Can you post a link to a parse that has good dps (3800+) w/ 40% railshot crit please? I am skeptical that railshot is at 40% crit. I believe any and all of the flame based damage would be at 40%+ crit, but we get so much free crit in our skills I don't know why anybody would stack any crit (ie <150 crit rating from gear).

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I have also used taunt to pull the adds on Titan6 toward the boss in order to flamethrower the add + boss

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I agree, you can't bank on HO pre-FT. However in certain situations it is also very useful to try and get all ur FT ticks on. I also don't understand your suggestion to wait to proc auto crit? Railshot. Care to elaborate? We were taking specifically about the opening rotation I thought? Maybe later in based on cd,s? Sorry for typos on iPad :-)

Another big tip: Use hydraulic override before using Flamethrower. Prevents you from being knocked back and interrupted.

Rocket Punch and Immolate are not interchangeable on the opener. Immolate makes Rocket Punch free.

You forgot about obliterate (and the rep side version of it).

You sound like a meat-head cursing after every battle. \turnoff

The biggest difference between HSM/Ambush hitting for hitting as hard as smash is that smash has auto-crit so it hits that hard every time. HSM/Ambush hit that hard ~25% of the time. You tack on that smash is an aoe while HSM and Ambush are single target and you get smash is op.

Let me get this right, your only problem is this: "In addition to its previous functionality, Automated Defenses now also increases damage reduction by 15/30% while Kolto Overload is active. NOT OK!!!!" You realize that kolto overload only slowly heals you just above execution phase? That means most of the classes biggest hits can complete mitigate 1 of our 2 cooldowns. And you think this slight tweak to make kolto overload actually useful in pvp is game breaking? lol. you are nuts. This is a much needed buff.

I had 7 powertech AP flamer throwers completely miss in a row last night. Good times

I am sure this has been brought up before, but it needs be reiterated to the devs. The majority of the time, an AOE attack will miss the data cores on Operator. This bug has been around since pre-2.0. The current dps requirements on NiM are such that the misses can be a problem for various classes. Please fix it asap.

I never said you need 4 maras. I just argued that is gives an unfair dps advantage with no downside in current content. Ps. It would be more efficient to stagger the BT's. ~1/min.

A thing called balance.