I've played an Assassin since launch, and on a 1 vs 1 scenario, I'd say the melee vs range isn't so much a problem. So many ways to counteract their moves. If they knock me back, I can force pull them to me (also counts as an interrupt). If they knock me back again, I use force speed to catch back up to them. If they stun me, I use the CC breaker. If they stun me again and get away, I'll Jolt(interrupt) them from a distance if they try to use their powerful channel abilities. If all else fails, I can cloak assuming they don't have a DOT on me, which makes them untarget me and I can catch back up to them. Keep in mind, that's how I counteract them if I'm on the defensive... If I'm able to go on the offensive, I can do some of the things: I have 3 stuns/knockbacks: electrocute, spike, and overload. I make sure I have my relics on and procs ready and use my heavy hitters. I have two snares, Wither and Force Slow, cooldown like 12 and 8 seconds I think. I alternate between the two and the ranged dps really struggles to get away from my melee range. If they snare me to get away, I have a force lightning that has medium range DPS and snares them too and plus heals me. Assassin has a lot of tools to beat ranged DPS and didn't even mention them all because I don't want this to be a TL : DR. I'd say the hardest duel for an Assassin would be those that can heal fast, especially melee healers. Ranged DPS/healers are easier because they are too busy running away instead of DPSing me or healing themselves. EDIT: The biggest thing I can say to all melee combatants is to use SNARES!!

5 ways to get champ bags: Ilum pvp daily: 1 bag Ilum pvp weekly: 3 bags Warzone pvp daily: 1 bag Warzone pvp daily: 3 bags All available in the combat training area at the terminal. 200 mercenary 200 warzone commendations: 1 bag Retrievable from any pvp vendor in a warzone or the pvp vendor next to the pvp terminal. EDIT: I guess I misunderstood the question. With the new changes. I'd probably spend the centurion comms on the cheap relics, impants and stuff, and use the champ comms on the set gear pieces.

I leveled up as a deception assassin, and it sucked. As soon as I went a into darkness and madness, it was all gravy. When I first started the game deception seemed bad ***. Like you said though, it turns out they are super duper squishy. Then again, I was using surging charge, which only adds a tad bit of damage to your abilities. If I went full deception again with dark charge, I wonder how much more viable it would be? Not sure. I wish Bioware would leave the class alone as is, because the hybrid builds are quite viable, but not overpowered. I'm actually liking it after respeccing like 10 times.

I've never had this happen to me, yet I see so many complaints. The only time the warzone wins don't count towards my dailies or weeklies for me is when I join a game already in progress. Otherwise, I never had any issues. At any rate, hopefully Bioware will look into this.

Stopped watching at 50 seconds. 1. Cutting and putting together your best kills is lame. Don't do this. Give me a whole warzone video please. 2. Second clip I saw in the chat "Warzone shutdown has been aborted" when you had a full team. That means the other team probably had 4-5 people, putting them at a severe disadvantage. So that frees up people like you for deathmatching. Not fair. EDIT: 3. Crappy music. Come back again with a better video please.

I'm up to 58 bags, I have one Champion Bracer and one Champion Boots for champion armor. Sure I got the crappy relics and and implants, but only 1 piece of set gear (bracers not part of set) out of 58 bags????????????????????????????? I'm also up to valor rank 56, 100% done in warzones. Yet I see people with valor rank 30 with more champ pieces than me. While it will suck to see everybody in battlemaster gear, at least I'll be on equal level to those who exploit or are just simply lucky and have outgeared me. With my crappy centurion gear, I still hold my own pretty damn well against those with champ and battlemaster gear. Valor 60 can't come soon enough...

I've seen the lagswitching thing, didn't realize it was a hack. I don't see it often because I'm on an RP server. Also Republic side seem to have found lots of exploits anyways to keep them entertained in voidstar. Also I've seen a turret in civil war get capped while no one was nearby. I didn't see the repub until after the turret was capped.

I was the 11th person once, and I've seen more than 11 on a team before too. It's definitely bad coding. Not like I tried to make this happen. I probably could repeat it if I tried, but I'm not like that, plus the chances of me being in the OPS group is slim so it's not worth it. That and we're always starting warzones with 6 people anyways...

1. Champ Bag system is a joke. 58 bags here and only 2 champ armor pieces (1 being a bracer). 2. Ilum, what a joke. 3. People still cheating on Voidstar. 4. No outlet for deathmatchers, so objective players have to deal with them. 5. Starting matches with a partial team. 6. No penalties for leaving warzones early. Even just a 30 minute no PvP penalty would solve a lot of issues and not punish people with urgent issues.

I'm not enjoying. I'm the most gimped assassin because for the life of me can't get champ gear. I've opened up 50 bags and have not gotten any armor: Helmet, Boots, Legs, Chest, Gloves, Waist, Bracers. Sure I can get relics, implants, and offhand(focus). But that crap is easily replaced by other means. But yea, 50 bags - 0 champ armor.

I'm up to 49 champ bags now, and I still haven't received any champion set gear!!! That would include: Helmet, chest, legs, gloves, and boots. Waist and bracers would be nice too, but I can't even get that. All I get are relics and implants. Before I leave the thread allow to repeat: I've used up 49 champion bags.

I came directly here to put in my QQ... Since I've started the games, I've opened up 47 bags. 4x relic 2x ear 2x implant 2x saber 1x offhand 0x boots 0x legwraps 0x handwraps 0x robe 0x bracers 0x waist 0x helmet 47 bags!!! Somethings got to change. Constantly I'm seeing newer 50s coming in and getting better gear than me within a couple days. While I have been at it for over 3 weeks. Basically no set gear at all. Just all the cheap stuff. The saber blows because it doesn't have 2 main attributes I want plus it doesn't have modding slots.

Centurion and Champion gear sucks. Battlemaster actually has some decent gear I was willing to go for. Unfortunately I lost the will to get there. 1. Repubs are rolling Imps every single match, which gets very tiresome. 2. Half the matches we don't even have a full team (even though Imps outnumber Repubs like 3 to 1). 3. I really don't like the idea of getting gear by luck of the draw. Out of 40 champion bags, I've gotten only implants, ear, and relics. I've gotten 0 boots, gloves, helmet, legs, chest. Do they even have unassembled pieces for the bracers or waist? 4. Ilum is a ghost town in our server. No one gives a **** about it.

I was thinking of making a thread about this myself. Out of 44 bags I've gotten: 3 relics, 3 implants, 1 shield generator, 1 saber (36th bag btw). The problem with this is: I'd rather have gloves, boots, chest, waist, bracers, legs. So of the 6 things I've been wanting, I've gotten a big fat 0... out of 44 bags !!!

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