In 6.0 is Establish Foothold that much better in PvE?

 

Established Foothold centers around Entrench and only applies the DPS bonuses while in entrench. But in a Boss fight I generally have to move quite often so I'd lose the bonuses.

 

Precise Targeter reduces Laze Target and gives extra. Is that useful? It reduces Target Acquired by 15 seconds, but the original cooldown is quite long even with high alacrity.

 

Any opinions? I have both sets, but I haven't modded or augmented them completely and needed advice before I spend tons setting them up further.

EF should be better, IIRC there's a MM passive thats guves you ~4 secs of Entrench which should trigger the set buff when you use roll.

Thanks. That's a good point.. I'll go with EF

I use Precise Targeter, but I couldn't really say which is better.

For all sniper specs pve:

Establish foothold

You won't even notice the cd for entrench, it gives a 15% damage bonus and makes energy management none existent. You will also want the agitating energies tactical for single target damage.

 

PvP sets per spec

Marksman - (Burst) restablish range / B-0 differential target tactical. (Sustained) establish foothold / agitating energies tactical

Engineering - (Burst) precise targeter / T0-R0 ionic disharge tactical. (Sustained) establish foothold / ruthless interrogation tactical.

Virulence - establish foothold regardless of tactical