What alacrity % are people aiming for?

Spec definitely feels a lot better, but I just wish it was better in PvP.

Yeah it definitely feels like it, but can't say for sure. Maybe it's just the white damage and 1 min CD that's deceiving me.

Just remove the group utility aspect of bleed heals, and buff the individual heals. As others have said, maras/sents have enough group utility, don't need to tack on another group buff and as a result leave it in a criminally underpowered state. Annihilation is one of the most fun and intuitive specs out there, and it's a tragedy that it's been absolutely awful in pvp 2.0 onwards. Give it a niche as the self-healing marauder spec with very strong sustained damage (but little burst). The latter is already present, the former is nonexistant. The heals really weren't the issue in 1.0, marauders/sents in general were overpowered because they had way more utility and short CD defensives compared to every other class out there, and annihilation happened to be the highest dps mara spec (so everyone played it). It's been over 3 years now, and every other class has caught up to or even surpassed sents/maras in the utility and defensive department, so it's about time to give annihilation it's signature back--some decent self-healing.

How much alacrity are you guys aiming for? 6%?

I've got both a jugg and mara at 60 and looking to make one my pvp main but can't decide. I've always been more partial to my mara (main in 1.0), but I enjoyed jugg more in what little of 3.0 I played. Is Jugg rage really that much better compared to fury mara?

Thanks for the info!

I haven't played swtor in years, but came back to my marauder and feel like trying out annihilation. So I just have one question, coming from WoW, there's a mechanic where refreshing your bleed within 3s of it falling off simply adds +3s to the refreshed bleed. For example, if I rupture again with 1.5s left on my current rupture bleed, my rupture dot will now be up for 10.5s instead of 9. Does this mechanic exist in SWTOR or must I wait for my rupture dot to completely fall off in order to maximize dps? I assumed this mechanic exists because just going off the guide it seems rupture is being refreshed every 6-7.5s rather than ever 9s? Or the refresh mechanic does not exist and it's simply more efficient to cancel the old rupture and apply a new at the 6s breakpoint rather than 9?

Anyone else been seeing these purple splotches on dark robes/capes in the last couple days? I can see them on my own dark armor, and on others. It's most noticeable on the Revan Reborn robes. I thought it was a graphical driver/error on my end originally, but my friends all said they noticed this as well. Regardless, I completely reinstalled both swtor and my graphics drivers and the purple splotches are still there . Anyone else encounter/have this problem? Any suggested fixes?

You guys are listing special attack accuracy right? Also, is everyone including the rakata biochem stim in their stat spread?

Sorry Bioware can't balance bad players. No one 4 shotted you unless you're afk, and even then, you didn't get 4 globalled. You probably sat there and took 8 globals to the face and came here to make another exaggerated QQ post.

No thanks. I just want some rankings, world PvP, and more variability across classes. Your list has way too much fat and restrictions (restrict toons to one faction? rofl). I thought we moved past those times of stupid restrictions (as well as racial benefits--you shouldn't have to roll a certain race in order to maximize your efficiency in either pvp or pve).

Classes feel a lot more balanced than pre 1.2, the only ones that are a bit under are arsenal mercs. Everyone else is in a good spot; this coming from a concealment operative main (pre 1.1 balance was a joke where operatives, sorcs, and tank + heals /loled at everybody).

They got usability buffs and buffs to their UP trees, with a slight nerf to their OP annihilation tree (force camo nerf). Problem?

Lol... have you ever been hit by a powertech? By an operative? By a ravage? By a smash? By a sniper? By an assassin execute? Nearly every class in this game has the ability to hit you for 4k at some point or another. Hell, many can break 5k. I always get at least a 6.5k smash on my marauder in warzones.