Tank LFG (or subs) for HM/HM+ raiding. Republic, Shadow, DK/306/blue augs. Available all nights Pacific except Tuesday (could do after 9PM on Tues). Played game since launch through DF, with those ops all cleared on HM. EC cleared on NiM and a few individual bosses after that. Took a break, came back about 3 months ago. Post-DF ops only cleared on SM. Clarin in-game or clarinhodco#2909 on Discord.

Eric, I appreciate your updates, and I know these issues aren't your fault. I do ask you'd pass along some dissatisfaction from someone who's played since launch. KotFE was promised with monthly updates as I recall; the first update is taking around 3 months. PvP and Space PvP have gotten no improvements in forever (never mind space PvE); and KotFE completely breaks the narratives of the content you run outside it. The recurring events are also the same and recycled, and a companion is currently locked behind a broken one. What I find most disappointing though, is that KotFE itself is quite good. The problem is it feels like a bunch of content was dropped at once, and there weren't be ongoing updates of note to game, just Cartel Packs. This is what happened post-launch, post-Makeb, etc. I'd like to see the game succeed, but it currently feels like the approach taken is "drop content, see if that increases revenue, if so, do more." That just doesn't work - people need to see a real roadmap of planned improvements, and to all game systems. Without this, you lose people, which destroys guilds, which guts the ability to do endgame content. I hope you view this as the constructive criticism its intended to be. I don't envy your job, but I've always appreciated your candor with the community. Shayne / The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

That's just embarrassing to blame the relic. It shows a complete lack of understanding, skill, and class on the tank's part. The proper, gentlemanly thing for the tank to do in this situation is, as all good tanks know, blame the healer! Clarin Hodco, Shadow Tank & Whiner Extraordinaire

I'll help! Here's my Eric Musco signed "H2F" Starfighter poster! The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

That makes sense, thanks. (Wait, we share our math with the smelly troopers and "classic movie" Jedi?!) Clarin

Do we have a thread going that links to all the theorycrafting that's been done? I realized in reading over the 3Q's I missed some posts, perhaps we could keep a thread going to link to new theorycrafting posts and code? Clarin Hodco, The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

Eric, Would you considered merging the forums for the mirrored ACs, and hence the representatives? I know the Shadow/Assassin community basically worked as one on their Top 3 (in fact, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was actually the Assassin Qs but using Shadow terms). It would certainly make locating the most recent guide, theorycrafting, gearing, etc. for a class easier. The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

I think you need to add something about "making them pay" for not having the patch ready on time. Clarin @ The Harbinger

I think KBN did an excellent job on the top 3 questions / 50 Theses of Shadowing; I know some people are unhappy that their personal high priority issue didn't get top billing, but he had a *ton* of issues to go through, and the final questions (especially the tank question) are exceptionally well written and calculated to actual get constructive feedback (while preempting easy objections as well). I vote him a 400% raise, with a 100% bonus contingent upon developer response. Do we have an aggregate guide to all of the shadow tank theorycrafting? I follow the forum fairly well, but some of it was new to me. Thanks, Clarin @ The Harbinger

I am also having the trouble that manual shutdown will not show as complete in the weekly. I completed MS at least 3 times; finally abandoned the weekly mission, reacquired it, did everything, still MS will not check off in the weekly. This is on a gunslinger on the Harbinger. Other toons haven't had this problem, but it's persistent on this one. EDIT: I was using Corso most of the time, but I'm not sure if all the time.

Not on NiM 55 Ops, and certainly not as a Shadow tank on those ops. But OP is probably at least 3 months away from being able to attempt one, hence my advice to roll whatever he likes. Clarin

Roll any class you want, even if people complain it's underperforming. You'll need to get to level 55 and have mid-to-high gear before the underperfoming thing really becomes a problem; in the meantime, patches can change the balance. Clarin

The problem with discussing average values is that averages are misleading when it comes to gambling-type problems where falling to zero ends the game. A friend of mine took a class from Sam Savage (author of The Flaw of Averages) and quotes him as: 'if a drunk performs a random walk between the shoulders of a highway, his average value is the center median. His expected value is dead.' Same with shadows. Expected value doesn't matter when HP=0 ends the parse. Clarin @ The Harbinger

