I think it's a big improvement.

Yes, it's happening to my Shatek Relic of Boundless Ages, Mk-19

If you wear anything except your legacy's highest ilevel stuff (in every slot) you are forfeiting gear upgrades though, aren't you? I am coming back after a long time away, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

The ticket I submitted on December 17, reporting in-game fraud, went unanswered for 3 weeks and then just vanished without a trace.

Or you could just have your alts wear the same 306 gear as your main character.

I've done Onslaught 16 times (8 advanced classes in both factions). The leveling content itself was good and alt-friendly. It had a good (short) length and no real dead spots, grindy quests or places you would get to and go "ugh, not this". I felt the story was completely idiotic, though. The Republic doesn't have enough fuel to get its fleet to Corellia? Lolwut? Look at the galaxy map - both of the "refueling stations" are farther from Corellia than Republic Fleet itself is on the map! Corellia is right. next. door. to the Republic fleet base. So dumb...

To appease people, wouldn't the simplest fix on BioWare's side simply be to equalize the loot, so that the boss of Kuat drops more? Or else add a loot chest after each scenario is completed.

I was in a tough run earlier tonight. For the first 4-5 pulls, it was very difficult to get him out of cover/sniper mode. This despite having my Shadow attacking him from behind in melee for extended periods of time. In those unsuccessful pulls, he did eventually leave cover and start taking damage, but we had people dead by then and couldn't push him to the final (upstairs) phase before wiping. On the final (successful) pull, he came out of cover relatively quickly, and it was like night and day. The thing is, I have no idea what we did differently to make that happen.

It seems best to view the patch notes as forward-looking, aspirational statements rather than any sort of commitment to actually fix a given bug by a date certain...

Next-level incompetence...

I've had several variations of this problem. T7-01 attacked me once, but I was already put in combat in Odessan by some other, unknown attacker I couldn't see. That happened while running from Aygo's area to the central area of the lower level where T7-01 is. Killing T7-01 did not get me out of combat. In a couple cases, it looked like I was being shot from under the floor. The shots either all miss, or almost all miss. This has happened in Sana Rae's area and Oggugrob's area. The combat log looks like this (Alaysi is my character): [02:15:05.758] [@Alaysi] [@Alaysi] [] [Event {836045448945472}: EnterCombat {836045448945489}] (Odessen) [02:15:05.760] [@Alaysi] [@Alaysi] [sprint {810670782152704}] [RemoveEffect {836045448945478}: Sprint {810670782152704}] () [02:15:07.931] [] [@Alaysi] [Melee Attack {813445331025920}] [ApplyEffect {836045448945477}: Damage {836045448945501}] (0 -miss {836045448945502}) <1> [02:15:07.932] [] [@Alaysi] [Melee Attack {813445331025920}] [ApplyEffect {836045448945477}: Damage {836045448945501}] (0 -miss {836045448945502}) <1> [02:15:10.434] [] [@Alaysi] [Melee Attack {813445331025920}] [ApplyEffect {836045448945477}: Damage {836045448945501}] (0 -miss {836045448945502}) <1> (continues indefinitely) The rate of attacks is enormous, about 5-10 per second. I cannot select/target the attacker. If I use /stuck to die and revive, I often get put back in combat in the same areas.

There is no "cap" - Defense rating always reduces your damage taken.

I tested the armor boost, because the in-game behavior and discussion in this thread confused me. The Utility does increase your armor rating by the advertised amount. However the character sheet does not seem to update to reflect the gain or removal of the bonus until you relog or pass through a load screen. It's unclear whether this is just a display problem, or whether the actual bonus isn't applied/removed immediately.

I've played all three tanks and I don't think there's a lot of difference in tank stuff for soloing or anything but the highest difficulty of group content (if then). But Shadow/Assassin stealth gives that spec a whole added dimension for soloing ease. There is the obvious ability to bypass trash packs by sneaking past them, and the less obvious, but also useful ability to use Force Cloak as a reset button if you are trying to solo something that is actually difficult (certain fights in Veteran KotET chapters, for instance).

Since the community drones couldn't find it in their hearts to provide any information, or even apologize, we don't know why it was done.

Just prove what jerks they are, their own "Livestream wrap-up" post has no mention of any apology, or any instructions to submit tickets for compensation. Message to affected players: "We don't care, FOAD."

...and a day later, still not even a word of apology, much less anything about compensation. What a shoddy, low-class operation this game has become...

Of course they should not just take people's word. Independent of the character database, they should have record of which accounts logged in during the time window affected. If they have no detailed records, they should give every potentially affected character some kind of compensation, like a stack of soulbound CXP/XP boost consumables. If they somehow have no records at all, about anything, then every character on the server should get such compensation (and they should fire the people who designed such a fragile and fault-intolerant system).

Submit a ticket under every category that may be applicable. You can copy and paste by highlighting text in the window and using ctrl+C and ctrl+V. Yeah, WOW is the only game I've played where the CS system actually does what CS systems are supposed to do - they have helped me and my guildies dozens of times, and they are quick about it too.

I opened tickets for each of my characters who lost levels or command levels, asking for reinstatement. After they tell me they won't do anything, I will open further tickets asking for escalation, etc. I suggest everyone do the same. Creating a huge surge of tickets might get somebody's attention, and maybe eventually those who botched the technical stuff and those who botched the response will get what they deserve. Unlikely of course, since the whole point of the Customer Support/ticket system is to convince people that it's a waste of time to use it, but if they can't even be bothered to say "we're sorry," then I see no reason to be understanding or accommodating.

Apart from tanking stats, Accuracy, Crit and Alacrity are the only choices on enhancements, so yeah...

He was quoting the troll, but he put his reply before the quote...

An apology may not be sufficient in cases like this, but it is necessary. Instead they pretty much just flipped everyone the bird and said "Screw you".

C'mon, who could POSSIBLY remember what they were doing a whole six hours ago...

Mind-boggling that Bioware's Community drones couldn't even muster a simple apology.