So I did EV sm from gf, no idiots in the group, the leader explained to the people who had never done it before what to do. Whole run has gone smoothly, a few deaths but nothing major. Get to Soa, the 2 people who were doing it first time died during platforms but rest of us prevailed. I tanked all of phase 3, moved soa under pylons, soa died. I was a healer.

I've not logged into the game since the patch so will have a better understanding tonight. However I do have the ability to read. I'm a healing sage, my gear is augmented 216/220. I do hard mode ops with guildies 1 night a week (can't make the other ops nights). I did solo a h2 star fortress in 192/208 gear just to prove to myself I could do it in the first week the expansion came out, had no real interest to do it again. I have every datacron and companion story completed so my presence is high. Apart from when in ops, if I log into the game i either level an alt or do a few things on main. Maybe a couple of h2's or a flashpoint. I don't enjoy grinding. Doing the h2's bored me, never done more than about 5 in a day, this is nothing to do with the difficulty, just that they are almost all the same, kill x mobs, kill the boss. Those that took too long I have not repeated, spending 10 mins on a quest, then spend 10 mins on an almost identical quest, this bores me. If I find this companion change to be as big a nerf as people have suggested, then I am unlikely to bother doing any h2's. Sometimes I do a flashpoint, I have always hatted pugging (yes i am a bit elitist) but since 4.0 I've pugged a few tacticals. I had always thought that some of the horror stories in the flashpoint forum were a bit exaggerated, now I know them to be true. A typical tactical consists of 2 people who know what they are doing, and 2 who have zero idea and who view coordination to be a strange concept. Normally one of the mouth breathing window lickers will quit after a while and I would just pull out Lana, stick her on tank mode and we could then complete the flashpoint without any more issues. If this option is now worthless then I'll stop pugging. I have completed every story in the game, I have 14 chars level 50 or higher, when I make a new character I am not looking for a difficulty challenge, i'm doing it to do the story again taking different options. When doing the planets for the nth time I just want to be watching the cut scenes with as little time in between them as possible. Anything that makes this progress slower will just frustrate me. So i'll be seeing tonight how much the change affects me.

Totally agree with you.

I do pvp and pve so for me personally i don't mind doing pvp to achieve pve objectives. Yesterday i decided to do some wz's, both for conquest points and for M1-4X. I am sage healer. After the 2nd wz where half my team melted in a few seconds and randomly ran around the map i started to inspect everyone at the start of the wz. In one hypergates 4 had less than 6 valor rank and <1k expertise. I was also in a win where the imps were obviously full of people doing pvp just to do the quest, was so easy to stand in the middle and heal the team while the imps just melted. I question whether the forced pvp is enjoyable for people who have had no wish to do any pvp, and now have to do a minimum of 10 (and more likely 16-20) wz's. Doing 90k damage and dying 15 times does not sound like fun to me and it is probably doing nothing to further their enjoyment for the game.

If solo content with companion is too easy go solo the heroic Star Fortress, doable in a mix of 192/208/216 but definitely a challenge.

I've only played a few hours of the new content so I have not seen anywhere near enough of this expansion to know whether the universe is coming to an end, or whether the game is now the best mmorpg in history.

Could the peasants please keep quiet and out of sight, those of us in the 1% want to accumulate all the money without distractions.

Do pvp and get WZ comms convert to Basic (40 wz for 1 basic) Use basic to buy gear (or mods, armourings and enchancments) at the planet vendors on fleet.

I just love the ingame mails i get with 1 credit from the gold sellers, the only problem is they send me one at a time, I want millions of mails.........

Well from reading reddit and dulfy it seems that the attitude of most people who got 1-3 days bans is, lol. As long as they keep their gear they don't mind the ban.

Proud farmer here. If the price continues to rise I'll start farming mats for sale again...

lol I find it amusing that people seemed to level a few chars up during 12* xp but did not bother to do any crew skills, then conplain about the price of mats. Doesn't take long to level up slicing.

So people who spent cartel coins expecting a machine that gave out a guarenteed profit are annoyed that it no longer gives out the guarenteed profit. LOL

Just over 52 mil.

Oh well, back to only getting stuff for myself. Was nice while i could spend 10-20 mins a day sending out companions on 11 chars to get putple mats for sale, but given the price drop I can't be bothered with that anymore. I have access to a slot machine (guildies stronghold) but after spending 75k worth of tokens on it I got bored and to me it spoils any fun in getting credits. What I think this shows is the difference in attitude of players. Some like me believe that things should take effort, in my case it was the leveling 33 crew skills on 11 chars up to 500, this allowed me to make money. Other people believe that things should be handed to them on a plate. I would love to see what % of those who support the slot machine were also using the ravagers exploit.