Personally, I would put points whever you want (crit is nice at low levels) until lvl 20, then respec to get sucker punch in Scrapper. From there, use Theran Cedrax from the time you get him and keep going scrapper. Bowdaar or corso are also nice if you want to kill a little faster, but don't mind stopping to rest a few seconds between fights.

I go back and forth on this... Right now I'm using 1x BM relic and the matrix cube since I have a hard time giving up that 72 extra cunning. It is really nice to be able to hit 2 relics only 3 seconds apart, though... so it will come down to preference.

According to BW, that will delay the next GCD. Thankfully our class doesn't have any animations that I know of which have that issue. The worst one I've seen is trooper mortar volley... the animation goes for almost a second after the channel is done.

It's definitely worth keybinding every ability you use. Try expanding your current keybinds and using modifier keys like shift and control (both for keyboard and for mouse buttons). I have 36 abilities keybound for PVP with a few that I swap out for PVE-only (to avoid 40+ keybinds) and use every single one of them over the course of a warzone.

The animation for back blast is less than 1.5 seconds in duration and the global cooldown is 1.5 seconds. You are not getting a longer delay between abilities than anybody else. You may come from another game (like daoc) where animation time is quite literally the delay between attacks, but that is not the case here. You are waiting precisely 1.5 seconds after hitting the ability before the next one can begin, whether the animation is .1s or 1.5s.

KO still allows the longest actual stunlock in which we can deal damage by opening with back blast into dirty kick, then a vanish > shoot first when they come out of the stun. Regardless, losing KO isn't going to bother me too much. It's more fun when they fight back right away.

Yep. Most noticeable with back blast. You will see the enemy's health go down the moment you hit the ability, way before the actual shotgun blast goes off.

You can get them in champion enforcer gloves/helm, some columi level items... I got 3 of the ones I have from the gunslinger offhand weapon that drops off last boss in battle for ilum hardmode.

Nothing better than taking those pesky sith droids out of the fight in warzones.

This is very close to the common 23/18/0 and 23/16/2 hybrid builds. Works great.

Once you've played the same game for 8+ years and they never update the UI/controls/camera and such to the much more fluid options in newer MMOs, you feel the need to move on. That's how it was for me at least. I would still take daoc over this game any day, but every time I log on to play I am tired of the archaic interface within minutes.

I've done a few hardmodes with only myself and 1 other scrapper for DPS and we never once ran into an enrage timer. Considering the enrages come pretty quick in this game I don't think our damage output is horrible. I do think R-DPS like slinger/sage/commando will beat us out on most encounters with less effort, though. Pretty much every class has to use a low energy or energy regen ability between heavy hitting attacks to keep their resource up. Scoundrel isn't special in this regard.

You guys can of course do what you want, but I am not lying when I say I've never had a tech attack resisted with only 51 accuracy rating that comes on the BM earring. http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii144/sparks03max/stats-1.jpg Just trying to help here... Said about all I can say.

Eh don't know if this helps. Full BM except for 2 slots, all enhancements replaced with 23end/34power/48surge. I regularly get 7300-7800 on champion level geared DPS assassins and sorcs when their bubble is down with a red buff or expertise adrenal + power relic.... Was also getting 10k crits before consumable stacking nerf. http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii144/sparks03max/stats-1.jpg