1. PVE Skill Points
2. PVP Skill Points
3. Abilities
4. BIS Gear
5. Bonuses from Datacrons or Companions
6. Consumables
7. PVE Advice
8. PVP Advice
9. Useful Links
   

• S&V – Titan 6: Having an additional 0.5 seconds of Force Speed helps you to LOS Launch behind a distant rock, ensuring that your allies can easily find a rock that isn’t over-crowded.
• S&V – Thrasher: If you’re targeted by a Firebug, you should distance yourself from the raid. In addition, you’ll need to escape the fire AOE that’ll be planted at your feet. It’s preferable to separate yourself from the raid without Force Speed, so that Force Speed won’t be on cooldown when you must escape the fire AOE centered at your feet. If, however, you don’t notice that you’ve been targeted by a Firebug, or that healing circumstances are so challenging that you choose not to distance yourself with much time to spare, you may Force Speed away from the raid, bring Force Speed off cooldown with Force Barrier, and Force Speed out of the fire AOE centered at your feet.
• TFB – Kephess the Undying: Having an additional 0.5 seconds of Force Speed makes it easier to pursue the tank that is kiting Kephess.
  

• Reverse Corruptions|Amnesty: This skill allows Force Barrier to remove any stacks of the force regeneration debuff caused by using Consumption|Noble Sacrifice without Force Surge|Resplendence. I recommend mastering force management without this crutch. If you choose to rely on it, however, you’ll replenish the most force by (1) using Consumption|Noble Sacrifice without Force Surge|Resplendence for four or more consecutive GCDs, and (2) using Force Barrier on the next GCD to remove the four stacks of the force regeneration debuff.
• Sith Defiance|Jedi Resistance: One point will reduce damage taken by 1%, which is useful for bosses that have regular, substantial, unavoidable AOE damage, such as S&V – Thrasher, S&V – Dread Master Styrak, TFB – Operator IX, and TFB – TFB.
  

1. This HOT can proc the Conqueror or Partisan Relic of Serendipitous Assault.
2. In the brief moments when I’m not the target of the enemy team, and I’m confident that there isn’t a nearby enemy in stealth, I’ve used Static Barrier|Force Armor on myself so that this HOT can top me up slowly while I heal allies who are being targeted.
   

1. Force Slow is a more effective slow, and doesn’t leave a DOT that will prevent CC.
2. In challenging warzones, I rarely have time or force for Afflicition|Weaken Mind.
3. Each class has at least one ability to remove or ignore slows, reducing the benefit of this skill.
   

• This instant single-target ability is a large absorb rather than a heal. It lasts up to 30 seconds.
• This ability can’t crit, and therefore doesn’t benefit from Critical or Surge.
• This ability debuffs the recipient with Deionized|Force-imbalance, which prevents you or any other Sorcerer|Sage from using it again on him for 17 seconds (the two-piece PVP set bonus reduces the duration of Deionized|Force-imbalance to 15.5 seconds).
• Using this ability on yourself when you have two points in talent Corrupted Barrier|Life Ward will heal you for 1.09% of your total health every second while it lasts. In PVE, I don’t recommend using Static Barrier|Force Armor on another Sorcerer|Sage healer, because he should have Corrupted Barrier|Life Ward.
• In PVE, use this ability on tanks. Under heading “PVE Advice” below, see the fourth topic for a detailed discussion of using Static Barrier|Force Armor optimally on tanks in certain circumstances. It’s also ideal for absorbing imminent damage when an ally is targeted by an emoted ability, such as when a Firebug fixates on an ally during Thrasher or when Kephess the Undying will pounce on an ally.
• In PVP, this ability is even more important than it is in PVE, because it can be used while moving.
  

• This instant single-target ability delivers a small immediate heal and leaves a HOT that ticks once every 3 seconds thereafter for 15 seconds.
• This HOT provides a buff, Reconstruct|Force Shelter, which increases Armor Rating by 10%. Though not substantial, any increase in defense is helpful. Note that Reconstruct|Force Shelter doesn’t stack, and therefore there’s no further increase in Armor Rating from you or any other Sorcerer|Sage applying Resurgence|Rejuvenate to an ally who already has it.
• This ability has a 6-second cooldown. Since the HOT and Reconstruct|Force Shelter last for 15 seconds, it’s optimal to rotate this ability between 2 or 3 targets. The customary targets are the tanks and yourself.
• You should use this ability on cooldown in PVE or PVP, because it buffs you with Force Bending|Conveyance. You can have at most one charge of Force Bending|Conveyance, which lasts up to 10 seconds. Force Bending|Conveyance will be consumed by, and benefit, your next Innervate|Healing Trance, Revivification|Salvation, Dark Infusion|Deliverance, or Dark Heal|Benevolence.
  

