Your posts are a pain to read because you need to L2readingcomprehension. Please actually read and grasp someone's post before replying to it instead of projecting what you don't agree with onto their post. And maybe you should read your own too. Are you confused?

Battle for control of Collector Kezzit in Outlaw's Den? There's been some decent OWPvP there so far.

thanks for the tips!

Just dinged 50 on my Balance Shadow about a week ago. Thanks to Legacy and a few lucky drops, he was full Rakata after last weekend and after last night I've started getting Campaign gear for him. I'm not having issues with the rotation/ability priority and can put out some pretty good damage. The problem I'm having is that I feel like there's a lot of crit on the pieces I have, so I'm sitting at 40% buffed. This obviously means I have really low power (something like 500) and I was just wondering if any Balance Shadows out there could give me the stat RATING that I should be shooting for in full 61 level gear. My assumption is 285 accuracy and 285 surge, roughly, and I was thinking around 235 crit and the rest being dumped into power. Does that sound about right?

Had this happen to me today as well. My assumption is that something with the new "tie" rule on VoidStar made it this way...when it happened to me I noticed the other team had more kills than the team I was on and we lost, despite beating their time by 3.5 minutes. I'll be having a nice chat with CS when they respond to my ticket.

After hitting 50 and becoming intimately familiar with the way the class works, I came to a similar solution (as have many others). I NEVER use Charged Bolts. Ever. As a Gunnery Commando, aside from fights that require some area of effect abilities, I use 4 buttons. Grav Round -> Full Auto -> Demo Round -> High Impact Bolt. There really isn't a use for Charged Bolts as a Gunnery Commando because as you've said, it costs the same as Grav Round, does less damage, and is weapon damage vs. Grav Round being Kinetic. Charged Bolts is really only used by Assault Commandos to reset HiB when Full Auto is on CD, and by healers DPSing after they pop Super Charged Cell. Because there are only two abilities that require an Assault Cannon - Charged Bolts and Hail of Bolts - I actually use a blaster rifle (one of those spiffy bowcasters) because the only real difference is about 30 Tech Power and after being fully min/maxed that won't affect your damage as much as you think. TL;DR -> Charged Bolts is in fact useless for Gunnery Commandos.

bump for sticky. +10 for guide, this will help for when my sent hits 50 (finally made one).

Read your tooltips. If something is weapon damage (for example, Merciless Slash) it is affected by Melee accuracy. If something is a Force ability, it is either kinetic, energy, elemental, or internal damage (yellow damage) and is affected by your Force accuracy. Accuracy section, Force tab, Character sheet: "Chance that your offensive Force powers will affect the target. Accuracy over 100% affects the targets resistance." Alternatively you can open up your abilities sheet, look to the right of each ability and find out whether or not it is a Melee or a Force ability. This will tell you which accuracy % affects it.

yep, generally speaking firebrand should die first, as the enrage on SC (Ultimate Destruction) is easier to deal with than FB's defensive system.

I don't have the formula in front of me (it's somewhere on these Class forums but too lazy to search). But if you're willing to take it without a formula or source, it's 5% of your health that is absorbed, 6% with the 4pc PvE set bonus.

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Hopefully this will be the last post in this thread...clearly this player doesn't understand the game mechanics, and won't shut up until he sees a yellow post. Everyone please stop bumping this thread so he will stop complaining about a L2P issue...

Please please PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but why is there no companion with a boost to artifice crit in the game? I was told the ship droid Legacy unlock stuff doesn't have one either, so I'm a little disheartened. Anyone able to give some insight as to maybe why?

I have found the best place to farm Arch mats (specifically Upari crystal and the aforementioned frags) is in The Tomb on Belsavis. I have a nice little figure 8 route that I've found and about an hour's worth of farming generally nets me a full stack of Upari crystal and about a half stack of Artifact frags, give or take a few thanks to RNG.

I'll have to give this a whirl the next time I'm going as dps (tanking now due to guild needs). I guess some of these differences could be due to different strats (I don't Force Charge in a fight nearly as much as it sounds like you guys do, etc.)