Any form of aoe is already weak on AP and from my testing all 3 aoe abilities have a similar damage output. I am just asking for Thermal detonator to provide aoe damage like shatter slug while the retaining the main damage for the focused attacked mob to stay the same for role playing reasons. A free shatter slug damage ( applied only to non direct attacked mobs ) every 15 seconds will not make not make AP op.

I finally got Fanged God form to see how carnage compares to Fury/Anni. While my end dps is 20k or a bit higher for both Fury\Anni carnage was floating near 18k and even dipping to 17.5k from time to time. That is quite a nasty gap. This was on a 3.25 mil dummy.

For daily heroics: Nothing beats Pyrotech. I love how I can gather 15 or more mobs in tattooing heroics and melt them.The high aoe damage and carbon stun results in everything being killed before Kontor overload is finished.

My experience so far with unranked pvp is whichever team has the most operatives wins.

Currently TD is a single target ability. For role playing reasons can you please give it aoe damage or maybe even bake shatter slug into it? You are throwing a bomb after all.

I am sure powertech is in the top 3 dps spot if not #1. Advanced prototype being better in single target and pvp while pyrotech becomes the leader in the slightest hint of taking damage or aoe situations.

Had my real 1v1 encounter with the operatives today on my AP PT, couldn’t kill him no matter what I did. Also the stun followed by the heal while eating away chunks from my health was shocking tbo. I can understand that you may be good at survival, healing or dps and maybe at two things......but not everything!

Any new deception parses?

There are a few things you can do on the dummy that you cannot use in real encounters like how some Annihilation Marauders gets an unlimited buff or some sort , your dps meters from bosses should matter. Dummy parsing is a tool that is for YOU to compare rotations and equipment ( e.g. alacrity vs critical enhancements ) Also do not forget the items that are sold next to the dummy to apply armor debuff and limit your dummy’s health.

This is exciting, I’m hoping that VR AP will be the go-to single target dps spec now.

With how bad PT’s survive at pvp, if anything we need even more dps buffs for them.

I am all for redistribution of damage if it will make deception competitive in pve parses.

Returning to Swtor after Warcraft, I find the game GREAT! The story is very well written, gearing is easy and fast which makes you do harder ops for the challenge, the customization and role playing is crazy good, the classes are interesting and there is a good amount of both solo and group content to keep you occupied.

http://parsely.io/parser/stats For scaled content look at 3.25 million, for 75 content look at 6.5 million. This should give you a baseline on how X class should perform but remember the type of the fight makes a huge difference in Swtor ( St, Aoe, Can you take damage?, melee fight, ranged fight, static fight, mobile fight, fights that are drawn out, fights that require burst...etc ) I personally play Powertech and so far it has not disappointed on the meters.

How about if energy shield heals you while your being hit or the first 6 seconds? I know it would work even better with AP but then again it is supposed to be the pvp spec. Speaking strictly pyro ( or even AP at half the cooldwon) reactive healing or 6 seconds every 120 seconds would be a great defensive boost.