• This channeled single-target heal is your signature ability, and should be used on cooldown. It delivers an immediate heal and 3 channeled ticks.
• It has a 9-second cooldown, which for PVE will be reduced to 7.5 seconds by obtaining a PVE two-piece set bonus.
• Force Bending|Conveyance increases Critical chance 25% for this ability’s immediate heal and each of its 3 channeled ticks.
• Each critical hit of this ability’s immediate heal or its 3 channeled ticks buffs you with a charge of Force Surge|Resplendence, and refreshes the 25-second duration of this buff. This buff stacks up to 3 times. You’ll consume this buff with Consumption|Noble Sacrifice, each use of which consumes 1 charge, or with Revivification|Salvation, which consumes all charges.
  

• This is your casted single-target heal, and it replenishes a respectable amount of health. It’s your default ability for single-target healing when Resurgence|Rejuvenate and Innervate|Healing Trance are on cooldown.
• Force Bending|Conveyance benefits this ability by reducing its force cost 30%. It’s better, however, to consume Force Bending|Conveyance with Innervate|Healing Trance or Revivification|Salvation.
  

• This ability is the most powerful AOE heal in the game. It delivers an immediate tick and 1 additional tick each second thereafter for 10 seconds. Up to 8 allies can receive each tick. To be eligible for a tick, an ally must be within the AOE, which has a radius of 8 meters (about twice the radius of the ground graphic), at the moment this tick occurs. This ability has a 15-second cooldown.
• Force Bending|Conveyance benefits this ability by reducing its force cost 30%. This is significant, because Revivification|Salvation is our most costly heal.
• Force Surge|Resplendence benefits this ability by reducing its cast time. One charge reduces its cast time by one-third; 2 charges reduce its cast time by two-thirds; and 3 charges make it instant. Unless you must use this ability while moving, and therefore need it to be instant, I recommend casting it with only one or two charges of Force Surge|Resplendence. The base GCD for an instant ability is 1.5 seconds. The base cast time for this ability, when reduced by either one-third or two-thirds, is less than 1.5 seconds. Therefore, you can use your next ability sooner if Revivification|Salvation is a short cast than if it’s instant.
  

• This instant AOE heal replenishes a small amount of health to each ally in your frontal “cone”. This “cone” has a 15-meter radius and spans about 150-160 degrees (about 10-15 narrower on your left and right than 180 degrees). It has a 30-second cooldown.
• You should position yourself so that as many allies as possible are within your “cone”. Overload|Force Wave still applies its knockback and damaging effects, so you must be aware of the direction that you’re facing before using this ability to ensure that you don’t knockback adds or break CC. During boss fights, this usually means being at the rear of the ranged stack. During trash pulls, this usually means being between the trash and the ranged stack, with your back to the trash.
  

• This is an instant, large self-heal with a 30-second cooldown. Unlike your other healing abilities, it has no cost.
• In PVE, this shouldn’t be regarded as merely a defensive cooldown. First, on the rare occasion you need a defensive cooldown in PVE, you have Force Barrier. Second, you can usually be patient while AOE healing, Resurgence|Rejuvenate, or Static Barrier|Force Armor tops you up. Therefore, to take advantage of this powerful heal in PVE, I recommend using it immediately after consuming two or three charges of Force Surge|Resplendence with Consumption|Noble Sacrifice.
• In PVP, this is an excellent defensive cooldown.
  

• This instant single-target ability dispels up to two mental, physical, or force effects and provides a small heal. It has a 4.5-second cooldown.
• In PVE, when an effect is of a type that this ability can dispel, it’s almost always better to remove this effect than to heal through it.
• In PVP, this is a crucial ability for preventing damage and removing certain slows, roots, and CCs. The value of an instant ability, which can’t be interrupted and can be used while moving, is high in PVP.
  

• This ability is a small single-target heal with a cast time equal to the GCD.
• Force Bending|Conveyance benefits this ability by increasing its Critical chance 60%. It’s better, however, to consume Force Bending|Conveyance with other abilities.
• In PVE, it’s very rarely appropriate to use this ability. Under heading “PVE Advice” below, see the fifth topic for a detailed discussion.
• In PVP, it’s rarely appropriate to use this ability. First, when an enemy with an interrupt on a short cooldown is glued to me, and it’s time for him to interrupt me, I’ll queue up this ability to let him waste his interrupt on it. Second, in PVP you will have desperately low health from time to time. If you can Force Speed away and LOS, and if Innervate|Healing Trance is on cooldown or lockout, and if you have DOTs on you that you can’t dispel and that will kill you before you can finish a Dark Infusion|Deliverance, then cast Dark Heal|Benevolence on yourself. I don’t recommend casting Dark Heal|Benevolence on someone else in PVP. If this is your only available heal that might save an ally’s life, his life very rarely can be saved. Allies die in PVP; consider healing someone in a better situation instead.
  

