Also aoe threat is not about using your aoe spells to hold threat. You have to swap targets to use your different singletarget threat moves. If you are only using sweep and cyclone you are doing it wrong.

How did you manage to beat the very powerful emperor? If you payed atention to your chapter 3 story, where you stopped his efforts at killing an entire planet 3 times you will know why. He used his energy to give his pawns power (you clearly see this on Belsavis when the non force users can draw from the emperors power) and he was in a weakened state. This was actually why you lead an attack to dromund kaas aswell, since you knew he was weakened and might be able to beat him.

Companion heals got a cooldown. When he got no heals to cast he will shoot. Doc doesn't equal "allyourbasesarebelongtous".

Here is my tip: try 2 levels with vigilance and 2 levels with focus. Decied which one you like the most, and play that one.

While cover is not acting like I want it to at times, gunslingers are very good in pvp. You can't charge into an enemy group and expect to do something useful. Place yourself tactically, far away from the fight, and use your cooldowns properly. You also have alot of tools for a 1v1 battle, and as dirty fighting I can kill any other class without too much trouble. As a sharpshooter I get owned by mercenaries since my interupt won't interupt when I tell it to. If you think our damage is low do this: Flourish shot - illegal mods + trinket - speed shot - rapid fire - speed shot - speed shot - aimed shot -trick shot. Any non tank class is dead by then.

I am pretty sure it's like this: Say both teams get down the 2nd pair of gates, but nothing more. Team 1 got the 2nd pair of gates down when it was 1:53 left of the game. Team 2 got the 2nd pair of gates down when it was 1:03 left of the game. Team 1 wins, since they managed to do it first.

There is no reason NOT to take Plama Brand. See some math below. All math is asuming a surge rating of 75% and 25% chance to crit. Plasma Brand: 1,5 sec cast time 2240 damage. Now asuming a 75% surge rating and 25% chance to crit. 1773,33 dps. Overhead Slash: 1,5 sec cast time 1640,5 damage + 391 from the dot (Burning Purpose). Now asuming a 75% surge rating and 25% chance to crit. 1608,27 dps. Master's Strike: 3 sec cast time 2796 damage. Now asuming a 75% surge rating and 25% chance to crit. 1106,75 dps. Blade Storm: 1,5 sec cast time 1545 damage. Now asuming a 75% surge rating and 85% chance to crit (because of Force Rush.) 1686,2 dps. Since the dot from talents is not benefitting from the extra crit I'm adding that here: The dot does about 245 damage, making it: 1880,53 dps This damage is not accounting for the fact that most of Plasma Brand, and the 2 other dots ignores armor. Since Plasma Brand has the highest damage dot it benefits most from that. As you stated; with proper talents Blade Storm is you second hardest dps ability. That does not mean you should skip Plasma Brand. It only costs 1 more focus then the rest of them, has a higher dps then Overhead Slash and deals most of it's damage as elemental damage. If you skip Plasma Brand for any reason, you are simply gimping yourself. With a lower surge rating than 75% Plasma Brand will also be closer in damage to Blade Storm. I cba to find the exact number right now, maybe I will later. Bosses also got armor reduction, further reducing the damage of Blade Storm while only reducing less than half the damage of Plasma Brand If you follow the rotation in my guide, focus will not be a problem at all.

This is by no means true. I used kira all the way to level 41, since things died far too slow (in my opinion) with doc out. The extra few seconds you have to rest, you gain by killing things faster. However using kira ment I would be tanking most of the mobs, and once I hit belsavis mobs started hitting so hard, that I got low on every pull. I started to test out using Lord Scourge instead, since I had leveled my gunslinger to 50 using a tank companion without a problem. Things got alot easier. When you mount up, your companion is dismissed, and then instantly resummoned when you dismount. I don't know if this is intended or considered an exploit, but I've been using it to "heal" my companion fast. Lord Scourge also uses the same gear as you, therefore it's not hard to gear yourself, him and a 2nd companion up through quest items. I would guess t7 would work just the same, I just didn't like him pulling things away from me (him beeing ranged). Using a tank companion also makes elites very simple. You basically "trade" who tanks the elite, like let your companion tank untill he is at 40%, then you taunt. When you are at 40%, and the mob is not dead yet, your companion simply taunts back. This way you can minimize the time spent healing back up after combat. Where you make sure both of you take about the same amount of damage. Companion tanks don't have the armor boost normal tanks use, so they basically take the same damage you do in your heavey armor give or take. They do gain the shield boost, but don't have as good gear as you so it evens out. As for Lord Scourges damage, he's not as good as Kira on single target, but he got a really nice aoe. I never used t7 so I can't speak for his dps. As people have stated, Doc is probably the easiest companion to go with, but all companions are absolutley viable. The 2 reasons I droppe Doc was his comments here and there, which were far too arrogant for my taste. And as I said the fact that his dps sucks, him being a healer.

If you don't want to rest, don't tank. Use a tanking companion and spec dps.

You can get the 2.5k medal from a vendor med pack.

Remember this is test server patch notes, nothing is final:P

FYI this is from the TEST SERVER patch notes. Meaning that they are going to TEST them. TEST SERVER patch notes, are never final in any game.

Force charge = passing to yourself. Not really an issue if you have a good team.

Until you get speed shot and trick shot, charged burst is what you will use most of the time. Also make use of sabotage charge.

Kira got better dps, atleast singletarget. For leveling I would recommend using Scourge if you are vigilance/focus and kira if you are protection