I see, thanks.

There is a point in talking about it though, I made this post to hear other peoples opinions and learn some of the math behind it. So that I could eventually formulate my own opinion on it. I don't have the comms (or w/e they are called), nor the credits for it to be reasonable for me to try both low and high alacrity setups. And I didn't mean any disrespect, I just couldn't see why you needed to mention that you can top dps or w/e. You coulda just said that it was your opinion. Either way I am not looking to debate, I am looking for advice (there is already enough debating going on in this thread anyway).

@WayOfTheWarriorx Now I didn't actually read your entire post, it's a bit long. But I think the TL;DR is to have a more modest alacrity (~703)? With the Mara passives exactly how much lower than that can I go? Personally I always preferred lower alacrity anyway, as the spec already have me doing enough rapid button mashing. @DavidAtkinson Top 3 dps isn't really that impressive, even with no alacrity I can do that most of the time (if I am trying to do dps). I appreciate the advice, but I am not sure what point you're trying to make by saying you can top 3 dps.

Aight, I might just do that, thanks for the advice.

I am not particularly worried about the current stage of how good/bad a sin is, that is why I am also planning on maining a marauder. I play mostly regs and the occasional solo ranked (as I don't currently have a guild, group ranked is out of the question anyhow). But based on what you're saying I think I am gonna stick with 703 alacrity with my sin then, thanks again.

I see. Thanks for the advice, so 1860 for my marauder. But what about my deception sin? I have never worried about alacrity on my sin before preferring the higher burst over slightly faster gcd's. But then again I haven't played in a while.

Right so I just came back to this game after a long break, and I heard that alacrity has gotten alot better though I don't know to what extent. So currently I am maining a deception sin (High Power+Crit+5% Accu) and my old Carnage Marauder I am looking to get geared soon. Only problem is, after having a break for so long I have no idea what my stat priorities should be. So exactly how much alacrity would you suggest for those 2 characters?

I have only just come back to the game myself (about 1 week ago), but which lies are you referring to? I don't seem to recall that BioWare has at any point even made more than a few vague references to pvp, none of which can classify as a lie. To me pvp seems much as I left it, just with less and less need for actual pvp gear. I can really only see that as a good thing, with the removal of pvp gear having pve players on your team is at least not a death sentence. I still remember back in the older days when everyone was running around in there fully aug'd and min max'd War Hero gear and was ganking recruit geared players in full premades, now that was a hell alot of fun wasn't it? BioWare is finally making changes to the horrible gearing system we'd to cope with for so long and now everyone wants to leave? Am I missing something? Or maybe every elitist pvp player is just mad that they can't 3 shot people anymore, and that the pvp community isn't almost exclusive to those who can spend 5 hours a day every time new gear rolls out. Look I realize the new gearing system is still horrible, but at least I feel like it's a move in the right direction. Feel free to correct me if I said something wrong, I did just return myself after all.

Probs gonna give sorc Bubble to mercs and nerf Operatives+Juggs. Frankly I hope they are giving Ops back their mega heal.

The fact that so little improvement has been made is what the real issue is. The game was released back in 2012 which is now 4-5 years ago, you'd think in all that time that they would make vast improvements to it. Fixing the gearing system is as simple as tweaking the amount of comms you get out of each warzone, it's not exactly rocket science. They could start by doubling the amount of unassembled (or w/e they call the comms now) you get, and then tweaking it until the majority is satisfied (some people will always complain). The old gearing system was terrible, it favored certain people far too much and was extremely dissuasive for new players. The complaints most people make in regards to the current gearing system is well founded. However with all that said I do believe there is potential in the new gearing system.

Klaira / Marauder / Carnage / Empire EDIT: if you need more republic characters Xeel'a / Sentinel / Combat / Republic

Killing a good healer will often require good DPS, bad DPS is easy to predict. 2 good dps are gonna have a hard time killing 1 good healer, it'll often require 3. While it's nearly impossible to outheal 2 good dps raw dps (at least 4k-5k), it's incredibly easy to stun lock them with the arsenal of stuns this game has. DPS aren't the only ones who got stuns, killing a healer isn't as simple as just stunning him. Of course if you can manage to stun the healer at the right time and he doesn't have a breaker you may be able to kill him within the 6 seconds window. However this will require you to get lucky with the crits and hope that the guy doesn't have any HOTS on him. 3 good dps can kill most non-guarded healers (it'll take a lot of time to kill a sorc healer). 3 good dps can potentially also kill a guarded healer if they time their interrupts right and also don't fall for interrupt bait (casting an ability and then instantly cancelling it). Killing a good healer with a good tank is however a whole different story, especially with a sin tank (overload root bind frontal aoe).

Why does there need to be a hundred threads about this? I get it, it's disappointing. So just stop playing ranked. Every time I login and see peoples begging for ranked q's I just face palm, it's pointless and imo always have been. If you need to try and bribe peoples to play something, you need to take a couple of steps back and figure out where you went wrong. Playing PVP shouldn't be about rewards in the first place, it should be able to stand on its own without trying to force peoples to play it. Rewards are only gonna attract bad players, exploiters, and cheaters.

There is a reason there is a rule against name & shame. Name & shame would only serve to make the community more toxic and hateful, look at most fps games. There is one very simple thing the game needs in order to get rid of 90% of all cheats: place killzones in area's that are not meant to be accessible. Lag switching can be circumvented by timing out peoples with too unstable internet connections.

As a response to @LadyDarkkitten, as you can see I already said that I use my mouse for camera panning, which is rotating the camera with my mouse. Of course I am not rotating with the keyboard.