• This instant ability adds 20% to your Alacrity, and makes you immunity to interrupts, for 10 seconds. It has a 2-minute cooldown.
• Though no amount of Alacrity on gear can provide 30% or more alacrity, this “cap” doesn’t diminish the benefit of any alacrity in excess of 30% that you might achieve with this ability.
  

• This instant ability buffs you with two charges of +60% Critical chance for certain heals (or certain direct force attacks). This buff expires after 20 seconds.
• One charge of this buff is consumed by each Unnatural Preservation|Force Mend, Dark Infusion|Deliverance, Dark Heal|Benevolence, or Resurgence|Rejuvenate (or certain direct force attacks) that crits.
• In PVE, this ability is a cooldown for single-target healing. It’s usually used in conjunction with Polarity Shift|Mental Alacrity to cast Dark Infusion|Deliverance on a tank who is low. Since the other two healing classes have better single-target healing abilities or cooldowns for such an emergency, it’s not unusual for this tank to be saved while you still have one charge of this buff. But you shouldn’t hesitate to activate this ability because its second charge might not be necessary; better safe than sorry.
• In PVP, it’s optimal to use this buff with a Unnatural Preservation|Force Mend and a Dark Infusion|Deliverance. I often use it with Polarity Shift|Mental Alacrity, but not habitually or as often as I do in PVE.
  

• This instant ability exchanges 11% of your total health for 8% of your total force. You must have at least 11% of your total health to activate this ability.
• Health exchanged for force using this ability isn’t considered damage. Static Barrier|Force Armor, armor, damage reduction, or skills that reduce damage (Life Surge|Serenity and Sith Defiance|Jedi Resistance) won’t reduce the 11% of total health that you’ll lose each time that you activate this ability.
• Activating this ability when Force Surge|Resplendence isn’t available causes a 25% debuff to your rate of force regeneration for 10 seconds. This debuff can stack up to four times, and adding a stack refreshes the 10-second duration of this debuff. For example, if you have no charges of Force Surge|Resplendence, then, after using this ability for four consecutive GCDs, your rate of force regeneration will be zero for the next 10 seconds.
• With discipline and preparation, you should never have this debuff in PVE. Under heading “PVE Advice” below, see the third topic for a detailed discussion.
  

• In PVP, dying restores you to full force. If you or an ally can monitor the time remaining until a respawn, it can be strategic to die and respawn quickly with full force. This takes some gumption, since you must die in time to respawn without catching a full door, but, as a healer, you’ll usually have multiple enemies who’ll be happy to dispatch you post haste should you present the opportunity.
  

• This instant ability lowers your threat by 25%. It has a 45-second cooldown.
• You should be in the habit of using this ability proactively to avoid pulling aggro.
  

• This instant ability lowers the target’s threat by 25%, and pulls him about one-third of a meter in front of you. You can’t use this ability on yourself. It has a 1-minute cooldown.
• In PVE, this is handy to drop the threat of a DPS or other healer who continues to have aggro even after using his threat drop. You can also pull someone out of harm’s way to your safe location.
• In PVP, you should anticipate using this ability to advance an ally ball-carrier across fire pits in Huttball or to pull an ally into the central shelter in Hypergate as the pylons explode. You may use this ability to pull an ally away from a group of enemies who are focused on him, but you might regret it. More often than not, you’re bringing not only him to you, but also those enemies.
  

• Affliction|Weaken Mind: This instant ability is an 18-second DOT. If you must contribute DPS to beat a boss’s hard enrage, your best option is to keep this DOT on the boss throughout the fight.
• Crushing Darkness|Mind Crush: This cast deals immediate damage and leaves a 6-second DOT. It has a 15-second cooldown, and is therefore limited to one target.
• Shock|Project: This instant ability deals respectable damage. It has a 6-second cooldown.
• Force Lightning|Telekinetic Throw: This channels damage and, in PVP, slows the target by 50%. It has a 6-second cooldown.
• Force Storm|Forcequake: This channeled AOE damages up to 5 enemies. Despite its high force cost, it’s useful in PVP for interrupting multiple enemies who are capping simultaneously. I’ve observed that it may not strike an enemy within its radius immediately, however, even when there are 5 or fewer enemies within its radius. If an enemy is a second or less from capping, Shock|Project is a more reliable interrupt (and, unlike this channeled ability, can be used while moving).
  

