Not the current tier dungeon. And as far as I know, they aren't multiboxing. Usually the past tier dungeon some pretty talented people can do. Here's one from last tier dungeon, still quite a feat since there are some people that still wipe to this boss with a full 10 man raid =P

Being casual does not mean I want things easy. I can be a casual player and want challenging content. How did casual mean hello kitty online adventures difficulty? This game is pretty easy already :/ Also, if a game is putting you in a blue funk, you need to step away for a few weeks, just my opinion.

You realize you just said that close to 50% of people that bought the game had "false" expectations? Where did such a large number of people get this false expectation? EA's advertising? =P I think you need to not state your assumptions as facts. There is no way for you to prove that it was false expectations, it's probably more like my reason, I got bored of the game quickly. I'm not a pvper either.

I did say I know nothing about computers! It's odd when you're being moved? I guess, it's almost like you've phased, people disappear, reappear etc.

@ Seek: haha I have been unsubscribed and I'm on my 30 day free thingy. I play(ed) on candarous ordo (high populated server but now only standard I believe). I haven't logged in for 7 weeks or so. I loved the leveling as far as class stories, anything beyond that I didn't enjoy. I did raid (nightmare modes) because friends needed a healer but I burned out enough finally and I couldn't stay even for them. Most of them left too anyhow. I couldn't do alts much because I had to do the same fed ex quests interweaved with the new class quest and I generally don't alt much in any case. Would I resub? Probably, once they add more class storyline stuff.

I dabble with a few asian based mmo's and when the channel my friends are in are full (and I'm unable to join them) we just all jump to another channel that's not full...? edit: I just saw your edit. None of the (asian mmo) games I play had world bosses that weren't instanced in it's own zone but I can see your point *if* the game has world bosses, like Swtor does I suppose. The way it works in mop beta at the moment though, it's not channels per se. It's almost like phasing? I'm not a computer person so it's hard for me to explain. I had no idea they were implementing this through out the servers. It's pretty brilliant imo. Merge the population without the headaches of merging the the servers. I'm sure they will have growing pains (ie world bosses like you said) but I am stoked to have loads of people around making the game feel alive. I hope swtor does something similar, the game is/was amazing at release with zillions of people everywhere.

That's actually pretty amazing. I hope that devs here start taking notes

You need to stop reading the forums.

My mother disagrees. She's 70 years old. I let her try both games. She got annihilated in swtor and absolutely loved wow (of course she picked a hunter, AMG PETS). Take a guess which game she spent her money on? Don't get me wrong, I like swtor. But my mother is as newbie and as casual as you can get. It's only a sample of 1 but this is more valid to me than us veteran gamers posting on what is "easy".

What does this mean exactly? That the numbers they reported as subscribers in the first report was...wrong? fudged? Different definition of paying? How does one say 1.7M subscribers earlier, 1.3M subscribers later, and the percent of paying subscribers has gone up? That only means to me that the hyped up 1.7 million was incorrect =P

You were wrong, at least about Activision-Blizzard numbers.

If they don't want to do server merges, they need to blur the lines between servers. If they don't want to do that since it does destroy the feeling of a "home" server, then we're stuck in limbo. The low population servers in WoW don't feel as painful because of cross realm realID raiding and LFD. Both have pros and cons, but frankly, between picking my nose doing solo stuff 100% of my game time and dealing with strangers (that could be douches) in a dungeon run, I'd deal with strangers at this point.

I play a sage. She's looks like she's wearing parachute pants :/ Whoever thought parachute pants were a nice look was clearly, absolutely wrong. http://www.celebritybeautybuzz.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/JTM-045419.jpg After wearing the oven mitts it makes me not care to even get the parachute pants look. I wish I rolled Sith Sorc.

Running 8 man hard modes. Our 2 troopers have full rakata. My trooper/heavy armor companion has rakata. I however, have had rakata boots drop once for my sage. I mean, I have fun with these raids, but it's to the point where we started selling the trooper rakata gear to merchants, it has dropped from every boss for us for the past 3 weeks. I understand random is random, but I wish there would be some sort of smart random where we get loot that *someone* can use.

Eh I have fun with it (I am female). It's a pixelated avatar. I duo with a friend and he dresses his female guardian in a very revealing outfit too. I find it hilarious when we're doing dailies and we're both in metal bikinis. If I could keep my dancer's outfit while raiding I would =P Where's all the outrage when it's the boys that are topless? Conservative dress is for my work, I'll let it all loose in a game, thanks! Plus, I have to wear this http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7154/pveconsulargear.jpg Anyway. At least it looks better on a female consular.

You all are arguing semantics. Whether it's a fixed time or the fight does more and more damage the longer you don't kill the boss, it's still an enrage timer. Hard enrage vs soft enrage as it's called in another game What some people are trying to say is they want more soft enrages rather than a hard enrage that guarantees death. (There are fights with hard enrages that you can still mitigate, ie, kiting, cd management, my raid/guild/mates have done it before.) Both are enrage timers.

@ bolded: lol

Jump as your strafe out of it. It used to hit me too until I did this. I read this tip somewhere in this forum weeks ago. It might just be a forum myth, but it's working for me so I'll keep doing it =P

Tell me how to solve the puzzle boss when we clear trash, run up then realize the consoles aren't clickable before we even start the encounter. Had to reset the damned thing 3x this week before it worked.

This. The forum is full of them.

Puzzle boss: Rather hard to click in the correct order when you can't click on them at all *before* you start the encounter. SOA is a roulette each week. Whoever get stuck up in mind trap as he dies, may or may not be able to pick up their loot. Or sometimes, he drops no loot at all. Or like last night, despawned 2x at below 10%. The loot itemization is rather odd, it awarded a shield and defense rating weapon to a sentinel. But yeah, the bosses aren't hard, the bugs make them hard =P We've had more wipes to bugs than actual fails I think at this point. edit: Oh! a new one we found last night. If you have a non combat pet from your CE out during the fight-your-own-mob-boss (before soa), your mob will auto-invincible. We verified it a few times just to make sure. No clue why a non combat pet will affect them but there you go.

I don't particularly agree to all of what the OP is saying, but you're coming across just as self important (and a jerk). I play the game casually, so raiding is a side adventure, but I strongly agree to better testing. Dying just by standing there is funny once or twice, not so much when you have to go through silly loops to finish instances.

Bahahhaa, omg, you look so funny (sorry!).

I don't want meters. To be honest, this game is my relaxing slacker game. I don't want to put 100% effort most times and I can't do that if people see what I'm doing. 100% meaning I don't want to min max: I don't want to research my spec, I don't want to find the bis stuff for gear. I do that at the other game. =P So, no to meters!

I agree on no meters. I wanted this to be my relaxing slacker game. I don't want to put my 100% in and I can't do that if people can tell what I'm doing.