Planning Ahead - My Sniper Marksmanship talent build

I started a new Sniper alt not long ago, and you know what that means! Yes, another "Planning Ahead" post! Your mileage may vary, yada yada yada. The link to this build can be found here. Again, you could chose to use your points in a different order. I just went with what seemed most logical to me. Feel free to let me know if another order works better! There's always room for improvement. Also, I know there's another build, which I will probably try at some point, but this is the one I chose for now. More info on both builds can be found on SithWarrior.

Marksmanship

Tier 1

10-12 Marksmanship

13-14 Steady Shots

Tier 2

15-16 Precision Ambush

17-18 Ballistic Dampers

Tier 1 (Backtracking)

19 Cover Screen

Tier 3

20 Diversion

21-22 Snap Shot

23-24 Reactive Shot

Tier 4

25 Sniper's Nest

26-27 Between the Eyes

28-29 Sniper Volley (2/3)

Tier 5

30 Followthrough

31-32 Recoil Control

Tier 4 (Backtracking)

33 Sniper Volley (3/3)

34 Sector Ranger

Tier 6

35-39 Imperial Assassin

Tier 7

40 Rapid Fire

Engineering

Tier 1

41-43 Gearhead

44-45 Energy Tanks

Tier 2

46-47 Explosive Engineering (2/3)

Lethality

Tier 1

48-50 Lethality

Planning Ahead - My Juggernaut Vengeance (dps) talent build

Here is how I plan to use my talent points in the Vengeance tree (dps) for my Juggernaut. The link to this build can be found here. I found it on SithWarrior. As always, your mileage may vary. This is just how I see things. Feel free to let me know if my shit makes no sense.

Vengeance

Tier 1

10-12 Single Saber Mastery

13-14 Decimate (2/3)

Tier 2

15-16 Dreadnaught

17-19 Accuracy

Tier 3

20 Shien Form

21-22 Draining Scream

Tier 1 (Backtracking)

23 Decimate (3/3)

24 Improved Sundering Assault (1/3)

Tier 4

25 Deadly Reprisal

26 Ruin

27-29 Vengeance

Tier 5

30 Impale

31-32 Eviscerate

33-34 Savagery

Tier 6

35-37 Rampage

38-39 Deafening Defense

Tier 7

40 Shatter

Tier 1 (Backtracking)

41 Improved Sundering Assault (2/2)

Immortal

Tier 1

42-43 Enraged Sunder

Rage

Tier 1 

44-45 Ravager

46- 48 Malice

Tier 2

49-50 Brutality

The last 10 points (after you get Shatter) could be taken in a different order. You could decide to wait to finish Improved Sundering Assault at level 50 and get better talents before. I chose to do it this way because I like finishing a tree before switching to another, unless it makes more sense to add points in another tree earlier in the leveling process.

Pew pew all the things

My gunslinger is now level 37, and officially my higher level character. I'm excited to finally explore a new planet (Quesh), since Balmorra  is old news if you have a level 20ish Empire toon (or 4, like me). And I'm starting to feel the "omg I want a toon at the level cap!" itch. I don't want the story to end, but at the same time, I want to see it, too! Although I don't know what I'd do with a level 50 character... but that's another story!

I watched the storylines of some of the republic classes on youtube, since I don't really plan on leveling anything but my Gunslinger to the level cap, and some of them were pretty good. Others were boring as hell. But it made me want to see what happens to my cutie little smuggler. And I also kinda want to see her marry Corso. Yes, I know, I'm lame. But they're so cute together.

Also, today, for the first time, I took my Mercenary, respecced her healer, and went into Hammer Station with the boyfriend and his RL buddy. I must say that I was level 24, so I really was outleveling the flashpoint, but we were only three, with the bf tanking (lvl 22 Sith Assassin) and the friend dps'in as a level 18 Sith Assassin. It was pretty easy, except when we aggroed the whole room at the beginning, on the first boss where the dps was low and we hit the soft enrage, and on the last boss when the dps got punted off the edge and fell to his death. It was not "hard" in any way, but it was a little less faceroll than the rest. I kinda enjoyed my experience, though my wrist was a bit sore with all the Rapid Shot spamming. It made me wonder if I'd enjoy the Scoundrel/Operative healing. Or if I'd even enjoy having/leveling a healer toon at all.

