Hey peeps I am just coming back after a couple years away. Hoping to get into the raiding scene. I haven't done a ton in this game but am used to pushing the hardest PvE content available in other games. I am plenty familiar with all roles in a raid and am really just trying to gauge the best way to get back into it all. The days I am most looking to fill are Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Any tips advice or people recruiting would be awesome.

Hey peeps I am just coming back after a couple years away. Hoping to get into the raiding scene. I haven't done a ton in this game but am used to pushing the hardest PvE content available in other games. I am plenty familiar with all roles in a raid and am really just trying to gauge the best way to get back into it all. The days I am most looking to fill are Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Any tips advice or people recruiting would be awesome.

Hey peeps I am just coming back after a couple years away. Hoping to get into the raiding scene. I haven't done a ton in this game but am used to pushing the hardest PvE content available in other games. I am plenty familiar with all roles in a raid and am really just trying to gauge the best way to get back into it all. The days I am most looking to fill are Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Any tips advice or people recruiting would be awesome.

How is the RP presence on this server?

Wondering how the RP community is on this server.

How is the RP presence on this server?

I haven't played dps assassin but I will say lightning/Tele have a few procs for you to watch. Very priority based. Granted you have to like ranged and you have to over look that it's lagging behind the pack right now. Tele is one of my very favorite specs in the game because of the procs. The animations shaking the screen make everything feel so impactful. And then you proc off extra casts and so much is usable on the move. If your after a fast paced spec I recommend it highly.

Braverdre I have accepted you as the #1 jawa in the galaxy. Grats.

Helped a ton. I decided to just finish out the leveling on my operative. Once I got into it it feels very similar to my assassination rogue in wow and it's cruising. The way it plays is alot like my dirty fighting gunslinger which helps a ton as well. Just the melee aspect. Combined with what has become my favorite healing spec in the game I'm digging it. Will hopefully find a team that wants heals/dps operative for hm+

So.... I know this is jug sin pt mara discussion .... but I have to ask where operative fits into all of this as a melee dps?

I have to jump at this. My buddy and I have been competatively raiding together for 10 years. We just got back to swtor like 3 weeks ago. We would definitely like to talk to you guys at some point today about potentially snagging a spot or two.

Totally noob assassin here, but why would you stop at 105% accuracy? I thought accuracy was the single best stat for sustained dps until 110% where it becomes useless. I mean if you miss small abilities that's one thing. But if you miss a big one your dps is going to feel it. A potential 20-30k crit comes out as a miss.... bummer. Other than that I would simply like to ask if the 703 alacrity point is fine or if assassin dps wants to aim for the 1860 thresholds. I know inbetween is wasting potential abilities per second for faster cds and tick timers and alacrities biggest benefit comes at 703 and 1860. I want to say 703 puts your crit at risk of hitting hard diminishing returns and 1860 puts your crit at risk of not being high enough... is it best to go 703 alacrity and then crit to the point where diminishing returns hit hard and then just aug mastery? I know every spec is different yet alike at the same time. Not sure what ideal is though for assassin's.

Numbers wise there should be no difference. But I disagree that you can call them trash. They aren't the gods they once were but they can compete and put up good enough numbers to still be very relevant. Don't let "the sky is falling" threads turn your attention from a spec you enjoy. If you want to play something else go for it and have a blast. But don't do it simply because the people who spent the last 8 years playing a super over tooned monster say it's trash now. The gap between best dps spec and lowest is barely 15% and that is pretty damn impressive for an mmo anymore. Sorc spent much of its creation thus far lording about other specs by more than that... It can compete in all levels of content.

As others have said it is a matter of how mobile you want to be. With a little luck you can pretty much play sorc without needing to stand still except very rarely. Operative you can almost do the same but their extra resource being tactical advantage can be an issue if rng doesn't smile upon you. Also their big aoe now is channeled which is a fun sucker. As for the merc it's the least mobile but has some of the most disgusting burst healing imaginable. You can do some pretty awesome things with a merc but you have to be good at moving in that GCD your using your free heal to get places. Also merc requires you to use your free heal pretty frequently which was a turn off for me personally. I would say sorc is my favorite healer atm due to the way it moves and the ability to affect the group in so many different ways. Other factors that should be mentioned... Merc has the best defensives for themselves and best single target burst potential. Operative has access to a stealth rez and ultimately the highest hps in the game when your group is large enough and taking damage constantly. Sorc has absorbs for preparing for aoe burst, a get tf out of fire grab for dumb allies, most mobility and a consistency that can't really be described only discovered. That's just my thoughts on it. Probably a bit biased toward the sorc. I always played merc and operative until this last few weeks and the sorc is just too close to my hybrid priest back in wotlk to not love everything about it. Ps... off spec you have only melee options for operative but lethality is one of the top parsing specs in game atm. Merc dps specs are outperforming sorc right now but both are ranged only.

Is 1860 something you want as soon as your item level will handle it or is it something you should wait for until tier 4 and 248? I had heard to run 702 alacrity until 248 and then run alacrity in augments and enhancements only to bring it to 1860 while looking at other stats for all other slots?