! QQ more please.

I forgot to say thanks didn't I. Thank you guys for your responses.

Hm, I seem to be way undercommed. (I also went straight to Nar Shadda instead of Balmorra, didn't understand that it was not giving me a choice) so I'm doing the balmorra quests right now. I do have a modable lightsaber and chest piece at the least. I have 22 DK coms, 2 Nar Shadda coms and some Balmorra (less than 5? I think). I also seem to be leveling way fast (maybe the days I just did my warzone dailies so my wife could use the game comp for school). I'm also getting lots of rest xp which may be hurting me. Hjalti's skills are biochem, diplomacy and the biochem gathering. I don't have an artificer, synth weave or cybertech yet.

My main character right now is my level 22 Juggernaut and I think the highest level piece of gear I'm carrying right now is around level 15 (except for the level 23 gloves I got from my last wz daily). I bought a full set of social gear from a vendor but I can't figure out where to get the mods for them for my level? Nar Shadda? the Global Trade on Fleet? I'm concerned that this is affecting my performance. Should I be trying to farm npcs on Nar Shadda for coms? Is there a guide I should look at? Do I even need to worry about this pre-50?

I have this crazy idea for a "lightsaber smash face spec" that mainly uses Force Charge, Obliterate, viscous assault and sundering assault with force screams who goes 4/24/13. Probably suck but preliminary results have been fun (way pre 50 though).

OK, now I feel like a moron, went from Kommund Draas to Nar Shadda, not Balmorra... GRR. No wonder I'm having trouble soloing.

I wish I could just link the original article (much shorter) that was first brought to my attention back when I was playing LoTRO when it first came out. Its very illuminating if a person is willing to recognize the mental barriers that frequently make up accusations of 'cheap'. I had the same block in a card game callled V:TES because I liked playing combat decks which are the hardest archtype to win with.

Honest opinion, I'd probably be angry if I fell victim to it but I'd say more people need to read Sirlin's Playing to Win (available for free online). What they are really saying is they can't lose gracefully to a better player. Don't sweat it man.

Wife's on the computer with the game, so I might be off a little but I'm at about level 19 on my Jugg and I'm having some trouble with rotation and I'm looking for a little theory craft help. My talents are all across the board, I've got 2 each in the free force scream, both sundering assault abilities, the ravage ability and the smash ability right now. I usually PVE jump in, scream and start SA/Assault and then scream/visicous slash/smash as appropriate (usually have issues with my overlevel friend facerolling everything before I can really establish my rhythym). I try to pop Ravage if it seems it will hit all three hits. In PVP, this is causing me some issues as good players seem to be interrupting my force charge or knocking me straight back out again (or force choke, etc). I'm wondering about running in, using SA/Assault to build up rage for burst, saving the force charge for the knockback/runaway and burst with scream/VS/VS ? Is trying to stack those sunders worth it? I've been able to get Retaliate off occaisonally, is it worth it? I'm not good at number crunching and working out rage to damage ratios and when its best just to try to spam massive damage as fast as possible...

I at least, am not joking in this thread. I hope you won't take this the wrong way but are you completely unfamiliar with (among other things) almost all vampire paranormal romance? Same thing, just a little cruder (won't get into people who like vore, that's a whole other kink).

Hey guys, just want to say thanks for all the advice and help. Been playing a lot of my toons with my friend who got me in the game and that kind of robbed me of the messing around by myself but my Jugg is at 15 (?) and my mara just broke 11. I'm messing around with keybinding and hope to improve there (doing it just before my first warzone on my mara was perhaps not my best idea lol). It is kind of ironic that doing my heroics on Korriban was easier solo with Vette than with my friend. ;(. She was mowing stuff down, got to remember to keep her appropriately geared. I hope that trend will continue. My pvp play seems to be improving as I get familiar with the warzones and how the toon plays. I'm missing my free force screams post force charge on my mara (got used to them on my jugg). I guess the double saber hit makes up for it. Jon