Welcome back.

I was in the last beta phase. I think it was in september-october, don't remember exactly. For the prelaunch, I started to play on December 16th 2011.

I have to agree with most of the things Shava wrote. I witnessed it so many times irl among some friends and acquaintances: 1st. They'll talk about that new mmorpg months prior to its launch and they'll play in every beta phases. 2nd. They'll preorder it asap and stay awake all night before the launching day. 3rd. They'll burn through the mmo without reading the story, without taking the time to look around in the maps, without socializing, without trying the other classes, etc. 4rd. After 2-6 days, they're already at max level. After 1-3 weeks, they're already max geared and guess what? Yep, they are already totally bored. 5rd. They'll start to complain a lot and write many really negative comments about that mmo in forums/chat/websites. 6rd. They'll unsub. *Repeat steps 1 to 6* until death... The sad thing is that I used to behave like that. I used to jump from mmorpg to mmorpg. Then, one day, I said to myself: "Stop being that kind of gamer, it's just a pathetic and sad behavior". This is why SWTOR is my 1st mmo where I really take the time to enjoy the game. No more rush. I'm done with that.

I have no idea. I still think it's an upcoming free roaming 3d space battle thingie. I'm looking forward to more informations.

Requires credits and legacy level 5.

Welcome back and nicely done!

I still have fond memories of Baldur's Gate 1+2, Icewind Dale and Neverwinter Nights 1 (plus all those add-ons). I heard they'll release some kind of graphically improved version of Baldur's Gate. If this is true, I'm really looking forward to it.

You rating/feedback system would work if ALL the mmo players would ALWAYS take reasonable, mature, responsible, logical, non-cynical, non-jaded and unbiased decisions. So... yeah...

First, welcome back to SWTOR. I hope you'll enjoy it a lot for a long time. You aren't the only one, I know a few players irl who returned too. Most of them stopped to play around January-March 2012. So for them, it was like playing a whole new mmo. So far, they love the improvements and they're having fun.

I have to go with Doc. That guy has so much swagger and confidence, it's ridiculous! And that love affair he had with.. you know... *shocked*

In a sense, I have to thank you for being so unlucky. You kind of bring "balance" to the RE system. I'm completely on the opposite spectrum. I keep having successes after successes with the RE. I still remember that moment when I successfully reverse engineered 4 times in a row! The odds of that happening is about 0.16%!!!!!! Again, thank you. I know a few players irl who are very unlucky with their mmo crafting, not just in SWTOR but also in all the other mmos they've tried. It's like if they did something to p@ss off the mmo gods.

I have to agree. Khem is one creepy guy...

Of course I'll resub for another 6 months! I wish we had a lifetime option though.

Right now, my jedi guardian is using the whole Jedi Battlelord set. If you don't hide your headgear, you hood is down but you still see the sunglasses. I don't remember where exactly I read about it but the developers spoke about the hood down option and they say that it will be there for 1.4 or something like that.

I had a similar experience. Since June 12th 2012, I only had to queue once and it lasted about 2 minutes. Btw, I log in the game almost everyday during peak hours (7pm-11pm EDT).

So far, I used the group finder 32 times. 31 times as a tank and 1 time as a healer. I only had 2 bad experiences. The first one was with a dpser who kept writing passive-agressive comments like "Do we have a tank?", "Does he know how to hold the aggro?", "Are we sure we really have a tank?", etc. I warned that dpser that I might have aggro issues since he had way better gear than me but he didn't care at all. I even had the feeling that he loved pulling the aggro. The second one was with 2 dpsers who quitted the group right after a 1st boss wipe (I think they were friends). I mean, come on! After only 1 wipe, really?! But still, a personal 93,75% good experience is excellent imo. The only thing I really fear with the group finder is that eventually, players will have so many people in their ignore list or will stop using it because of cumulative bad experiences, that we'll end up with fewer and fewer people willing to use it with non-guildmates. That must not be a good thing for a server community.