• This instant ability deals immediate damage and stuns the target for 4 seconds. It has a 1-minute cooldown. Its range is 10 meters, not 30 meters like our other abilities’.
• In PVE, if you’ll CC an enemy with Whirlwind|Force Lift and you’re already within 10 meters, it’s nice to stun the enemy with this ability to ensure that it can’t move or act while you’re casting Whirlwind|Force Lift.
• In PVP, this is a defensive and offensive cooldown. Defensively, this ability may allow you to escape from an enemy who is glued to you. With Sap Strength|Humility, it reduces the enemy’s damage dealt by 25% for 10 seconds after its stun effect ends. Offensively, if an enemy’s health is low enough so that he can be killed during the 4-second duration of this stun, stun him to ensure that he doesn’t escape. This is particularly valuable when used against an enemy capable of stealth, especially an Operative|Scoundrel healer, who will be challenging to kill without a well-timed stun.
  

• This cast CCs an enemy for 60 seconds in PVE or for 8 seconds in PVP. It has a 1-minute cooldown. This CC breaks if the enemy is hit by any damage-dealing ability, including a DOT applied before this CC.
• In PVP, this is a defensive and offensive cooldown. Defensively, you can try to CC an enemy who is glued to you. Though you’re unlikely to complete this cast, the enemy has used his interrupt on this ability rather than one of your heals. Offensively, if your enemies have two healers in a fight, it’s valuable to use this ability against the healer who your team isn’t focusing, especially if there isn’t a Sorcerer|Sage to dispel it.
  

• This instant ability increases your movement speed by 150% for 2 seconds or, with Corrupted Speed|Master Speed, 2.5 seconds. It has a 20-second cooldown.
• In PVP, you’ll have two skill points in Fadeout|Egress, so Force Speed will remove all movement-impairing effects and, for its duration, grant immunity to the application of movement-impairing effects.
  

• This instant ability deals a small amount of damage immediately and slows the enemy’s movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds. It has a 12-second cooldown.
• In PVP, this ability is useful for kiting an enemy who is glued to you, who needs to rotate, or who wants to get close enough to interrupt an ally of yours who is capping.
  

• This instant ability will interrupt the enemy’s current cast (provided that the enemy isn’t immune to interrupts). It has a 12-second cooldown.
• In PVP, this is a defensive ability when used against a DPS who is glued to you, and this is an offensive ability when used against a healer. In either case, it’s optimal to interrupt the enemy as he’s finishing his cast to maximize the amount of time that he’s wasted.
  

• This instant ability breaks you out of roots, stuns, and CCs. It has a 2-minute cooldown.
• In PVP, I don’t treat Unbreakable Will|Force of Will as a cooldown for personal survivability. It’s better to save this 2-minute cooldown to prevent an enemy cap than to preventing your own or an ally’s death. With proper positioning when defending a node, you’ll never need to break the first stun or CC to stop a lone enemy from capping.
• In PVP, another rule-of-thumb is not to use this ability to break a root or, unless you already have full resolve, to break stuns or CCs. To illustrate, suppose that you Electrocute|Force Stun an enemy. If this enemy were to break your stun without having full resolve, he’d be vulnerable to spending a full 8 seconds in your Whirlwind|Force Lift (unless he has a second break).
  

• This channel is off the global cooldown and grants you immunity to all negative enemy effects. You can channel it for up to 10 seconds.
• You can begin this channel while stunned or CCed, which makes it a second CC break. Since it’s a channel, however, you can’t begin it while in motion, nor can you maintain it when an ally puts you in motion with Extrication|Rescue.
• This ability prevents damage from enemies in both PVE and PVP. In PVP it can be more than a cooldown for personal survivability when used to maintain your team’s defense of a node. For example, if you’re the last player defending a node from multiple enemies, prevent their cap for as long as possible, then pop Force Barrier, and finally stop channeling Force Barrier to interrupt their cap as they’re finishing. This buys your team an additional six to eight seconds to reinforce the node. As another example, since you’ll have Corrupted Speed|Master Speed in PVP, if a node is suddenly undefended, you may be able to stop the enemy cap by using Force Speed, popping Force Barrier, and then immediately using Force Speed again.
• In PVP, this channel doesn’t protect you from dying to the explosion of energy from pylons in Hypergate. In addition, an ally guarding you continues to take damage through guard while Force Barrier is active, which I consider a bug.
  

1. 1% Critical from Andronikos Revel|Zenith,
2. 1% Surge from Ashara Zavros|Nadia Grell, and
3. 1% healing received from Talos Drellik|Tharan Cedrax.
   

• For PVE, Nano-Infused Triage Adrenal, which provides 675 Force Power for 15 seconds. This is superior to any reusable adrenal available with Biochem. Adrenals have a 3-minute cooldown. For a detailed analysis of the expected benefit of various adrenals in BIS gear, see worksheet “Relics & Adrenals” in the the Excel workbook available here at the bottom of my post.
• For PVP, Warzone Adrenal, which increases Damage Reduction by 15% for 15 seconds. This has a 3-minute cooldown.
  

