Haha, possible troll??? This is true as you can see from every Nerf OPs and Scoundrels thread on the PvP forums. Nerf bat inc for sure. As stated by a previous poster, the 2/8/31 spec for a Pyrotech Powertech or Republic equivalent is very bursty and you get to wear heavy armor .

Buy a Razer Naga, learn to hit modifier keys (shift, ctr, alt) and 1-5, R, T, F, V, Z. This should be plenty for all of the abilities you want to use.

Just pop on your ion gas cylinder and throw on a shield generator and you can tank pre-50 content ez.

Easily 11-13 medals. Dps medals (2.5k hit, 10 kills, 25 kills, 1v1kill, 75kdmg medals, etc), guard medals (1k,2k,5k,10k guard medals), healing medals from Rataka heal pack. Try the 21/2/18 spec. Very enjoyable and you are able to pump out very good damage.

Bleh, more commendations.

I'd say Sniper or Republic equivalent is kind of like a WoW mage, not OPs since I see an incoming nerf bat to the balls for that AC. Marauders Rage spec or Republic equivalent also have very good burst.

Incendiary Missile, Rocket punch, railshot, jet boost, grapple, carbonize, guard, 3 buttons for stims/abilities to boost dmg (relic, stim, 25% crit ability), 1 button for heal pot, death from above, flame sweep, taunt, aoe taunt, rapid shots, flame burst, tracer missile. I'd say I easily use 18+ buttons at least 3 times per PvP match. Naga makes doing so relatively simple.

Although I do love the quick queue times, the lvl 50 bracket is badly needed. As a champ geared 50 Powertech, a 1v1 against anything below 50 is just a absolute joke, barely taking off 20% HP. Even a 1v3 vs non-lvl 50s is a joke. I am glad this is being addressed and will make pvping on alts much more enjoyable.

Easily one of the most interruptable abilities in this game. And once the BH/Commando is locked out, not much they can do to be effective other then prematurely pop their heat seekers/commando equivalent and hit you with a weak rocket punch/railshot.

Lol, thats cause I don't have other classes bursting me to half HP in 2 GCDs.

Don't feedz dem trollz.

As a lvl 50 Powertech Tank Spec with majority Champion gear... (~50-55% passive PvP damage reduction dependent on which stim is active) I don't think I should be getting hit for 4.5k followed by a 3.5k hit. Seems a little over the top for damage to a tank. The OP/Scoundrel is definitely the class I look out for since they seem to drop me significantly faster than any other class.

Merc in 1v1 as a Powertech Shieldtech is pretty simple. You have 3 abilities that can interrupt their Tracer Missile cast (arsenal spec merc without tracer missile won't be able to kill a Shieldtech Powertech BH). Once you get in close, hit the Merc with a rocket punch and quell when they cast tracer. If they boost you off, spam a couple regular shots and wait for the tracer missile cast then rocket boost in or grapple the merc to you, rocket punches, rail shots, quell, repeat. Most Merc panic since they are unable to use tracer missile and will try to hit you with unload and their heatseakers but this will barely be enough damage to kill you.

The missions don't really have a high return. I'm sitting @ about 360 slicing and the missions take 30 minutes and I *Might* get a return of 1000 credits, 3000 if im lucky. The real money comes when you are on planets like Taris and there is a lockbox every 2 inches of the map. Also selling high level missions brings in some nice dough.

Looks. Also if you happen upon an orange item with better mods in all 3/4 slots, it may be worth picking it up just so you don't have to go and find/buy mods to upgrade all of the slots in your current armor/weapon.