No offense taken. It was my first attempt at 5 stacks and pulling together a 24 man OP. I cant wait to hear more from your adventures. Im hoping theres some nice reward at higher stacks. Some great feedback. Thanks. Its hard for us to get 24 people in full dread gear. All of our core 16 were full dread or mostly dread lvl. We then asked our friends to ask thier friends they knew that were geared. I figured we would need a full 24. It was an awesome group for 1st try. But its like hearding cats sometimes. lol A previous group was tryinig it with 16 man. Maybe not a good idea. If we do it again I'll report back. Whats the key to the tank swaps if I may ask?

Awesome congrats. Thanks for posts. We tried him at 5 stacks this week with a 24 man OP. The Harbinger server. (time and day intentionally undisclosed ) lol Thanks again to everyone who showed up participated. 2 tanks then we added a backup tank. Not enough healers I think. we only brought like 4 max. Need to cleanse more I think? Is this true and how do you deal with it? Got him down into the 60's a couple times , We couldn't break 50% to see the reflective shield buff. 'Shriek" ? (yet) grrr Once we'd loose a tank it was game over pretty quick. We tried using smuggler shields also the big one for the raid and hide healers behind individual smugglers. It seemed to help, not sure. With all the DPS we burned him down pretty fast., but now need to figure out how to stay alive. lol Epic looking attempt though, learned quite a bit for first try at 5 stacks. (didnt know he could go above 5 stacks) May make some adjustments more research and try again. Oh yeh other issue to consider is video lag with 24 players etc lower vid settings definetly helped some people. Key binds vs mouse click helps probably. Also we had tanks in masks and a few others but agree it didnt seem to help? Never saw "Dread Touch" attack or buff but thats uncertain. Has anyone seen it? Will check log maybe. Anyone think it helps? Maybe next time I'll rip and move my 63 pieces over to the mask for this fight, just in case Bummer theres no extra dread drops or something.

Need seems to have evened out a bit for us with alot of alt tanks coming up. But yeh some tanks arent quite up to snuff yet but are working on it. Seems like they come up faster than a healer though. Most top healers seem to have it together by now (or gave up. lol) Id think a good healer or tank is always in demand But im just a small sampling of the population. Plus my main is MDPS so nobody loves me. But I still will be giving TFB Hm a beat down tonight. ..stupid anal rectifiers... ...dlelete this ******.. ...anomaly what anomaly...

Me too Does the shell come with the set bonus if its crafted???? I want my 4 piece set bonus back but with my cartel ourfit. ...grrrr Can the other pieces be re'd for schems too?

LOL thats funnny. Nice try Wubsy !!! I think I saw you on fleet the other night

yeh seems everyone in our guild is getting frequent DC's now repair didnt do anythinf for it. Not sure how you add memory to an APP have to look that one up. It never happened for first several months. I believe its patch 1.4 64 bit Win seems to last longer Ive read? even though its using 32 bit subsystem LOL

EVGA GeForce GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB I have predecessor the 55Ti 2GB Nice bang for the buck

Hello, You can come hang out with us when you can and see if you like it. The First Council. Ask Bloodhawk or Irah . etc Were not huge casual mostly Rep PVE, small Imp presence, A few women. (kick *** women) We have both Rep and IMP guildies Raid 3 nights a week. Barely doing TFB Hm LOl

Tonight ? Fri 25th i saw this post on the round up info posts etc

Sweet! Looks like fun

yeh great stuff I respected last night tried some practice runs Had a bit of trouble keeping stacks up. logged heals too which I think went down, but oh well. nerfed anyway I need to mitigate damage well and have a good healer in OPs lol Have to see how surviability is in a few ops. lvl 27 might armor seems to help over old BH pieces. I like swelling winds I had given up on aoe as troopers can usually take care of it, but I missed having it for trash. Yeh I could take out things to optimize damage on dummy but not much point. Like dispatch. Should be nice in ops. I may try and do a full 6 min run and log tonight. Yeh I keep force kick and force leap on my extra mouse buttons for interuppts. use keys 123 but mostly clicker TFB HM tomorrow night.

