This is very good advice. (I just recently came back, Finnish, do the changes they made awhile back to CC not being broken by AoE also apply to that ability? I would assume so, which makes it rather awesome if this is the case.) Another thing to bear in mind is smart timing. If you see you're about to be heading into a big group and your Deflection is down or you're not wanting to use it for some reason, re-pop your Dark Ward and wait a few seconds before charging in, so that if your charges get used up a few seconds in you won't have to wait on the cooldown to finish in the meantime-- it already will have by then, making it safely re-applicable.

I would personally swap two points out of the Endurance talent and put them into the Thrashing Blades talent on Darkness' first tier. If you're Thrashing/Lacerating something(s), especially in order to proc an Energize, you may as well get that much more damage out of the ability's usage as well. Not to mention that the amount of HP you gain from the Endurance talent is rather negligible. Other than that, though, it looks solid.

I cannot wait for new things in space combat. Even if guild capital ships are never a part of it, it would still be exciting to see the potential behind this explored further. Also, while I see the point about people being ***hats if they don't have to group with folks from their own server, I've also encountered many a fun group with people I'd never had met without a cross-queue, so if they want to do it that way it'll get my vote, though I don't feel the need to push for it. They still want new functions and to not feel like their request is going to be swallowed up instantly by other people in this case. Know what else helps with that? Keeping your bloody Trade comments and requests on the Trade channel like it was intended instead of having EVERYTHING on General. Next you'll start hearing it clogged with Chuck Norris jokes all over the Fleet. It isn't a hard concept to grasp, typing that little /2 beforehand.

A Darkness Assassin, beyond grabbing shield rating, absorption and defense rating, should take Surge if possible. Energize gives you a guaranteed crit on Shock, which has a threat modifier from talents as well. Therefore, if Shock has a 100% crit chance from Energize, Surge rating will only further empower its damage and thus your single target threat. Don't forget to abuse Recklessness also! My Shock at level 31 hits for over a thousand damage before I ever hit my Surge trinket.

Who said anything about wasting the ability on a group of two? What I'm saying is if they want it to have a Force cost nearly half of your bar, give it a LITTLE more than what Thrash reads out to be. And considering that by the time it does that much damage, everyone else not only has AoE just as strong if not more so, but can do them with less of a resource drain? Edit: Also, before you tell me it's only 30 Force talented, I'm a Pre-Wither Tankassin, so that doesn't apply to me.

I have noticed the lack of a true difference in Shock as well. I also agree that Lacerate's damage is a bit lackluster for it's cost.

Re-posting to give my approval to the thread once more. Here's to hoping solutions can be worked out.

I noticed that changing my game window from fullscreen to a windowed setting DID help me tremendously. I'm not saying the problem is gone, but it's much more manageable. This may help some of you out until the problem is properly addressed.

People going for containers above their level isnt a crime. Farming them *For the intention of selling credits to other gamers in exchange for actual money* is. Please learn the difference in what is being posted. Ignore the crybabies in here. Thanks for the post, Stephen. I'm damn glad to know that farmers are actively being punished from the beginning. Last thing I want is a message every five minutes from someone offering to sell me credits or powerleveling.

Try a Shadow Priest, mate. I had so much Haste in Wrath that Bloodlust//Heroism didn't even give me it's full benefit. SWToR would load it's pants if it tried keeping up with what I used to do on that.

Exactly my point. Thank you. You shouldnt wait for an animation to finish before your instant hits, because it is not instant then. It just has a hidden cast bar. There's an obvious difference.

Then it is not instant. There are no "instant-instant" and "instant after a 1.5 second animation". It's either instant or it's not. So apparently it doesn't support a concept of proper english wording in this case.

Because they're not capable of handling it. They're the same people who came here from WoW and left it primarily because of how responsive and fluid it was-- they weren't able to keep up and were informed that they were bad players. Butthurt ensued, and here we stand today defending the slower responses so as to level the playing field with people that can't keep up. THAT is why they want that.

Seriously. The troll will die from hunger if you'd just ignore it.

Don't feed the trolls, Xcore. If they don't get responses they go away.