Tank Assassins (and Shadows) are ruining PvP.

It literrally takes nothing to setup 3 stacks, they are instant cast.... you are limited only by GCD.

Why do you keep saying 9% when it is 12%? As for the combat healing threw dark ward is meh. I would laugh if they take out the self healing as it is the only reason why my guild asks me to tank even though I really rather not. This is another reason why you cannot balance a class around PvP as I think the majority of the subscribers are here for PvE as that is how I felt they were gearing this game towards.

I've beaten Madness Sorcs on my Tank Tank Shadow. I can definitely do it on my DPS Tank one as well. The fact still remains they ARE able to do it if they are good.

Considering you don;t even know the difference between powertech and mercenary I'm gonna go ahead and say your all talk.

A lot of people seems to be confused on how Harnessed Darkness works. It grants uninterruptibility for ANY stack, not just at 3. Now Force Lightning itself is limited by a 6 second cooldown, but you can definitely generate a stack of HD every 6 seconds trivially.

Oh, so you mean that 3 players can hard-counter 1 player? Genius. You're just as bad at logic as you are at playing sins.

I dunno... if any class can do it it's sorc don't you think? It's not like they are perma-immune to your KBs and levitate. It's got like a ~40 second CD and it only lasts for ~5 seconds (I don't play my assassin enough to remember exact durations, forgive me). The heal isn't spammable, it's a proc. I mean I'm sure it would be hard to kite them but honestly I feel like sorcs probably have the best shot at it.

I don't? I can't interrupt missles? I can't CC them out of it...? Seriously? If there is any sort of LOS near me when engaging a dps commando / merc, I wil win unless they have a pocket healer, period. I have counters for them. I have none for a tankassin, period.

Oh, my bad. I thought it had to proc to be uninterruptable.

It's true, they have CD's on those abilities.

Do you think we do not?

Optimal setup for 3 stacks would be Wither X 2 + Shock + FL = 129 Force, which requires 12.4s of regen. Due to Wither getting out of sync after your first FL you'll probably need more time than this in realistic scenarios.

On the other hand you can do a 2 stack HD every 7.5s for about 30 seconds before you run out, and most fights are over by then.

There's a huge difference in the time it takes to setup 3 stacks and 2 stacks because the third stack forces you to either wait for another full CD on one ofy our HD generator or burn through Force hoping Energize would proc.

In the training dummy scenario, a 9600 3 stack lightning would do 8229 damage with 2 stacks, and you can throw out two of them in the time it takes you to setup 1X3 stack. Well Recklessness won't be up for your second FL, but the total damage done is still far more than saving up for the one big boom.