7.8 Scrapper / Concealment SWTOR Guide

As stated above, we can only hold 2 Upper Hands.  It can be wise to hold onto one of those charges, or be ready to immediately regenerate one, as having 1 UH increases our Critical Chance by 5%.  Always try to keep UH up on your buff bar for this reason.

If used from stealth, back blast generates an upper hand.  As such, we use this as our first ability in our opener to come out of stealth with an upper hand already generated.

Pugnacity is a huge Offensive/Defensive Cool Down as well as a self-heal.  It increases our Alacrity by 10% for 20" heals us for 5% health every 3" (about 30% HP) as well as a Damage Reduction of 20%.  Oh, and of course it generates an Upper Hand.

From our passive skills, Sucker punch will generate an upper hand from the flying fist passive.  We have to have a bleed active on the target when we use sucker punch.  Cannot occur more than once every 10".

Last on the list is Brutal Shots itself.  While typically it eats an UH, If Brutal shots consumes the final UH in the stack, it refunds it (cannot occur more than once every 10") as such I always try to make sure if I am eating all UHs, I use Brutal shots to do it.

Our Gap Closer generates an Upper Hand.  I use this frequently when other UH generating abilities are on cool down and I want to continue or start hitting Brutal Shots for fillers.

Sucker punch is our main filler and sole need of our upper hands.  We should make it a priority anytime we are hitting 2 upper hands as to not waste them.

Our Raid Buff.  Raid Buffs when used provides all friendly players in your ops group within 40 meters of you the benefit of the Buff.  Stack the Deck increases Critical Chance by 10% for 10".  Unlike the Sage or Commando, we do not have to pick our Raid Buff from a list of skill points.  We have it by default and have to make no decisions to lose something to take it.  Ideally, if there is a Scoundrel Healer in the group, they should be the one using the Raid Buff as they generate Upper Hands far easier than we do.  If the Ruffian uses the Raid Buff, it is a minor DPS loss.

Cool Head gives you one free get out of energy jail free card.  If we are not using Flurry of Bolts in our priority system to help with energy regeneration, or not using Pugnacity as close to on cool down as possible, we may suffer from some energy issues.

A strong defensive ability.  This increases your chance to dodge (not take damage) melee and ranged damage by 200% for 7 seconds.  It also acts as a self-cleanse.

This ability puts an absorb screen on us, that absorbs 32k damage.  Stays active for 10 seconds or until the damage threshold is reached.  Gives us a 15% for 6" DR when it collapses.

This ability makes the scoundrel very fast on its feet.  Effectively able to "roll out" of AoE circles quickly.  I use this practically on cool down when on the move.  While rolling, your chance to dodge melee and ranged attacks is increased by 100% as a scrapper, making this very effective at dodging high damaging attacks if timed correctly.

Pugnacity is a huge Offensive/Defensive Cool Down as well as a self-heal.  It increases our Alacrity by 10% for 20" heals us for 5% health every 3" (about 30% HP) as well as a Damage Reduction of 20%.  Using Pugnacity as a Defensive cool down is sometimes needed due to the class's lack of excellent defensives.  It is a DPS loss to do so, but so is dying ;)