Use a raid mark on the Emperor when you engage the fight.

I was hoping Bioware would avoid the play 1 spec to compete format that Blizzard had.

I don't even have Pommel Strike on my bars, such a nice ability rendered almost useless due the stun mechanics in the game, you can only really use it normal mobs.

your like a broken a record I fully understand not using it will work but my question is WHY! should it be that way, it's stupid to deny any class one of their abilities due to uncontrolled events like proc healing.

Yeah I was placed in a group alone after it happened and it was fine, my issue is why should we be and what happens if you have more Sent's then spare groups. 2nd poster - don't use it is all well and good but again I ask why should we? Zen is a good chunk of dps output I use Zen on 30 stacks religiously it's part of my rotation and on a mob with the health pool that the Marauder's have we shouldn't have to sacrifice one of our primary abilities and if I'm not mistaken buffing a Party member gives you the debuff too so inspiration is going to cause the same issue.

I'm sure people are aware of this but I couldn't find any relevant post to the issue, I'd primarily been playing Combat until last week but decided to give Watchman a proper chance after being unimpressed with it in early levelling game. During the Infernal Council encounter I was placed on a Marauder due to me being one the better geared players and my high damage output, I found myself getting the debuff and unable to damage my target for 60s after the encounter reset I'd realised that my use of Zen and the party heal must have been the cause of the debuff so I was placed into a party by myself rather then lose the Burn crit advantage using Zen gives me this worked and we defeated the encounter no further issue, luckily I was the only Sentinel in the Operation but I can see this being a problem if you have 3 or more Watchman Sents. Does this encounter make the use of all Centering abilities useless unless your in a party alone? I'd rather not drop the use of Zen (or Inspiration) for an encounter and surely there could be a safeguard added allowing us to use them, maybe adding a mechanic that only allows party abilities like this only cast on the caster during the fight?