I understand how the clipping works. Looking at your #1 parse Elitran, some of your clips are .2 seconds after the last tick. Some are faster. That seems reasonable and is what I usually see. But somehow Kishekzun is clipping at .002 or .003 every single time. That's 2 or 3 thousandths of a second. Not tenths or hundredths. Doesn't seem possible to me.

How is Kishekzun able to clip ravage exactly .002 or .003 seconds after the last tick every single time? Looking at his log, I can't touch his APM because of that.

I do the same thing as Macio and go with 4 accuracy and one augment. I tried it with 5 accuracy at first but that dropped my crit multiplier by 2% which I didn't like. My highest parse has come with the 4 accuracy/1 aug setup.

Improved mine a bit so I'll post it. Pernimius - Juggernaut - Vengeance - 4/36/6 - 4'50.794 Log Link: http://www.torparse.com/a/552637/time/1389732514/1389732804/0/Damage+Dealt AMR Profile: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/7aeb3a90-10c4-4d8a-b2f4-05efdd4014e0

Pernimius - Juggernaut - Vengeance - 4/36/6 - 4'50.794 Log Link: http://www.torparse.com/a/552637/time/1389732514/1389732804/0/Damage+Dealt AMR Profile: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/7aeb3a90-10c4-4d8a-b2f4-05efdd4014e0

So here is what I found: After practicing clipping my ravages, my typical APM has gone from 35 to 35.8, with some as high as 36.2. Before, my most common parse was about 3150 with 3255 being my best. Now, almost all of my parses are around 3250-3300. My best was 3379.9 dps (4m56.137sec on dummy) and it had 36.06 APM. So I can say with confidence that just clipping the ravages has added 100-120 dps to my parses. Next is to try a few crit enhancements. I've been running all power up to this point because I run rage spec on 8 of the hardmode boss fights and don't feel like swapping enhancements everytime I respec. Thanks again for your help Lordbadtamaru

Pernimius - Juggernaut - Vengeance - 4/36/6 - 4'56.137 Log: http://www.torparse.com/a/535375/time/1388429864/1388430160/0/Overview AMR Profile: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/7aeb3a90-10c4-4d8a-b2f4-05efdd4014e0

Pernimius - Juggernaut - Vengeance - 4/36/6 - 4'56.137 Log Link: http://www.torparse.com/a/535375/time/1388429864/1388430160/0/Overview AMR Profile: http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/7aeb3a90-10c4-4d8a-b2f4-05efdd4014e0

I think you are right Lordbadtamaru. I went back and looked closer at Kishekzun's parse and he is definitely clipping his master strike/ravage early. Comparing his log to mine with no clip, it appears he saves about .5 to .6 second every master strike. Since the top parses have 18 or 19 master strikes, that's roughly 10 seconds of time he saves by doing it, and that is more than 1 APM for sure. Now I just need to test and determine if clipping is possible for me without losing that last tick. Thanks for the info.

I've been doing some parsing and comparing to the top vengeance parses from the 2.4 dps leaderboard thread. I top out at about 200 dps lower than the top parses. When I look at the rotations and how hard their abilities are hitting, I'm doing the same thing they are. Then I noticed the APM number on their parses. The top parses are all at 37 APM and mine are almost always 35. When I parse, I always notice substantial animation delays, and sometimes get that bug where the global cooldown triggers, but the ability doesn't happen. I know 5-6 months ago, my ship wasn't as laggy when I parsed. My ping is very stable and stays at 48ms, so I really don't think it's my Internet. Also, when I look at those top parses, they all show up in French on torparse. Does that mean those people are on European servers, and perhaps they are more stable? I'm on The Shadowlands in U.S. So is it likely the lag I experience on my ship is causing the reduction in APM and is there anything I can do to overcome it? I guess I could try a parse in the middle of the night when nobody is on and see if it makes a difference. I already have my ability queue set to 1 second in my preferences.

I don't agree with that statement at all. I have top level gear and parse about the same on the test dummy with both specs. Occasionally when I get lucky with rampage procs and crit rate on ravage, shatter, and impale, I do about 50 dps more in vengeance. But more often than not, my crit and proc rates are low and vengeance is lower. I'll take the consistency and aoe of rage. When my group started hard mode Fortress and Palace, I was running vengeance on all fights because that's what I've played for the past year. But it didn't take me long to figure out most Palace and Fortress boss fights have either adds or require on-demand burst (clock phase on Brontes, challenges on Raptus, etc...), and for those fights rage is better. I just run rage on all the fights now.

Though I have a 55 assassin, I rarely play it, so I won't comment on that class. My main is a dps juggernaut. Jugg is a lot of fun and in rage spec you can put out a ton of aoe with smash. There's nothing like that feeling of leaping into a trash group of 4-5 mobs, doing one smash, and they all die. Single target, both assassins and juggs are near the bottom on the test dummy dps leaderboard thread, but I've found that jugg dps translates well into operations because most of the fights in Fortress and Palace have some adds. I think your choice should come down to whether you like the play style of a stealth class (assassin) or want the huge aoe burst potential of rage juggernaut.

PERNIMIUS - 0/10/36 Rage Juggernaut 3210 dps Used the 1,000,000 health and armor debuff modules.

I think some people use the 4 piece Eliminator merc set because the 4-set bonus is the same and then you don't have to worry about the 2-piece messing with your explosive fuel / boundless ages timing. And if you use legacy armor, then you can mail the set back and forth between your PT and your merc, if you have one.

I ran a rich lockbox slicing mission today and it still gave less in credits than the mission cost. So that is not fixed apparently.