Back in WoW, I was a healer for a while, but I stopped a long time ago, when it stopped being fun and started feeling like a chore. But when the bf asked me today if I would be interested in trying to heal for him and his friend, I thought "what the hell, I'll give it a try!" I'm not sure I'd want to go all out healer and heal all the things all the time, as I have a strong preference for damage dealing, but healing sure is quite fun once in a while.

So I'm curious. Which class do you prefer for healing? And why? Do you level as a healer, or do you respec when you feel like healing a flashpoint/warzone? Or are you like me and prefer to punch mobs in the face? Let me know!

Planning Ahead - My Marauder Carnage talent build

Disclaimer : This post may or may not be a fairly obvious attempt at luring readers away from my previous fail post. I was planning on posting this soon anyway. Just sooner than expected! XD

My Marauder is level 21, and as for other classes, I decided to plan how to spend my talent points each level.  It might not be the best way to go, and your mileage may vary, but that's how I intend to do it, and I just thought I'd share it.

This tree comes from a very neat and very detailed guide I found on the forums. I suggest you look it up for more information on all three marauder specs, rotations, stats priority and more.

The link to this Carnage build on Torhead can be found here.

Carnage


Tier 1

10-12 Dual Wield Mastery

13-14 Defensive Forms

Tier 2

15-17 Narrowed Hatred

18-19 Enraged Charge

Tier 3

20 Ataru Form

21-22 Execute
23-24 Ataru Mastery

Tier 4

25 Blood Frenzy

26-27 Towering Rage

28-29 Enraged Assault

Tier 5

30 Gore
31-32 Rattling Voice

Tier 2 (Backtracking)

33-34 Defensive Roll

Tier 6

35-37 Sever
38-39 Overwhelm

Tier 7

40 Massacre

Rage

Tier 1

41-42 Ravager

43-45 Malice

Annihilation

Tier 1

46-47 Quick Recovery

48-50 Enraged Slash

Lightning Sorcerer Spell Priority List

As my sorcerer grows stronger, she learns new spells and tricks, so I thought this was a good time to talk about her rotation, or spell priority list. (All this info can be found on SithWarrior. This is not my work.)

Lightning Strike - to build up stacks of Subversion (useful for longer fights).

Force Lightning - on Lightning Barrage procs.
Affliction - keep up at all times.

Thundering Blast - on cooldown.

Crushing Darkness - on cooldown.

Chain Lightning - on Lightning Storm procs.

Lightning Strike - Filler, used to build Subversion stacks and proc Lightning Storm.

On longer fights,I like to start with the DoTs, (Affliction and Crushing Darkness) and then use Lightning Strike until something procs, and then I go down the list.

Planning Ahead - My Mercenary DPS talent build

My Bounty Hunter reached level 18 tonight, and I decided to plan for her as well. Here is a link to this arsenal build on torhead. I found info about this on SithWarrior as well.

Arsenal

Tier 1

10-11 Mandalorian Iron Warheads

12-14 Ironsights

Tier 2

15-17 Stabilizers

18 Muzzle Fluting

19 Upgraded Arsenal

Tier 3

20 Tracer Missile

21-22 Target Tracking

23-24 Power Barrier

Tier 4

25 Light'Em Up

26-27 Terminal Velocity

Tier 2

28-29 Custom Enviro Suit

Tier 5

30 Riddle

31 Tracer Lock

32 Kolto Vents

Tier 3

33-34 Afterburners

Tier 6

35-37 Barrage

38-39 Power Overrides

Tier 7

40 Heatseeker Missiles

Pyrotech

Tier 1

41-43 Advanced Targeting.

