I dunno if we're still posting due to that glitch and whether it's been fixed, but here's a new parse: Eliende, Combat Sentinel 3045 I'm not entirely sure what the glitch is, but one of my relics is the clicky-power, so I think that avoids the glitch?

Eliende BAM! 3015

Just got my 72 hilt. Preliminary parse. Eliende Guild: A Murder of Crows Combat Sentinel 2934

Eliende Combat Sentinel Guild: A Murder of Crows 2851

Eliende (Combat Sentinel) Guild: A Murder of Crows 2719

Got a slightly better parse today. Eliende 2638

Eliende Guild: A Murder of Crows Combat Sentinel 2569

Yes, it is feasible. If you do lots of dailies, you will have rakata implants/earpiece, campaign relics, and (close-to) tionese everything else. This is enough to stomp storymode ops. Storymode ops can get you full columi, which is enough to get through Denova and TFB. It's feasible, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it.

Yup, your reason for stopping makes sense. And handling the interrupts is truly irritating. And it should have been in the patch notes. And they shouldn't be changing the encounter at this point anyway. You were just making it sound like this change made the encounter much more difficult, which is really not true. The change is very very manageable.

Seriously? Guilds which had this encounter on farm GAVE UP when faced with these new changes? We haven't even beaten the encounter: we came back in here to try to get our first kill, and ran into the new mechanics. It took us about 3 attempts to work out a reasonable strat, at which point we stopped wiping on this phase and continued to try to finish the encounter. Tank+sentinel on 1: no calibrations get off ever. Three dps on 2: no calibrations get off ever, and they move over to 3 when theirs is dead. Tank on 3: 2-4 calibrations on this one, depending on how the tank+healer combo was doing on interrupts, before the three dps move over and destroy it.

You won't go wrong with either strength or power, but strength is (supposedly) slightly better for all attainable levels of strength. You are very strongly into diminishing returns for surge, so you should not put surge on any of your augments. For theorycrafting, check out sithwarrior.com.

It's definitely there during combat (I think sprint just overwrites it outside of combat, rather than stacking). The speed increase is most noticeable when running away from enemies: I feel so *slow* on other characters.

Don't be silly. If you pair it with strike, you get 2 focus back, so it only costs 1 focus total. The damage for riposte + strike > slash. So it's better than slash.

Remember: it's off the GCD, so you can pair it with a strike. Add up the damage for BOTH strike and riposte, and it costs you a measly 1 focus total: this will come out on top of a slash, so it is well worth it... until you replace slash with something else (such as 31+ combat).

There is a 75% chance your tick will NOT crit. So there is a .75^4 chance none of your ticks will crit. 1-.75^4 chance that at least one tick will crit (about 68%).