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  1. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#501bcZ0MZGbRrdrMdGR.1 This is my build. Although, you can vary it a bit from this. And some focus sentinels have different builds. Basically, you can afford to take points out of pulse and blade focus and allocate them elsewhere. You don't really need stagger b/c most times in pvp you will be using FE or leg slash which will slow your target well enough anyway so that the extra root second isn't necessary. Dual wield master is pretty much unnecessary in most specs. Although, I suppose you could debate that.
  2. If you're fully buffed in an ops group, and you crit it will heal for 3.5K. (Second wind, that is). But, yeah, other times it will regularly get you healed for 2.5k plus.
  3. Focus is fine for pvp. Some will tell you that the only way to go is watchman. That's a fine argument, but it's not necessarily true. I'm a 50 sentinel War Hero. I have about half BM gear. I do very well in warzones. I'm consistently at the top or slightly behind the top of damage charts, getting 7-8 medals per game. Some of that may be due to gear, but I was getting 5-6 medals and placing in the top 5 in damage before I was BM. I use this rotation: Force Leap>Exhaustion>Zealous Strike>Force Sweep>Slash>Zealous Leap>Force Stasis>(Force Sweep or Dispatch)>Slash>(repeat, replacing FL with ZL if attacking a target in close quarters) The basic point of your rotation as Focus is to hit your force sweep so that it maximizes damage. Get the autocrit proc from FL or ZL. Then, build the 25% damage increase from FE/FS. Then, hit Force Sweep. Then, start building your procs back up, using slash as a filler. You can spec into slash so that it crits basically 50% of the time. So, most times it will do 1.5k per hit. Additionally, Second Wind is a nice skill to have, and it regularly heals me for 3.5k, which is usually enough to put me over the top in a tough fight. You can also throw in Pacify and Riposte at the beginning of your rotation if you're dealing with a melee dps. Similarly, your bladestorm will usually crit if you're specced into inreasing force critical chance (which you should be). SO, you can hit that if everything is on cooldown (shouldn't happen but it might). All that is situational though. It's a bit harder to kill healers as Focus spec than Watchman. But it's not significantly more difficult. Focus seems to have a little more burst, and a well timed, fully prepped Force Sweep with an adrenal or relic active will be more than enough to finish off most healers. It's just a bit different b/c you really have to rely on out-damaging the healing as and using your interrupts wisely as opposed to basically spamming interrupts as a Watchman. Also, 1.2 is giving Focus a buff IMO. Zen is now going to serve the same purpose as FE or FS. So, that'll mean higher damage output than the currently already high dmg output (my opinion).
  4. This. For Focus spec, the merc speced healer is killer. I've heard people complain about sorcs, but with my focus spec, I can demolish sorcs 1 v. 1....most times I can take a 2 v. 1 if my defensive CDs are up. I find with the merc specced healer you have to get them down to maybe 25-30 percent health and then you MUST use crippling throw to get the heal debuff. Then set up your force sweep and hope that 3.5-4k crit gets him down enough to finish him off with dispatch. It'll always be a close fight, but if you mess up on your rotation, you will lose most times.
  5. Honestly, I've heard a lot of people say sentinels are underpowered. I used to think so as well. But I looked on the forums and I saw that a bunch of people attested to doing well with the class. So, I respeced (from combat to Focus), geared up a bit more, revamped by rotation/hotkeys, etc. Now, I'm killing it, and I can definitely say that sentinels are NOT at all underpowered. If anything, if you play them right then sentinels are almost too powerful. I'm consistently ranking 1st 2nd or 3rd in every warzone, getting 6-7 medals per game. It's a somewhat complicated class to play b/c you have to depend on procs and understand your focus buildup and know when to activate your defensive cd's.....but it's really not underpowered There's enough people on these forums saying that their sentinels are awesome to indicate that the class is solid. If you don't believe them, then I don't really know what to tell you. Just keep working at it.
  6. Force Sweep is only useless if you go Combat or Watchman. It's insanely good if you go Focus spec. So, if you really want the aoe...then respec I'm giving 3.5k+ to multiple targets in WZ's everyday with force leap. It just depends on what your play style is. And trust me, sentinels are NOT underpowered...if you think they're underpowered then you aren't playing it right...
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