Except your grenade is AoE.... Double strike is single target and 100% spammable.

Dude. In that vid I just made, I was top damage on my team (197k) I died 8 times and got at least 4 or 5 full respawns. I got 25k healing JUST FROM THE COMBAT TECHNIQUE PROC! You are so clearly in denial about your own class that it seems useless reasoning with you. Mind you, when my Shadow friend got 400k with only double strike, he may have been using defensive cooldowns as well, but in this video I just hi double strike over and over and win. Unfortunately I don't have a lvl 50 Shadow or I could test this with gear, but the principle is the same.

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Double strike is hard.

BUT BUT BUT... that guy a few pages back said it was IMPOSSIBLE to get 100k healing without 600k+ damage and a gimmicky premade vs. "mouth-breathers"

So what are you trying to argue? It is impossible to do 300k damage and 100k healing? No one would care if someone did 300k damage and 100k healing. 600k+ from someone with 31 OR 27 points in their tank tree is just silly. And what do you mean Death Field requires a pocket healer? You are giving up FOUR POINTS in the tank tree. You keep essentially ALL of the survivability. What sort of death field spec are you playing? Lightning Charge?? I know a shadow that did 400k damage using ONLY DOUBLE STRIKE (Thrash). The notion that 600k damage is AoE spam from a tankasin is absurd, and either you know this and are just afraid of a nerf, or you are just bad at your class.

So. You clearly never read the tooltip on Dark Charge, which increases armor by 150%, with an additional 20% from the tank tree (resulting in over 40% damage reduction). Averaging 250k as a tankasin? I average more than that on a lvl 20 tankasin alt. And you must have missed the screenshot album someone posted a few pages back of a tankasin averaging 600-800k (go check it out he has 20 different screens!). So if you don't understand one of the basic attributes of the spec, and pull half the damage of many aforementioned tankasin, does that make you a "below avg- to avg player?"

Based on the events of this thread, the likelihood of this possibility coming into fruition seems quite high.

So if you are trying to be a tank with your Sniper, does that mean you are trying to stealth or something with your Commando? In all seriousness. You should either try Assault spec (I have a commando friend that easily does 600k-700k damage in Assault spec), or realize that you are lacking skill and learn to play. I also have a sniper friend that does 700k-800k damage in warzones, and can kill someone in heavy armor in under 8 seconds. You have probably heard this a lot already, but I think you should seriously consider learning to play.

I see what you did there. That is, blatantly omitting the bulk of our arguments in an attempt to discredit our opinions with simple statements removed from context. I am not calling for a nerf personally. I am somewhat surprised that nothing was adjusted in 1.2, but I do not care what happens either way.

I find your inability to engage in intelligent discourse quite disturbing. Obviously Prestige is an excellent player. He is better than me, and likely better than most on this game. My gripe is this: to be moderately efficient with this spec, the skill cap is very low. In my opinion, it is even easier than grav round/tracer missile spec because it is almost completely mobile with little casting, high base damage, and high survivability. When you add a highly-skilled player like Prestige to the mix, it becomes unstoppable. I don't believe this spec will be nerfed any time soon, nor is that my desire. I am simply defending Amksed from those like you who can't or won't grasp the nature of the situation.

1v1 Unbeatable + ability to guard healer + ability to guard/take nodes in wzs + ability to burst/occupy enemy healers + resilience/sprint in huttball. You must have had some terribly traumatic experience with Group PvP. That is the only conclusion I can come to in light of your blatant denial of the utility of this spec.

OMG HEY GURL. Yeah I'm trying to help Amksed out here. Highly unlikely anything will change but I gotta stick up for my frands right? Miss you guys on Fatman but must finish this essay! P.S. is grocery 50 yet?

Not that good yet no one on our server can beat Prestige 1v1? I play a Guardian. In focus spec I can hit Infil shadows for 6.5k. I can down them before than can do much to me simply because of how pathetic their light armor is. The highest I've ever hit Prestige (with expertise adrenal included) was about 3800. I am 100% max geared with full BM and Rakata modded for Power/Surge. In Vigilance spec, I can't do much to Prestige because half of my attacks are subject to defense chance, and he is loaded with it from the spec and from Deflection. I'm valor 72, he's Valor 80+, our whole guild is pretty much War Hero/Conqueror and no one can touch him. I think that if you can't successfully use the spec then it is more of a L2P issue. From my own experience with the class and watching guys like Prestige and Amksed, I can say that any problems you have with this spec are skill-related.

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#601rIMkzMskrZZf0cM.1 Used with full DPS gear modded for ~75% surge and the rest in power. Rotation is pretty simple. You Double Strike to get procs on Project, which in turn builds Harnessing Shadows. Mix in defensive CDs, stuns, etc. and you are set. Also you can get high burst by getting a proc on Project, then using Force Potency for crits on Project and FiB while the Project lands. I've seen Prestige hit full BM sages for more than 50% of their health with TK throw. That is with 3 stacks of Harnessed Shadows, power adrenal, Force Potency, and full DPS gear. I personally have done 300k+ damage with 100k+ protection and 50k+ healing on lvl 20/30 Shadow/Assassin, without half the goodies the spec gives.