Just stick with what you ahve, leveling toons is easy, gearing them can be a pain in the rear. Vigi guardians are in a decent place atm in Pve and i have no problem sustaining solid numbers. Just get some practise in, mod your gear properly (if its not already) and tear it up.

when you picked your AC you were given a bag, open the bag.

Bad dps dies,Good ones do everythign they can to stay alive and make sure their target/s die

I''ve done HM EV with 2 smuggler heals, a Sorc isn't 100% needed.That being said some fights are easier with a sorc than without one, My personal Ideal healing comp for when i play my healing alt is smuggler and sage but thats cause we compliment each other nicely, not because sages are so amazingly good.I've healed HM EV/KP with every other type of healing backing me up and certain combinations on certain fights are easier or harder depending. How I handle missle barrage- Pre-hot the entire group, build up 3 stacks of UH and ensure that I have Cool head (sorry not sure of mirror names) ready. When we hit that final barrage, use my AOE heal on CD, and try to keep everyone alive but not nessecarily healed to full. focus on keeping everyone out of being dead in a tick range and spam UWH,kolto jolt and aoe heal on CD. Basically play to your classes strengths and don't be afraid to talk to the other healer/s and have a strat pow wow, split up healing responsibilties evenly and go for broke, Its remarkably easy to regen as a smuggler so factor that into your plans. Don't neglect your gear, you are one of the linchpins in your op, Make sure your gear is properly itemised, Just cause rakat has 58 mods in it doesnt necessarily mean its better, Some columi pieces are better itemised. Make sure you are rocking your Pvp 2 piece set bonus (with raid mods not pvp mods) It really makes a huge difference to our classes weakness (it beefs up the crit rate on our aoe heal) since our 4 piece set bonus is on a heal I rarely if ever use.Make sure your gear is fully augmented, after patch i managed to add another 150 per tick of my hots.

Wow this really has my brain going. However much I love Hoth and Ilum I don't want to see another iceworld. If i had to chose something completely original Mon Calamari for a sea/underwater planet. If I had to go with something that has already been done probably Kashykk. Endor pre ewoks (dear god don't put them in) would be pretty neat. The planet Aayla Secura dies on would be quite different too, After alittle thought theres an awful lot of places that could open up for possibility.

I understand that people love to pvp, I don't understand why they think they're effective without so many core talents. 1. Costs of abilities. Everytthing is paying a premium at lvl 16, you ahve very few force management buttons and skills. 2. UNless your balance you don't use mindcrush or TK throw (there are exceptions) . 3. You have a very small toolkit at this point. No force slow, no stunning kick, only force stun. My advice, wait till lvl 21ish then try again. You will probably notice the difference.

I'm an infil shadow and i do my dailies with nadia . I'm an sawbones smuggler and i do my dialies with corso or akaavi (mood dependant) I'm a Vigi guardian and i do my dailies with doc. Its just personal taste really, My JK doesnt plow through mobs as fast as my shadow so I use a healer.

DOnt stand in bad, Try to run in during his saber throw DPS . Thats pretty much it.He does have quite a short enrage timer which doesnt help with alot movement.

Solution to your problem, stop pvping naked.

I loved 25 man raiding, I hated having to deal with the following. -Reliance on 25 people actually showing up. -Needing more than 25 people as "raiders" -Drama over loot -Having to do both 10 and 25's -Carrying 10-25% of the raid The benefits were massively outweighed by negatives. SHould they offer some incentive for larger groups? Yes. WIll it cause a storm in a teacup? Yes is there a solution to keep both sides of the fence happy? No

However much I'd love to get some free game time from this it probably won't happen. Put it this way, we save not having to use a tunnelling service for playable latency . It is frustrating especially when you only do OP's 2 nights a week and you have an unplanned maint on one of them but thems the breaks.

Yes WH augmented is better than columi, but better than properly itemised rakata? I highly doubt it. Also those pvp set bonuses? once again on the whole the Pve ones tend to be better at sustained damage. At no point has the OP said whether or not hes a dps. I wouldnt take a pvp geared tank or healer any quicker than i'd take a dps.

I think you're severely overestimating your WH gear. Theres no way that all that expertise comes at no cost to your main stat or additional green stats. Personally I wouldnt take you either.

All my alts regardless of class have slicing for 1-50. It is promptly dropped for something more useful later on. All my toons generally hit 50 with 1 million creds,max bags and full speeder training Slicing is still a great profession to have when out and about in the world If you see a star pick it up, its free credits.

Source for the matrix cubes being useless? i heard they're getting a buff. If the WH relics are getting changed you can bet your bottom dollar that the pve ones are probably getting changed aswell. If not someone will ahve to do the math on the "clickies" to see whether or not theyre worth the effort. Just incase ill just go click my button every 20 mins till we get a definitive answer.

Oh look, another the sky is falling thread /yawn.

I am guilded so that puts a different spin on what I do. typically.... 1. I do my dailies on as mnay toons as i feel like.I have 3 @ 50 2. I do a few WZ's trying for the daily or weekly. 3. Look at getting into a Pug something with my alts. 4.Peck away at my 4 lvl ~30 alts. 5 Help out guildies with instances/Fp's etc. 6.Ops/HM FP;s with the guild The game is what you make of it to be honest.

I think a group of fresh 50's would ahve less trouble than a group of decked out ones. "afk 30 secs while we wait for the flames to tick"

I remember when they released in game voice on WoW. I don't think i ever used it. Vent servers are cheap and from what i hear mumble is too, maybe invest in a few bucks a month to have your own server.Well worth avoiding the agravation of avoidable wipes.

mmm cademinu HM.... imagine the QQ...

what sort of numbers per strike are you pulling? My plasma brand=2100 My sunder=1700 Master strike Total=8k OHS =3k These are my generic crits without relic or adrenal.

You dont use an axe to hammer in nails and you don't use a hammer to chop wood. Use the right tools for the job. I swap between 3 relics. Internal damage proc( we dont have enough sunder classes in our OP) Matrix cube On use power relic. The internal damage relic is always equipped. I swap between the matrix cube and the on use fight dependant. Cube fights. Toth and zorn Tanks Fabricator On use Fights General V Kephess Soa. If im sitting on the boss most of the time and theres no hard burns needed I'll use the cube, If i need alot of burst at points I'll go with the on use.

Its the same on the pub side with imperial officers , slow your roll.I foudnt hat sneak and blackout work just fine for giving you a chance to get a sap off.

Personally I prefer the one use power clicky and the auto proc relics. But thats just personal taste. I like the static stats of the matrix cube but having a burst window every two mins is too good to be passing up for things like bombers on kephess,vunerability phases on fabricator etc etc.

Well if this goes through i guess the sky really is falling on raiding. Shame cause i really enjoyed it.