I cant agree with this, in my experience, and i have all the 8 and 16 achivements, 16 is waaaayyyy more easy, in 16 theres a lot more margin for error, i.e. more people can mess it, up to the point that most encounters can be done with 14ppl, almost all can be done with 15ppl, (i mean early deaths, crashes or just afk) but theres a good number of them that cant be done with 7 in 8 mode Its a common knowledge that 16 is easier than 8.

imho all the "VIP" area stuff is pretty embarrassing, if i were in charge i would look for a way to compensate people that paid to access it and just get rid of it forever, in my experience the only use for that area is to make fun of the people that bought the ring

Then i'm gonna take the bait, one of my main concerns is about this game PvE content being wayyy too easy, its too easy to gear up, too easy to beat content at their recommended gear level, theres no challenge at all, only NiM modes are challenging and still the time to master and beat is nothig epic. But Devs keep nerfing FPs and OPs in a regular basis to the point runing them in HM is rollface. If you are experiencing any kind of difficulty while runing HMs and you are geared at its recomended gear level i would suggest: 1) Make sure its not a PEBKAC issue (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair), forums can help with that. 2) Make sure you leave brainless PUGs asap, i have found runing HM FPs with a friend and 2 companions is way more fun and productive than runing wih tanks that doesnt even know they have a taunt ability, healers that run out of force/energy on trash pulls, DPSs that spam autoattack and such

mmm troll?

mmm if both UW and KD benefit from same "bug" why is UW listed as BiS? shouldnt KD be BiS above UW? or is there another bug involved with UW SA relic? Also, for the "healing class" category, would a gunslinger with 1 point in self healing while in cover (1 tick every 3 secs) count as that? i have noticed an increased amount of procs, but im not sure if its enough to go for the "self healing" relics.

Yep i have told him and he has acknowledged he was too slept XDDDD, im editing it out now, thx for pointing it

EDIT: Wrong dummy

But thats not how prices work, do you really think people on marketing department is idiot? prices are not something you get of your ***, theres a lot of market research and experience behind. When in a steady demand environment you drastically cut down prices it needs to be done for very short periods of time, and you need to make sure people knows that it is something rare that will not come back any soon, if people "gets used" to those discounted prices then they will not come back to make purchases at the not discounted price. Also if you make a permanent discount, in your example "subs get a 50% on all in-gmae purchases" then you would see an increase in sales for a very short period and then a resettle on sales to almost same amount of money (but double coins), that would flood market with items hence a drop in GTN prices making purchasing CC shop items less appealing and so making the sales go down. Prices-sales equilibrium is something you cant play with. PD: Sorry for my poor english, just hope you can get the idea.

Dam BW!! i would gladly pay 100-200 cartel coins for each additional multi-spec slot on each of my characters. Lets say, id like to have 4 spec slots (2 above initial dual), 6 characters, that 12 additional spec slots = 1200-2400 cartel coins = happy customer + happy Jeff We all win!! do it!! PD: i could also live with just a Dual Spec system

Oh yeah, it was terrible, Dual Talent Specialization was added to WoW in patch 3.1.0 (14 April 2009) when WoW had 11 million subs, in the course of the next six months WoW managed to get up to his subs record at 12 Million subs and stayed there for another full year. The "nerf" to instances and raids is nothing related to Dual Spec, it started long before April 2009, it was a consecuence of WoW success, as more and more new players came to the game just because they saw it featured on their favorite TV show, they had to continually lower the dificulty of entry level, to compensate it and appraise their veterans base they kept the hard modes .. hard. Please, before throwing opinions as facts, at least, do some research.

