I think you should respec to drop Kolto Vents and pick up Hired Muscle as a must for the increased tech crit chance, Med Tech, and Power Overrides

When hit with an attack while casting a move, the casting bar literally gets pushed back and takes longer to cast the move. Definitely a must for both tracer missile and unload.

And to Jablestein, Your AOE is fine except I normally finish them off using Tracer Missile since it does more damage and uses much less heat than Missile Blast. I have never really used Missile Blast since the heat cost is way too high for such a weak move. And for your normal rotation against a single enemy Tracer Missile x3 to stack debuff, Heatseeker Missiles when you finally get it, Unload if it has procured, Tracer Missile x2 to get the last 2 Tracer Locks, Rail Shot. After that, keep using Tracer Missile to gain Tracer Locks and use Heatseeker Missiles and Unload every time it procures. I never use Power Shot because Tracer Missile gives you Tracer Locks and Barrage while venting heat when it crits.

I definitely recommend Stabilizers because of the pushback from Tracer Missile and Unload

I don't see much use for it coming from an arsenal merc, but I haven't hit 50 yet. Looking at it from the bodyguard perspective, having a heal be instant would be pretty useful. Combined with thermal sensor override, you have a free heal

I came here to post this because it's completely true. And with high surge as well, that much burst damage really kills

Being new to mmos, I'd also like to know what hard and soft cap is

Being new to mmos, I'd also like to know what hard and soft cap is

To get your rapid shots to heal people, all you have to do is equip combat support cylinder. Don't need to go into bodyguard tree

You're forgetting rail shot and heatseeker missiles

http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#300rcZMIkrRrdRzfz.1 This is the build I'm currently using and since I just hit 41 and got heatseeker missiles, my rotation is usually TMx3, HM, TMx2, Railshot also using Unload every time Barrage activates

As a BH, no matter what, your main start is always aim. If you want to go ranged dps with the arsenal tree, the other two stats you should be stacking are crit and then surge. Crit will increase your likelihood of getting critical hits which will vent heat with tracer missile and unload. Surge will increase how much damage your critical hits do.

Not sure if it's the same build as beta, but he has his current build in the OP

I have to agree with you here. I personally like the animation and if it switched, I might have to start spamming fusion missile

Just want to put my two cents in that I've completely stopped using power shot. I use tracer missile instead with rail shot and unload. Unload is far superior due to riddle, barrage, pinning fire and terminal velocity.