That is truly amazing! I was actually meaning with a companion, so the fact that you did so much, before summoning yours bodes very well. I'll definitely progress to the hard modes then.

It seems the gunslinger forum is soloable

Not true at all. Many conversations are locked out before you get to certain points in your class story. If you increase affection enough at a low level you get no conversations. Then when you complete a certain part of class story (chapter two for example), you'll suddenly have 7 or 8 conversations in a row. Which means they were locked out before then. So level is important, in you will only progress class story so far without levelling. To answer the op question, you could complete chapter two at that level, but I'm not sure if some are locked out till part way through chapter three. Can't say I ever had batches of conversations after the start of chapter three though.

Your right of course, warzones are not about one on one (except nodes, which I spend a crazy amount of time guarding, as no one else will). But that is the only way to truly compare classes. What you are saying is possibly why some of us can play Dps and do an ok job " if you focus on the objectives any class is a useful team member" I know that's not your words, but that's the jist. Sorry for derailing.

One further thing ill add to this. The reason I'm ok on my scrapper and many others are too is because we like the class, it encourages us to be stubborn and after a lot of effort we can hold our own. That being said, I have finally got round to levelling a guardian (hate force users, but really want the buff), with that I can dominate anybody. On my scrapper I would win maybe sixty five percent of one on ones, normally by the skin of my teeth. On the guardian I have lost one fight one on one, I'm normally at sixty percent plus health too. So if I were to use the skills it takes to play a scrapper well and play a glow bat class, I could do even more. You can get good but part of me feels it is wasted time. You could be even better, are you stubborn enough to try it?

I will thanks. Also your no more experienced than me. My scrapper is from pre-order day 1. The crap ones (of which there were a lot are the ones that rerolled heals. There are a few of us about, not many granted, but when we come for you, you better have a lot of friends that come to your aid ASAP. Sins are more survivable definaty, I really would not say they have more burst.

Nope, the sheep roll heals or quit. My server has quite a few scrapers and concealments that stuck it out. They hit like trucks when optimised with enough power and surge. Nothing takes a healer down quicker. Well maybe my slinger does if they can't Los me.

Lately I have been seeing just how far I can push my slinger. I have recently solod battle for ilum, false emperor and kaon under siege ( just normal modes so far). I have done this on all my 55's but find slinger has the best combo of defenses and high Dps. Has anyone managed any of the old 55 heroic flashpoints or normal lost island (the robot boss stopped me last try). I used to solo wow raids on my hunter and slinger feels very much like that.

Join an rp server, the average age seems to be much higher there. Our guild on the progenitor has many players in thier thirties or fourties. I have found that this is always the way in any game with rp servers, it's kind of an unwritten rule. Very little rp happens, just a more mature server /shhh don't tell anyone

My vanguard and pt tank must be faulty. I can't find this knock back skill

That's pretty impressive, but I'm after the hardest solo, just for those times when no guildies are on and you want to do something challenging without pugging. Mara does seem to have good survivability. Gunslinger has more than I was expecting, was pretty even with a vanguard tank when time to kill is considered, which is nice. But not being able to stealth past stuff takes a while. Not having a shadow though my stealthier is a bit squishy unless its heal spec, but then it's a bit boring.

This got me thinking. I used to have lots of fun in wow on my hunter soloing old raids. So I gave it a try on my slinger and easily solo'd red reaper and then battle for illum. They were crazily easy and considering battle for ilum drops black hole gear fairly profitable. Just what could be extreme solo'd in this game and which set up of classes would be best for it?

I have to say im curious how you ensure you drop combat after an engagement. I had my scrapper as my main for almost all of Vanilla (can call it that now lol), the number of times id be stick in combat for 20-30 seconds after killing someone was so annoying. So if you have a trick for ensuring you can drop combat status, id like to know how. Its a great fun class to play, but if you are real team player, then your role in the game is very structured. Id almost always end up node guarding 9as no one seems to be willing to do the responsible role in PUG's), as i take the objectives seriously. If you get in the main melle you'll never get the appreciation your contribution deserves, because your damage does not get a chance to get healed, your tagets go down quick, so you do 30k damage while that smash tard does 100k, cos he goes after a healed target. 70k difference in damge, but you took your target out of the game. Real fun class, but unless you have a shadow on node guard duty, youd be doing your team a solid by doing that role.

