I hear 30% Crit and 90% Surge are the numbers to aim for any class. After that start looking at Power. The game has some significant diminishing returns on stats especialy at high level.

You need to define what your saying better, since I can name several other classes that do superior pve damage then Sentinels. Support, you seem to be confusing with a healing type of role for some odd reason. Would you not consider a Sawbones scrapper a Support role because they have no shield to give to players by your own words? Would you consider a pure dps speced Sage to be a support role since they have all those abilities you list? Sentinels When working on a team, we can aoe mez, reduce enemy healing, have good interrupts, have a stun/hold that does damage while our teamates can attack the target, can have several roots, have a group damage reduction and speed buff, have a group damage increase buff, great single target dps to help focus down targets, have one of the longest duration snares, have a short term accuracy debuff, a number of good defensive cooldowns amoung other abilities. I dont see how you would not consider them more oriented to melee support, compared to say a scrapper scoundrel, or a infiltration shadow who are more damage focused melee roles versus utility. Even the dps spec Guardians bring less to the table then we do for support and can still do comparable damage. Sentinels use their utility to help inflict damage and support their team mates while weaking their opponets. What good are you otherwise that another class couldnt do better?

The vibroblades sheath animation is bugged. When sheathed only 1 appears across your back, when sheathing/unsheathing your character animates as if he pulling both from across his shoulders but only the right (main hand) one is ever visasble. As for pvp I blend in better and look like a jedi tank. Thats the point, to look as bland, and a lower priority target as possible. It can give you a advantage in many situations in pvp. Unfortunetly the only orange(custom) blades ive ever seen are from Coruscant commendations. But it can be gotten as early as level 16.

If you got these attacks accurate and correct perhaps we could be of more assitance. Please be more detailed and specific. Heres a tip Saber throw is for Guardians. We have Crippling Throw and Dispatch which are completly differant.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/lastdarkness/Screenshot_2012-01-24_10_23_23_842914.jpg Duel Orange, fully customised vibro-blades. Same stats as lightsabers and I can use all of my skills with no penalty. I also dont have the saber sounds, or glow sticks giving my position and class away in pvp. I think your reading into something a little too much literaly.

Any actual point you had or intelligent insight was immedietly discredited by everything else you said. Your post is just a frustrated whine, you may want to try harder. As someone whos played every single class except Bounty Hunter, you gain a certain insight. Everything you said about other classes is parroted rhetoric you hear from the community. I think you and many other people who are turned off by the class, make the same conceptual mistake. Sentinel is not Melee DPS its a Melee Support class. There are several other classes thats fill Melee DPS role just as good or better (Depending on PvE/PvP Enviroment). As for other commenters, I dont belive you understand " Learn to Play " since its always directed introvertedly at a single class. I say learn to play the other classes, their strengths and weakness and how to use that against them. You would be surprised how much more effective you become when you know what other classes combat rotations are, what their abilities actualy do and how their resources work. You can then use this info to your advantage. My only complaints about Sentinel besides ability delay is melee range needs to be raised by about 2m from 4m to 6m and and we need more replacement abilities versus more icons to add to our ability bars.

Heres a couple I did today on Nar Shaddaa http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/lastdarkness/Screenshot_2012-01-24_10_23_23_842914.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/lastdarkness/Screenshot_2012-01-24_10_24_45_339576.jpg http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72/lastdarkness/Screenshot_2012-01-24_10_24_46_419637.jpg I use the dullest Robe I could find and Vibro-Blades to help conceal myself in pvp more. Its harder to tell what my class is visualy and im not waving a glow stick from across the map so you can see my position.

They are kinda missing many of the defining features of a "Rogue" Scrapper Scoundrel / Concealment Operative Infiltration Shadow / Deception Assassin Are the Rogue classes. Sentinels are melee dps/support. In WoW terms they are more like a Enhancement Shaman then a Fury warrior.

What sysmbol and effect does the republic targeting devic edo?

You guys know insight only effects force powers which our strikes and burns in watchmen are not right?

lol They will get nerfed as well soon, I personaly find them hilarious when I hit them with my 6 second interupt and all teh sudden they cant spam anymore.

Cept that wouldnt work and would break all your quests, your story and the design of the game.

Well considering you spend the majority of game with companions who are often difficult to gear up for most people and on the later worlds (levels 30+) you need them to survive your quests and story. I dont see the problem, though you should ask first of course. Your companions are as much of a important part of your character as you are.

This is a common writers mistake, they assume you can read their minds and know everything about that dialog they do. So teh choices are obviuous then. Bioware writings are particularly bad in this degree, also they tend to repeat the same idea/phrase/concept over and over and over again.

When people do that they are not immune to aoes.