That was my initial inclination as well.

So, I've noticed a trend thus far in my armortech: The pieces with the most endurance will get schematic upgades for blues that have damage boosts (like crit). The pieces with the most aim will get schematic upgrades for blues that have defense rating. Now, this seems a bit backwards, since my primary instinct is to stack endurance as a tank. I wonder if that's just a fringe bonus, or if the loss of endurance and gain of aim is worth it if you get defense rating. Is there a consensus yet as to whether sacrificing endurance for defense rating makes sense? Otherwise I'll need to make the piece with most endurance first, then go about making the one with more aim and reverse engineering until I get the defense rating pieces, and then using those.

Thanks, that does help. And I definitely do use the second bar, but just got freaked out because you get a whole lot of stuff really fast (faster than I was expecting I guess). re: Pulse Cannon Info Thanks for that too. Glad to know it can have a spot on the secondary bar. (for those times when its wind-up animation doesn't make me crazy)

That makes sense, and I like the cannon for the dps it puts out at the start of a fight too. Definately a shift+2 or something like that.

So, after getting my vanguard training, I was faced with an action bar with far too many abilities to comfortably use, and I'm only level 10. After doing some poking around, I've come across advice that once you go vanguard, you can safely drop the following off your primary bar: Explosive Blast (better alternatives) Full Auto (channeled) Pulse Cannon (channeled) Does this seem about right to folks? The two channeled abilities make sense to me to move off the main bar since they can only really be openers due to their being interrupted after you get aggro. I can see explosive blast as an option as well since it is very close to Ion Pulse. Am I making sense? So far I'm relying on stockstrike, ion pulse, sticky grenade, and hammer shot for most of my dps, besides the occasional proc of High Impact bolt.