Sorry theres no point for your suggestion since Bioware has clearly stated that Clas stories are over and there are no plans to continue them,

NONNONO you got it wrong, players DOESNT oppose to QoL improvements, we players love them, its just the fanboi base and Biodrones that go jumping from thread to thread bashing everything that goes against: "Game is perfect as it is right now, theres no room for improvements", plain sad, if they just realized ... well, just check my signature

:eek: Sorry we got here a clear case of PEBCAK

+1E9999999999999999999999999 This is the most needed QoL improvement this game needs. I would gladly pay millions cartel coins for it *hint*

MISTERY SOLVED I've hacked the BW security cameras and got this Now we know the guy that needs to be fired XDDDDDD ----------------------------- Now seriously .... nvm, all this cant be talk seriously, its like a big joke. EVERY PATCH, EVERY f****** PATCH you screw something, every time you try to fix something anything else gets screwed. At this point ... i think we should start a poll: "do you want BW to try fix things and get new bugs or let the old ones stay and live with them?" Count me in the "DONT TOUCH ANYTHING" side, ill learn to love my bugs, at least i can play with them.

Thx a lot for this awesome guide and all the useful info on the replies. Right know im on the point to trade a KD relic token and im not sold on what relic should i get, looks like Serendipitous is the greatest improvement, with the Hybrid spec i see double procs pretty often (double serendipitous relics) but in MM/SS the double proc is pretty rare, also my own tests on dummy show a weird increase in DPS when using a Dread Guard Dark Radiance relic (internal Tech), sadly theres no internal tech relic on the post 2.0 vendors. So, what relics are BiS for this 36/3/7 spec if using 1 KD and 1 UW? Would Cerulean Nova (energy tech) give me results similar to DG DR (internal tech)? also in teh weird side ... im tempted to pick the Primeval Fatesealer, those 30secs of 430 alacrity followed by BV could allow me to spam Sabotage Charge in my rotation for 45 secs ... Well, a bit lost here, please, hints would be much appreciated

Applicant: Captain Alaquepueda TekitoTuMoto Possition: Security Officer CZ-198 Application 1. Please tell us a little about yourself. Why do you want to be a part of the Czerka family? Lets be clear, do i really need to say something about myself?? We both know my reputation precedes me, so let's not be hypocrites, you want me, you need me and i have my own reasons to agree on a deal with your organization. 2. At Czerka, we pride ourselves on our accomplishments. Please name three of your accomplishments that you are most proud of. (Please do not include family milestones such as marriages or the birth of your children.) Skavak ... Rogun the Butcher ... The Voidwolf ... just to not mention the amount of planets i have just saved from its total destruction, indeed i didnt do it for free, but you cant expect to have the best for free, go hire a mindless Jedi if you are not ready to pay my price, but prepare to engage in a moral fight HAHAHAHAHAHAH you can't right? so lets just let it here. 3. How did you go about achieving the accomplishments above. Would you say you would do "whatever it takes" for success? How? this is a funny one, maybe you should ask my trusty Flashy, but i wouldnt advice you talking with him if you know what i mean. Pretty much, this is my "How" to everything, and at the same time im pretty sure this answered the "whatever it takes" part. 4. Would you say you have a strong moral compass? Do you think this could get in the way of your job, should you be asked to do something...questionable? Moral compass .... oh, my moral compass is very very simple, you paying me? we will be best friends, you dont pay me .... you better read again about my friend Flashy, but we dont have to worry about it right? 5. You are about to enjoy our wide variety of complimentary cocktails and snacks, when you notice that your esteemed colleague's newest experiment is likely to break out of their confines while you are gone. How would you handle this situation? Kid, im about to teach you the most important lesson anyone will ever tell you, and this one is free (dont tell anyone i did anything for free), this funny 'situtation' you are picturing or any other impossibly weird situtation you can imagine can be handled if you know your priorities and makes yourself one simple question: How will this affect my reward? then just act appropiately, in my experience, theres no problem you cant solve with a good blaster and the willpower to use it, you only need to know where to aim. PS: Now we are done with this formality as you asked me, i have been more patient than i use to be, dont try me again.

DISCLAIMER: This is just an opinion, since im not a BW Dev, theres no way i can be sure about this. To me, SWTOR has a serious problem with his network code, i think this is all in the Engine core (hi Hero engine) so its pretty difficult to fix, ability delay, ability fail, and such seems all related to it, another example could be the following: Theres a gunslinger trick (mainly useful with the Saboteur spec) and the Hightail It ability, where pressing jump right after the roll you can roll in place, dropping all five scatter bombs in your possition, well, from player prespective you roll in place and damage affects there, but if someone is looking at you, in his screen he sees you roll ahead, drop the bombs in a trail and then magically teleport back to starting possition. I think all this is related to the way the Hero Engine manages network communication with the server, so i guess we will just have to live with it.

