The True Republic might be a good guild for you. We're not 30+ (though a good chunk of our players are), but in general we all fall into the casual playerbase, as we've got jobs / lives / etc. PvP is fun, PVE is fun, and we're willing to help out a new player as long as you're not dumb or annoying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Doesn't Force Lightning slow down the person you're hitting? (I cannot remember.) That's useful for things like huttball / intercepting incomings to a node. Maybe not a rotational thing, but certainly a utility.

As has been said, you kill healers with focus. You kill multiple healers with focus and CCs. A lot of the issue I see is DPS wasting their burst on a healer while the other healer(s) freecast. Then when they see it doesn't work, they go into stun mode. You have to stun and then burst. Also, use your interrupts wisely. Seriously. And if you have the coordination and motivation to, throw the tech classes on force users and vice versa. And pylons and consoles and huttballs.

That's pretty much what I'm running, too. Though I have a few more augments in alacrity until I get to right around 9%, because I like healing fast. I've considered playing around with WP augments, but haven't committed to it. Either way, I'm doing OK on healing, so I think it's a good setup.

I thought that too, but didn't say anything because I didn't want to get stuck with the job =p

Sign me up. Stephanie - healz - sage - rep side (please say this is for rep side..)

Just started a sage on TEH - really enjoying rolling lowbies / midbies in pvp. Good community for the most part, and even better... quick pops.

Will throw a mention to Sokan. As Jedi-only it'll be helpful to figure out how we're going to handle team composition issues. - Stephanie

Hey Zunyo, 5:15p EST may be a little early for most of us, but I'll ask around and see if there's any Sokan interest, and I'll put it on our calendar.. No matter if we attend or not, wishing you the best on the event. - Stephanie Stephanie Knights of Sokan | Ambassador

If I'm not mistaken, there was something like this somewhere neat launch. At any rate, I'll go as a rep for Sokan. Hit me up in game when you start planning a date? I'm terribad at checking the forums. - Stephanie

Looks like a lot of fun! Count on some Knights of Sokan being there, I'll put it up on the guild calendar and try and spread the word on pub side. I feel like sharding is going to be more of an issue on Makeb than it has been Hoth - every time I'm on the planet it seems like guildies are spread out across 4, sometimes even 5 shards with only 50 or so people on each. Just adding to the choir. Sniper's solution seems like it would be an alright plan if we treat it more as a brawl and not so much as "win/lose" thing, keeping people from caring *too* much about numbers.

Perhaps the most apt description I've ever heard.

/support this as well. Hate trying the dance-cancel-dance-cancel-dance-cancel DANCE.

I recommend checking out this thread (and the recruitment forum in general): http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=588084

List of guilds: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=588084 Also worth a shot to check the recruiting forums.

I find this thread http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=588084 to be quite helpful when choosing a guild. And yes, Sokan (knightsofsokan.com) is always recruiting. Our major storyline and guild-wide events are based off a central RP story (see the comic on the website), but we allow for individual RPers to create branch stories that cater to their characters. As we're light-side, Jedi-only it's not quite as much freedom as one might like but to us the challenge of exploring a character within those boundaries is part of the fun. Also you start off as an intiate*. Remnants and Alpha are both great. Historians is another Pub guild I'm keeping my eye on - they're fairly new but seem to be really growing in the RP dep / doing some cool things. Haven't RPed with too many of the imp guilds on my imp(s), but I would add Esoteric Order to that list.

Hey guys, Steph from Sokan here. An idea for Imperial involvement, if any not-so-loyal Republic groups wanted to float it: You can always hire out the Empire to do your bidding(!) Having a few skilled agents on hand to assist your group during the final event might not be such a bad idea. If Imperial Guilds want to join in, some World PVP base assaults (note: world base assaults, not ganking) in an attempt recover information about who the Star's Holder is (or just to bring grief to Sokan/Nexu), wouldn't be such a bad idea. We're in(!) - if there are participating Sokan/Nexu present at the time and it looks like you've got us cornered then maybe, just maybe, your guild can "persuade" someone to whisper you (aka: jump on their imp and tell your character via holomail) the Holder's identity. At which point you can either end it there, do something RP-ish (say, try and sell the information to Republic players), or talk to me about running a longer-lasting cross guild RP with Sokan/Nexu, even though it's up in the air as to whether we'll be in possession of the Star by the end of the event. My enjin profile, for contact: http://sokan.enjin.com/profile/2996104 And lastly, before I forget... Event Flier: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v633/JungianBlue/starofsuzerains_zps00d65141.jpg

[OOC] Are you guys rep or imp?

Just saw this here on the SWTOR forums. Can't guarantee a showing because it's a little late notice, but I'll put it up on the Knights of Sokan event calendar in case any of our guys are interested. If you do a get a Republic rep, please let me know ASAP so that they can have a more accessible point of contact. Feel free to contact me here on the forums, on enjin at knightsofsokan.com (forum name Stephanie), or in game (Stephanie - Republic, Juku - Imp). - Stephanie

Basic suggestion that would be tremendously helpful for those of who heal in Huttball and spend half our time looking at the ops frame --- Put some kind of huttball-shaped icon by the ball carrier in the ops frame. Usually you can tell by who's health is going down the fastest, but occasionally that isn't the case. And since it's best to, you know, play for objectives, it makes more sense to help out the carrier over some guy who's hanging out 1v1ing some other guy off to the side. Easier to identify who has ball if it's denoted in the ops frame rather than moving your camera to look.

I'll see if Knights of Sokan is interested. I've kind of taken a sabbatical from ambassador duties, but I'll be back in action this week. We should be able to get at least a small showing together and I'll let a few other republic guilds that I keep in touch with know about it, too. - Stephanie

You know, these are some excellent points. Things like sitting in chairs and making Ilum useful again are really, really basic additions that would make the game/roleplay so much better than it is now. This game is wonderful, but it really needs a lot of work. Please. Stop adding new, completely off-the-wall content and just fix what you already have.