Focus has better aoe burst due to 9k lolsmash crits while vig should pull ahead in sustained aoe (cheaper cyclone slash and free smash, while focus needs to charge up their smashes with force exaustion/leap). That said i find Focus to be more rewarding on almost all encounters in this game, even pure singletarget fights. Can't say much about PvP, don't like it in this game.

Both are viable, Veng has slightly higher singletarget dps if they can stay on the boss 100% of the time, while Rage deals better with movement, target switching, short interruptions (i.d. boss walks out of range like dread guards, kephess or the first boss) and add bombing. Don't let yourself get fooled by the rather low numbers you are putting out on the ops dummy, I barely passed 1,7k dps in complete campain gear while hitting 1,8k as Veng, it translates much better into ops fights. We cleared 5/5 in 8m hm and are currently on 4/5 in 16m hm, i usually one of the top 3 dps depending on the fights, far outdpsing everyone else in aoe phases if i can sweep multiple targets (first and third boss). http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101MMZcMzZGMRrzfRrcz.2

http://www.improved.gilden-welten.de/album_pic.php?pic_id=18 16er tfb hm kephess. Pics zu den anderen Bossen gibts auf unserer hp, jedoch ohne den Schwierigkeitsgrad.

Exiting combat is a awesome threatdrop. Why should advanced classes that are able to tank not get a threat drop? Even though two of them already have one? Taunt does the exact opposite of what the dd-specced folks want, ie lowering your threat. I don't want it to change, dont get me wrong, I'm just pointing out that classes dont need to have every tool that is available to other classes. If you worry about threat in an operation, there are at least 7 other people around, interact with your fellow raiders.

Damn, poor Mercs, having a threat drop on the gcd. We Guardians are sure lucky to have one that not only costs resource, but continues to deplete our resource bar if we don't cancel it by searching our buffbar for it and hoping to not accidentaly cancel our stim or something. And weee, Powertechs dont even have a threat drop, isn't that so much better than having one on the gcd? Bottom line: Different classes differ.

1707 dps on my dummy parse yesterday, went on for about 10 mins. As for operations: Kephess tfb hm was the only fight i recently parsed without any addbombing or major downtime, but keep in mind that there is a damage increasing buff on the boss. I had 2,2k dps while not doing the orbs. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#500MMZcMzZGMRrzfRrcz.2 Open with combat focus ->leap, rest of the rotation is pretty priority based (ie spamming slash until something better comes of cd, namely sweep, exhaustion, zealous leap, sundering assault, bladestorm) My gear is almost purely power based, i have 88 crit rating, 99,8% accuracy and 75;xx% surge, cant login atm to confirm it. Also i got the 63er mainhand, one clicky and one warhero power relic. I'm not good at theory crafting, any advise on stat distribution would be much appreciated.

Vigilance always was and still is viable in endgame pve content. Since 1.4 Focus is too, and i find myself doing more dps in lolsweep specc, singletarget of course. If your sweep hits multiple targets your dmg will skyrocket. And yes, i have cleared tfb hm while parsing, and no, i was not carried by my guildmates.

http://www.improved.gilden-welten.de/album_pic.php?pic_id=8 Improved hat TFB 8er hm clear am 5.10. um 00:01 =X

Depends on the spec. While i was playing vigilance i'd agree with you, but as i have respecced to focus i dont find me using saber throw at all outside of movement phases. If i screw up the rotation i'd rather use strike, as it reduces 2 active cooldowns. Personally i will go for 2 piece mara and jugg gear as soon as our guild does another ec hm, really miss the cheaper dispatch.

Only rpoblem could be with the 3rd boss, but we had no issues with our guildie, he could easily distinguish between blue and purple.

You should clarify whether you are talking about pve or pvp. Pve wise Mercs/Commandos are perfectly viable, als long as the class is in the hands of a capable player.

Focus is viable at the moment, you still can pull your weight in ec hm. However an equally geared Vigilance Guardian should outdps you by at least 100dps in a single target fight. If you don't have your content on farm and want to contribute the best you can, you should go Vigilance.

Guardians have one on a 45 sec cd and Shadows have vanish, 3 min. On the other hand, handling your threat is part of the dps spot in raid, and keeping aggro in this game is already way to easy.

bump. I'd like to get a clarification on this. What melee/ranged accuracy is needed? What tech accuracy is needed? I would guess that up to that point accuracy rating would be the most important stat.

Or Bioware will keep this as a money sink.