I see that main build uses madness. Can someone point me to an efficient lightning based build? Thanks

how bout a 17/2/22 build to maximize railshot damage? http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#301hRRrb0bZ0MZbIbbdG0M.1 granted it doesnt have jet charge, but it got puncture, flame shield, and firebug.

its kinda disheartening 3 points for such low impact, and such high in the tree...they must rework it.

indeed for pvp, im gonna drop that 3%, the fights don't last long anyway. also im not convinced about pin down, 2 second stun is too little. sever tendon untraited is enough. so basically that makes 5 points that I will put in scouting 2/2 and conditionning 3/3. survival training i'm not sure its worth it for a pvp context: 10% more heal received, when your main source of heals during a fight as a concealment operative is stim boost, it is really nothing.

my focus is pvp, but comon even for pve, 3 whole points for such low effect? there must be a catch...

This ability grants +3% damage to poisoned target. doesn't seem interesting to waste points on it. if you're doing 1k damage you get a measly bonus of 30 dmg? that's pretty pathetic. Ì'd rather spend those 3 points on scouting/survival training.. can any high level confirm/deny its usefulness?

the concealment operative lack a very good aoe ability. grenade spam gets old quickly. please dont mention carbine burst , thats a crappy ability. any lvl 50 have feedback on usefulness of lvl48 orbital strike aoe ability? is it worth it? I do believe we're lacking an aoe melee ability, a sort of sweeping attack.

can you please elaborate?

they should have implemented pvp servers with factional balance in the first place. instead we have huttball wz ad nauseam, and hardly any republic player to kill in world pvp. THAT is the major problem to be fixed. after, the world pvp needs to be worked on. that include personal and faction wide rewards, and fleshing out of Objective based world pvp zones such as illum. give us the thrill of pvp, this is supposed to be the most antagonistic faction based game, yet I feel like playing hello kitty online.

the answer is due to the game being multithreaded. You can notice this in task bar: there are 2 swtor processes. how does it have to do with g13/g15/naga etc hardware? well to pass out key presses to the game, those keyboards need to "hook" on the game process. Since this game have 2 processes with same name, the keyboards are confused, and don't take the right process. the fix should come from razer/logitech. they should let us choose the process on which to hook, rather than the executable.

usually my single target rotation is: backstab->shiv->lacerate overload->toxic dart backstab->shiv->stimboost then I finish the fight with: backstab->shiv->lacerate->overload rotation. if I ever get double TA proc, I spam lacerate. on aoe, I toss grenade and I build up TAs and dance around targets with lacerate. I'm looking forward to insert hidden strike in rotation, so i can play with the vanish skill. I find the blade dancing around group of enemies somewhat satisfying and fun but when you deal with one target its bit boring.

its true i feel like a janitor with the same kind of suit..thanks god i'm stealthed most of the time, so I don't pay attention to it anymore.

truth is kaliyo is a terrible tank, and that we don't get any other tank companion

^^this. start to learn using your interrupts. it will be useful later.

its simple, ppl like me want to enjoy the product they bought, after a long day at work. if your solution is to go create another character in another server to avoid 1hour queue (yes, already the case on many servers), then I won't sub after the free month. Expand the server capacity. Find the technical solution.