This post doesn't help your cause any. You came into a warzone that was already decidedly against you. You are not gonna get too many medals in a warzone where the other team has all 3 turrets. What do you want them to change on that.....most medals are largely based on time in Alderaan. Think of the medals you can get as a healer in this one, simply from sitting on one of the two turrets your team holds if you are ahead, or hell even one turret if you are behind: 75k healing/300k healing/2.5k single heal/5k single heal/1k defender pts/3k defender pts/5k defender pts/7.5k defender pts/10k defender points. This assumes you don't ever do anything but sit on one turret and help in any other way. It is NOT that hard to get medals as a healer. I healed all day yesterday and was getting plenty of medals, almost always at least the max of 8. You just gotta know what medals are available and go for them.

Awesome stuff and very well detailed. Will be really good to point people to who are looking for specing help.

No he doesn't. I am not sure why you think he does. Also, no offense, but the content on nightmare is not ridiculously easy . Then I almost laughed when I read the part about him thinking that server maintenance is no longer necessary in this day and age. Is that a joke, or are you serious. Servers still require regular maintenance by real people that work real jobs over there. Remember, businesses are in business generally to make a profit.

Actually I was confused for a sec too. He said 814 POWER. I later assumed he had meant bonus damage there, since he combined it in a sentence with his crit rating .

There is no reason not to get Will of the Sith, honestly. It's the best talent to get from that tree.

How come when I try to click the links in this thread, all it does is take me to a page that says choose a class with nothing else on it.....? Update: Never mind, my net is just a tad slow at populating the page .

Yah, in case it's not abundantly clear, damage absorbed by your Static Barrier is considered a heal and ALWAYS has since the game came out. It had nothing to do with any change in the most recent patch. If your barrier absorbs 2500 or more damage, then you will get the medal for the heal.

I don't think people get it. This isn't designed to replace Ilum. It is simply designed to be something you can do when there is NO action in Ilum, IE the several times during the day where one side gives up and decides they don't wanna mess around at the bridge.

Wait what. Are you confusing the two weeklys? The reason you don't get credit for kills for your weekly from huttball is because....well umm this should be obvious, the one for 150 kills has to do with killing players ON ILUM, not in warzones. The warzone weekly is to win 9 warzones in a week, so good luck getting that one finished in 3-5 warzones...

Except you can gear up Xalek with your tier gear once you no longer need it . I always use Xalek to tank. I have never had any problems with him at all.

ROFL. No offense, but your damaage output in warzones is hardly reflective of a PvE setting. The spec you are talking about is rather silly.

What you would really like is the endurance/surge/power enhancment(Adept enhancement). Aside from the fact that you will find that Rakata gear does have more crit/surge and less of the alacrity that the Columi set has, the pvp pieces have some of the right enhancements for you. I believe the Champion helm has an Adept enhancement in it and I know the Imperial Agent gloves do. Yes, you can simply buy the IA gloves and take the enhancement out of it and put it into your gear to clear out some of the unwanted alacrity. It will still be level 56 stuff, so you should get more toward the stats you want. While the Rakata earpiece does have alacrity, I KNOW for SURE that the rakata implants you get from the dailys on Ilum and Belsavis have Crit/Surge (51/51 i believe). Currently, I believe I am sitting at close to 31% crit and 76% on the critical multiplier.

Speak for yourself, lol. I currently am using ram horns.....it's an exotech helm that was designed for assassins, but which has had mods, etc changed to fit the sorcerer style(got rid of the accuracy basically and replaced it with surge,etc. This is basically due to the fact the assassin helm has more willpower on it . I used to be called conehead with the Columi piece, lol.

I have always read that the best thing to do is to not clip the force lightning ticks. That is, you should fully channel it and then use your Wrath proc. This, however is a PvE consideration. A lot of times, you are clipping the Force Lightning to get that CL off and get better damage numbers when there are several opponents around your target, such as at the beginning of a huttball in the middle of the field. PvP is very much different due to what I was saying and is dependent on the situation, as another poster said. If you are in a one v one PvP situation, I would go with the normal PvE routine and not clip the channeling, but wait for it to fully tick. Just remember that you will obviously have to react to what your opponent is doing.