What's your biggest in-game fear? Mine is to send 99 kits MK-6 to someone else by mistake (e.g. typing Johm instead of my alt name John) and then, that other player refuses to send back all those kits even if I keep begging.

I had to modify some minor tanking habits but now I can confirm that my main issue was the gear. Since I started to get some columi items, tanking became as easy as before lvl 50: my health + defense + shield + absorption + average dps increased. When I'll have a full columi set, tanking will become a joke. With a full bh set, it will be a walk in the park.

Right now, I have 5 characters: Jedi Guardian (tank spec), Vanguard (tank spec), Assassin (tank spec), Sith Juggernaut (tank spec) and Sage (heal spec). I try to use as often as possible the group finder because I know that tanks are rare compared to the other roles. Before I joined my 1st hm flashpoint, I crafted the best mods (22 purple), augments (power+defense purple) I could and I bought some stuff (implants) from the GTN. I tried to push my health, my defense, my shield and my absorption as high as I could. I did everything I could to make the healer job easier. But still, sometimes it was so hard to hold the aggro against dpsers with rakata and bh gears. That was something I never had an issue before I reached lvl 50. So I can only imagine a tank in greens. *Shivers* P.S. This is what the queue times look like for tanks: Run1 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run2 = Sith Juggernaut, 0s Run3 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run4 = Jedi Guardian, 87s Run5 = Vanguard, 0s Run6 = Jedi Guardian, 56s Run7 = Jedi Guardian, 292s Run8 = Sage Healer, 0s Run9 = Sith Juggernaut, 28s Run10 = Assassin Tank, 0s Run11 = Vanguard, 0s Run12 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run13 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run14 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run15 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run16 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run17 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run18 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run19 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run20 = Vanguard, 0s Run21 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run22 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run23 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run24 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run25 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run26 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run27 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run28 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run29 = Jedi Guardian, 0s Run30 = Jedi Guardian, 0s

Before I started to run HM Taral V, I used to complete everything in that flashpoint including the bonuses. Since I reached lvl 50, most puggers I've teamed with only want that final boss. I'd prefer to complete the whole fp but I stick with the majority (3 vs 1).

I just completed a HM Esseles and it went very well. We only wiped once against that droid but it was my fault because I didn't know I had to stay inside its bubble. This time, here're the things I modified: -I stopped trying to grab the aggro from every mobs unless it was necessary (ex.: some boss fights, etc.). -I guarded the range dpser. My thinking behind it is it takes less time to grab the aggro back from a melee dpser since he's much closer to me. But I also agree that guarding the melee dpser is effective too since he's rarely out of guard range and it helps for his mitigation. I might try it in the next runs instead. -I delayed as much as I could the uses of mitigation buffs. That really helped during the boss fights. But the thing that helped me the most was that the other teammates didn't have high tier gears (columi, rakata, whatever). It was really easy to keep the aggro in that situation. I'll try to end up with high tier geared teammates and do some tests with them.

I just finished to read/watch most tank guides on the website your recommended. That website is really useful and professional. Beside 3 things, I already did everything (i.e. using environment against knockbacks, burn 3-4 cyclone slashes against 4+ mobs, keep using force sweep, dps+aggro rotation between mobs, reducing overall damage with cc tactics (awe, hilt strike, force stasis, force push), push the ranges together, bring the melees to the ranges, interrupt the big damage abilities, moving bosses/mobs by using structures) he suggested. 1st. I didn't always keep my single+aoe aggros for emergencies. I'll have to be careful with that. 2nd. I thought that using saber ward or warding call early in the fights, I'd help the healer. But he's right, I should keep them when the healer and I are in real trouble. 3rd. I used mostly absorption augments instead of defense ones.