Then your doing stealth wrong. Of my 5 characters that finished Makeb, 4 (those without stealth) were 54.5 when they killed the boss at the end. My 1 stealth character was level 53, but only just. The entire difference was due to the sheer number of mobs he could avoid with stealth. So thats practically 1.5 levels due to avoidable mobs, which are added just to help you level up at the correct pace, my Scoundrel was very underpowred due to avoiding lots of mobs, the others were fine. It needed 1.5 levels of additional quests, not random mobs, it was lazy development. Having said that, the very curse that had my scoundrel underleveled while doing the Makeb story, is now what makes him the only character i would ever consider doing dailies there on. The others just do GSI on Tatooine, Hoth and Aleraan, whicle in the group finder or PVP queue. So if you want to avoid mobs, those are the dalies for you, you even get to go to the most iconic plants while doing them. Give me smuggling and bounty hunting daily missions on those planets and id be a happy bunny

I think I edited while you were typing. It took me a few attempts to get it down, as I'm slower than I used to be (37 now and had lightning reflexes as a teen). Was almost as hard as giving up smoking, that took a few attempts, but for both ill never go back now lol. I really would encourage you to keep trying, maybe do a gunslinger, they have a nice rotation in sharpshooter spec, that always feels real nice on the side buttons.

I felt like that for ages, that's why I almost gave up, but muscle memory does wonderfully things. I just have all key rotation abilities in the non Ctrl modified twelve side button binds. Probably get arthritis in my right thumb from it, but my thumb can find any if the twelve buttons without thinking about it. Now using the Ctrl modifier, that can be a bit harder to get down. Also when I said a whole lot of keybinds without using the keyboard, I was not saying I do t use the keyboard, just that I have lots if keybinds before even considering what I can do on the keyboard.

I had the same problem as yourself. Then I got me a Logitech g600, took a while to get used to, I'm talking weeks, but now I use just keybinds. I found it helped to arrange my action bars into rows if four across and three down, so they match the twelve side buttons. The G600 has a Ctrl modifier button, so you can easily have 24 keybinds just from the twelve side buttons. I have scroll up to scroll though enemies and scroll down to scroll though allies. I also have pressing the scroll wheel down, left and right bound, along with a button behind the wheel. That's a whole lot of key binds without having to use the keyboard. One thing that really helps is having key abilities on the same binds for all characters, like interrupt, stun, cc, stun break, signature class ability one and two (eg cover or pull). This was all mostly from advice from these forums. I did almost give up on the mouse though as it really did feel very wierd for ages. Now I can pull of all sorts of reaction based shenanigans in PVP Hope that helps you from one old timer to another.

It's because even though we think they are just trying to milk us for every penny, we still enjoy the game. Much like smokers knowing its not good for them, they still enjoy a ciggie. My sub runs out in seven weeks. I'll be going free to play when it does, unless they give me a reason to carry on subbing (which as a PVP player is unlikely). Many probably took out long subs like me, but the direction they seem to be going is not what I was hoping for.

Its good that you have faith in them, many of us of a wee bit more cynical than yourself. As that cynacism is normally born from being screwed over by companies, your unlikely to win people over. We think they are profiteering, AE have form for it and we will never really know. We have sugested ways to do it, if it does not happen soon, then they are just screwing with us.

I am no programmer, but this should be workable. They already have the ability to display a currency across all servers, as that’s what they do for total cartel coins. They could add a second value beneath that that says unclaimed rewards (where they have the name change token, so you cant get other things), then when it is claimed on one character it has can be removed as a reward. That took me 2 mins to come up with. Heck it may take a little programming, but it would stop it ever being an issue again in the future and they cloud use it for any rewards they want to give out. Any reason that could not work?

Your trying to be clever but failing badly. They can easily see who was a subscriber at 2.1 and send those players a cert. it's how they awarded cc at the launch of free to play and how my account gets a set amount of items for each character I create. Also it's a totally sound business decision to delay awarding the certs, to cash in on impatient people. It's not illegal to do that, but it is morally wrong. Also do give me any if you ran a business crap, I'm a professional business analyst, so I have seen practices like this quite a few times. Running a business does not automatically mean you care about your customers, just that you care about profits, see the Starbucks tax issue for evidence.

Since the outfits are now fully modable, you can look how ever you like while still having max PVP stats (I'm on the progenitor and all my characters look awesome). So with that in mind. How do you do rp PVP? How is it different to normal PVP? The community on our sever seems quite mature if that's what your after. But if by rp PVP you mean be allowed to play badly and not try to PVP to the best of your ability, then you will likely be abused on any server if you try that.

That does not work. They tell you to choose. Just make sure you don't tell them to fight for you, that did not end well for me

If you were to get just one set of gear for both pve and PVP, which would you get. I have no desire to raid, so do not need to be geared beyond flashpoint level. For someone like me which would be best? Can full PVP gear function to an acceptable level in flash point tanking? Can pve gear (66, 69) function to an acceptable level in PVP? ( no intention to do ranked)

Objective based play gets you insults these days. I regularly get accused of defending our node on hypergate, just to farm medals. Like I'd get less if I went mid? Certain classes are just better suited to certain roles. If you have stealth then guarding a node is the best use if your abilities. If you dont have stealth then you should avoid solo guarding. Playing just objectives seems to be a thing of the past. All that matters to leet puggers is stats at the end. Eejits.