In all honesty DPS check for Denova is not as strict as most like to think. The proper execution of mechanics is paramount to everything else. Here is a log of a HM 16 Kephess kill. http://dpsmeter.com/knee0knelt (You need to click on the Kephess tab) This group was made up of many alts, fresh 50's, and trials. It was clean and we did not hit any sort of enrage timer. You can see from this our highest DPS was pulling just over 1,400 and we used two tanks and a DPS taunt in the last phase. The point I am trying to make here is that execution>DPS by a wide margin in the current SWTOR tier. If you can master the mechanics and keep everyone alive you will succeed.

We use Suicide Kings for all main spec items. We maintain a separate list for vanity items. All crafting materials go to the guild bank. Anything that does described above is loot council.

It is just a rare random drop. That was only the second one we have seen.

Here is what you do when clearing the same boss over and over is just not enough. https://twitter.com/#!/MethodicalSWTOR/status/203407777484374016/photo/1

This happened to us in Hard mode last Tuesday on multiple attempts.

Methodical killed HM 16 man Colonel Vorgath 4/19/12. It was not our best kill ever and we decided to have a bit of fun with the video. Enjoy!

After reviewing the logs, it looks like it ticks for around 4.5K - 5K damage. I am thinking it is the Electrical Disturbance damage. Not enough to kill you if you are raid aware, but a bug that should not be there. It can become more of an issue on 16 man, when there are multiple spires spawning. Let's hope super-patch 1.2a will take care of it!

Keep in mind that this is just Hard mode not Nightmare mode. If you want to make the WOW analogy: Hard mode = Normal Nightmare mode = Heroic Most high end guilds clear Normal in WOW the first night/week. If Nightmare mode is cleared in 4 hours then we have a problem.

Third boss only needs one tank.

Streaming 8 man HM Explosive Content http://www.twitch.tv/watchman_marek#r=-rid-&s=em

Those all sound like fun mini-games. You seemed to have left off the funnest mini-game of them all. The standard mini-game in most MMO's. FISHING!!!! There are many of us with a soft spot in our heart's for fishing and would love to see it in SWTOR. Thanks-

For the last boss, did it seem like two tanks were needed? We killed the normal version with just one tank and were curious if it was possible on HM.

I think the thing people are missing here is that this is not a normal "PUG". Getting 16 people from Top end guilds working on a raid is very different from grabbing 16 people from general to complete a boss. Your casual 8 man guild with 8 people from general is not going to down this world boss until you overgear it and the strategies have been flushed out by the high end guilds. If anyone here really thinks that this encounter is "Puggable" by a normal PUG when 1.2 launches you are greatly mistaken.

Can any guilds confirm that they have received an invite?

Hi everyone! We've received a ton of applications for this program, but unfortunately many guilds have not followed the directions which included this very crucial step: 2. Ensure that each player patches to the Public Test Server and logs into it before submitting your team list via email. If you did not follow that step, we will be unable to copy your guild over to Public Test, so please make sure you have followed all the directions in this blog post before submitting your list. Thanks! Could be getting close! Anyone heard anything yet?