Since it occured when you hit 50 I would say its probably a gear issue. Its pretty tough to hold threat over a Rakata DPS going all out as a fresh 50. There are a couple of things you can do to make life easier though. Tanking as a Guardian isn't that bad once you get your opener down pat. Assuming there are 2 main guys I need to tank I will go: Saber Throw on the weaker one -> Leap to the stronger one -> (Push them together) -> (Leap to first target) -> Sundering Strike -> Force Sweep -> Blade Storm -> Sundering Strike -> Overhead Slash -> Master Strike on other target and you should be set from there on out. If there are a few guys you need to hold aggro on I go: Saber Throw (2nd toughest target) -> Leap (Toughest target) -> Force Sweep -> Cyclone Slash -> Cyclone Slash -> Force Stasis (toughest) and then switch it up from there to build aggro on the ones I need to hold. -My ability rotation is pretty similar to yours. -I think you're right about the gear issue. I often see the other dpsers having more health than me and way more average dps. -The thing with the group finder is that I often meet impatient players who don't really care about planning, going easy on dps, waiting for me to attack/aggro 1st and other things like that. But I understand their attitude: they're lvl 50 since many months, they're fully geared, they completed those fps countless times and they're only there for their BH commendations. -I think that I should join a guild asap even if I hate guild dramas. It's easier for the gear progression, much easier to play often with the same players, etc. Anyway, ty both for the advices.

1 target priority. Don't bother trying to hold anything under a strong,elit or champion. I can reliable 2 shot most weak mobs, why bother holding threat on them? The other mobs (the ones that actually count) will need to be held so focus on them. Use force push to clump adds together for sweep and cyclone slash. Yeah I do that too. Usually, I focus on the elites and rarely bothers about the weak mobs unless it's really important (e.g. some boss fights). The thing is some dpsers started to point fingers at me because of that. They started to tell me that I didn't aggro everything, that I don't know how to aggro, etc. I guess, I'll stop listening to them. 2. get a better weapon. That will help heaps too, Do alittle pvp , get a BM or WH hilt and some of your threat issues should go away. That one really hurts. I use a vibrosword with Purple Mods+Augment 22. Right now, I'm working to get my hands on that Columi Weapon. Right now I do around 600ish damage compared to the average 1300 dam that some dpsers dish out. If I can only increase to 750-850ish damage, it will help tremendously for the aggro race. 3.practise. Go out into the world , find some large packs of mobs and practise holding threat. Ask guildies to help if needed. Before level 50, I never really had trouble holding large packs of mobs even in intense instance fights. I guess, I'll have to find a better weapon like you said. 4.Guardian leap and guard. Guard whoever is giving you the most grief, if guard doesnt help Guardian leap them on CD. Usually I guard the healer and rarely dpser1 or dpser2. I think I'll have no choice but to guard a dpser until I get a better average dps.

I'm really used to team with pugs for instances since many months. With the group finder, it was even easier because I only play tank classes. I never had trouble holding the aggro of a single boss or multiple mobs from lvl 20ish to 49 even with dpsers who tried to steal the aggro all the time. But at lvl 50, it totally "changed". Equipped with crafted (purple mods 22, rakata bracers+belt, augments) and tionese gears, I started to join hard mode flashpoints. Usually, it goes well but sometimes I have so much trouble holding the aggro, especially with scattered mobs and even during boss fights!!! I tried to find solutions but I don't know what else to do. Even with my aggro stance, the high threat attacks and the taunts, some dpsers keep managing to grab the aggro. My question is: is is just me who suddenly doesn't know how to hold aggro anymore or it's because I'm just undergeared (i.e. low dps, low health, etc.)? These are my current unbuffed stats: -Jedi Guardian lvl 50 Damage (Pri): 572-694 Bonus Damage: 294.4 Health: 18322 Armor Rating: 7054 Damage Reduction: 45.51% Defense Chance: 19.70% Shield Chance: 37.21% Shield Absorption: 48.84% P.S. I really need some help and advices because I don't want to stop using the group finder. There's already a big shortage of tanks. Also, I tanked in other mmos before and never had so much trouble.