I think you've missed the entire point of this game Its not KOTOR, This game is a MMORPG. I'd suggest waiting for Diablo 3, i hear thats pretty good if you like playing with yourself.

Sorry i Cant believ you. 2-3 Hm FPs a day=10-15 a week. Im full columi bar the wrists and saber from 2-3 a week. If you really wanted to pve for gear youd be running 5-6 HM Fps a day. thats 5 drops or an average of 1.5 pieces a day. thats everything bar your weapon in a week. Someones telling porkies......or has really terrible dice or doesnt know how to stack a a FP group

Speaking from experience the way i go about it is this. 1. Nuke any weak adds first. Later on you can easily 1-2 shot them. reasoning:dead adds do nothing, and its easier for the tank to focus on 2-3 adds that really hurt vs a host of smaller ones. 2. Peel off everyone else. You have good CD's so if you see an add whaling on a clothy its not hard to apply abit of burst then CC on them till the tank can pick them up or they die. 3.Mind maze is your friend, use it liberally.Even if it gets broken alot use it anyways 4. Leave the golds/champs/strongs to the tank unless everythings gone to custard.Then follow point 2. With great burst comes huge threat.I pull off tanks all the time and all it does is result in getting a rather large repair bill.

Over the past few weeks ive been trying out astralfires upheaval spec in a pve (not pvp at all) envroment. Just would like to know some of the nitty gritty details to get it fine tuned. 1. Do I prioritise Project over shadow strike with proc? My thoughts: yes, due to the fact that its an average of 2.5k damage vs 2200. 2. Am i right in making sure I never use the first charge of force potency on project to a upheaval proc munching both charges? with my gear (mostly columi,champ saber,stacking surge and crit)both specs seem to pull about the same numbers but the upheaval spec seems abit like pre 3.0 ret (which i actually enjoyed), OK dps when nothings going off but sky rockets when I get chain upheaval procs. IE 2 EV normal kills of the sith council. one kill was about 1:27 seconds the other was 1:39 secs. Only a 12 second difference but the second time it seemed to get less procs. Anyone more experienced using this spec have any observations,tips or info on the upheaval spec?

More internet "bad asses" play on the empire side? The above reason is one of the reasons i rolled republic, just to get away from what i was sick of seeing in general/trade on that other game.

No, If you want Rakata gear raid, if your server doesnt support pugging HM's shift server or join/form a guild. I've just given 2 perfectly good solutions to your no rakata gear issue.

No thanks i like quests i can solo when slightly outlevel them. Yes its a pain but thats what friends/guilds are for....

Rakata gear (minus implants and earpiece) is a reward for completing HM+ OPs. If your not completing HM ops you dont need/deserve rakata. Please don't put in stupid requests like this, you chose a life or gear, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

Not once did i mention your spelling, Your first post is nothing but a rambling diatribe.

is that all one sentance? really, I can't believe you just face roll every heroic instance without a healer. Congrats on finding a good group every time, its not like the HM's in wow since wrath have been particularily hard either. I find it hard that in 6.5 years of playing wow and typing that much you can't type a cohesive argument.

Do what i did. While questing on tatooine, spam once every 5 mins for heroic/FP content. It enables you to make a group while you remain questing, not wasting any time bar the effort to type a line or two in general every 5 mins. I rarely spend my time spamming for FP's anymroe and i'm dps. I've built enough of a rep as a decent player that i get whispered by people looking to fill hm/ops groups. A LFG tool would be nice but alittle bit of common sense goes a long way. This is an mmorpg, play well with others and getting into a group isnt hard. that being said a LFG channel that spans fleet + all worlds would be nice.

You dont ahve the important talents/abilities to go with them yet. Cant name them off the top of my head but -theres a talent that can increase the arp of shadow strike by 70% -Theres a talent that decreases the mana cost of project by alot -Clairvoyant strike gives a stacking +25% damage boost to project. Later on you see the benefits of the spec.

Sounds like you really don't enjoy this game. I'm unaware of the need to stay subscribed if your really not happy. As far as your post, there really isn't many fights that share simularities between the two games.

Pulled it 3 times yesterday on an alt. pull 1. 4 jets go off 30 secs into the fight, I can't figure out why the whole party is dead. Pull 2. We slow down, about 1 min into the fight all 4 jets go off.wipe pull 3. We go the same speed as pull 2 and clear it in 80 secs. Its a bug.

"we're sick of unfair enrage timers"=Players "ok, lets put in a mechanic thats fun and requires modicum of brainpower"=Bioware "we actually have to think about the mechanic? this is BS"=players "we give up"= Bioware. Why not just ask for a long hallway with 4-5 chests and call it an instance?

You can skip the annoying boss in battle of ilum btw.

Because you clicked accept on the instance finish quest. Had somethign similar when I did HM kaon, we wiped on the optional boss after finishing the instance and couldnt get back in to retry it.

easiest to hardest. Taral Kaon Maelstrom False emp battle of ilum esseles D7 Note i ahvent actually done D7, mostly cause of horror stories ive heard. Some bosses artifically increase the diffuculty (ie one boss is "hard" and cockblocks the easier bosses)

Alot of people brought the game and had totally unreal expectations of it. Once they realised this they dropped it. Also alot of the ADHD crowd had to get into the FOTM before crawling back to what they know. Its no suprise that numbers have dropped. Its my hope that the numbers actually stabilise,they merge or crunch down some servers and that they keep it up. I like this game.

Yeap will be happening with oceanic server openings. Will be fantastic to play with people on my time zone or close to it.

QFT. If you have 8 toons fully rakata geared,full battlemaster with every datacron and quest completed then I have sympathy for you.

NO, this is not how to reward people. reward people that are willing to take the time and effort not the horible method that blizz is using.

Sigh another entitled lazy. You can't expect a spec to be perfect in pve and pvp at the same time. Either A) suck it up. or B) respec whenever you want to do pve. This isn't wow, its similar but its not WoW. Deal with it.

So they should tailor loot to party comp? i havent seen a single MMO do that. Its about keeping bums in seats, you get what you want and you will find other things to do....... I havent seen a single poster here realise that your getting tier 1 and 1.5 from doing heroics..... Be glad you dont HAVE to raid to see tier.

Bear with me. You run the same heroic every day. you get screwed out of your token every day for a month. You renew and the same thing happens for another month. See why they won't change the way loot works? On another note, you can still buy your token piece with comms saved up from running it for a month.Be glad that the only way of getting your token isnt dungeon farmin.