• For PVE, Prototype Impeccable Medpac, which restores 5575 to 6800 health and provides a HOT that restores 2475 health over its 15-second duration. This is superior to any reusable medpac available with Biochem. The cooldown shared by all types of medpacs usable outside of warzones is the longer of (a) 90 seconds and (b) the end of combat.
• For PVP, Warzone Medpac, which restores 35% of your total health. This has a 90-second cooldown.
  

• For PVE, grenades that stun can be useful for trash mobs or boss adds.
• For PVP, grenades are very useful.
  

1. Resurgence|Rejuvenate,
2. Innervate|Healing Trance, and, if you have a charge of Force Surge|Resplendence,
3. Consumption|Noble Sacrifice for one or all of the charges.
   

• Static Barrier|Force Armor and Innervate|Healing Trance cost less force and always have higher absorption or healing per second.
• Dark Infusion|Deliverance costs less force and usually has comparable HPS.
• Though Dark Heal|Benevolence is a small heal, it isn’t for topping up allies. It costs too much force, and it merely snipes your or another healer’s HOTs or AOEs.
  

1. Static Barrier|Force Armor is instant, and it absorbs more than Dark Heal|Benevolence would heal.
2. Innervate|Healing Trance has higher HPS than Dark Heal|Benevolence, and its immediate tick and first channeled tick occur before a cast of Dark Heal|Benevolence would finish.
3. Dark Infusion|Deliverance buffed by Recklessness|Force Potency and Polarity Shift| Mental Alacrity is usually more effective than Dark Heal|Benevolence. An ally saved by Dark Heal|Benevolence will remain close to death without further healing; Dark Heal|Benevolence won’t resolved his emergency. Dark Infusion|Deliverance buffed by Recklessness|Force Potency might resolve his emergency, giving you the option of healing someone else next.
   

1. Use grenades like any other consumable. The 3-minute cooldown on grenades matches the 3-minute cooldown on Force Barrier, which is convenient when an enemy is licking his chops anticipating the denouement of your Force Barrier. In general, I prefer seismic grenades, which knock enemies unconscious. When you shouldn’t add to enemies’ resolve, cartel waste or freeze grenades, which slow or root enemies, respectively, are better.
2. Don’t give an enemy full resolve unless this will secure an objective or ensure his death. For example, in Huttball, an enemy ball-carrier shouldn’t have full resolve close to fire pits, because this will prevent pulling or knocking him into a fire pit.
3. Except for Novare Coast, when you’re defending a node, stand away from the cap. For example, in Hypergate, if an enemy can CC you and begin capping your pylon in less than 2 seconds, he will finish the 6-second channel to cap it unless you have a CC break available. In addition, don’t pursue an enemy out of range or LOS of your node, because an enemy in stealth will cap it behind you.
4. Don’t over-rotate between two nodes that your team is defending. First, don’t leave the quiet node vulnerable to join a battle at the other node unless it’s reasonable to expect that this other node will be lost. Second, if you’re at the node under attack, and your team’s kills have given it the upper hand, leave for the node that was quiet while the remaining enemies are mopped up.
5. Focus on winning, not healing. For example, in Novare Coast, it’s appropriate for you to channel to cap though not healing will allow an ally to die. As another example, in Huttball, you’re capable of carrying the ball whenever Force Speed is available, and even better at getting ahead of your ball-carrier and advancing him past fire pits with Extrication|Rescue.
6. Assist with killing enemies with low health. If an enemy crosses your path or leaps to you while barely clinging to life, stop healing and Shock|Project him dead. A reasonable goal is having 30,000 damage and 1 killing blow in every competitive warzone.
7. You’re naked without Static Barrier|Force Armor, and inviting an enemy to appear from stealth and relieve you of half of your health. However, it’s good to give a Sorcerer|Sage ally a chance to Static Barrier|Force Armor himself, because he may have Corrupted Barrier|Life Ward or Backlash|Kinetic Collapse.
8. While there is safety in numbers, there is danger in a stack. Stacking attracts AOE damage, stuns, and CCs, which are far worse than the benefit of any AOE healing.
9. The keys to your survival are using your environment to LOS; your environment in combination with Force Slow, Force Speed, or Overload|Force Wave to kite; Overload|Force Wave or Jolt|Mind Snap to interrupt; Electrocute|Force Stun to stun and reduce an enemy’s damage dealt by 25% for 10 seconds; Warzone Medpac and Unnatural Preservation|Force Mend to heal yourself when moving, especially when your health drops near or below 30%; and Warzone Adrenal to increase your damage reduction. In addition, monitor the battlefield for health packs, and treat them as healing cooldowns that you can use Force Speed to snap up. Without guard, a reasonable goal is exceeding 90,000 damage taken per death in every competitive warzone.
10. Dispel early and often with Purge|Restoration. It’s easier to prevent damage with this instant ability than it is to replenish health by casting or channeling heals. You can also dispel certain CCs, such as Whirlwind|Force Lift. If you’re desperate, Purge|Restoration is also a small heal for yourself while moving.
11. In PVP, dying restores you to full force. If you or an ally can monitor the time remaining until a respawn, it can be strategic to die and respawn quickly with full force. This takes some gumption, since you must die in time to respawn without catching a full door, but, as a healer, you’ll usually have multiple enemies who’ll be happy to dispatch you post haste should you present the opportunity.
    