Look outside your actual class and you will be amazed what enhances you can find that are useful for your class. For instance, the Imperial Agent gloves from pvp have the Advanced Adept 24 enhancement(endurance/surge/power), which I know is great for sorcerors, so I imagine it is for sages as well.

This, I will generally give it to the person with the highest heals in the group.

Umm you say "I saw in the patch notes that the first 4 medals will only be counted toward "accomplishments"", but the problem with that statement is that you can get a max of 2k valor from medals, but you get 500 valor per medal, so any beyond 4 don't give those getting the extra medals any more valor. This seems to be a good balance for healers who can easily get the 2.5k heal, 75k healed buffs just to start out. Do a bit of damage and you can get 10 players and maybe 25 players killed or defender pts standing at nodes in Alderaan( 1k and 3k and 5k defender pts).

That would overrun the GM department with tickets. No thanks. A 30 minute penalty would be sufficient, since most ppl are afking to try to immediately get back into another warzone. For the record, I never quit out of a warzone, so this isn't coming from someone who regularly leaves a warzone. I end some warzones with only a few hundred valor, but I never quit out of a warzone in progress.

I have seen quite a few ppl die with the ball in fires....including a War Hero who's 4 man premade runs all over the pugs in huttball. Just saying, ppl do take dmg in it. Also, as far as a sorcerer goes, there is no way what you are describing could occur. No bubble can absorb 10k dmg and a sorc has no defensive cooldowns that would cause him to reduce dmg other than a bubble, which simply absorbs some dmg, more if you have the skill in the lightning tree.

I can understand a restriction on entering, but 24 hours is silly. I think just about all of us have been in a warzone where we got one of those sudden dcs and come back and are out of the warzone. Would you like to have a 24 hour penalty because your computer crapped out of the game for a minute? I think instituting a penalty of say 15 or 30 minutes for dropping out of a warzone would be quite enough to avoid having ppl simply drop all the time when their team is losing to try and get a new warzone right away.

Well it was a fun game for you against a pug....based on those numbers....but you only won 2-1?

This. Simply put, the system as is, leads to a lot of, so to speak ninja looting. On my server, a guy recruited a bunch of ppl to kill the Belsavis world boss. The loot was not set on master loot and everyone was willing to go help with a chance at purples as well as one of the magent lightsaber crystal patterns. Well, midfight, the op leader changed the loot method to master looter and when the boss died, he took all the loots and disappeared. The guy was booted from the guild he was in when they heard what he had done, but stuff like this needs to be stopped. It should not be possible to change looting methods midfight. People have the right to know that whatever looting method they go into a fight with is what will work with loot on the mob they are killing. If you join a op group that has master loot on and go into a fight with it on, then you are taking the risk, but you shouldn't lose out on loot cuz the leader decides midfight he wants it all and changes the looting method.

However the video is a good example of what not to do. This guy is seriously arguing that Lightning Strike is worth casting over another FL when Wrath procs a 3rd time, ROFL. Man a 3rd procd Wrath means one of Crushing Darkness or CL is almost off cooldown. Why on earth would you waste it on an inefficient spell like LS.

BOTH players going in have to, him and the person that he wants to bring in. But, seriously, the way I have heard you do it is that you pull her all the way into the tunnel and back to the front of the area and kill her there. All the adds spawn back in the room you meet her. Well, I did it with 2 people, but that's just because it was simpler.

I would like to note that the price of Radioactive paste( a purple quality biochem medical supply at tier 6) actually went up AFTER people started raising the price on the missions you get them from. Secondly, I reverse engineered 60+ of one blue awareness implant and have gotten nothing but mats back, no pattern at all. I don't expect to get it on the 3rd or 4th attempt, but 60 crafts later and nothing but a few mats?