It does work, are you in armor piercing cell as gunnery? HiB is 2 ammo cost, 1 cost with armor piercing cell from special munitions.

It will say [Exceptional] From earlier in the thread: http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9168/screenshot2012013114494.jpg

This was an in-game comparison http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1959/screenshot2012020916533.jpg The stats on torhead are likely not updated to reflect that rakata weapons were fixed to 140 rating.

Rakata (pve weapons in general) have two rating stats, versus one rating stat on battlemaster weapons. The Firestorm (rating 140 rakata weapon) has over battlemaster: +19 Aim -21 Endurance -51 Expertise +12 Power +51 Surge Rating. Essentially trades expertise for surge rating, wherein using rakata pieces in other slots wholly gives expertise for only aim in return.

Stream in sig, I haven't streamed in a bit but my archice has several hours of gameplay.

Works area leading to jedi temple is where the last mission area is on coruscant.

Other people's dots, incaps, vulnerabilities enable HiB, not just your own.

I was biochem before I switched to armormech to make the crit bracer and belt. It took about 300k spent to level armormech to 400 just solely sending out companions on scavenging missions. Took about 1 day to do so (crafting non-blues only takes about 2 minutes a craft, with 5 companions it goes quickly). It took about another million in mandalorian iron (stuff is 10k+ per on my server) to get the belt critical, I hit bracer first try and belt on 10th but I've heard of people doing 15+ belts with no critical. Leveled biochem again today, total investment has been about 1.6 million.

I did that this weekend, crit the bracers first try, crit the belt after 10 (ugh). http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9168/screenshot2012013114494.jpg http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/9168/screenshot2012013114494.jpg

If you have them, rakata bracer and belt with augment slots provide +42 and +49 aim respectively over battlemaster.

Your original assertion was that wearing full bm gear and 700 expertise leads to baddies (your 'laugh at those in 700 expertise' statement). Why would you state something like that if your intention was to maximize damage? And I did concede that wearing rakata pieces would increase damage dealt.

They are the same belt with augment slot, so yes, they are better.

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Ty sir. And that is exactly what I'm doing ;o

The Rakata belts are BOP, you may have seen a columi.