Marqhill Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 I currently have a Tactics Vanguard that I've been levelling for a while. I was originally levelling as Assault but I just got sick of the swarms of Assault Spec Vanguards that popped up in the past few months. They're just everywhere so I wanted to do something different. A lot of people underestimate Tactics just because Assault puts up such a high damage number at the end of every war zone and that's apparently all most people care about regardless of how useful you actually were during the war zone. In any case, Tactics has actually been extremely fun and very VERY useful in war zones and actually does some solid AoE and single target elemental/internal damage. In any case, who else is excited about the buffs for Tactics? After having studied the class and practiced with it for a bit I came to the conclusion that the bulk of the damage in this class comes from using Gut to snare you target and get the auto-critical hit proc on HIB, then spamming Ion PUlse to build stacks of Pulse Generator and then blast everyone with Pulse Cannon which is pure elemental damage. The buff to pulse generator is really going to smooth out the DPS rotation for Tactics in addition to getting a 10% damage buff on pulse generator. Now that Pulse Generator gives a 20% damage buff per stack and stacks 3 times that means it only takes 3 Ion Pulses to get the full bonus from Pulse Generator which is now 60% instead of 50%. I'm hoping to see a few more Tactics Vanguards like myself in PvP after this buff. Is anyone else excited about the changes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NurseDonut Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 I'm pretty excited about it! 10% less damage when stunned, 30% less AoE damage taken, 10% more damage on a maxed out pulse cannon, and only two ion pulses (after fire pulse) to max out said pulse cannon. What's not to like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keypek Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Yep, will be changing to it as my primary spec once they make assault useless against good pvp players. Than all the bad pvpers can whine about all the tactics and AP VGs/PTs when they switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DacRycar Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 My only issue is still with the clunky Gut ability in the tree. I may use a NORSE build and avoid taking or using Gut (the damage-to-ammo ratio is atrocious). While I'd love to have Hold the Line, my issue with this tree is still the lack of burst damage to kill healers. Even with Assault's current change, within 10 meters, that burst will still trump the sustained and enemy-healer-friendly damage that Tactics puts out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaoticDynamite Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 I'm very excited to see this buff I'm currently am using tactics and cant wait for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnanika Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 You switched specs because you didn't like being the spec everyone else was, and are now excited that tons of people might be switching to your spec? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marqhill Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 obviously not everyone will be switching to it. I'm just looking to see if some other people will be playing it just to add some variety to the game. I think there might be MAYBE 1 tactics vanguard at level 50 currently. Although I'm not sure I've seen him. There's like 30'ish assault vanguards. I would just like to see a few more out there because it's a fun and interesting spec. But there's plenty of people who will probably be looking to do the huge damage number so assault isn't going anywhere. I just figured i'd ask! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DakoHawk Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 Not overly excited, since i run 31/10 and the snare is taking a hit, that and cryo gets nerfed. If they bumped up the proc rates on the free shockstrike and the HiB proc, and gave the tactics tree a snare that wasn't 30% for 6 seconds and requires 4 meter range, i would be more excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNegotiator Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 I played tactics for a long time and liked it a lot. Having 8 seconds of no snare/no root/no knock back just takes your survivability to a new level. I was sick of getting snared/killed while running for health packs in civil war (hello saber throw)...a tactics build solved that problem. Want to score goals in hutt ball? Take tactics. You will also put up high dps numbers as fire pulse is wicked. The onlyh downer is gut which requires close distance and costs too much power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegraywarden Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Yes, I'm looking forward to playing Tactics again after the update. But in my mind this spec is still very odd. Does anyone else find it weird that for a spec with insane mobility, it's main damage dealer is a move that requires you to stand in place for 3s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SajPl Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Yes, I'm looking forward to playing Tactics again after the update. But in my mind this spec is still very odd. Does anyone else find it weird that for a spec with insane mobility, it's main damage dealer is a move that requires you to stand in place for 3s? I would love if they reworked it to make explosive surge like rage spec smash. every 20 seconds you build a buff that makes your explosive surge hit for 6k ... then again i think tactics is in a good place everything else you can sue on the move. Maby it would be worth giving hold the line total cc immunity for the first 4 seconds though, being stunned through it is kind of meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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