easy but slow, i did dps til about 45 where groups wanted me then i switched to healing

whatever

or quit complaining, my dps is fine, it isnt tops but it is fine.. need some love sure but am i useless not a chance. people whine too much.

wow someone bumped this? from the BIOWARE EMPLOYEE POST IN THIS THREAD so basically any delays, any loops, any automation and you are using the "aproved" software/hardware in a way that is bannable. Having made many a macro in many a game, reemoving loops, pauses and automation make macro's pretty useless except for spamming text for guild recruitment or sales. why would anyone resurect this ancient post, and why would they comment on the "validity" of it when there is a bioware employee already defining it IN THIS THREAD... oh fyi, I personally put in a petition to get that information posted here because a lot of people are clueless and will define what is "ok" by what they want.

Firstly THANK YOU a realisitic post with good numbers in it. Secondly sorry i did not read through your entire guide, though I have looked at it before (skimmed) and our dps in compairable so if i am doing something different it does not matter (you have a bit more dps and a bit more gear tbh) thirdly great to see that 1300ish sorc and marauder, I dont know who these rauders are that are pulling 1.5k to 2k in a real fight, i have not met one yet. A great post. Yes there has been some pain but you (and I) both seem to think we are still perfectly viable. what i love is that we are in for some love next, and i like being on that side of the pendulum good post, good poster +1

there are plenty of healer posts on this board and on the testing forum (from when it was on the test server) not being a healer that is the best I got for ya

its for leveling, i take pinning because i dont like to respec every time i raid or pvp... for leveling take whatever you want imo respec when you hit 50,.

once you have improved vents 2/2, hired muscle 3/3 and integrated cardio package 3/3 just run up the arsenal tree til you get heat seaker. after that you can figure it out, wont be many points left.

The only thing that kills rauders are rauders... fact this will likely change soon as the nerfherders are all complaining about them now that ops and BH have gotten beaten to a pulp.

pathetic as in compaired to every other game i have ever played pvp in. pvp is just a minigame, much like space combat, or raids for that matter. It is compartmentalized and the variables are completely controlled by the zone (which you get no choice in and there are only 4 variations). I mean really, if I wanted to pvp on the same maps over and over an FPS is a much much better choice (i play both styles of game tbh). Second reason why it is pathetic is there is no value in it. There is a carrot on a stick pvp gear that helps you with pvp and nothing else. PVP in an mmorpg should have some value to the player. It could be defending your home (ship in this case I guess but whatever) or resources, or maybe defending other players from pk's while they down a world boss ... you get the idea. PVP should encourage going out into the world, instead everyone hangs out in fleet once 50, no reason to go anywehere else, you zone into premade pvp zones, or zone into raids... i never expected to spend so little time on planets, but there is nothing there to go for/to ... I cant even duel 90% of the time, fighting with friends for bragging rights and practice was always a lot of fun in many games that I have played. This pvp minigame stuff sucks, WoW is almost as bad, but not quite. Too many spoon fed carrot on a stick mmo players now though. Thinking of going back to eve tbh (have reactivated and training offline but not active in that game atm). Standing around fleet waiting for them to impliment another carrot on another stick is getting old.

Only place i have seen anything other than the mainhand weapon you get in the mail is a drop off a world boss, cant remember if it was armor or not, but it was different than the one that you get in the mail (which is main hand and is usefull from level 14 to about 23)

Not sure about that but here is a post from a dev talking about the training dummies and some of the factors in their calculations *click*

pvp is pathetic in this game so ... fyi i pvp and pve in this game (two 50's, one over 50 valor the other over 60)

BIS is going to be orange gear with augments, putt your campaign gear mods out and put them in orange. Then use other raid drops (random enhancements or duplicate campaign gear and pull out the enhancements) to optimize.

while i love my arsenal, the simplicity of the rotation is a bit much, only class I play (have 4 total toons in play) that I can bind my rotation to my mouse (I use a G700 gaming mouse)... every other class has more useful buttons to press. I dont mind that though, I rarely "tunnel vision" on my rotation and have a lot of awareness