I've had a lot of practice placing it, and I do generally get 3 for 3 currently in ops, though sometimes timing and mechanics do not work in my favor depending on the fight. I do run the 36/8/2 spec currently as well.

I am a primarily PVE sniper who has always played Marksman, even when it was the less then ideal spec, and prior to 2.0 I always ran with the 2 piece PVE and 2 peice PVP set bonuses, using PVE armourings in champion armour pieces from before the bonuses were moved to the armourings. This is no longer possible as the set bonus was actually moved to the armourings in those items (I have 2 skill 26 armourings with PVP set bonuses on them oddly enough now). I've never seen huge value in our 4 piece bonus, I don't have any particular energy deficiencies provided I keep my rotation steady and line my cooldowns up right. Unless circumstances prohibit I generally use OS more or less on cooldown as my rotation allows which means the two piece bonus manages out to between 2600 and 5100 damage on the extra hit or about 60 to 120 dps per target. so what I am wondering is, is it worth pursuing two conqueror's armourings, which equate to a loss of 54 armour, 20 cunning and 10 enduarnce each, in order to gain the 2 piece bonus, none of the sniper oriented posts I've seen mention doing this but I can't be the only one considering it can I?

Lets start this out by saying I play a PVE Marksman sniper, I do not PVP so I can't really comment on that aspect. 1) in FP and world content we're regarded as a very powerful and useful spec, one shoting weak or standard enemies, burning through strong enemies in a couple of shots and taking out large groups of enemies with an orbital strike. OPS groups are starting to see us as less and less of a resource they want to have though, we do good dps, but it seems everyone else can do it better now. we are quickly being passed by Lethality snipers, and even engineering can do the same or higher then us now. 2) I chose sniper to play a hard hitting ranged combatant and Marksman is fun to play, but now that armour reduction debuffs aren't terribly broken, because being able to negate 100% of armour was broken, we find our damage being over mitigated compared to other classes. I greatly dislike Lethality, I've never liked DoT classes, and really don't want to play it, but I keep being told by more and more people that I'd "be better" if I respeced. I think that our spec has too many things that focus on defense and not enough focus on increasing our shots damage.