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.

I had been running slicing and treasure hunting missions on my alts and selling the purple mats. Guess I need to find a new method of money making.

Am also on Red Eclipse, pub side. My experience is that when queuing solo, I win 55-60% of the matches. Normally lose if playing around 5pm gmt, but win if playing 10pm. A lot does depend on the map, reps seem to have far more healers which favours some maps more than others. Obviously when queuing up with friends then the win % is much higher.

As i said on another thread, gear roll back for all and 3 day ban for people who repeatedly abused it. Doing nothing will just mean that the next time an exploit is discovered everyone will abuse it as no fear of punishment.

3 day ban for those who used the exploit and removal of gear.

Did a wz yesterday on my 33 sage along with a friend on his, our damage was stil ok (both did over 400k) but we died much quicker than before 3.0 hit, once we got targeted. I have also entered a 4v4 on my 33 sage, ice cubes in a furnace would last longer than I did.

Agreed, though as I have 11 chars with 500 crew skills I have 2 each of treasure hunting, diplomacy and underworld trading, 6 slicers. First week and a half I ran missions to get purples to sell/make stuff, now I just run the slicing lockbox missions for the mission discoveries.

Having played many years of wow before coming to this game i did not make many noobish mistakes. Did manage one last week though. I was selling a few purple 36 enhancments and failed to notice that 2 of them were different, so 4 went up for 449k credits, and the other 2 for default price, around 5800. They sold very quick.........

The first Makeb quest is picked up from the holoterminal on your ship. At what level and prerequisits I am not too sure about (you don't have to have completed chapter 3 i do know)

I am currently leveling 3 chars up with a friend via pvp and class missions only. It is a very feasible method, converting warzone comms to planetary comms means every 4 levels being able to max out all gear modifications (95 planet comms needed) with lots of wz comms left over for things such as warzone medpacks, the new stronghold items, ranked wz comms (when past 40) etc. Also by doing mainly pvp my companions are always out on crew skills missions so I am making money that way.

I often level a char up with a friend purely via pvp. What I will do is put mk-7 augment slots (quite cheap on gtn) into orange gear then every 6 or 8 levels will change the augments.