• This site will analyze your combat logs, and allow you to view its analysis of PVE combat logs from top-performing Sorcerers|Sages.
• I urge healers for operations to use the TORParse desktop parser. Though the MOX desktop parser is popular and out of beta, it’s hazardous for healers, because it fails to distinguish effective healing from over-healing.
• Upload your operation combat logs to TORParse. This site will determine the percentage of your healing that is over-healing. If the percentage of your healing that is over-healing exceeds 50% for bosses on farm or 33% for bosses on progression, identify which abilities are the culprits. Though it’s acceptable for Resurgence|Rejuvenate to have a high percentage of over-healing, you should use any other culprits more effectively.
• I’m not aware of any parser that captures absorption by Static Barrier|Force Armor. Any healing in TORParse attributed to Static Barrier|Force Armor is from Corrupted Barrier|Life Ward.
  

• Crit % = 0.05 or 5%
• Surge % = 0.5 or 50%
• Basic Main Hand Accuracy % = 0.9 or 90%
• Basic Off Hand Accuracy % = 0.57 or 57%
• Special & Force/Tech Main Hand Accuracy % = 1.0 or 100%
• Special & Force/Tech Main Hand Accuracy % = 0.67 or 67%
• Defense = 0.05 or 5%
• Shield = 0.05 or 5% *
• Absorb = 0.2 or 20% *
  

• Dash'Roode
• Titan 6
• Thrasher
• Operations Chief
• Olok the Shadow
• Cartel Warlords
• Dread Master Styrak
• Toborro's Courtyard/Golden Fury
  

• Hit boxes - which bosses will Engineering excel at?
• PVE trailer, how it looks like in a boss fight - video
• Single target rotation (no ambush) - video

Quote:PART 0: Engineering Talents
PART 1: Abilities and Rotation
PART 1.2: Single target rotation
PART 2: Covered Escape and Scatter Bombs
PART 3: Hit the Circle
PART 3.1: Hit Box
PART 4: Parses
PART 5: Sneak Peek
PART 6: Variations

Quote:Damage over time and debuffs
PP - Plasma Probe
IP - Interrogation Probe
CD - Corrosive Dart
EP - Explosive Probe (cluster bombs)
SS - Shatter Shot (armor penetration)

Single target ranged attack
SoS - Series of Shots
Snipe - Snipe (LS - Laze Target then Snipe)
RS - Rifle Shot (auto-attack)

Cooldowns
OS - Orbital Strike
AP - Adrenaline Probe
TA - Target Acquired

• A Scatter Bomb with Shatter Shot does 1600 damage - without Shatter Shot it does 1500.
• Interrogation Probe with Shatter Shot ticks for 600 damage - without Shatter Shot it ticks for 500.
  

Quote:NOW that we are done with your DoTs and debuffs, let's talk about your single target ranged attacks namely, Series of Shots, Snipe, and Ambush.

Quote:NEXT stop your offensive Cooldowns.

• 2 GCDs to put DoTs / debuffs up
• After 2 GCDs use a Snipe or Series of Shots whichever one is available to maintain your Electrified Railgun stacks
• A Rifle Shot counts as 1 GCD or 1 purple box in the diagram
• Use Overload Shot for movement heavy fights to keep your Electrified Railgun stacks from falling off
  

• Be careful when spamming Snipe. Using Snipe twice in a row might leave you energy starved and unable to instantly reapply your DoTs
• Keep SoS on cooldown. It is your 2nd highest DPS ability followed closely by Plasma Probe and Snipe
• Keep your Shatter Shot up. Armor Penetration benefits 6 of your 9 DPS abilities!
  

