khsolo Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) Just asking cause i dont seem to find anything definite about any spec for pvp unfortunatelly, any help is appreciatted it Edited August 13, 2014 by khsolo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aetrus Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'd recommend Assault for solo queue and either spec works for group ranked depending on what your team wants. Same for regs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khsolo Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'd recommend Assault for solo queue and either spec works for group ranked depending on what your team wants. Same for regs. Why assault over tec? any special reasons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LanceCorporalDan Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) Assault has much higher single target burst. Simply put... The dps is amazing. As well as some nice perks in the tree such as reduced damge and reducing cooldown on adrenaline rush, less dot damage, lower cd for reload. Only drawback is it isn't too durable outside of adrenaline rush. And you can find yourself low on ammo it you aren't careful. Tactics is much more fun to me. However the single target dps is much lower. It makes up for this with greater aoe pressure from pulse cannon and much much better resource management. It also feels more durable thanks to talents that reduce CC, and harpoon cd. Extended hold the line, and damage reduction from aoe and while stunned. Another drawback is the dps takes a considerable amount of time to wind up, but once you get going it runs very smoothly. Whereas you can easily jump into your rotation and dish out high dps much quicker in assault. IMO tactics takes more skill to squeeze out it's full value. But an equally skilled player can do amazing things with assault. So both are very viable and it really depends if you want high single target burst... Or good aoe pressure with consistent single target and more utility. Edited August 13, 2014 by LanceCorporalDan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khsolo Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Ty very much friend cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaos_KidSWTOR Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Tactics takes much more practice to get good with in PvP, while Assault is very easy to play, and easy to master, literally all you should have to do is Assault Plastique > Incendeary Round > Stockstrike > High Impact Bolt > Ion Pulse > Ion Pulse and most people will have died. Tactics though has more PvP oriented talents like Stablised Armor which reduces AOE Damage AND damage while stunned both by 30% and when you get stunned that means you take 60% less AOE damage but more than likely not a full 60% i dont know how the multiplication on that works, but i dont think you would take a full 60% less AOE Damage. Tactics has severely less damage in Single Target, but it has boatloads of AOE damage to compensate, in PvE with not great gear (like 1 - 2 180's and Set Bonus 162 gear) my Flamethrower with 3 stacks of PFT deals in the 7k - 8k range depending on Crits and such. also Tactics has more Shoulder Cannon use so you will want to delay both your Pulse Cannon and Shoulder Cannon missiles till you have Battle Focus up if you need high damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDraxter Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Tactics takes much more practice to get good with in PvP, while Assault is very easy to play, and easy to master, literally all you should have to do is Assault Plastique > Incendeary Round > Stockstrike > High Impact Bolt > Ion Pulse > Ion Pulse and most people will have died. that rotation is flawed stockstrike 100% procs High impact bolt, you should use High impact bolt(beforehand) > Stockstrike >(proc) High Impact Bolt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TACeMossie Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 that rotation is flawed stockstrike 100% procs High impact bolt, you should use High impact bolt(beforehand) > Stockstrike >(proc) High Impact Bolt This statement is incorrect, stockstrike has a 60% chance to proc HiB Unless an Ion Pulse has been used since the last Ionic Accelerator proc has been consumed, in which case it is boosted to 100%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaos_KidSWTOR Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 This statement is incorrect, stockstrike has a 60% chance to proc HiB Unless an Ion Pulse has been used since the last Ionic Accelerator proc has been consumed, in which case it is boosted to 100%. Yep, though i do admit that i did have a semi-flawed rotation, i should have put a HiB before the Stockstrike, but also i dont play Pyro that often at all because Retrac Blade and Immolate are so ****** that i cant stop playing AP, that and i hate the heat managment for Pyro in PvE, PvP it's ok, but i dont PvP at all anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDraxter Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 This statement is incorrect, stockstrike has a 60% chance to proc HiB Unless an Ion Pulse has been used since the last Ionic Accelerator proc has been consumed, in which case it is boosted to 100%. i stand corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OniGanon Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Particularly in 8v8 Regs, people (your target, their healers and tanks) don't really seem to react much until they see health bars actually going down. Hit them with IR > AP > Sticky and they may not care because you've done basically no damage yet. Then you hit HIB and AP explodes at the same time. Then you hit Stockstrike and trigger your Plasma Cell while Sticky explodes at the same time. Then you hit them with another HIB if you got the proc, or IP > HIB if you didn't, and all the while three DoTs are ticking on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom_VI Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 This statement is incorrect, stockstrike has a 60% chance to proc HiB Unless an Ion Pulse has been used since the last Ionic Accelerator proc has been consumed, in which case it is boosted to 100%. As an aside, I really wish BW would fix the tooltip to represent how the talent really works. I hate having to explain to people how the talent really works. Particularly with commandos as getting them to stop trying to proc HiB with FA is a uphill argument. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayshames Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 As mentioned already... both are perfectly viable for PvP. Assault feels like everything in the tree is focused on pumping out damage. Tactics has some nice survivability and 3 stacks of Flamethrower on a group and crits is extemely enjoyable to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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