[Why play Republic?]

one thing that may have worked to help prevent the faction imbalance a bit could of been like how aion handled it, when one side reached a certain amount of players or whatever it would disallow people to create a character on that faction, i can see that way could make some people mad cuz they may get stuck for a bit not being able to play the faction of their choice, but it would balance population better, just my 2 cents

[Orange armor question]

It seems some orange armor does have base armor, I was sick of not having a hooded robe and not being able to find one, so I thought I'll just take the mods out of my current one and put then in a hooded robe I got in my 20's, however when I changed them over the armor had less armor than the one I took the mods out of by quite a bit

[Tumult is bugged?]

Yeah this has really bugged me as well, tumult is not usable currently in pvp or on elite mobs, which is stupid to at least not work in pvp, I use it alot in pvp after force stun, spinning kick and when project stuns, also it does or at least it did work on mind maze before, maybe got changed...

[Endurance v. Willpower (Shadow Tanking)]

you wanna take the gear that has more endurance than willpower and gear that has +defense/absorb/shield rating/etc, but all this gear will have a decent amount of willpower as well, usually like on comm vendors there will be one with more end than wp and one with more wp than end, more end is the tanking one and the wp one is more for dps and healers

[Accelerated Particles bugged..?]

yeah i've noticed this too, hopefully gets fixed soon

[Shadow tanking - AOE]

Don't forget about mass mind control as well

[We need to be able to save specs]

Or just earn to pvp as what you chose your roll to be... I rolled tank and I pvp just fine as a tank, hell I won a 3v1 yesterday against even levels as a tank spec'd shadow, skill management, pots and timing/targeting are your friends

[Athiss: End Boss, Prophet of Vodal]

It's not that hard a fight if you know the mechanics but if not then it has a few surprises, I'm a shadow tank and when he does affliction on someone I throw my guard on them to soak up some of the dmg and the healer needs to spam heal that person till it is off them, there isnt all that much other dmg so healer can focus on who has the dot, he's immune to interrupt so don't even bother, just heal through it, it is a nasty dot, I also throw gaurd on whoever has the fire balls on them in case the get hit cuz those hurt as well

 

overall I think the fight is fine, we were all about 19-22 level range. I personally really like the fight, one of the first boss's thats got some different mechanics, and you have to pay attention to what's happening instead of "oh adds spawned kill them" or " don't stand in this"

[Tanks, dont need an addon only a threat metter.]

They do not ever need to add a threat meter. It is a tool that makes the game easier for everyone. Good tanks can judge threat based on damage output of their raid, their cooldowns, their damage, and the healing done by the healers. Adding a threat meter will only make tanking braindead easy and incredibly boring. Any thought, skill, or interactivity will be removed.

 

"OMG BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO DO THINGS LIKE TURN THE MOB AWAY FROM THE RAID AND THEN PICK UP THE ADD"

 

Yes, but any sense of urgency is lost. Any sense of judgement will be removed and placed with "If my threat is below % then _ will happen oh no smash buttons".

 

 

I have tanked in vanilla WoW and progressed through a majority of the content originally. I would tank multiple mobs without the AoE skills that are now present in the game. I would also be able to judge my aggro. It is what made tanking fun; maximizing your damage, minimizing your downtime and damage taken while holding aggro to let your dps do more damage.

 

Furthermore, no threat meter means the rest of the raid has to be conscious of the fight. The damage dealers dont just lock onto their threat % and smash away at their keyboard. They would have to pay attention to the fight, their damage output, the tanks aggro, and the fight mechanics.

 

Adding a threat meter would reduce the quality of the endgame (and leveling) content. Group composition, raid IQ, and the ability to breathe and think at the same time are all things that make raids more fun.

 

So true! Been saying this forever, having knowledge handed to you is boring, figure stuff out and pay attention to make adjustments on the fly, makes things much more exciting and fun

 

Instead of a threat meter can we just get a target of target. I hope I'm just not retarded and can't find it in the options.

 

They ate adding customization to the yo soon they were saying so Prob will add it in.

[Frustrated about the UI!]

They have already stated that yo customization is being worked on and is a high priority right now, so hopefully shouldn't be long till its added in

[Consular tanking... O.o does it really work?]

Agree about force wave not being used much to an extent, I still keep it on bar but not in a priority spot, use it occasionally if a few mobs or adds on a boss fight are on say healer or something to knock then away and give dps time to burn them down and keep off the healer and to give some breathing room, but usually don't like to use it much when clearing mobs because noticed groups are quite often pretty close together so don't want to send em to close to another group and Argo them, very situational skill but does have its uses

[Ridiculously long grind!]

Lol grind... Are you kidding? If anyone here played Lineage 2, lol now that was a grind, .01% an hour sometimes at top lvls lol

[Let tanks tank!]

Cause ppl are idiots... Have had a few groups where I'm tanking and ppl just rush in all gung ho then when they die, why weren't you healing or why weren't you tanking lol some ppl are just retarded Rambo wannabe's

[Where are the Willpower shield generators?]

Yeah I'm at 170 artifice and none and looked at all schematics you can get later on trainer and none, I see some are listed on torhead, so maybe they were in and mistakenly got taken out? I got a pretty nice one off narshadda commendation vendor for 14 commendations that I'm using for now

[Tanking Questions]

Yeah that's a good way to keep an eye on Agro, also have your camera distance maxed and zoom all the way out, and rotate around while fighting every so often to watch for pats, or and to keep an eye on ranged mobs

[Tanking Questions]

Hopefully they are adding target of target when they update the ui to make it customizable which they have said is a big priority right now when working on updates for the game

[Shadow tanking]

Just gotta get used to tankin on shadow, force breach and all that jazz, 26 shadow myself atm and have yet to have any problems, and it does get easier as you get a bit higher with some new skills like kinetic ward

[[Artifice] Why are there still no Willpower Shields?]

So frustrating not being able to craft will shields! Ended up just buying one with nar Shadda commendations

[Shields from Artificing]

hmmm maybe not till later then, cuz no shields with the shield stats on em and will/endurance at trainer so was curious

[Shields from Artificing]

Does anyone know if your ever able to craft Shields for Shadow tanks? ones that increase willpower and endurance with the shield stats because i can only find schematics for the dps ones and every other type of tank type one except one that suits shadows, none give willpower...

[BoP has got to go]

Had this happen last night, sage rolled need on my double bladed lightsaber, Aion had a good system for this, after loot is distributed there was a 5 minute window where you could trade the item between group members incase of someone winning something by mistake or whatever

[[Unofficial] Day 3 Invite Waves]

Looks like imma prob be in 2nd wave today, oct 31, to bad I'm at work wish had day off today instead of yesterday haha oh well, my saga will begin this afternoon