Quote:PP - Plasma Probe
IP - Interrogation Probe
SoS - Series of Shots
SS - Shatter Shot
EP - Explosive Probe
CD - Corrosive Dart
RS - Rifle Shot - Flurry of Bolts

Quote:

• Plasma Probe and Interrogation Probe both last for 18 seconds. Corrosive Dart lasts for 15 seconds.
• When Plasma Probe ends, you know it's time to reapply Interrogation Probe. After that Corrosive Dart is next. If you do it this way, then the only DoT you ever need to watch out for is Plasma Probe. And Plasma Probe has a huge 18 second cooldown. It shouldn't be hard to miss.
• The "GCD abilities" or abilities in the purple boxes in the diagram, will always be instant cast. Everytime you use 2 GCDs, follow it up with either a Series of Shots, Snipe (or Overload Shot) to maintain your Electrified Railgun. (Exception for when you include Ambush on cool down. Remember Electrified Railgun needs to be refreshed every 3 seconds. Casting Ambush takes at most 2.5 seconds)
  

Quote:Covered Escape Instant, 20 sec cooldown
Roll forward 18 meters, freeing yourself from movement-impairing effects and landing crouched behind cover. While rolling your chance to dodge attacks is increased by 100%. When timed right, can resist any single target attack or AoE attack for the duration of the roll. This can be used defensively to help your healers or offensively by rolling through the boss and not worry about cleave or AoE attacks. What makes Covered Escape so strong as an Engineering Sniper is:

Quote:Scatter Bombs Passive 2/2
Reduces the energy cost of Fragmentation Grenade by 4. In addition, when rolling with Covered Escape, you have a 100% chance to drop 5 Scatter Bombs in a trail behind you. These bombs explode soon after, dealing X kinetic damage to any nearby enemy.

This talent is buffed by your Explosive Engineering and Experimental Explosives. In my gear with 1311 Power a single Scatter Bomb hits for roughly 1500 damage without armor penetration. If all 5 bombs hit a target, that is a total of 7500 damage done. Do not be fooled by this number though! If you look at this pie chart below, you can see that Scatter Bombs is very powerful and can make up almost a quarter of your total damage done.

• Covered Escape every 20 seconds
• EMP Discharge every 60 seconds
• Series of Shots every 10 seconds
• Plasma Probe every 18 seconds and
• Orbital Strike every 60 seconds
• (Snipe as your energy dump ability)
  

Quote:Definitely small: (humanoids)
Ciphas, Heirad and Kelsara
Operations Chief
Olok the Shadow
Cartel Warlords
Dread Master Styrak
Col. Vorgath

Small to Medium:
High Warlord Kephess
Toth and Zorn
Kephess The Undying
Dashroode
Bo Zarram (can be tanked near the wall)

DEFINITELY LARGE:
Xenoanalyst II
Dreadtooth
Firebrand and Stormcaller
Writhing Horror
Operator IX
Terror From Beyond
Titan-6
Trasher
Kell Dragon

• 5 mins - 2951 DPS with Orbital Strike, Covered Escape, EMP Discharge, and single target rotation.
• 10 mins - 2467 DPS with Orbital Strike and single target rotation.
• 30 seconds - 4179 DPS - during a 30 second burn phase. This is doable, ideally every 60 seconds since Orbital Strike and EMP Discharge are both on a 1 minute cooldown and the bulk of that damage comes from Orbital Strike and Covered Escape (Scatter Bombs). This is a "lucky parse" with an abnormally high amount of critical hits. Orbital strike had a 50% crit chance which is 25% more than my NORMAL crit chance.
  

Quote:Operator IX - http://www.torparse.com/a/162518/3

• Adds / mechanics: The small silver adds are easy to dispatch with your single target rotation. The same can be said for the bigger gold adds.
• Boss hit circle / hit box: ✔ Operator is huge. The width of this boss is big enough so that it covers the entire 18m length of your roll.
• Covered Escape: ✔ Your dodge roll will "work wonders" on the cores. If you roll directly in front of the cores, you will roll a few feet forward as you hit the wall thus dropping all your bombs in the same spot. 1:10 of video.
  

Quote:Kephess - http://www.torparse.com/a/162518/10

• It may be worth going Lethality or Marks for this fight since Kephess isn't big enough to get hit by 5 Scatter Bombs as Full Engineering.
• Boss hit circle / hit box: Kephess is a bit small. You may only be able to get 1-2 Scatter Bombs off on him. I haven't tried Hybrid or Marks for this boss but so far I think the spec is viable and does more than enough DPS. I certainly didnt felt like I was getting carried in this boss fight.
  

Quote:The Terror From Beyond - http://www.torparse.com/a/162518/13 (No Void disturbance)

• Adds / mechanics: ✔ Phase 1 tentacles have huge hit circles. Plenty of room to maneuver but just make sure you reposition yourself asap unless you want to get slammed. Did not encounter any problems being on add duty or on tentacle duty.
• Covered Escape: Phase 2. Covered Escape DOES NOT drop you off the platform but "jumps" you into another platform instead. I found that at most 2 bombs will hit the tentacle on the platform. Note that the bombs you drop while "flying" in mid air will hit Terror From Beyond itself but with reduced damage (iirc).
• Tandtrum phase: When you Covered Escape during Phase 3, all 5 of your Scatter Bombs will hit the boss. This is definitely the part of the fight where you will shine the most.
• Note: Phase 1 and Tantrum Phase will be your strongest areas. Your DPS may lower slightly during Phase 2 due to Covered Escape rolling you to the next platform.
  

