because the healing from darkcharge is minimal and it has a long cooldown so it basically procs every time its off cd anyways. the 15% chance is pointless. you still proc energized off assassinate and if you have to use thrash ie as i said before in single target cant aoe you need energized procs to build threat from shock and build HD when you cant use wither because of cc and such. and you need torment because it reduces force cost of shock by 6

put khem val in dps stance and use him till you get andronkis. Khem is a waste to use for assassins. Either do dps spec with dps companion or tank spec with dps companion. then once you are 40 you can bring out your healing companion.

ya swelling shadows is not needed. neither is thrashing blades. ive acutally gone with nerve wracking which is nice for times when dps needs to burn down adds. like the bombers on last boss in denova. Most tankasins are not using thrash in normal rotation only when you cant aoe. Its normaly shock wither discharge saber strike shock force lightining, shock wither discharge shock saber strike force lightining. This gives you faster stacks of HD and more overal self healing then using thrash. If you are full force for some reason then ya go a head and throw in a thrash but i find this rotation works great and im avg like 200 hps on boss fights. This is what i been using http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200bIMokrskfsZZcMMM.1

we are not rogue tanks we are just as beefy as a juggeranut as in armor value. if you stack purely defense no absorb or shield when you dont defend you get smacked hard. the game is a 2 roll system first roll is to see if you defend if you dont 2nd see if you shield if you shield then its mitigated by absorb. so its important to have a good mix of all 3. You want your goal to be 30% defense with stim 50% shield without darkward up and 60% absorb. Those stats can be reached with remodding of campaign gear and full use of all augment slots.

you really cant take away from shield rateing unless he has sheild rateing augmetns every enhancment will either have shield/def sheild/absorb or acc/defense acc/absorb. So there his best bet is going to be the shield/def enhancments. and then using augment slots for defense.

27% defense for an assassin tank is good he is not sorely lacking defense he is starting to hit DR of defense at that point. at 340 defense 36defense just gives me under 1% defense but at 382 absorb rateing 29 absorb is giving me almost 3%. so as you can see absorb is going to be a better value for over all mitigation at the these rateings.

shield chance doesnt cap at 50% there are no caps on any stats. just diminishing returns. Only Rateing such as this item has 306 shield rateing like a relic contruibute to diminishing returns. anything that adds % is not effected by diminishing returns. So if i have 45% shield chance with out DW up the % that i gain from DW is all gravy. Now relics with shield/absorb on them will lose value the more shield chance you have. What i think you are confused about is diminishing returns. 50% with out dw up is deep into diminishing returns of shield rateing but thats not the cap. My goal is 30% defense 50% shield with out DW up and 60% absorb. what i would do for the OP is Put shield/def enhancments in everything the 57sheild 22 defense then the 41 absorb in all the mods slots. then use your augment slots for defense augments. I'm currently at 24k hp 7k armor 27% defense 45%(65% with darkward)shield chance and 55% absorbtion. Ive yet to start putting in the 41 absorb mods. this is all with out a stim.

taunts cannot miss they are not based off acc like wow. Acc only effects melee skills. Since most Tankasins are using a thrashless tank rotation acc is pointless. I have 0 acc on my gear,implants or ear. Its nice to finlay get it all out even my weapon offhand does not have acc on them. also acc doesnt effect force skills. force skills have 100% chance. So basically saberstrike/trash/lacerate only benifit from acc.

imo drop the matrix shard get a proc damage relic and the power use relic

Thats not what he is saying. Warriors can use a single balded light saber and a sword and use all their skills. they get the option to use either. A saberstaff and an elctro staff are and should be the same thing as the warrior using saber or sword. Elctrostaff is a 2 handded polearm weapon similar to the saberstaff that assassins use now. the only difference is its not a lightsaber. Hense we can equip it , we should be able to use our skills with it. We are not asking to use a 1 handed sword from the other classes or swrods from the other classes. We are asking for a weapon for our class to work with our skills.

whirlwind is instant cast if you spec properly for pvp. that is all move along.

i have already gotten every kind of augment schematic

the teir 1 gear was never suppose to transfer over. Was always suppose to be the 1.2 gear. and 100k per item to gain 18 stat points i agree is expensive but you can make 1.5 mil a day doing your dailies on all 3 planets and on your ship. So really at this time you have an augmented weapon and augmented chest. ANd are keeping your rakata helm gloves boots pants. Because you will lose set bonus. So 200k for now isnt much to spend on 2 item transfers of mods. When you can make 1.5mil in 1 day.

Tell that to a level 50 that has to pay 100k credits to repair their raid gear after a night of wipes. Thats a big dealth penalty.

your point was that a crafter should make equal gear to raiding . They can its callled exotech if you raid patterns drop. You learn those patterns and you craft gear that is equal to raid gear. Also Implant Ear patternrs all drop. And the new 1.2 raid content you can RE the gear that drops and learn that pattern to craft for other people its BOE when you learn it. SO again YOU CAN MAKE THE BEST GEAR AS A CRAFTER IF YOU WANT TO NOT BE DUMB AND LEVEL TO 50 AND PLAY THE GAME. l2 play stop the QQ and get awesome loots and patterns and WIN!