If you are sith, yeah. rep only has like 40-50 on during prime time tops. PvP community is pretty solid, but sometimes the queues can be long on pub side(and eventually play against pubs, which means imps were picking their nose, or something).

sages get pwnd by melees, whereas DF slingers do not. Also learn to use cover in DF spec.

In grouped warzones, flash will get broken a lot. Against a competent player he will cc break flash. but yeah you can burst a crapton when you pull off flash, or a leg shot on a mlee. .

becasue they think force sweep has a 9 seconds cooldown on a sentinel, which it has not. They removed a talent in the watchman tree that reduced CD by 3 secs as well.

Exactly our experience! Cleared ec, but didn't really use mox yet. Yesterday using mox in EC HM attempt. Consisting of: full balance sage, comm healer, sage healer, 2 gunnery comms, assasin tank, vanguard tank and me as full DF spec . The sage was full telekinesis first, but his dps sucked. He specced balance and was on par with the rest of us. I usually pull ahead by like 1-5%. for the rest not much difference in damag dealt. Remember that every different AC uses his armor debuff, it DOES stack!.

And that is once in 3 minutes. Competent players will Los you. But it's fun if you can pull that of . So basically you are stating DF is better at that point. Ignore me? cool. But then you're dead. DF hurts a ****ton. I get targeted? I LoS you while dotting you up, then wounding shot at the right moment. I corrosive granade 3 ppl that get slowed by 30%. Knight/stealth jumps me? I kick them in the nuts, get a 30% speed increase, dot him full he is also slowed and I'm at max distance. Of course I'm already in cover, so he can't jump me again he comes near again, bam pulse detonator. I'm able to have 3 ppl running at me and escaping them while LoSing them. YOu cannot do that with an SS spec. ALso as a DF you can actually hurt tanks. Dots get dispelled, sux yeah. But wait my wounding shots still hurt for the full amount. after that I reapply vital shot again, no one will notice. Ok it sounds more heroic than it is, but is is possible. The thing is, you make DF sound really bad, while it actually isn't. That said I will spec SS again, because I have the feeling I didn't fully exploit it yet .

Back it up with statistical evidence, and you might have a point.

Actually, you do make sense, because I experienced the same. What is your critical chance? I think it's better to drop XS in that case though! but it still eats too much enrgy if you ask me. Only use it when coolhead is off CD. oh, pvp thread, ehhm. Well I encountered this in pve mainly, but you might get it in pvp as well.

looks pretty solid, especially with your gear. SS spec isn't really hard to play imo. general rotation: (starting with XS, then charged burst and a TS) 1Speedshot--aimed shot-->trick shot-->filler-->filler-->charged burst-->trick shot-->filler--filler-->charged burst-->trickshot-->repeat at step 1. fillers: sabotage charge, vital shot, flurry of bolts, flourish shot, charged burst, kick if you want to be funny .

good, and now on the OPS training target? Which has way more armor mitigation.

Greeting. Yesterday, we cleared Explosive Conflict 8 mans, story mode. Apparently, we are worlds first in that bracket. We had no PTS experience. Just saying, so you're not dealing with a complete derp here . I'm interested in your dps on Ops target dummy. As full DF/leth spec I get around 1250(selfbuff, rakata stim). How do you deal with assassin/shadow tanks in dps gear? They have tons of damage mitigation, they heal themselves( 2 talents and a setbonus of pvp gear), and at the same time they hurt you a lot. They force speed out of your leg shot, have 10m range on certain skills(they don't have to walk that far after you used pulse, or talented aimed shot) That's just one of the classes that can easily kill you. The biggest problem is, if you are against a competent player, you get LoSed like hell. Sages and Sorcs know very well how use that against you, for example. This is all from a SS spec point of view, which I have played for a long time. Well now, not that I have this much problems in wz. However if I duel/play against some guildies they are impossible to kill(a sage, tanksshadow and a focus guardian). This is all pre 1.2 experience though, we probably have much more chance now. I currently play full DF in pvp and OPs. I can annoy other players like hell and also have good kill/damage ability. Topdamage in wz no problem.

I used mox. rakata stimm, only selfbuff, all rakata gear. 2/6/33 full DF build. 491,4 bonus damage surge: 73,08% crit: 37,17% accuracy: 98,09% Tested 4 times on Ops dummy, for 10-20 mins. around 1250 dps on average.

I'm not even gonna try to explain why this is fail.

pretty much this. Content cleared, waiting for 1.2

In the meantime you have to move, see what's going on with the rest of your team and why/when/where the enemies are going to do/be, etc. All that when you are checking your mousepointer to see if you click the right skill(which takes a lot of time and attention, especially compared to when using hotkeys). you are wasting awareness and what not. by keyboard turning of course!