We had another poke in there last night and the problems we had seem to have been eliminated. I tested beforehand as I noticed a small patch on the way in and while I wasn't quite back to the old percieved level of critting it was up by a factor of 4 compared to my last test. I guess I'll never know if it was just 2 collective off days or they had a small issue in that patch. /Yks

As written we did put it off to a collective off day on Tuesday, but looking at the actual numbers and amount of procs while in there on Wednesday we all noticed lower numbers for both DPS and heals. once thing I have been considering is if they have fixed a bug there, since I could cast an inntervate with 35% crit and in 90+% of the casts I had it crit either right off the bat, in the middle of the cast or when the spell hit, I was putting it down to the 3 seperate times it might pop up. And we use the "Running about like headless chickens" tactics and also noticed people getting swiped while in the rear 90 degrees of his arc. /Yks

About Crit For my money as long as you're down in the 10-15% it's not a huge factor and not something I'd count on for fights. In our group most of us healer/DPS have 30-35% Crit and 70-75% bonus on the abilities which is just before diminishing return starts hitting you heavily. This translates to a roughly 25% increase in DPS/HPS with the added bonus that crit hits gives access to various abilities like my free consumption from innervate that helps me keep force up for healing. /Yks

Hi guys, We were running ops both Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening and the first night we were in EV normal, something we normally breeze through, this time we had a few deaths and possibly even a wipe or two before stopping for the night before Soa. Last night we did Soa with some dificulty and after that went into KP and had BoneTrasher hand our collective behinds to us several times. This group was made up of 7 people who's been running those ops for weeks now and one new person who hadn't been in there before but has plenty experience from other games. Wednesday night we started looking at what the problem was after putting it down to consentrating on having fun on Tuesday and noticed that everyone accross the board had a lot less crit hits than we usually do. No one has made any gear changes to explain this so I was wondering if anyone has noticed something similar? /Yks

Well, at least the amount of people trying to get in looks like it's on the way down. Only 25 mins on my server and come are down to Heavy with the single new on being Standard. I'm starting to join the people who would like some sort of official statement as to why this "Wait 2 hours to play" won't be the case in the long run. "We didn't expect such a run on us" is not really available as explanation while they're only letting people on by invitation from a list they have had running for about 6 months. /Yks