diamount Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Hello, I am seriously struggling to fight two strong mobs in the mission Timely Arrival and with no CC to speak of except cryo grenade it means I have to rely on Elara to keep me up.. but she does a horrible job in doing so, even when I'm using ion cell it does not help. My talents are like this http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#801hMhZMsZr.1 Should I just stick with shield specialist for leveling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phixler Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Not sure what level you are, but I can blow through tons of mobs at a time with Elara and only have to rest when I'm out of ammo. I don't use any CC and use the shield spec that boosts shockstrike. The only issue I have is sometimes not paying attention and having a gold/silver aggro Elara...but that's my own laziness. I'm level 47 and pretty much free farm anything including group bosses. The only mobs I can't kill are the group bosses that are ranged because I can't kite them....though sometimes using LoS I can beat them too. I leveled to 35 as full tactics and had absolutely no issues either. Not sure what to tell you, I'm assuming you are very low level maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamount Posted January 5, 2012 Author Share Posted January 5, 2012 Just to clarify, are you a shield specialist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phixler Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 (edited) http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#801hRGodRboMZrsMZbc.1 That's my current build, I am building for PVP though as I do alot of PVP. I use DPS gear, DPS generator, DPS mods/enh etc. On minion mobs I can 2 shot them with shockstrike+ HIB. With this spec Shockstrike procs Ion Cell Dot which auto-enables HIB. Edited January 5, 2012 by Phixler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmsileo Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Respec, why are you splitting your points up like that? You're 27 so you are missing either a) smoke grenade, b) gut or c) Incendiary Round. Pick a tree and stick with it. Those skills are important to proc HIB (well not smoke grenade, but ion cell DOT in shield is) . I personally went Sheild till 37 and went armortech to make my own gear. When running with Elara I had no downtime and could solo boss level mobs (the white star, not the yellow ones) with to problem, though it took a little longer. At 37 I switched to Assault to try out a dps build and something different for PVP, way less survibabilty so it was more difficult but still very doable and a lot of fun in PVP. Way less of an in your face style, more kiting and in and out play. It sounds to me like your doing it wrong. If you can't survive, switch to full shield and it will be way easier. Use stockstrike to proc your ion cell, then use high impact bolt and then sticky grenade whenever off CD. Use hammer shots in between attacks to conserve ammo and elara to heal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilrys Posted January 5, 2012 Share Posted January 5, 2012 Are you using Riot strike? Interrupting Key abbilities like the sith caster mobs "grasping something" will negate most of their damage. And while it dosn't say so it's acctually of the GCD, so you can always use it and don't lose more dps then the 1 ammo it costs. (at least I think it dosn't say so) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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