I, as a Shadow, personally use a combination of BM Stalker gear (for the higher DPS), and 2 pieces of Survivor gear for the shorter cooldown on Spinning Kick (which is our knockdown). It seems to work pretry well.

I don't see any mention of DOTs only in that statement.

True, but previously you had to **** to somewhere safe to do it...from what I read here, you can just hit it right in their faces, and they can't interrupt it. I plan on doing it first warzone I get in lol. No s sherlock...I suppose I would have had to phrase it exactly....OK...pop stealth, unpop stealth, and then hit meditate immediately....happy now???

From the patch notes: I can already see Shadows/Assasins being low on health, hit their escape/stealth to get out of combat, and then immediately hitting their meditation before someone can hit them...would be rather frustrating to see them go from almost dead to full health without you being able to do jack squat.

I've been wondering this myself. According to the patch notes: I didn't see it on any vendors on Hoth (cantina or other). Something they missed in the release???

Here's the deal: You can buy one champion bag before you turn 50, and have it in your inventory (the ones you can buy are unique). Save up 1000 of each warzone and merc commendations. This will allow you to buy 5 additional bags (200/200 each bag). So, when you ding 50, you can open 6 Champion bags right away. If you get your daily Ilum and WZ done that day, you can open 2 more. If you are lucky enough to get your weekly done as well, that's 2 more champion bags (with the option for a 3rd or a battlemaster bag). I wouldn't worry about Battlemaster bags yet, as already stated, the grind from 50-60 valor takes awhile. Yes, you can get battlemaster bags from Daily/Weekly. You can also buy battlemaster earpiece, and implants for warzone/merc commendations off the battlemaster vendor. All the other gear takes battlemaster commendations, which you get randomly from the BM bags. BM bags normally give you 15 champion commendations as well.

Who dictated that PVE is the "intended" mode of play? Sure the storyline and missions are a useful tool to level a toon, but from the perspective of a pretty avid PVPer on a PVE server, I have to say that is a pretty ignorant statement. PVP, I have found, is also a great way to level as well (and get credtis, gear, etc.). To blanketly state that PVE is the "intended" mode of play is wrong....but I digress. I disagree that they should remove Expertise from PVE servers. I worked my butt off to get Battlemaster. I'm not going to stand by and have them nerf my gear just because someone who thinks PVE first doesn't want to face me in a WZ cause I have better gear. They can work at it like the rest of us, and get their gear up to par.

Gear Grind

ROFL well said...syntax for the WIN BABY!!!

Here is a simple solution to the issue of warzone match wins not counting towards daily/weekly (still though it is 2 patches since they supposedly "fixed" said issue): warzoneWins++ There you go...one line of code. Live it, learn it, love it...and EFFING Put it in the game already!!!

/uninstall life

Antares

Yes...as many as it takes until they realized how badly they F'd it up.

But, was it intended to lose credits every mission??? What's the point of having a skill that you consistently lose money on, with no reward whatsoever? At least with regular crafting skills, you can sell your product, and make money that way. Slicing was for pure profit in the form of credits without the BS of crafting items, and putting them on the GTN. Now that you lose money damn near everytime you send your guys out..... In summary, what's the point of a pontless profession?

So far, pretty good. Can hang with almost any enemy....with the exception of when you run into a gang of 3 or 4 Sorcerors sithing hard. They perma-lock you and burn you down slowly while you want to punch your monitor in frustration. That lightning gets downright annoying at times...and since we have to close the distance to actually take em down, it makes it difficult if you can't move While you can usually use force of will to get out of one, they will just stack it on ya and laugh while you burn. On the topic of openers - I usually use Force Breach. Follow that up with double strike, saber strike, double strike, and project (once you get the 2x circling shadows buff) in quick succession....rinse repeat. Oh btw, force stun is your friend too....and mass mind control if playing team based (for the dmg debuff).