TL;DR: Premades are better than PUGs.

ETA was March. At least a month ago. But whether in the beginning, the ides, or the end of March, is not known.

If you are Empire, the try hardmodes: 1. Black Talon 2. Boarding Party 3. The Foundry If you are Republik, the order is like: 1. Taral v 2. Maelstrom Prison 3. Esseles For both: 4. Directive 7 5. The Battle for Ilum 6. The False Emperor 7. Kaon Finish your class quest. Then you will get two quests on the fleet (republic it is a fat twilek and a vending machine next to him). They will lead you to Ilum and Belsavis. Both have a quest series to finish and along you get dailies. You get - warzone commendations for warzones. You can change them into another currency. You need 200/200 of both to buy a champion bag. - Daily/weekly quests for warzones and Ilum. Dailies reward 1 bag, weeklies 3. In the champion bags there are centurion and champion commendations. Use these to buy equipment in the fleet, next to the pvp quest vending machine. Join a guild with active players doing PvE content or PvP premades and using a TS or Ventrilo server. It greatly enhances enjoyment and quality of play.

Whatever. This is subjective. Feel free to provide your own ranking. On republic side there is Taral V and Maelstrom, then there is Esseles, and then the rest.

If you are Empire, the order is like: 1. Black Talon 2. Boarding Party 3. The Foundry 4. Directive 7 5. The Battle for Ilum 6. The False Emperor 7. Kaon If you are Republik, the order is like: 1. Taral v 2. Maelstrom Prison 3. Esseles 4. Directive 7 5. The Battle for Ilum 6. The False Emperor 7. Kaon The order is the order of seubjective difficulty. The difference isn't that high, as soon as you cleared one or two and got a few artifacts, you can basically go wherever you want to. You need at least Level 50 blue gear, better to have a few artifacts sprinkled in. You might try normal 8-Mans as well. Eternity Vault is definitely puggable if you done a few hard mode flashpoints. So, concerning PvE content, there is quite some stuff to do, and it is fun. The gear in itself is not that much of a reward, but the speeders are nice. The best way to get gear is normal mode 8-mans, where you get T2 rather easily. I highly recommend joing a guild that likes to go into PvE-dungeons. Furthermore, switch sides (if you are not on a high population server, go there!) and level one or two alts with classes that interest you. On the first alts or whenever you run out of new content, play some PvP. It is fun. More so when having (online)-friends and a TS server to play it together. All of that will not last forever, but for the beginning 50, there is a lot to try and to do.

So at last we were able to our first guild-only 8-man raid in the Eternity Vault. Yes, we are a casual guild. So it took some time to be level 50 for this. And yes, I am aware that most of these issues are well known. First Fight, first try, down. Great start. Next up Gharj, who toasts us. In the second try, he bugs. He doesn't leave his platform, until the last set of adds comes. Of course we down him. Irritated, but not unhappy. Then the puzzle. We stand there and wait for being able to turn. And wait. And wait. 2-3 minutes, no possibility to turn the wheels. Of course we get overwhelmed by the spawns. This is repeated twice, until we have a bug free fight and succeed. Next the Infernal Council. We choose the wrong targets, the tanks are on the 73k mobs. It takes too long, the fight resets. We change targets, so tanks go to the 55k mobs. The tanks start the fight with the debuff. This happens twice, until we change back again and succeed. Then comes Soa, he who was called the Bugmaster 1000 years ago. Missing platform pieces in the starting platform, plus the 5th platform never comes. After 4 tries with the platform always missing we stop. Happened to me already in a pickup group, same platform. We really looked around, compared to videos, no, the platform wasn't where it was supposed to be. Waited for it until the current platform crumbled beneath our feet. So, after 2 Months, the basic endgame raid (and it really is basic, since it was a piece of cake, even for us casuals) is bugged as hell. A bug now and then can happen. But having ALMOST EVERY SINGLE BOSS bugged (except for the first), had us shake our heads in disbelief. Makes you really wonder if BW/EA shouldn't spend more money on bugfixing and less on TV ads.

Also bei mir läuft das Abo Mitte April aus. Da mir das Spiel sehr gefallen hat, habe ich mir 3 monate gegönnt (bzw. BW das gegönnt). Inzwischen schauts eher mau aus. PvP ist nett, Hardmode Dungeons machen auch Spass. Nur der ganz große Reiz mag sich nicht einstellen. Auch und vor allem der Customer Service, insbesondere in Bezug auf die fps Problematik, ist hier ein Problem. Dazu kommt allgemein ein zu überschaubares und eintöniges Endgame. Vor allem auch ein zu leichtes. Es gibt keinerlei Reiz, keinerlei Herausforderung. So im Sinne von (sorry für den Vergleich) Blackwing Lair bei WoW. Da sind wir reingegangen, zu 40st, und haben aufs Maul bekommen. Immer und immer wieder. 2-3 Monate, bis wir das clear hatten. Ok, das war mit 40 Leuten, ok, damals waren die Spieler allgemein nicht so erfahren und gut im Zocken. Aber gibt es sowas hier? Also wenn ich im Easy mode in einer PUG am ersten Abend durch den Eternity Vault renne... dann stimmt doch was nicht. Und das einzige, woran man scheitert, die Bugs sind. EDIT: Ich hoffe allerdings auf Patch 1.2. Da ändert sich ja einiges. Von PvP bis Crafting.

