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Mal-Sharran

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  1. Please excuse my ignorance, but Second Wind heals for 10% of your health. For it to heal you for 3.5k, you'd need 35000 health, which currently is impossible. Was this a typo, or can it crit? Is it affected by expertise/power? 10% of my 17k is only 1.7k, which is pitiful and not worth it. But 3.5k combined with a warzone medpac...that'd be beastly. *only been Focus twice, fun tree but I prefer Watchman, and both times I skipped this talent because it sounded, purely from the tooltip, to be subpar*
  2. Oh god, a ginger Sentinel. Now that is truly scary.
  3. I can't offer anything really constructive, other than to say there is no 'waiting period' between getting 4 stacks of Singularity and using them. I was Focus less than two weeks ago, was doing 3.7k Sweeps pretty frequently. Never had an issue with consuming my stacks of Singularity, so you may want to ticket a GM.
  4. ..........troll, or serious? In case you're serious, and Dog help you if you are, you need to know you can't stack Caut. ..........................and as I said, specifically.........................................you always do Caut before Merc. Like I said. In the post you quoted. I smell a troll......
  5. This is just me speaking, but I've never once, ever in the history of my Sentinel, had Dispatch not hit. Just sayin.
  6. I actually agree, I <3 the Force Kick animation above any other (except Rocket Punch on a BH, but that's neither here nor there) and I'd love for it to be a damaging ability. Mid range damage and a 1 second knockdown or something. Something so awesome, relegated to an interrupt that does NO damage...just seems odd that a kick to the face doesn't hurt.
  7. There is a method to the madness too. Just like the above poster showed, you always want to use Cauterize before Merc Slash when possible, because of the talent Mind Sear which gives Merc Slash a 66% chance to reset Cauterize. Keeping Cauterize up is very important for maximizing damage output. When I first started doing Watchman, I would do this... Leap Overload Zealous Merc Caut (switched them) That way, Cauterize applied the final stack of OS and the two dots were perfectly synced, they would both run their course at the exact same time. I found the symmetry appealing to my ocd. But this does ultimately lead to a loss of dps, so do not fall into this habit.
  8. Kira is pure Willpower, nothing but. Gear her like you would gear a Sage/Shadow. She wants Willpower/Accuracy/Crit/Surge (eventually, while still leveling, just give her Willpower/Accuracy). I always took commendations, because commendation gear was usually the absolute best you could attain, although when the quest reward was COMPANION specific gear, I'd give it to my companions. Keeping them geared is as vital as keeping yourself geared. Never take a green armor for yourself over a commendation (always use your best judgement though, this rule works 99% of the time, but there are odd times where the gear is better than a com).
  9. Who knows, the only Sentinels I duel on a regular basis are Watchman, and they end just like you say. I never dominate, it always comes down to a single Dispatch, the winner living by a thread. I'd like to duel you ^_^ Pity we never will...
  10. My highest dispatch in PvP against a Sorc was 3.4k without a 15% exp buff. My highest Merc (you have to count the offhand portion) was 4k+. There is no way Dispatch hits harder than Merc. I've had the mainhand portion of Merc crit for 4k by itself. But, the Focus to Damage ratio of Dispatch is AMAZING, and it's getting bumped to 30% in 1.2, making it absolutely fantastic. For the record, Sentinel is the only AC in the game without a knockback (do Scoundrels/Ops get one? Actually not sure now...). Just saying, one more on top of everything else wouldn't imbalance the game.
  11. I don't want to give the typical response of 'you must fight bad Marauders' but honestly, if you don't pop Pacify against another Sent/Mara, then the people you're fighting ARE bad. I won't dominate a Combat in a duel, it's not like they're super easy, but if you know what to look for it's cake. Oh, that's the animation for Precision, time to CC. Ok, that's over, now you hit like a baby. Oh, you just popped Saber Ward, AWE! Bam, there goes half of your most powerful defensive cd. You're right, it is all about skill, but just like any underdog situation, there is a limit to how far skill can take you before you hit a ceiling. So a Combat, fighting an equally geared/skilled Watchman...the Combat should lose. Pretty much every time. In any normal length duel, I will build enough centering to use Zen at least once, naturally. Then I can Val. Call and use it again. I just healed 36% of my health, giving me 23800 (effective) health, up from 17500. It's just that simple.
  12. It increases the damage done by your offhand lightsaber, which is utilized by virtually every attack in our arsenal. This includes the following: Strike Slash Zealous Strike Merciless Slash Leg Slash Riposte Cyclone Slash Master Strike Cauterize (unknown, tooltip does not specify that it ATTACKS with both, it only REQUIRES two lightsabers, the wording is vague). So virtually everything we use on a regular basis is directly increased through this talent. However...it increases OFFHAND damage, which as you should know is drastically penalized in the accuracy department. So when the offhand portion of a Merc Slash misses, this talent is neutralized. It does not improve the mainhand damage or 'overall' damage of anything. So this talent is directly influenced by your accuracy. It becomes more worthwhile once you've crossed the 100% mark, or ideally the 105% mark. As a Watchman, a lot of our damage comes from dots, which are not influenced by this stat. But do not lose sight of the bigger picture. Once those dots are applied, everything we use is boosted by this talent. I personally maximize it, although 2/3 would be acceptable.
  13. You can't think of Focus management in black and white terms. Master Strike doesn't build, or use Focus, but it does a very respectable amount of damage over a three second period. So say for the sake of argument, you have no Focus, and both Zealous and Leap (your main Focus generators) are roughly 3-5 seconds from being ready. Sure, you could Strike for craptacular damage and craptacular Focus, or you could MS for 3 seconds, keeping your DPS high and then having Zealous ready the instant MS is finished. Finding ways to maintain high DPS while Zealous and Leap are on cd is important. Heck, even Stasis isn't a terrible way to generate Focus, mine does a minimum of 2k over three seconds, upwards of 3k with a few crits. If you Stasis while dots are ticking you can easily do 5-6k damage in that three second window, AND generate more Focus than a Strike. *edit* However keep in mind with Stasis, you build three focus over three seconds, where you could Strike twice in that same time frame for four Focus, and roughly the same amount of damage.
  14. Sadly, unless you're on Daragon Trail, we couldn't test this theory. But you're forgetting, any Sent with 12 Focus built up, especially 12 Focus and 30 Centering, is going to do some stupid numbers. And for the record, if I had Camo or GbtF available, that'd never work...so you face bad Sents. I also pop 6150 health Warzone Medpacs like candy. Combat hits hard, there is no doubt. It's just broken. Oh, what's this, a Carnage Mara? Ohhh, he just used Gore, AWE/STASIS/PACIFY/LEAP (to distant target)...uh oh, just wasted your most powerful 4.5 seconds. Now you hit like a flaccid *****. Tickle tickle tickle.
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