Bodyguard

Tier 1

44-45 Improved Vents

46-48 Hired Muscle

49-50 ??

Did some backtracking to get better talents before putting points in optional talents such as Afterburners and Custom Enviro Suit. There are two points left to use. I'm still not sure where I'll put them yet.

Planning Ahead - My Sorcerer DPS talent build

My Sorcerer is level 26, and even though I'm not in a rush to reach level 50, I do like to plan ahead. Here is how I plan to pick my talents over time. Here is a link to the build on Torhead. I found it on SithWarrior.

Lightning

Tier 1

10-12 Electric Induction

13-15 Convection

16-17 Reserves

Tier 2

18-19 Subversion

Tier 3

20 Chain Lightning

21-22 Lightning Barrage

Tier 2

23-24 Exsanguinate

Tier 4

25 Lightning Storm

26-27 Lightning Effusion

Tier 2

28 Lightning Spire

29 Lightning Barrier

Tier 5

30-32 Forked Lightning

33 Conduction

34 Polarity Shift

Tier 6

35-39 Reverberating Force

Tier 7

40 Thundering Blast

Madness

Tier 1

41-43 Calcify

44-45 Will of the Sith

46-47 Disintegration

Corruption

Tier 1

48-50 Sleeping Darkness

I'm doing a bit of backtracking here because I didn't want to wait until I could take Chain Lightning and wanted to get to Lightning Storm as soon as possible.

The things I do to make Sty happy.

Sty is evil. He made me join the Republic!

On a new server. And join a guild. With people from WoW.

After creating many characters, I decided to roll a Twi'lek Consular and try the stealthy rogue-ish class. (I already wanted to try that - the assassin that is - but since I didn't feel like seeing the Inquisitor's story again, and suffer Khem Val for any longer than I have to, seeing the republic version of it seems like a good solution.)

But apparently all my companions will hate me if I randomly kill people soooo light side it is! All that to please (yet another) foreign language speaking frog.

And my toon's lekku annoy the crap outta me. They move ALL THE TIME!

... AND I LET PEOPLE LIVE!!

/sadface

Edit : I deleted Jorie and made her human because her lekku (lekkus?) were driving me batshit crazy. She is now level 5.

The quests are fun so far, and if the story isn't as engrossing as the Bounty Hunter's was, it's still entertaining enough to hold my interest. And I'm curious to see what the Shadow class is about.

Decisions, decisions

My boyfriend Kizu and I have been playing SW:ToR for little over a week now, and we still haven't reached the level 20 on any toons.

We started our first characters on a server that was "light population", and Kizu decided he wanted to go to a more populated server so we would have more people to run flashpoints and heroic quests with. Back then, my marauder and his sorcerer were level 19. We decided we had to switch omgnow before our toons got any higher.

So we did. On the new server, Kizu started a Sith Warrior then went Juggernaut for tanking, and I made an Inquisitor, my Jori, and fell in love with the class. I loved my marauder, and I enjoyed swinging two lightsabers, but there's something about shooting lightning everywhere that really appeals to me. I rerolled a sith warrior, but she's still level seven for the moment.

When we first did the Athiss flashpoint, we had a mercenary healer. Kizu and I were amazed to see him heal us with his pistols! Kizu instantly decided he needed one of those.

And now, my sorcerer is level 19. But I have to wait for Kizu while he levels his bounty hunter. The quests are fun, but I just did them, so I can't wait to see new content. Fortunately, the class quests are fun and interesting, so it's not exactly the same, but still. I kinda want to see more than Dromund Kaas. But while Kizu levels, I can't do much, so I decided to try a new class.

Since both my warrior and inquisitor are on the dark side, I decided I wanted to see what happens when you don't instantly kill people for no other apparent reason than for looking at me wrong. (I do enjoy that, though. A lot.) So I created a Bounty Hunter, who cares mostly about credits, but she doesn't mindlessly kill people for the shear pleasure of it. It feels weird, actually.

So any day now, we'll be seeing content past Dromund Kaas. I hope.