• Covered Escape every 20 seconds
• EMP Discharge every 60 seconds
• Orbital Strike every 60 seconds
  

Quote:1) On single target rotation - Use Ambush on CD. Include Ambush in your "single target rotation." Ambush will occupy the "purple boxes" and will use up two slots. This means that every time you use Ambush, follow it up with either a SoS or Overload Shot/Snipe to try to maintain your Electrified Railgun stacks.

Quote:2) On talent trees - Swap points from Lethality's Deadly Directive to get Precision Ambush in Marksmanship.

Quote:Alacrity has been redesigned to be a more universally useful stat. Now Alacrity reduces the activation time of all abilities, including instant abilities. If such an ability is reduced below the global cooldown, the global cooldown is reduced as well. Alacrity now also increases resource regeneration for all classes by the same amount that it increases ability activation speed.

Quote:Tumult has been removed from the game.

Quote:A new ability, Phase Walk, has been added. Phase Walk allows the Shadow/Assassin to place a mark that can be instantly returned to at a later time, after which Phase Walk goes on cooldown. This ability is usable in stealth mode and trainable at level 51.

Quote:Force Breach/Discharge (Shadow Technique/Surging Charge) has been redesigned. This ability is now only usable with one or more Breaching Shadows/Static Charge, which builds when Shadow Technique/Surging Charge triggers. Force Breach/Discharge deals more damage per Breaching Shadow/Static Charge consumed. Force Breach/Discharge no longer has a cooldown.

Quote:Battle Readiness/Overcharge Saber now additionally increases the chance to trigger Saber Charges by 35% and now heals players for 15% of max health when used

Quote:Clairvoyant Strike/Voltaic Slash no longer increases the damage dealt by Project/Shock. Instead, this ability stacks up to 2 times and builds Clairvoyant/Voltage, which gives Shock a 50% chance per stack to automatically trigger Breaching Shadow/Surging Charge and bypass its rate limit.

Quote:Impose Weakness:Low Slash and Spinning Kick have a 100% chance to automatically trigger your Infiltration Tactics on a separate 10-second rate limit.

Quote:Judgement/Sith Executioner: Increases all damage dealt to targets below 30% of max health by 3/6%. Additionally reduces the Force cost of Spinning Strike by 5/10.

Quote:Shadow's Mark/Assassin's Mark: Increases the damage dealt by Shadow Strike by 2/4/6%.

Quote:Upheaval/Chain Shock: When you activate Project/Shock, you have a 15/30/45% chance to project an additional chunk of debris at the target, dealing 50% of normal damage.

Quote:Whirling Edge: Reduces the Force cost of Whirling Blow by 5/10 and increases its damage dealt by 15/30%.

Quote:Circling Shadows/Induction: Increases the critical strike damage dealt by Shadow Strike/Maul by 15/30%. In addition, Double Strike/Thrash, Shadow Strike/Maul, Whirling Blow/Lacerate, Spinning Strike/Assassinate and Clairvoyant Strike/Voltaic Slash have a 100% chance to grant Circling Shadows/Induction while Shadow Technique/Surging Charge is active, reducing the Force cost of your next Project/Shock by 25%. Stacks up to 2 times.

Quote:Infiltration Tactics/Duplicity: Direct damage attacks have a 10/20/30% chance to grant Infiltration Tactics/Duplicity, causing your next Shadow Strike/Maul to deal 30% more damage and cost 75% less Force. This effect cannot occur more than once every 15 seconds. Each rank beyond the first reduces this rate limit by 3 seconds.

Quote:Shadow Technique/Surging Charge: Assumes a Shadow Technique/Surging Charge, giving your attacks a 25% chance to deal X internal damage and build 1 Breaching Shadow/Static Charge. Breaching Shadows/Static Charge stack up to 3 times and increase the damage dealt by your next Force Breach/Discharge. This effect cannot occur more than once every 4.5 seconds. Requires a double-bladed lightsaber or electrostaff. Does not break Stealth.

Quote:Whirling Edge has been replaced with Shadows/Electric Ambush. Force Potency/Recklessness has a 50% chance per point to build 3 Breaching Shadows/Static Charge. Additionally, exiting combat reduces the active cooldown of Force Potency/Recklessness by 30 seconds per point.

Quote:Psychokinesis/Torment: Reduces the Force cost of Double Strike/Thrash, Spinning Strike/Assassinate and Clairvoyant Strike/Voltaic Slash by 1/2 and Project/Shock by 6.