We don't have any channeled heals. 2 with cast time, 2 instants, 1 instant HoT on damage. Shield mitigates 25%. You can still "interrupt" by stunning when it's up. It is 12 seconds on cd of 2 minutes. I can, however, still die to burst. So... when focused, it is really not much use, you die anyway. What more can I say, other than "l2p".

Whenever I hear about Pod Racing I have to think of Gungans and Wesley Crusher ääähhhh, little now it alls. And then it starts to itch between my butt cheeks, as if I am just about to have a bout of explosive diarrhea.

My bubble gives me interrupt immunity. So i usually break my second stun, bubble with full resolve and healmyself up to full. And when the bubble is gone I may have done 2000 damage to you. Really frightening, isn't it? Without that, every dd would kill me whenever he wants to. Every single time. It'd be like Stun. Stun. Bubble heal... interrupt. No heal possible, pushback heal stun die. With interrupt immunity i at least have a chance to get help or run away. Thats with a commando.

amazing. As a commando healer, while being quite tough, i dont see how this class is overpowered. As soon as someone with the same gear is on me, i have to stop healing to sirvive. Plus with bubble on cd i am easy prey for every dd, ranged or melee. My healing output, while quite something when undisturbed, is less than a sorcs. In PvE I have a hard time as soon as multiple people get damage. Same in PvP. As soon as Mercs / Commandos got more than average numbers, DoT classes could easily counterbalance that, since purging has cd and damage on mutiple targets is tough to handle. If not impossible. Furthermore there is no healer class as vulnerable to interrupts. A well timed one shuts our healing down. Chances are, if you cant bring down a merc or cpmmando, your gear is bad, your interrupts are badly timed and you are not able to stay on a target until its dead.

I can only judge the overpoweredness from my personal point of view. Which is the one of a Commando Healer. Since I do not know the fine points of the hybrid spec, I cannot add to that. Apart from "I have a hard time to hybrid, since my best stuff is top-tier". Concerning overpoweredness of cc I cannot add anything. Only thing commandos have is QQ.

Are you kidding me? Turn off shadows. Nuff said.

For a sorc you have to do about 30k damage. How many classes can say that about themselves?

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Had a crash to desktop yesterday. Sucked. So I have about 45 minutes of time, wanted to do the daily (which turned out as a complete failure with 0/3). Logged in, started, WHAMBAM desktop. With deserter buff I'd had just logged and not played.

EVE. This sound a lot like EVE. It's not open world, but open space. You take your ship, you lose your ship. Well, you can have insurance, though, but it costs. There isn't much that is less carebear than EVE.

This might be true on maxlevel, but when leveling this is just a waste. Costs more than the items are bringing in. Armoring? To the people who don't know about Ilum dailies? What exactly is the winner in selling items for a price that is less than it's material costs? Last time I tried, I sold Promethium for 13280. That much is true.

Concerning mobility: I have three instant heals: 1. Hammer Shot. I cannot use this one on myself, and hardly on others in pvp (because of the "Look. I am a healer. Here I stand. Please focus me now!" message it sends, which isn't worth the effort for 250-300 ticks) 2. Bacta Infusion Really good spell, don't know of a better single target heal. Crits for something around 2.5 k. Instant, no resources. Quite a cd, though, 18secs. 3. Kolto Bomb Low cd, target AE for up to 3 targets, heals 750-900, crits 1200-1400, improves healing received for target, with supercharge cells 10% mitigation for quite some time (rare). No speed up, no jump, no rescue. If someone targets me, I can stand quite some time. But I will never ever get away, when not in huttball, where i can bump them off from up high, jump into boxes or use air vents to escape. Dedicated people hunt me and kill me. My best bet is to bubble when resolve is full, heal me up with my cast time spells, then find help. Or to run away and hope they get bored or find a "better" target. So it is not that I think Commando is a bad healer. I am just under the expression that, when it comes to healing, the sorc heals better. Plus has more utility to actually win games with great skills (Voidstar sprints, Huttball rescues). Plus isn't much easier to take down than I am, although I have a slight advantage there.

Noone said Sorcs are the only class in the game. Only that they are better than most, and never average, but always better than average. As a sorc you just pull the ball carrier. You run only when you have to. As a commando, my lack of an interrupt is counterbalance by my lack of a slow.

Wah wah RNG wah wah. Change is already announced. Like 3 or 4 weeks ago. Live with it. It'll change. No need for tears.

Yep. That's what the ones with the OP classes have said ever since the invention of the internet. We'll wait for ranked warzones, we'll see the teams. And I am curious how many won't have a sage/sorc in them. Probably not a single one. And why? Because all sorc players are just more skilled. Because let's face it: One aspect of skill is to know which class to roll.

Yeah, right. Don't need to read any further. Because, well, you know, people never use their skill points. And they never put it into static barrier. Making it cost 30 less.

You seem to regard all others as cave men. We know our classes. And many of us know that if filling the same role (DD / heal), the sorc is better. And telling us, how squishy you are, and how fragile, is ridiculous when we see those BM sorcs every day in the warzones, being not squishy at all. Is the sorc overpowered? It depends on your definition. Is it clearly the best advanced pvp class of all? Yes. Especially when you take into account how Warzones are made and how they play into the sorcs abilities. Is it invincible? No.

When comparing Sorcerer to Commando... Sorcerer is just hands down better in everything. - Sorc Healer > Combat Medic - Sorc Lightning / Hybrid > Gunnery - Sorc Madness > Assault This is with a class that has identical roles. So if someone reads this and thinks about rolling commando... Don't. Go Sorc/Sage. You do the same, just better.