Your apm is fine he's confusing sharpshooter with dirty fighting. With sharpshooter your apm should be around 40. With dirty fighting 30-34 is fine. You can see here one of the top parses on the dps thread in the oprations sections : http://www.torparse.com/a/651762/time/1397978222/1397978481/0/Overview Comparable apm. Now you won't be able to get as much dps as him because that parse is from 2.7 with the relic bug so best you could do is probably 100-200 lower if your as geared as him. He probably also parsed for a while so that one must have good crits numbers so an average parse could be a little lower. So 3500-3600 could be good average 3700-3800 could be a great parse with a little luck.

And the devs have said in one of the last Q&A that dps balancing and utility balancing are 2 different things. They also said utility balancing isn't that good right now, but it should not interfere with dps balancing. So snipers need to stay good while they find a way to boost utility of other classes

NiM - Brontes Sogimod - Markmanship - 36/4/6 - Forge- 2475.59 http://www.torparse.com/a/693460/19/0/Overview same ARM as last time

NiM - Gate Commander Draxus Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- 3084.67 http://www.torparse.com/a/684666/11/0/Overview NiM - Grob'thok Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- 3561.56 http://www.torparse.com/a/684666/20/0/Overview same ARM as last time

so wasn't able to beat my lethality parse yet... figured I'd give mm a shot Guild : Forge Sogimod - Sniper - Marksmanship - 36/4/6 - 3610.69 - 4:36.561 AMR - http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/440a1974-dd26-4d75-8866-8aeb742d2edd Parse - http://www.torparse.com/a/680430/29/0/Overview

NiM - Grob'thok Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- 3482.1 http://www.torparse.com/a/678580/18/0/Overview same ARM as last time

Guild : Forge Sogimod - Sniper - Lethality - 5/5/36 - 3789.13 - 4:23.803 AMR - http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/8548cc85-821d-4368-8022-5f0dedc78a3c Parse - http://www.torparse.com/a/670523/1/0/Overview

NiM - Nefra Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- AMR- 3576.02 NiM - Draxus Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- AMR- 3056.74 NiM - Grob'thok Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- AMR- 3140.84 NiM - Corruptor Zero Sogimod - Lethality - 5/5/36 - Forge- AMR- 3151.61

Nefra NiM Sogimod - Lethality- Forge - 3576.02 dps http://www.torparse.com/a/668103/2/0/Overview

Just a suggestion For MM and might also fix a problem for snipers in general in PVP. What if we take out diversion from mm tree and give it to every sniper. They could even put it as an aoe (or buff in some other way), that would give snipers the cooldown they need to survive (accuracy working against force/tech unless I'm mistaken). By taking diversion out, it would open the spot for a new ability that could fill the hole in the MM rotation. Might be too big of a change but still.

Raptus Sogimod - Lethality Sniper - Forge - 2399.87 http://www.torparse.com/a/628531/9/0/Overview

thanks for all the help, was able to get to 3600 with a couple of mistakes, so I'll keep practicing for the rest

Thanks for the input. I'm normally between 30-50 ms ping wise, so don't think latency is an issue. I will try to work on my fillers, but with a GDC of 1.5 minimum would wou give 40 apm, and snipers having abilities that take more than 1.5 seconds series of shots and cull almost 3 seconds, how can those people get 40 apm? I could understand 35 ish

Just realized my lethality parse was linking to someone else (I was trying to compare myself to him) and he was doing great dps. Edit top post with my parses only. So I've been trying and changing stuff, but can't figure out what goes wrong and when i try and compare my rotation to someone else second by second, it's hard because lots of damage is poison and it's all the same in the parse (can't see when it's the grenade or the dart).

Ok so I'm getting close to 3400 parse wise on dummy with almost bis gear (missing relic and 1-3 enchancement or armorings). Here is my guy : http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/9b4a4bf0-6415-4c95-ba76-e0ccf60e42c0 and here is my lethality parse : http://www.torparse.com/a/623716/3/0/Damage+Dealt hybrid parse : http://www.torparse.com/a/624644/3/0/Damage+Dealt So am I doing something wrong with my rotation, or is it just unlucky crits? or am I just not doing enough apm? (in which case what can I do to boost it)