Hello everyone, I was hoping to get some help and guidance as I am pretty new when it comes to hm fashpoints and operations. My tune is an assassin tank, and i am looking to play a tank role, or even an off tank. My heroic experience thus far is limited to black talon and boarding party (i know pretty pathetic). I was able to tank those with worse gear than i have now as my main questions are about gearing up. Most of my playtime has been spent in wzs since i hit level 50. My gear is comprised of war hero survivor(chest, legs, hands, feet, main hand and shield, and both relics). The rest is bm survivor gear and currently i only have the war hero pieces augmented with redoubt 18/defense and 12/power. Im lookin at about 21000 hps thanwith hunter buff and fort stim. AR/6039, damage red./37.87, def.chance/27.26, shield/40.05+15 w/drk ward, absorb/43.96. Would it be feasible to look for pve gear to replace my bm pieces and throw augments on them, im thinking the same redoubt augs i been using. Should i also focus more on building defense up more, my war hero relics are useless as they give power any sugestions for what to sub for those. Any tips on gjdear would be great im willing to invest at least a mil credits into it. Also where should i jump back into pve, im not wanting to start at flashpoints that well generally speaking are beneath the level my gear, of course i dont want to bite more than i can chew either; wiping isnt good for the nerves especially when its your own fault. Im not a bad tank i can pick up technique pretty quick and i understand all these fights can be found on youtube. My primary reasons for doing this are more credits, I do enjoy a good boss fight, and i do want to betterr gear So please go ahead and lay into me, any help or tips i would appreciate. Thanks.

Hello all, this is my first post, so pardon if I happen to sound like a nub. I have a couple questions regarding tanking with assassin, primarily what should be my focus: defense, shield rating, or absorb. Right now with a combination of battlemaster and champion pvp gear my stats for those mentioned above are 27.03 defense, 32.56 shield, 31.08 absorb, overall damage reduction is 40.22% This is with dark charge active and no spell or item buffs. My health is about 18000, and close to 20000 with full party buff and stim. I am wanting to start doing some of the higher level hms, have attempted but still seems like I am taking alot more damage than expected, also I try to have dark ward active whenever engaged increasing shield to 47. I understand this is pvp gear, but when I look when look at the pve equivilant tionese, columni, rakata. I dont see much of a difference other than endurance and primary stat. It says that defense inceases to the chance to shield attacks, but would be more more mitigating to take what i have invested in defense and put it into shield or absorb.