After reading the Vanguard Q&A I'm fairly certain BioWare's responses will be something along the lines of: 1) Powertech has like 3 or 4 very-low-damage abilities with 30m range, that's why you don't get defensive cooldowns, DPS or survivability. 2) But SHOULDER CANNON GUYS. That's a WHOPPING 30 dps. No healer can heal through that! 3) Copy to PTS. We gave you more burst. Now go roll a mara/jugg and shut up. BioWare hates PT/VG. /thread

I wish I could link this to every PUG tank ever Bravo +1000000 internets

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that it doesn't happen, only that the progression community doesn't seem as large on this server as on others and it seems imbalanced in favor of the Republic faction.

Well, yeah, there's that. "I'm so sorry for your financial loss" Translation: "Thanks for the credits sucker. Transferring to Harbinger. Peace out!" If it's a problem or you think he's done something in violation of TOS, concisely write your grievances and provide links to forum posts, screenshots of in-game conversations or general chat logs, explain what part of the TOS you think he violated and submit a detailed report to the devs/community support. BioWare has shown in the past that it has NO problem banning people for much less shady things. If you truly think this is aggregious violation of TOS, then you owe it to other people to report it. Will you get your money back? Probably not. If he did in fact cheat and/or violate TOS, will other people end up sucked into his scam? Probably not. Roll of the dice; and you'll get no satisfaction or refund from it, but it's basically your last option- aside from throwing poop on the forums.

Who didn't see it coming?

I've been in raids with people from both Proper Villains and Silent Council and I've been impressed by both! I got my Warstalker title running NM EC with Wisteria and a few other <Proper Villains> after we were less than successful PUGing HM Toborro's Courtyard. We had some issues with the PUG tank loosing aggro and when we heard he was opening his rotation with a taunt we all /gaveup. I'll check out the threads, thanks to both of you for the suggestions. Hopefully with some luck we'll have a dozen raid teams come October and we'll finally be able to take a few server firsts from those stinking Republic swine!

Why is this not a thing? Seems like there's only 2 or 3 guilds Imp side that have even attempted progression and most everyone else is sort of "meh" about the concept. There are 3 or 4 Rep side guilds with 2, 3 or even 4 raid teams. Which is strange, because we have a large community Imp side (Reps claim much larger than their side) and a lot of good players. I've talked to a half dozen people interested in (and capable of) progression raiding.

Holy **** bro

Goodnight, sweet prince. Dead class is dead. Move on. Roll a Sin. That's obviously what they want you to do.

Goodnight, sweet prince. Powertech Born: Dec 2011 Put on life support: Apr 2013 Pulled the plug: Oct 2013* *pending 2.4 live release

So it looks like with the new "no respeccing while queued or in WZs" rules as of 2.4 this (admittedly quite cool) spec's days are numbered, unless you plan on leaving WZs if you don't pop Huttball.

As several others have said, save your Basic comms for 5x [Vial of Stabilized Isotope-5] so you can get a crafter to make you a lvl 72 barrel/hilt. Use your classic comms on Dread Guard Relics, since those are better for most classes at the moment than the ridiculous Arkanian relics. Run HM 50 FPs until you have a good set of Hazmat gear (6+ pieces) Run HM 55 FPs until you have at least 6+ pieces of Black Market gear. Congrats, you're ready for 55 Ops. Also, don't forget, if you're DPS, crit sucks now (with rare exceptions), stack power for mods/enhancements. Stack main stat for augments, ESPECIALLY if you have taken the 9% main status bonus talents. Try to find a crafter in your guild who will make the 66 purple augs for you and buy the Thermal Regulators in bulk for 25-28k each if you can. Also, a full set of 12 MK-9 augmentation kits, plus installation costs, plus the augments is going to set you back about 3 million, so make sure you've got a set of gear you like the looks of before you start augmenting for endgame content.

Our role will be giving the opposing team free wins when half the team drops after they see a PT in their group. /thread

Well, your english wasn't the greatest, but as a PT of 2 years (8 months of beta), I have to agree. We used to be glass cannons. Now we're glass pea shooters.

Player issues in Powertech forums: >No viable DPS specs >Not a viable tank >No burst >No survivability >melee but no gap closers >so few people even play the class anymore that there were no class reps for PT/VG Player issues in Marauder forums: >2 viable PVE specs >2 viable PVP specs >good survivability cooldowns >feelsgoodman.jpg ...and yet BioWare is focusing their attention on Marauders, Juggs, Mercs and Snipers. feels really bad man