As a sniper/GS, who am I supposed to be attacking again?

Right, being competent at damage dealing is the easier part of the equation.

Damage dealing takes some skill as well. Here is an example where a sniper can choose his rotation:

2 Targets. FT is procced and Ready. Current target is below 30%. What do you do? You can choose between:

1. FT + Takedown the <30%. But there is a chance you will outright kill him with FT, thus waste Takedown and a subsequent FT proc.
2. Takedown the <30% You waste your FT, but Takedown reprocs it for you to use it on second enemy.
3. Switch targets, FT on uninjured target, switch back to <30% target, Takedown + FT him. However you risk here that one extra GCD might allow for weaken target to heal, pop-up a defensive CD or get out of your LoS.

We are talking about potentially 3 instant attacks which can reach up to 15k damage in 3GCD, but if we make the wrong decision, we might only pop-up one FT and deny ourselves of 2 extra high damaging instants. We can play extra safe and go route #2 for 2 guaranteed instants, or we can risk choice #3 and get all 3 instants.

islander how often did you find yourself in this situation?

There is no universal solution here. And this is a split second decision. I don't need to explain how FT procs are key to MM and why we should struggle to use them as much as we can. So yes, damage dealing takes skill as well.

There is no 'optimal' damage output in warzones.

NoTmrw, I do not think your scenario holds much weight although I understand your point. I find your scenario to be rather moot, I would personally do anything to kill the lowest enemy first immediate regardless of whether it is 'optimal' or not. Because for reasons like you said they could eventually give you LoS issues, pop a medpac, use an ability like 'undying rage' or 'force barrier', etc etc. I would rather kill the low enemy then possibly give them the change to stun me and allow both of them a small one duration to simultaneously beat on me, which usually happens.

Trying to force an 'optimal rotation into a PvP scene is a faulty endeavor.

That is the conclusion i wanted you to arrive at, because there is no optimal \ universal solution, this is not something you can learn blindly by heart.

If you wanted to kill your target ASAP, you still have choice #1 and choice #2 available and the consequence to this choice is how you begin your DPS race with the next target after the first one dies. If you can squish one extra FT for your target you are in a good spot.

If you are quick enough to see that he can eat one crit FT and still survive, then you #1.

These decision points leave room for a lot of improvement, and you need to balance the cotrolling with the damaging. When dueling deception assassins for example (they are allowed to start from invis, can combat stealth) i found that it is very easy to go overboard with either control or damage: you dont want to be trailing behind his damage but neither you want to be controlled.

You ain't foolin' anyone who watched yer vids! You fighting in PvP goes like this:

- Stay stealthed 65% of the wz
- Waste even more time setting up a phase walk
- Waste yet more time returning from that phase walk, and trying to find a target that you are brave enough to attack.
- Come out of stealth, instantly hit phase walk in panic
- Hit Force Shoud
- Live for 3 seconds because of Force Shroud
- Force Shroud ends
- You life drops from 100% to 0% is record time. We're talking Warp Factor 9 here.


If the Star Ship Voyager and you in space had a race to see who could get their life bar to 0% faster, you'd win it.

Kettle, are you a short timer? I'm pretty sure unsubbing boost a person's trollichlorian count by 2-3 times.