Sweet! Thanks for posting. Nice at time 409 sec did 10K damage : elemental and 3 crits master strike slash etc 20:12:59.178 409s Burning (Physical) 1110 elemental No Operations Training Dummy 20:12:59.179 409s Master Strike 5488* energy Yes Operations Training Dummy 20:12:59.179 409s Master Strike 1299* energy Yes Operations Training Dummy 20:12:59.472 409s Slash 236 energy No Operations Training Dummy 20:12:59.875 409s Slash 2860* energy Yes Operations Training Dummy You would top the Harbinger server leaderboard thread Now I will begin to study you Nice raid stats on TFB too. Full dread hazmat . nice Strength2083.2 Presence365.0 Aim94.5 Cunning94.5 Endurance1907.9 Willpower147.0 Secondary Melee Damage (Pri)1056.0 - 1225.0 Damage (Sec)221.8 - 333.3 Bonus Damage720.0 Accuracy98.68% Critical Chance30.09% Critical Multiplier77.74% Force Bonus Damage1076.0 Accuracy108.68% Critical Chance33.26% Critical Multiplier77.74% Force Regen Rate8.0 / s Activation Speed Question: What are your augments all strength? Nice with No adremals! hmm think im gonna move a point or 2 on my tree and try and post results, I know I cant get that high but nice to try. Im more like 1700 max right now . ...hmmm 31- 3- 7 302 000 0002 023 030 212 looks like swift slash is the bomb your 77.7% surge on crit for slash hits hard energy damage 2860 vs 236 w/o crit Cant wait to get home and tweak my tree and hit the dummy again LOL Yeh I just got that dread relic for elemental too. Max physicl burn damage. looks like straight forward rotation too. Are you using any macros? I dont care just curious. and thanks again. for posting , fun stuff

yeh ive never had a problem with dulfy Awesome info there. Not perfect but usually the best info also torhead gear swtor-spyy for datacrons darthhater

yeh I did same thing didnt want to preorder until i realized you could get a jump on leveling to 55. ordered on Jan 8th, now screwed. Sumbmitted ticked begging for advanced access, got canned email saying only dealt with by phone call, called, sat in que ...gave up. bummer maybe Ill try and call and beg again tonight.

Yeh Im having a crafter make a Hazmat Pummelers MK-2 earpiece , str over endurance with power and surge. This seems to be best available for my sen watchamn. I couldnt find any hazmat level earpiece that has accuracy power, am I missing something? Searching Dulfy and torehead etc aren't giving me complete results. so many options...ugh Am I right ther is no accuracy/power earpiece? on implants im trying to min endurance max str and get more power accuracy. Need to balance against too much crit and surge already.

I thought this was a sticky ??????

Nice results, I use the power on use one (ages) and energy dmg proc one. (Nova/) Should I have gotten elemental damage one since Im now running watchamn spec though? Why? burn? Will it really make a difference? Isn't a proc a proc and damage is damage or is it additive? or dependent on the other type of damage being dealt?? Also just to be complete here, isnt' kinetic and internal useless to Sents too? tech v force? Also I have a Hazmat Pummelers MK-2 earpiece on order from a crafter. Do you agree this is best since it stacks more str over endurance and has power and surge vs crit and surge? Opinions?

First thanks a million for this thread. I count 53 individual items we have to manage for one toon. ugh. Yeh I checked my offhand accuracy last night after EC and am thinking the accuracy above the soft cap of 100 may be appropriate for sentinels but havent looked into this yet. Also this might contribute the reports of a missing 3rd strike damage in master stike as maybe the 3rd strike is with offhand weapon so the other 2 stike but 3rd one missed, but this doesnt make sense since the 3rd stike I believe is the most damage so it should be main hand? Either way mine was missing on dummy test befoer and its back now when Im testing. why I dont know, removed all gear replaced it, did ctrl U a 2 times, then last time i tested it was back? Either way grreat idea on guardian armor vs might I havemnt looked at this. I had 2 Might armoring 27 made for belt and bracers but havent looked at all the black hole pieces istill have. Will do this tonight. Im interesterd to see the effect on crit. I know I have several BH armoring in cargo.... I hear the Crit hard cap is 400 poiints now which comes out to like 37 percent??? Surge is 80%? hard cap Other thing to consider is buffed vs unbuffed, as if buffed puts me over a hard cap then I ve wasted points? Yeh my wife the healer/biochem makes all the awesome exotech stims and health packs for us for ops. Yeh Ive heard and seen people use pvp relics, war hero or something have to look at that and compare to hazmat. ones. Are they on equp or use? Cant hurt to try both havent PVPed in awhile. (stupid Imps lol) Thanks again great discussion. PS after exchanging the 3 mods 2 enhancments the night before I was absolutely shredding last night

