I considered an operative, but my biggest drawback is how easy they die if caught. Make no mistake, if I see an operative out of stealth he's gonna die. I also love them attempting to kill me, they usually do about 50% of your hp then you turn around and mutilate them. Perhaps I'll try one.

Ok, here's the deal so far. I have a level 50 sentinel, leveled to 50 months ago, quit for months and came back recently. This sentinel is heavily geared, mostly battlemaster with some rakata, and I absolutely love the class. PvP is a total blast of careless jumping in and shredding. I do the daily every day, typically winning 3 games in a row, since I queue with some other heavily geared guys (WH Sentinel + BM Healer Commando + BM Vanguard). I really wanted to roll another class, but I'm really struggling with leveling anything because nothing is as fun as Sentinel. Currently, I have - Lvl 42 Sith Sorcerer. PvE leveling is fine, PvP is a total borefest. Tried DPS and heal, both are just "come and kill me" specs. Lightning plants a big target on your head and healing makes you public enemy #1. Probably won't continue to level, since I know I can't be bothered gearing him at 50. Lvl 18 Jedi Shadow. Started recently, quite fun really, but sucks nads in PvP. From the shadow forums, I'm pretty much figured out that rolling a shadow to do any form of DPS is a joke and that they're basically only suitable as tanks for the most part. I believe you can use them for DPS when geared at 50, but leveling as dps spec seems to be agreed as a bad idea - which totally threw me off the class. Double bladed stealthy type? Nope, he's a tank... I mean really? Seems like flawed design IMO... Lvl 20 gunslinger. Probably the most fun so far in PvE (easily the most powerful, kills things far faster than my sentinel did at this level, and his gear is terrible. Problem? **** in PvP. Totally ****. Gunslinger behind cover is a massive "come kill me" for any melee class, and I know that never changes because I kill snipers for fun on my sentinel. They really are almost free kills if i have force camo off cooldown, and I'm seeing this happening to me in warzones. Any stealth class or marauder is ripping me to bits. Lvl 24 commando. Rolled this months and months ago before I quit because I think they're totally overpowered. The gunnery tree is beyond insane in PvP, and they're fast killers in PvE too. Right now, I'm leaning towards leveling this one more, but I don't particularly enjoy spamming the same key over and over, because at 24 you only have grav round and nothing that synergizes with it from later in the tree. Well that's what I have so far. I'm in a total bind regarding leveling these characters or starting another, because after sentinel nothing seems as involved or active or fun. Sentinel leveling in PvE was a huge blend of leaping everywhere aggro everything doc heals you through it with defensive cooldowns and insane damage. Felt like a damage whirlwind most of the time, and no other class has come close since. So, should I just stick with that sentinel and give up with making alts, or can anyone give me any advice? I am primarily a PVPer, but I will level through both PvE and PvP, since it's faster and easier.

Gonna butt in here. I run FP/Ops in Battlemaster and I've never had any issues. I put out fine dps despite expertise being useless. I do have 4 columi and 1 rakata piece, but I don't bother switching out for HM FP, no point at all. For HM ops? Yeah, I'd probably switch out.

Going dark side with any republic is awful. Most conversions go something like this - Them - Please, I need help with <something> Me - I don't care, that's lame. Them - Oh please, I heard you're really awesome *Errr wut? I'm 8k dark side points, hardly town hero...* Me - Nope. Lame. Them - Ahha, this is a quest, if you want this, and the XP it rewards, you HAVE to be nice. Me - *Accept quest* <Lame *** light side phrase>. You can't be dark side republic, it doesn't work. All the conversations make you be the stupid saviour of the galaxy eventually.

One sentinel with watchman spec can do every single one. Optimize your group.

But you can prevent a whole team, since you can tabdot them all with super long dots while surviving due to far too much cc and utility.

With you bro. Free month, debated on re-subbing but did in the end, hit 50, started the valor grind, didn't even reach BM. 3 days left, cancelled and I don't even log in now. It's sad, cause I love SW and the whole IP. Launching with so little pvp content in 2012 is dumb. If we wanted pve we'd buy ME3. MMO's need strong pvp content. Yes, cater for the carebears, hell, even I raided a few times in SWTOR, but 3 wz and a failplanet is not gonna cut it.

This, actually. Obi and Qui-gon speed off from two droidekas? For real? They can fight and kill Maul (sure, qui-gon fell asleep and died, but hey...), but some scrap metal with a small shield isn't even worth the attempt? Same with arena on geonosia. "We're jedi, strong in the force. But we can't undo these handcuffs with the force, oh no. I mean, I throw stuff around, crush stuff, push hude loads, and the dark side, man you should see what they can do, lightning, choking, flying, but handcuffs? Well out of the force's capabilities, sorry. What's that? Leap to the top of the pole? No can do, sorry. Not sure why though..." Also, the scene 4 jedi go to arrest sidious. He does some wierd *** vertical flying leap and kills 3 of them in 1 hit each."Hurp, someone overdose on sleeping tablets last night guys? What's up, heavy night in the cantina? Better lay off that juma juice or Sidious gona crap on you again. All that training to reach master and the 3 of you were little better than dolls in a window." It's like this. Jedi vs Sith - Super powerful, amazing duelist (See Obi/Anakin on Mustafar). Jedi vs anything else - Piss weak, lucky to survive. Spends more time running and hiding that actually doing something. (See Obi/Quigon getting to naboo from droid ship.)

Nah. They don't have half the cc sorcs do.

That no-one but combat spec (read: gimped in pvp spec) uses for the root. Woah, amazing.

This, but sub 2 wz for 5 mins. Logged in. Won 2 wz. Joined a civil war, 2 monkeys went right, 2 went left and 3 went mid, 7 man team. Result? Mid lost, right lost, left lost. 3 cap instantly? Leave. Log off.

Fixed that, you forgot a bit.

Dude, celebrate. Sentinel is one of the only classes that can do it solo. Challenged my sage mate to do it, he tried 3 times, all different saet-ups and couldn't. Trooper mate couldn't either. Celebrate.

No, they just piss out gear at every run. Normal mode EV can be blown through in no time at all, and it pisses out about 12 columi pieces per run, does a weekly quest that pisses out more columi tokens and drops a **** ton of tionese crap all over, along with more gear. HM EV is the same, drops gear like it's going out of fashion, columi and rakata with ease.

Post about broken ability containing no numbers, no repeat tests, no credibility, and blind assurance that you are right. You'll forgive us for not wasting any time on this one then?