Sniper

Comments: Locked and Loaded is a great package since it provides a flat 5% buff to damage. Highly recommended.

Comments: The Mini Shield Package is weird in that it is clearly intended to be a mitigation option but it contains mitigation tertiary stats, which are useless for Scoundrels, Operatives, Gunslingers and Snipers since they do not have a tank discipline. I assume this is a mistake and it will be fixed to assign Alacrity Rating or Critical Rating. Even if that takes place, I would not recommend this implant since buffing group survivability is a poor choice for healers and damage dealers who should focus on improving their primary role.

Comments: Active Reload has some value in fights with lots of enemies and frequent target swapping, such as Draxus in the Dread Fortress, where keeping high uptime on a 5-15% damage buff would be very powerful. In most encounters this bonus will only proc occasionally and so provides very little value. Not recommended.

Comments: Energy Regulators may be extremely useful but is it too early to say for sure. All disciplines benefited significantly from the Established Foothold set bonus in 6.x that provided massive energy regeneration benefits, which are no longer available in game. As such, it is possible that taking Energy Regulators may smooth out the discipline rotations and enable more damage by needing fewer filler abilities. It is likely a viable option though more testing is needed to conclude whether it is a better second option after Locked and Loaded than Improved Targeting.

Comments: Improved Targeting is a nice bonus that gives more uptime on a key offensive cooldown. These all have a base 60 second cooldown so a 15 second cooldown reduction will allow for significantly more uses in an encounter. These abilities were also buffed in all three skill trees to provide a range of diverse and powerful benefits. Improved Targeting is likely the best second option after Locked and Loaded, though it is possible that Energy Regulators may end up being better depending on discipline energy management. For now all three appear to be solid choices.

Comments: An interesting tactical but not very useful given the long cooldown on Hololocate.

Comments: Early testing suggests this Tactical causes Orbital to heal for about as much as a Operative Kolto Waves. Could have some use in progression for Engineering due to their reduced CD and rotational use of Orbital for heal-intensive fights. That said, it does not provide any increase to DPS so would rarely be useful.

Comments: This would be broken if allowed to affect Operation bosses. It has some situational use for very high AoE sustained DPS encounters, as it effectively provides the entire team a 10% damage buff.