It's a damn shame too, I revisited the place after a 3.5 year hiatus just to see what they've done with it and... nothing. The setting and the skybox are friggin beautiful. I'm disappointed that there's absolutely no incentive to go and visit this planet other than some crappy planet story arc. What a waste. SWTOR really has a pathetic PvP system, I used to enjoy the small skirmishes we would have fighting for whatever stupid quest items we had to farm at the middle of illum.

I'm sorry but I'm having trouble finding what this 204/208 gear is. I looked it up on google but only found something to do with Ziost? Is that an armor set tied with that specific quest line?

Happy New Years everybody, allow me to introduce myself. I just came back from a 3.5 year hiatus from the game, partially because of the new movie and partially because I was curious to see how the game has changed. 3.5 years ago I made a level 50 jedi shadow back when the game notoriously had a bad endgame. Now coming back I'm flooded with a massive amount of new endgame content that I would love to try out. I created a jedi sentinel 4 days ago and thanks to the double xp I power leveled my way to level 55. However this has unfortunately made me hilariously undergeared so here are my following questions for you PBE/PVP veterans out there: 1. What should I do to start preparing for lvl 50-65 endgame PBE? 2. What endgame quest lines should I focus on? I started the Hutt Cartel on accident, is that good for gear? 3. How is the level 65 PVP Gear? I'm gonna date myself here but the last time I played, Battlemaster level 50 gear was the gear to have at endgame. Thank you for your help!

I agree with the tracer, but you realize only 5 stacks of armor reduction could exist on a player at one time. Both the assassin and the operative were nerfed in surge heavily. I hate to say this but i'm not sure about the assassin v.s. scoundrel burst dps, i'll have to research this although I'm almost positive that assassins are better for a longer period of time and scoundrels excel at short periods of DPS.

Can you PLEASE (i'm desperate to fix my gimp BM gear) post your gear or at least post it on a sight so I can see what you did because lets be honest... BM gear is a joke.

This sounds like its coming from either a sentinel, or a DPS sorc... so i'll put this into plain words: If you played a Merc BH and now your attacks do the damage of a nerf gun (talking about tracer) and you're "big hitter" is broken (yes there is proof) then you will be pissed because now you're a worthless build. If you play a Jedi Shadow and you're burst now is just as good as a sentinel's DPS then you're going to be pissed because you're burst is now worthless, why play a class that might be able to kill somebody with a burst of 15-20 seconds when you play a class that's base DPS equals that? Realize the game is not becoming as fun anymore because classes are losing their edge, while two classes stay ontop because of rants not backed up by facts.

Maybe there's a third option?

Let me clarify one thing about infiltrator shadows... their whole damage basis is off of two moves, project and force breach, the harder they hit the happier the shadow will be. If those hit like rubber then you're a gimp shadow (for infiltrator at least).

After the Jedi Shadows were severely nerfed, I have no idea what to do to fix my DPS. I've seen a recent video of a Jedi Infiltrator Shadow doing over 5k crits fairly consistently but I have no idea how he does that because with full BM gear, I'm happy with a 3.8K crit. What extra gear does this take to get to this kind of damage, can any other player help me or is this just impossible now?

How were you doing 5k crit damage in your videos? I have full BM and my max hit ever was 4.0k damage!

This is how my rotation goes as a lvl 50: 2X Clairvoyant Strike: Gives harnessing shadows (I think second tier on the tree) for 25% force reduction each hit for a max of 2, also works with double strike, but only after the talent on the tree. Clairvoyant strike X2 also gives extra 30% damage for project. Project: Hits hard later on, but after nerfs basically worthless, the shadow's reign of fear is dead. Force breach: Only use when in shadow stance When the find weakness proc is up use backstab for 25 force You don't have this now but continue until under 30% health then spinning strike to execute them.

It would be too confusing, if BW wanted to make changes, they should also try tinkering with the endgame PvP gear like Battlemaster and now War Hero. And like the people said above, class quests might now become impossible because of BW's lack of foresight, is there any way to directly tell them this?

Nailed it, BW needs to quit touching the gameplay and start polishing the game. People need to realize that all classes need to shine in some aspect of the field, whether it is healing, burst, or sustained DPS. But when my burst is equal to a sentinel's sustained DPS... the game is messed up.

Ok, I see an issue with your stats... call me crazy but I'm a firm believer of this. 1220 expertise... too much. By that high number (I'm a little over 1000 myself with full BM, not sure what the exact # is) your diminishing returns makes your expertise worth drastically less, which is why I propose for you to mix & match different mods, pieces of armor, etc... for you to get higher DPS, mainly surge because we all know infiltrator shadow burst damage is a joke. Do some daily quests, get the daily comms, and get some great modifications to trade out for extra burst damage. Believe me missing a few percentage points of expertise will be worth getting an extra... 40% crit damage? Sounds about right. Get your surge high enough until the diminishing returns hits you hard and then you will be able to burst down targets better. Now how will this help? Well bursting down a target 30% faster due to your better burst damage that BW completely nerfed will save you health... and if you don't want to get focused it might not be a bad idea to switch your title to "champioin" instead of your insane valor title. Also, try hesitating before fighting, letting some other tanks lead in might get the enemy distracted and give you opportunities to kill.

I'd disagree on this one, as a long time PvP'ier I have played through nerfs one after the other, the infiltrator shadow needs some DPS pumped back into its arsenal, It should do something to increase its burst capabilities because come on guys... 2.5k crit damage against tanks while in burst is horrendous, and that is on a good day. And remember guys, although the shadow is more tank-like than the scoundrel, the infiltrator spec is pure DPS, which unfortunately like i said, is bad.