I agree with most of the advices said here, but also i would suggest you to ask your freind to upload one of his parsers, one of those with 300 dps diff, to TORPARSE, do the same and compare them, to be more precise, compare the APM, im pretty sure he is beating you there. APM is the "best" measure of what its often call "hands" or "skill", it's the ability to think fast and react to mobs movement and such, so the better your 'reflexes' the higher the amount of hits you achieve (Actions Per Minute), that has been always and allways will be the biggest single difference in DPS But do not worry, everything in this life can be trained, if it happens he is beating you there, double your focus, try to never stay standing, if on doucbt on what to do, just hit strikle or slash, keep in mind that a focus generating hit is better than not hitting at all. Also, some Damage Meter obsesed sentinels try to use our limited AoE capabilities to its maximum, by using TST, Sweep and CS on adds packs as much as they can, nothing wrong about it as long as it is not done at the expense of Boss DPS, what it uses to be too frecuent, if thats the diff, dont worry, its useless DPS, our class is designed for single target DPS, so your role is to DPS boss to death, we will never get up to Gunslingers or Commandos big numbers on total dmg dealt when there are packs of adds, sadly right now we cant neither get up to Gunslingers single target numbers, but thats another story.

yep none is undoable, its just that it is easier with ranged, more with gunslingers/snipers. Right now Inspiration/Bloodthirst doesnt make for a gunslinger's DPS nor his utility (AoE adds, screen, push inmunity, ...) My point is, while still best melee class, we have lost the DPS advantage that made us being a valuable assest in any raid, right now theres no argument for going 2 melee and 2 ranged against 4 ranged

Most of the Sentinels named here are great players and they would probably make for good representativers, but i would like you guys to think that we dont need the best player to represent us, we need a guy with experience on showing prove on pros and cons, with tested proficiency on summarize every aspect of our class issues and a good dose of criticism. Please check this, i dont have any relation with oofalong, i havent even ever talk with him, but if i have to choose who is going to represent my loved class ... i have no doubt.

oofalong imho hes best option by far

I was about to start something like this because my experience from last night on SV NiM. Right now our DPS on "perfect conditions" is on par (maybe slightly ahead) of Troopers and greatly below Gunsligers, but in operations we are clearly below all of them because 90% of the NiM boss mechanichs penalize melee combat. The way BW has designed the encounters to make them more difficult is just to make melee life a hell on earth, every boss, every trash, everything has a push, a knockback an small radius stun, AoE dmg we have to move to avoid, .... etc while ranged can just stay at range and DPS out of their heart content, also in NiM packs of adds are not just an annoyance, are something you need to kill ASAP or wipe is sure, so AoE dmg classes are needed, again Commando and Guns .... My guild's raid composition was to usually be 2 melee and 2 ranged, yesterday we had again to swap 1 melee for another ranged (3 ranged 1 melee), maybe we could have downed first bosses in SV NiM with 2 melee, but whats the point on trying the hard way when you can just add another gunslinger and make it easy mode?? IMHO, our biggest problem as class (PVE wise) is encounters design, in the past we had a DPS advantage to make for it, now we dont so we are screwed, at least im seriously thinking on using my Gunslinger from now on.

..... we better get extinct and let cockroaches give it a try

This and responsiveness are the main reassons why competitive players both in PvP and PvE left the game back in the first months of game when the old team tried but failed to fix it. If you are new to SWTOR, just google a bit for it and you will see lots of announcements from the competitive teams leaving game because of this. Sadly the new team is no longer worried about this, they only care about graphics pretyness and Cratel Market flooding, so to the OP, i agree with you, it gets my nerves to see how my merciless or dispatch doesnt gets fired in the worst moment, but it will be this way forever.