Yeh great posts thanks. hard to maintain balanced stats grrr I bought the pummeler crit surge MKI-3 but now my stats are way wacked. Just have to swap out some mods from crit surge to accuracy power. Next I may try and get the foestopper Mk-1? Ive heard 110 accuracy is optimal 10% toward enemy defense reduction Update: swapped out 2 mods and 2 enhancments from crit/surge to accuracy/power huge difference in stats i was more screwed up than i realized. buffed: 22k health (prefer 23k) 1100 max mh 600 bonus damage 99% accuracy (need a bit more) 35% crit (still a bit much?) 77% surge (still too muich) I think i can do more though... Have to hit the dummies again with Mox to measure dps again should be better, trying to keep it over 6 for 5 min Also I like the 2 dread relics I think its energy or kinetic and elemental damage when equiped? I think i lost some health when i did this swap for matrix cube relic thing. What do you guys use? Also I switched from combat to watchman a while ago but may switch back??? Ugh have to be patient and stop once in a while to spend some time to review all the gear and stats specs etc etc etc OP how did you get 333 on OH weapon? and 700 bonus more power?

Yeh *** over? I thought they nerfed it in 1.4 or so. I remember some sentinel nerfs did occur? I used get my top damage on the last hit on the dummies when I run MOX to measure dps. I havent had that last big hit in months. I miss it. I cant believe someone says it still works for them, now Im gettin upset about this. I love this game but this feels like a gip. Im going to try all the possible settings MoX off, logging off , etc etc graphics down and see if that final big hit ever occurs again??????

so my question is does either pack have one chance at a super rare item or does one have 2 chances? Otherwise i would buy 2 of the cheaper packs. and where do I get the lounge4wear? I want a set for my wifes Sage lol

yeh buuilding up my rakata to get close to campagn lvl was prob inefficient. I should have got the BH OH then worked on geeting the Comapagn off hand from the EC HM tanks. of course now we want Dread gear ....sigh

So whats up with this item at the Black hole vendor I didnt even know it was there. Is it new? I was modifying my Rakata offhand then i saw this. Whats better? Modified Rakata or this one? ie Rakata OH with Advanced Might HIlt 26 (or 27?) with BH Mod and Enhancment and an augment How does Force Energy effect DPS exactly. Also has anyone seen the Hilt 27 item up for sale Reed yet I heard a 27 barrel was at GTn? Can anyone confirrm the mats are same as 26 just a few more/

hmmm ....I run MOX parser on the dummies and I was getting about 1300+ DPS , I though that was pretty good. i was told you should be able to put out 1400 before EC HM etc yikes now Im doing 1450 over a few mins, buffed. All BH gear. Rakata sabers with BH Mods (MH with Might Hilt 26)14 augments. now legacy belt bracers with mods from BH head and boot 1800 sounds scary good whats your secret? Dread Gear? or did we get nerfed again? Or do i suck??? LOL Edit: did 1550 in combat respeced peaked at 1600 once did 1500 over 5 min in watchman probably need to relearn watchman rotation/priorities etc maybe change relic out elemental dmg for energy? I finished off TFB SM after that so I have better rotation now so will run dummies again soon probably back up and over 1550 I hope. What hilts are you guys using I have Might Hilt 26 not 27 yet?

Yeh one solution we found was to highlight the player in raid list then open abilities window and activate it that way since the player cant be highlighted. The other part was to get close enough to where the body was too. But Im dps just hear this as healers were doing the most reviving.