I'm used to brief meaning between 2 hours and 5 hours, 30 minutes is darn fast. One good thing about bad company - can't rage on trivial things anymore fuses burned out already.

The real question is do people know their rotations/fight mechanics/tricks or not. If you got either 1. carried through content or 2. stacked end over primary stat to make up for '15k hp' you'd still be useless. The only FP I wouldnt run without decently geared up people is HM D7 tbh, both due to enrage timers and other mechanics/end boss aoe spam and such/that really pushes people to their limits. Everything else is easily doable with not-so-gearedup people as long as they have the skills and were actually paying attention how they picked their mods stats etc. Its a known fact higher tier pve gear is non-optimal in terms of stat distribution anyway and not all set bonuses are all that great either, so aside from hp numbers properly optimized lower tier wouldnt be that horribad in hands of good player.

Interesting thing is it doesnt seem to happen every time or to every toon, think our group was 3 BHs (PT and 2 mercs) and it did not bug out.

it happens if you click too fast, if you assign just 2 people instead of 4 it doesnt bug out.. not in the same way anyway, he can still be 'stuck' outside of his ring but that doesnt cause a wipe.

It depends on the class, but I have yet to find one case where rakata earpiece is better than crit crafted ones you can buy and slot augments in... sorta broken since its supposed to be 'top end' but oh well. Also while its true HMs don't require having everything slotted in purple 50, for people that dont know them/don't have their rotations and stuff hashed out it certainly helps, and it also lets you rearrange/optimize your stats in better way than sets from hms give you (wth do i do with all that accuracy on tank gear instead of... etc)

Stuff from dailies is either lvl49 or 50 - that said its certainly nice to have that stuff ready when you do hit 50, and its tons of money in the process. I would say belsavis bonus series/dailies are doable at 47+, and you can pick them up easily. Ilum ones however require you to finish your class storyline, which you probably won't have done before 50 anyway, so its kinda out of reach for that reason.

This is actually a huge issue, h4s are easy to duo if both classes have cc (and no regardless of comments like zomgnerfsorcsareop style, merc works just as well, operative/sin works for non-droids just as well) but i can see full groups getting serious issues in same content. I do like h4s remaining challenging but frankly i believe there should be some scaling of sorts - as more players end up in endgame zone, the requirement of balanced groups while leveling will make everyone basically skip or powerlevel those eventually.

Its about same thing with FE end boss that has decent chance to kick someone out of loot rolls. Frankly I don't get why can't they lock/allow entry to people that were in party when he died instead of locking everyone out but eh. Easiest way would be to make 'return to area entrance' or whatever its called thing on death return you to FP entrance on the inside of the fp not outside.

This^^ Wasted 250k cause i didnt know how ugly they really are, oh well. Slightly more than a HM raid night bill anyway.

Well 1st of all there are more than 8 races, and then there is a reason to roll different ACs on your 'main' faction, they are drastically different in some cases. Now what, im supposed to delete some imp toons and roll/zerg to 50/just to delete a pub toon to get legacy buff/race from it? Think I'll pass... Especially since we did not know how its gonna work exactly, they should give us 4 extra slots for republic stuff now or maxing stuff out would be silly - work on a toon to 50 just to delete it, how much fun is that.

pretty sure you don't need to, i've ran HM D7 on my bh without completing normal. The only restriction is you can't enter foundry (on any diff) until you finish BP but it's unrelated to hard mode, just fp being generally unavailable to you.

Um no thank you. Normal mode 50s are useless, except Kaon, cause they don't drop loot near or better than what you can mod good ole orange with daily mods. There is no reason to force me to get every fp done at normal just to enter hm on all of my alts. While everyone should finish normal mode once in their lifetime, just to know what to expect roughly, limiting that to char is just a waste of time. If anything normal 50s should have their loot table adjusted to make it worth running and actually prepare new people for hms, which they dont do by any means right now.

Challenging yes, impossible hardly. But bugged to high hell. It bugged for every single person i asked, not counting the kill. Too bad i reset the quest before checking this thread tho... guess i'll try logout if it bugs again...

level 50 has nothing to do with it, its the stupid pew pew minigame. you'd think they cant even harm a 50 tank? wrong, they're way overtuned. It has nothing to do with challenge either, its just ridiculously coded turret logic/controls you're fighting not mobs. To each his own I guess, until they fix the movement/shooting to be more fluid and more predictable to control I'm not stepping into that thing. Tbh it should be some bonus boss fight or something not mandatory, manning an autofire turret is not RPG game.

The 2 of us crashed quite a few times iirc, tho it was a couple weeks ago, dont think its anything new with the patch.

All sorts of inventory/storage/comp upgrades, repair bills, what not. Guess it doesnt matter if you keep running dailies but we get lazy after we run out of upgrades lol. Oh and all sorts of alt's twinking adds up.

Tat is low enough lvl that dps spec class with a healing tree can pull group through as a healer. That said, the fact you had to ask is another problem - what did you have in mind when joining? Which role do YOU want to take? Some off healing as DPS aint bad while leveling, its not that low/mid content is hard, but you have to decide what role you play and spec/play accordingly. Joining then asking what to do is telling the group you're not the best player for either role.

Now thats an idea, I do have to go back to capping my sorc...

Lies! Playing MMO drunk leads to better experience. @Op: try mixing some whiskey for better results if beer doesnt work.

Merc stun isnt permanent but it last waaaay too long if not interrupted, i dont know if its like a minute or 2 or such.

Erm... while in general it does annoy me how everything throws me all over the place, you're exaggerating. Mercs/shriekers - use cc on shriekers, cc mercs or leave 1 at a time and interrupt him whenever its off timer etc. Can't just rush in, the thrash in there actually requires some tactics, which is a good thing imo. Behemoth - if you're too close to him he kicks you and switches targets, if you're too far from him he jumps to you. Find an 'ideal' distance for kiting, taunt him after he switches aggro if he throws you away (errors happen), rinse repeat. BH tanks do seem to have advantage but its hardly the end of the world from what i saw.

It just allows shortcuts or buffs, it does not make fp unplayable or impossible to complete without them.

Voss class quests are a bit of jump in difficulty for all classes. Pretty much need to upgrade gear, and/or run planet quests first then come back to class one that bugs you. Corelia is easier than some stuff on Voss.

No issues with Zash initial fight, the Voss version (first time in dreamwalking) killed me 'barely' but I was using Revel and he managed to die to AOEs, I couldnt kill her alone before she kills me heh. Bit better positioning fixed it. Thanaton ate me on first try due to same issue (WTB 'stay' order on pets) and the fact i didnt figure interrupts/force pull aren't working. 2nd try was easier, bit challenging until you figure the right approach (guess I 'could' just pull a healer but meh, I'm darkness it would take a while and remove the challenge factor) Ilum last guy, I had too much purple mods for it to be much of a challenge I think, he and his goons barely scratched me. Revenge for repair bills I got on first toon there

Have not noticed anything outside of FPs, possibly stealth buff to FP stuff due to 'too easy' qqing around I bet....