I'm in the same boat as the OP, I wanna tank in pvp, guard nodes, run the ball, and protect others. I run with a sorc healer partner and cant quite decide if I wanna run the hybrid spec, but I'm leaning more towards the 31/6/4. Then there is the gear... do i get war leader or vindicators. I'm not too worried about dps. I'm 33 right now and have bought the level 40 tank gear. I picked up the pieces with +def on them, but the ones that had shield/absorb on i took the dps gear. Still up in the air about the lvl 50 gear though.

I was wondering the same thing. Why would I want this if its so much easier to get better items. Its not moddable, correct?

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dont be at range, get closer to the boss

I should be social 10 by now but I gain maybe 4 pts a run. Im almost social 3.

I was hoping that with the Ops boss lockouts that I would be able to enter someones new Operation group and help out that group as well as the one I just finished. I would be able to tank for them but I wouldnt be eligible for loot because I already killed those bosses in the previous Op. Currently you can only enter in another Op if you havent completed one, and the new Op is at the same boss you left off at.

Onyxia is using deep breath more too

With the 8/8/25 spec would it be worth it to go 5/11/25 dropping the 9% Aim and picking up Power Armor and Gut? Power Armor may help out the healers a bit, but can Gut make up for the 9% Aim loss?

an update to my previous post: I respecced to assault and went back out to the Quesh world boss. It seems tactics isnt that far off. I got the boss down to 79% same as with Tactics. The assault spec didnt really seem to have a rotation of sorts, more of a whack-a-mole, hitting things as they popped off cooldown and keeping dots up. So to me it seems the specs are about the same with dps done, but tactics really needs to stay on its rotation, where assault can skip around a bit more. Or I just suck at dps and need to stick with tanking.

I want to like deep Tactics but the damage just isnt there. I seem to have gotten a good rotation down, [sticky nade, flame pulse, gut, stockstrike, hib], then ion pulse with hammer shot weaved in if I dip low on ammo, until the abilites get off of cooldown. At 5 stacks of pulse gen I toss in pulse cannon. This is along with using battle focus and relics. It feels like Im waiting on cooldowns most of the time which makes it kind of boring and you dont want to get it out of order cuz then it screws up the cooldown timers making it more like whack-a-mole, disrupting the synergy. I noticed during a hardmode run that we were actually running into enrage timers with a group that normally does them fine. I am normally the tank, but I swapped with one of the dps who wanted to try out tanking. I went out to the Quesh world boss and set a 3min timer, got him to 79%. A lesser geared assault spec vanguard was with me and got him to 80%. I had 800 more dmg, 50 more bonus dmg, 3% more crit. If we were equal geared she would have done way more than me. I am going to respec to assault and see how I do. Will update afterwards.

You get two stealth moves, one for damage and the other to buff your stealth. Cover has more abilities that require cover. That is why you do not need a stealth bar.

had this happen to me but once i used diplomacy it was fixed

Happened in normal mode for my group. It kept cloning the smuggler gunslinger, so we told him to not enter cover and then it worked as normal.

I like that I can see when High Impact Bolt is available, but dislike that all my abilities seem ready when they arent. I'm assuming the change was, at least partially, made to help you see when an ability procs. For those types of situations I would rather have the ability's button border glow yellow. Even better would be to have an icon popup overhead like Power Auras(WoW) did or a proc toolbar like Rift had.

The MVP award is just for someone who you personally thought did well during the match. Each award basically gives out a bonus medal for extra valor/comms/xp. Its not necessarily for the 'top' guy, and there is no 'winning' MVP. Everyone who gets MVP award gets the bonus, not just the one with the most awards. Give it to your friend, some guy who you was defending, the top guy, the low guy, no one... its all you're preference. The system is fine and working as intended.

The MVP system isnt to award the top dps/healer/tank. It is to provide an additional bonus to someone who helped you out personally, or who you thought did a good job. There isnt one MVP, each vote just adds more valor/comms/xp just like medals do. If I thought the top healer did an excellent job, then maybe Ill give him my vote, or maybe the level 20 who stuck by my side and healed me the entire time will get it, or even the person who capped a turret while I tanked the 2 guys guarding it and pulled them away from the controls.

I almost rerolled because I didnt want to have to complete the mission. more below: I love Jaxo.

If I Guard my companion and engage in some open world PvP, will the enemy player and/or companion cause the 50% damage transfer, or is it only if Guard is placed on another player?

Its not game breaking so its not high priority, but I'm sure its on their list of things to add soon.

OP didnt vote anyone for MVP

The game does pick the MVP already, its the medals you earn playing the warzone. The player voting is just a little something extra.

there are only 2 abilities that require stealth and one is just to increase your stealth. Its not needed.

Neural Jolt is your taunt. Stockstrike is a big hit which means more aggro.

That was old beta info, keep Underworld Trading