I am echoing what others are saying about letting DPS just handle strongs/weaks HMs. If I have two elites, Whirling Blow, Slow Time, Breach and alternate Projects and I have no problem holding aggro and that is with two comparably geared Troopers as DPS. More than two elites, CC. Do I loose aggro sometimes? Sure I do, at which time I taunt and everything is fine. I also use two purple DPS relics, the Power one from Taral V and a crit/surge one (not sure where I got it) which I use whenever they are off cooldown along with Force Potency. So unless I really **** up or am not paying attention I never loose aggro on single target fights. The only real complaint I have is DPS that refuse to kill the strong/weak targets before moving on to elites. We have a guild Sentinel that refuses to do this no matter how many times he is told. Now that annoys the **** out of me something fierce

For the time being your best option at 50 is to grind PvP to get the offhand. Fortunately the change to Champion Bags makes this fairly easy to do.

I enjoy my Commando in PvP quite a bit. I am currently at 35 valor and have a mostly Champ and Cent gear. For PvP I float between Assault and Gunnery. Assault is mobile and DoT heavy while Gunnery has the ability to put out some nasty burst in the span of about 5GCDs. Your AoE is second to none, Sticky Grenade > Tech Override > Plasma Grenade > Mortar Volley, making you probably one of the best door guards in Void Star. You also have some really good utility as well with Cryo Greande, Concussion Charge, Concussion Round. You have ok heals for emergencies, and a good 25% damage reduction bubble with Reactive Shield and a decent self-HoT in Adrenaline Rush. On a good team, you can easily top the damage meters. I have done over 350K in a single Void Star.

I don't play Infiltration, but from what I gather you are supposed supposed to wait until you proc Find Weakness before using Shadow Strike. Are you doing this and still finding Shadow Strike lackluster?

You should try Kinetic. H2+'s are cakewalks! I thought my Gunnery commando had an easy time leveling, my Shadow puts him to shame.

So much this! This was true on my DPS Commando (now 50) and is true for my Kinetic Shadow (currently 30). My Commando is a Cybertech, and even after pimping Forex out with every blue part I could make, supplemented with slotted gear, he would still come out of simple fights at 1/2 health if I didn't take time to heal him during said fight. I can't see ever using anyone but the healing companion. I'd rather fights take a little bit longer using a healer than having to recover after each fight while using a DPS/tank companion. Shorter fights versus no downtime, I will take the absence of downtime every time.

Well, I played Gunnery for 20ish Valor ranks from 45-50 and, honestly Assault, for me at least, feels far more effective in PvP. Gunnery only shines when no one notices you

I generally don't post epeen crap like this, but I wanted to reassure all my DPS Commando brothers and sisters that you can do decent DPS in PvP. FYI, I only have 181 Expertise. Voidstar Stats At this point our premade was 9-1

^^^^^^^^^ But be warned, once you do you won't be able to play anything else I started as Inf and respec'd to Kinetic at 20 once Kinetic Ward was reachable. I tried out balance afterwards for a bit and went right back to kinetic. To me, the slight gain in killing speed was not worth the much greater loss in survivability. YMMV.

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I have a Naga and Logitech G13 Gamepad which both support macros, but I really don't see the need to marco any of the abilities thus far. Maybe High Impact bolt procs? Though, those relatively easy to keep track of. Is there anything specifically that you are having issues with? I am genuinely curious as to what you need to macro?

Got the idea from a guildy I'll start. Medical Probe: Bubbles Adv Medical Probe: Nina

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