The combination of high damage and utilities like Diversion, Covered Escape and especially Ballistic Shield, Snipers are the best ranged DPS to take in most raid encounters (Everyone else re rolled to AP PT anyway it seems #Kappa).

Snipers have always had a reserved spot in most raid groups and with the revival of the “Old Content” this holds true once again with 4.0. Spec Viability in Raids: 7/10 – Class Viability as a whole though is 9/10. This makes Snipers basically gods, I’ll talk more about this down below. This ability has a base cooldown of 3 minutes and is off of the Global Cooldown. One of my favorite things about this class is being able to use Covered Escape at the perfect second to mitigate a high damaging ability 100% (think NiM Dread Guards).” Thanks to 4.0 we have all this TIMES TWO!! Imperial Preparation/Bag of Tricks! Resets the active cooldown on Evasion/Dodge, Countermeasures/Surrender, Shield Probe/Defense Screen, Cover Pulse/Pulse Detonator, Entrench/Hunker Down, and Covered Escape/Hightail It. Shield Probe is used to mitigate moderate damage while Evasion (while in cover) would mitigate massive spikes. We have a wide variety of defensive cooldowns to work with such as Shield Probe, Evasion, Covered Escape, Entrench, & Diversion. To quote the 3.0 Virulence guide writen by Yolo/Snickerr “To live a Sniper must remain in cover. At the moment Engineering is the highest parseing spec on the Parsely ( ) Leaderboards and to be honest it should be because it’s a hard spec to play in an actual raiding environment with movement because Plasma Probe/Incendiary Grenade being a grounded ability it gives it depth. 4.0 Engineering is “Single Target AoE” damage which in it’s self is a weird term and makes actually playing it fun and enjoyable but still gives you a challenge to make you stop and think rather than going on auto pilot.

Swtor sharpshooter 4.0