I move that all correspondence with the devs we change spikiness to "variance-to-mean ratio of damage sustained substantially in excess of that experienced by the other tanking classes." Might force them to pick up a stats book and learn something. (What does our damage distribution - I realize that's broad question - say against the big droid in S&V NiM - look like? Perhaps the magenta beta distribution here, but mirrored - disproportionate to higher values above the mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beta_distribution_pdf.svg ) Actually, perhaps a high-sigma logit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logitnormal Clarin Hodco @ The Harbinger, squishy tank and bad statistician

Courtney, I know you didn't write the posts in question, but you should make it known to those who did that they were unacceptably rude, condescending, and snarky to their paying customers. Even if we assume (wrongly) the questions by both classes were asinine and did nothing but expose themselves as, term of art, "clueless newbs", more tact was in order. In particular, the people being addressed are the most devoted and skilled of your customers. If by group consensus your best players raise an issue, it might be worth humoring them. Regardless, with the exception of Steve Jobs, this is not how the representatives of a multi-billion dollar corporation address their customers in a public forum. Shayne The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

That's well and good, but you've taken classes are currently playing fine (Snipers/Gunslingers and Sents/Warriors) and put them first, whereas classes with major outstanding issues are pushed to the end (Shadows. Has anyone mentioned we're spikey?) The Hodcos @ The Harbinger

A very simple solution, at least in theory, is to track your last 2 warzones. If they're the same, make it so internally you aren't queuing for that warzone a third time. More generally, set some threshold - given that 20% is average, say 40% - and if a given warzone in your last n matches exceeds that, take it out of your queue. (And perhaps, ahem, bolster the chances of warzones not showing up). Or allow choices of what warzones to queue for? I'll actually spend cartel coins for an "All Huttbal, All the Time" button. Clarin @ The Harbinger

This is the best bug ever. Can you please, please implement it cross-faction? I will shed tears of joy if you implement cross-faction guild chat. Clarin @ The Harbinger, just whisper him, you'll catch any alt I'm on!

Bioware, As a subscriber from the beginning, it is extremely poor form of you to release schematics to the community and then turn around and sell the finished item on the Cartel Market, particularly when the schematics in question are costly to obtain in terms of in-game time. This is exactly the sort of short-sighted P2W behavior we were promised we would not see, and it only took two patches to appear. You can try to micromonetize everything in sight if you want, but you'll destroy the game in the process. Something about geese, golden eggs, and the inability to procure an infinity of said eggs via vivisection. Disgruntled Long-Time Subscriber/Undertapped Monetization Opportunity

I am under the understanding that one reason we don't get patch notes pre-patch, and why the PTS is used for minor patches, is that they can involve fixing exploits and the devs don't want to tip off their existence and cause them to be exploited further before the patch goes live. Having said that, you do have portions of the community offering to be free beta testers on minor patches. It would be nice if you pushed non-exploit patches to the test server along with notes; just having the additional testers may catch some of these bugs in advance. I mean, right now, it's sorta like your kids are begging to vacuum the living room for you, and you aren't letting them Shayne

I can say in the couple days I've been over on Harbinger from The Jekk'Jekk Tar it has been an entirely different game, in a very good way. Agreed with props for the great improvement - this level of population makes the game far more fun. Shayne

The Jekk'Jekk Tar has been home to many Oceanic players who are transferring; I understand Harbinger is the same, maybe even more. It would be very nice to merge those servers for those of us who remain, because server pops are depressingly low. Thank you, Shayne

Is there a way to get the Campaign gear schematic to someone else - either by letting all profs RE everything, or by trading the gear? E.g., I'm an armstech smuggler, and I get a chest piece I like. Can I RE it for the schematic, or trade it to an armortech, or is the only way to get an orange of this to find a raiding, armortech smuggler who has looted and RE'd it? Thanks, Shayne

Apologies if this has been answered before (if so, could it be added to the top post?). As an armstech, I have a selection of weapons requiring bind-on-pickup biomemetic gel to craft, which is a pain to get. Is there confirmed evidence that REing one of these can result in a better schematic? The mats are so hard to get that I don't want to chance it unless I know it can be done, and even so, the thought of REing 20 of these to get a schematic is enough to bring one to tears.... Thanks, Shayne

I appreciate your desire to do this during low usage periods, but it would be nice if you staggered the downtime by server location - midnight on the west coast servers is, IMHO, just a tad early (though it does force one to get to bed earlier...) Thank you, Shayne