i leveled pure healing, (because that was where i planned on ending up anyway). I had no idea how easy i had it until i started running my sniper alt. Just remember your interrupts and you can handle anything solo throws at you, and still be ready to jump in and heal a heroic or instance if the situation arises.

i think you forgot a few details, like which fight you're having problems with.

upgrade your gear, upgrade your companions gear, Make certain you're using all your interrupts and stuns, failing all that....go grind a level or two in pvp/flashpoints/space missions.

ofc everything is about bosses, because everything else can be facerolled through. he's arguing hard numbers and theorycraft while your derping about your feelings.

force beding isn't the problem, that was a bug, we've known it was a bug and was getting fixed, consumption being free was kind of a core mechanic however. that's going to really screw our ability to sustain.

I have to admit, i came in as a panicky, end game healer. But....if we're being honest, it was a little OP. i mean, i can go essentially forever, casting full out, and so long as i'm reasonably careful with the AoE loving, i'm an endless mana regenning machine, never dropping under like 80 percent. Still, to just casually flat out remove a core mechanic of the class, with no warning, or explanation, like on the weekly Q&A.... i have to admit, i'm feeling like they could've at least given us the reach around. Ah well, the cycle of nerf goes on, next time it'll be someone elses turn. I can't really cry too much that i have to do some resource management, we'll see how it works out in practice.

bubble, heal, laugh yourself silly while they tie themselves down pounding on a healer they can't kill until someone comes and ganks them.

I don't understand why this thread is even still here. it's someone crying about some crap on the test server, with no context (how this fits into testing, upgraded crystal recipes in 1.2 etc) . it should have been made in the test server board to begin with.

how're you being forced to run stuff for crafting mat's? you can pretty much skip the crafter gear entirely.

um, that links to page 4 of some random thread.

hang on. the OP did pretty much set himself up to get trolled, by freaking out about a known bug with an easy work around. he probably could have learned that trick by asking in fleet chat, or 5 minutes research of the fight. he did not. he came in crying it was broken, which, while it is.... completely not in the way he was crying about. Then we have the youtube vid "demonstrating the bug" which actually demonstrates a raid doing a number of incorrrect things, and completely failing the last phase of the encounter. he doesn't just reset. he resets after you've failed the encounter, the bug is the lack of raid wipe. all in all, i'd say being a jerk was if not justified, at least understandable.

pretty sure i can't RE anything i didn't make.

HP is being reduced in 1.1.4 according to test server notes, and they mentioned it in the Q&a, it's getting nerf'd.

um. no, you have to drag him under the drills. after he casts mind trap, the tank needs to taunt again. he currently drops ag, (fixed in 1.1.4 accroding to test realm patch notes) but the shield, you're just doing it wrong. get him under the drills, pull your camera out. He despawns if you miss too many drills. sometimes he just kills everyone not in a mind trap first. (we just killed him last night, at least they fixed the bloody platforms)

Once i got andronikos, i never took khem out again, unless the story forced me to. either turn off his aoe's, and cc or just blast everything.

the levelling curve was pretty forgiving. i considered it good customer service. i could either stick to planets, and plantary heroics, or pvp/instance my way up. either path offered an easy level a day from dailies. You only outlevelled content trying to do both. Made me a lot more likely to run up some alts. i never got one past 50 in wow before losing interest in the grind. storylines are interesting enough here that i'm likely to actually finish them.

umm, the AH. khem can wear any heavy armor, not just the stuff that says it's for him. If there's any intrinsic benefit to wearing just "khem val's armor of awesomeness" i'm not aware of it. you get a companion weapons orange quest daily at 50, if you haven't found a vibrosword by then, but seriously, check the ah. i've vendored orange helmets from not being able to sell the things.

you're whirlwinding any strongs right off the bat right?

in fairness, expecting depth and arc at this point after launch is just a teensy bit unrealistic. sure, your allowed to cry that it's not here. That doesn't make it any more unexpected for a game a month into it's life cycle. You and i might understand that a game really starts at end game, that we'll all spend FAR MORE TIME at max level, than we do grinding up to being able to raid. But reviewers don't get that. stockholders sure as hell don't, even half the gaming sites don't. The focus is, and has to be, keeping that opening window open as long as possible, getting as many people in and attached and grinding toons, to establish a solidly profitable, secure base, before even considering major end game expansions for a mature (max level) playerbase. To have already gotten as much as we have is pretty damned encouraging in my opinion. You could always come back in a year when the games a little more mature. All that aside, wiping to bugged encounters really is f****** unacceptable, and completely destroys morale, and enjoyment of the game. The Raids we have are broken. Fix them FFS.

best bet is to get some guildies then. not sure why your trying to convince us. it's 3 other ppl on your server you need to talk into it. We're just explaining why your having a hard time.

with 5 companions missioning, it takes under 200k, and like 2 or 3 days to grind a new prof at 50. take what makes you money or gives you advantages now. changing isn't that tough.

oh agreed, i didn't mean he should skip to the d7 hard mode specifically, just that most people were skipping normal modes of all those instances. at best you'll find a group that's running it for the same reason you are, just to test the waters befroe doing hard modes. no ones grinding it, so there's a lot less ppl looking at any given time.

weird, someone mentioned this in general last night on my server, i just assumed it was user error.

i healed it at 47, it's quite doable. there's just no point. same for all the other regular mode 50 instances. the gears in hard mode. Just buckle down, grind out that last couple levels and you're golden.

the reason D7 is a *****is that run up to 50 currently therr is NO reason to run regular modes at 50. all the tanks who can do D7, probably want to do the hard mode instead. I did the same as you, leveled all the way up using instances. from 47-50 i got 2 d7 runs in, and one was a guild run. Get past this hump and life with hard modes becomes a lot easier on you.