Hey all. I started playing a Marauder lately, got up to 29ish and I'm currently in love with the Annihilation tree. As much as I love playing this class, I also can't stress enough how frustrating it is at times. I know that combat delay is common in SWTOR across all classes, but it's especially painful playing my Marauder. It seems like the following skills: "Disruption", "Retaliation", "Cloak of Pain", "Saber Ward", "Berserk", "Predation", and "Deadly Saber" simply do not trigger when I try to use them most of the time. I notice that they share one thing in common, and that is that they all ignore the GCD (or they are supposed to ignore it, anyway). What they also share in common for me is that most of them are skills that I trigger by using my mouse buttons (I usually hotkey important and timing-sensitive skills like interrupts to mouse buttons) so I tried connecting my mouse to a USB hub that is not used by any other peripherals, which sometimes may cause unreponsiveness for KBs and mice, but nothing has changed. Anyone else having the same problems? Especially with the skills I mentioned?

Sawbones healing in PvP is effective, mobile, efficient in terms of energy, and most importantly it's fun as heck. I respeced from Scrapper to Sawbones 1 week after hitting 50 and never looked back.

Bingo .

The nerfs are too much. They needed to change things around, but this is overdone. Good thing Scoundrel healing is fun to play, otherwise I'd be pissed. Also I don't see why anyone would spec the knockdown for Shoot First anymore.

I doubt they could do that considering the game is rated Teen.

Grats, folks!

As a scoundrel (mirror of your class), I found that healing with PvP gear worked just fine. Also, our AoE heal isn't exactly a game changer, so I wouldn't worry about it; in fact, I only use my AoE heal to top up the group after every trash pull, heh.

Oh, wait, so specific bosses drop certain pieces of gear? I was under the impression it was all random.

I'm sorry to say that the biggest and the best looking (to me, at least) rifle I found so far was a green random drop. Weak. =( Pic

My smuggler has a skill that is very similar to what you guys are describing (stun required, not usable in pvp, high damage). I think every class has a version of this skill, and they're all not usable in pvp? Just presuming.

Does anyone know/remember where to get this rifle?

Now that's a conversation I'm not skipping!

I'm planning to go Scrapper for PvP and Sawbones for PvE (let's face it, the burst dps from Scrapper isn't that great for raids). So I really hope this gets sorted out.

I don't hate SWTOR. I'm enjoying the heck out of it.... ..however, there are many annoyances and broken systems in this game that make me think that BW really didn't spend much effort reviewing and thinking through their designs, nor did they listen to any feedback.

Out of all the Stealth classes I've played across MMOs, Scoundrels/Operatives are the most reliant on their initial burst. Their out of stealth DPS is such a joke and energy consuming that I don't see myself doing any DPS in pve raids/flashpoints, and just go for healing instead.