Yea lol, I agree. I found a parser to use. I come from an elitist guild in wow , we used to raid hardcore and was always in contention for world first clears. I understand where people come from, because Iv seen people called out for not doing dps when they was clearly doing well in other areas. But I am going to be honest, the guild I was in, even though we might have been server first and hardcore. We never treated anyone badly, we understood that DPS meters is just a tool, and in the end, its a great way to have fun and do checks for gear. I'v seen people come in with great gear and pull 50% of the dps they was capable of and then on top of that, stand in crap and die, not cc, etc.. You have to take the dps meters at face value, they are a tool, nothing more. They can be misunderstood and used to blame people for a groups shortcomings, but I would never use like that. I just enjoy knowing my own dps, and work on rotations to maximize my class. I have always been and will always be a Min/Maxer and very competitive, I enjoy playing every class the best possible way I can. Its why I play.

Just curious, Im back after 9 months off from playing, looking forward to having some fun solo'ing and what not. Is there anyway to monitor dps yet? I know before there was no way, and it kinda bummed me out. Dps charts I know are not that important at times, but they are very fun to me though.

Thanks man , appreciate the info. I remember switching to watchman from combat way back when, loved them both, but watchman was better I thought. Is there any way to monitor dps now?

Hi, I played all through beta and leveled to 50 with my sentinel after first month game came out, then I took off for personal reasons and then never came back. I am itching to get back and play some now but after logging in and looking at all the changes I am little confused. Can anyone tell me how the current state of the Class is? How are the three talent trees now? Are they more viable now, less, any suggestions, info would be greatly appreciated. Popular builds, trends, whatever I just like to know whats going on, anything to help me catch up. Thanks in advance.

I used combat to 30 and watchman to 50. I have used both at 50 for massive amounts of time both pvping and pve. I have to say for me that watchman is just better. I find myself surviving longer and killing stuff faster. Utility like improved force camo and zero range force leap are also great. The elemental damage is extremely high and I just found myself doing much better. I think both are great though, I just give a slight edge to watchman, just my opinion.

All things equal, gear,skill, etc... Then I would say yes, for sure. If played correctly and well you will see Sentinels dominating everyone in pvp. I have huge success with my Sentinel, I get allot of people sending me tells asking me what my spec is and how I score so high allot. I think it surprises some Sentinels.

Sentinels are fine. I one shot Angral and although I felt it was challenging, it was not hard. I had friend in guild playing Sentinel after seeing how much success I am having and he was struggling badly on Angral. I told him I would help him out and he said his gear was fine. I took a look and his hilts was level 24 and Kira's gear was all less then level 20 mods/armoring and hilts. So I hooked him up with 2 blue hilts and some blue mods and armoring from commendations and he was able to go through and one shot Angral at level 31. I did it easily at level 30. It only gets better from there, through the 30's I solo'd heroics and champions and take out multiple elites withouth ever slowing down to rest.

I would not admit that you have friends who are not very good who blow you away in dps. Whats they say for you? I have friends who are super good and I out damage them with my sentinel. I consistently dominate with my Sentinel, and I have high level alt's so I know how good all the classes can be. Sentinels can easily hang with any other class, easily and well.

I look at it this way. There are a few abilities that I would use first but after that if it is up I use it and if I have only 3 focus then I will use riposte and a strike to generate some more focus. This way you get damage from strike and riposte for only 1 focus cost, all rolled up together in the same global cooldown. Yea its nice.

Sorry you feel that way. Even though you may think this, i would totally disagree. I have a level 50 Sentinel, level 50 Gunslinger and level 44 Commando and Level 41 Shadow. I have to say my sentinel is still my best class. Can non stop chain pull mobs, solo heroics and never had any problems leveling. I never had problems with any of my classes, but specially not with my Sentinel. I do extremely well every match in pvp and I do just as much damage as my gunslinger with the same gear, only difference is as a Sentinel, I can chain pull groups of mobs without every having to slow down. Sorry you are having problems but it is definitely you that needs fixing, ... not the class.

Ok, good. Its just frustrating having to press an ability 3-4 times and still not have it fire off. Glad they are aware, this should be fixed soon, its kind of a big deal.

I have been dealing with this issue for months now. I know you are probably aware of it, and I see you addressed the issue with abilities being delayed, but what about abilities not working? I have this issue as well as several guildmates. I will force leap in and press say Zen and it want work, or rebuke, or any random ability. It will not work until I use another ability first. Sometimes I try using the ability 2-3 times before I realize its not working and have to use another ability, wasting 2-3 global cooldowns. Its very frustrating and happens almost every single pull. I have put in tickets about it before as well as guildmates, I was just hoping you guys are working on a solution.

Im thinking of trying a G13 because it looks nice and has more keys then n52te. I currently have been using a N52te and have to say at first I hated it. It took me while to learn to use the thumbpad to move instead of wasd keys and I bound the finger keys to 1-12 and this allowed me to have about 50 buttons mapped right to my finger tips, without ever having to move my hand an inch. Now I can't imagine using a keyboard again. I love my n52te so much, it has made me a better player too. You can set keys up to turbo and you can make macros. For instance on my sentinel I bind the force leap button with my overload saber and they both fire at the same time when I press it. You can do allot of really cool stuff with them. Hope this helps, feel free to PM me for more detailed setups.

Sounds like you know what you like and thats good. I was just giving Dominion my opinion which he asked for. I personally had a much easier time leveling as watchman then Combat. Having zero range force leap among other things just makes it so much easier to level in my opinion. Not that combat is any harder, no Sentinel should be struggling at all leveling.

If your combat and you hit 40 it gets better yes. The question you should be asking is it as good as watchman? I would say a big fat NO! I was combat to 30, ran watchman to like 42 and then tried combat and was amazed how much worse it was then watchman. Where I was able to easily solo heroics and take out 2-3 elites at once without dieing, I was struggling as combat and dieing vs the same mobs. I think combat might get better at 40 , but I still think it needs some buffing to be as good as watchman is.