I like where you’re going with amplifiers and tactical items. My concern is there will be greater imbalance between classes than right now in terms of damage and survivability. These seem very specific to specs, and I think this was toon soon. Don’t you think these tactical items and amplifiers should be based on role instead instead of specific class spec? I mean just to start, if you make the amplifiers or tactical items a little more general for each role. It’d seem more like an across the board buff in dps or survivability. Then later you can rerelease these new items for specific class specs.

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I have a few questions about these amplifiers.. 1. Will the bonus stat have a certain value? For example Armor penetration + 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc., and will rerolling adjust the value, bonus stat, or both? 2. Will there be a limit to how many of the same bonus stats you can stack per character or shell? For example, could a dot spec'd dps stack increased periodic dmg in all slots? 3. If certain class disciplines have armor penetration built in, would applying armor penetration amplifiers be useless or a waste? 4. Can the amplifiers be moved in and out of shells/item mods, once they are applied to that piece? 5. Will there be a cost associated with moving amplifiers in and out of shells, mods, barrels, enhancements, and across multiple characters? How much? Thanks. Looking foward to 6.0!

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I think this is the direction they should head. I think a dmg reduction per use of Lighting Bolt (for lightning spec) or Force Lightning (madness) up to 5 stacks, 1% each, would go a long way especially in PVE.. Lightning is still ok as far as dps on endgame content, but on HM Cora/Revan, you absolutely cannot afford to waste precious GCD's on static barriers and self heals with the tight enrage timers. Keep the base dmg reduction where it is, we're squishy sorcs after all, but giving us the ability to build stacks of dmg recuction would help significantly. Still to this day, Sorcs are among the many other AC's not sought after for HM endgame. Bounty Hunters still win in that category, and have for how many months now? Anyway, its not game breaking, or overpowered... The animations for sorcs/sages are still absolutely amazing, but I'd prefer the dmg rectuction bonus either as a passive, or stack building on ability use waaay before a brand new ability. Dev feedback would be greatly apprecitated. Thanks

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/Signed. Agreed, some take fire damage without the actual animation being present.. Fix!

This may already be a known animation bug, but it appears that the thrusters are free floating. They aren't even attached to the speeder. It looks interesting until you realize the tail portion is missing.. Please fix.

I agree. The nerf to Storm was a much needed change. I did see plenty of people in Flash points just spamming Storm on single targets along with multiple targets. I don't think that was intended for single target rotation, and people took advantage.... Thank you. Now.... My single target damage nerf was completely unecessary! We all know that no one was using Balance in top progression guilds, which according to the developers' damage rotation philosophy/difficulty, sustained should out do burst damage. The sustained damage from madness is probably the worst in game, the burst damage from Lighting was in a very good place. Now that is gone.. Lighting is still viable in top progression, but why bring a sorc when you can bring a merc dps, and not be a disservice to your raid team. You will take much more damage compared to everyone else, which is fine if you didn't have to waste precious GCD's to keep applying static barrier on yourself. Maybe your philosophy needs a tweak. Why can't the player passionate about playing a sorc, marauder, operative dps, jugg dps be able to play as one in top tier progression? It should'nt even be a question. You should've made that your focus to begin with. My friends that play WoW, just look at me confused when I talk about the ridiculous class imbalance in this game, and how disengaged the combat team is from the player base/community. You can continue to leave your occasional post about general class balance, but when there are literally HUNDREDS of specific posts about a detail regarding Lighting's single target nerf, you should give you community the same time and respect we give to your forums. The diversity in this game has diminished. You made this patch favoring Bounty hunters for raids.

Here is A sorc dps from our guild. Hope this helps. If you get targeted by Ruugar's mouse droids twice in a row. Use the static barrier, cloud mind, self heal combo to keep you alive for the first. If you get targeted a second time, God mode it and redirect to other members lol.. I'm not kidding. It works and I've seen it done in other videos. Call outs are mandatory in that pull. Give each other enough time to react..

Yeah on Ruugar, you better be ready to pop your Cloud Mind and Static barrier before taking the mouse droid hits. You can also Pop your god bubble and redirect the mouse droids to your teammates You're right, our survivability is pretty sad on Ruugar. For Revan, the only group that cleared ToS HM switched his sorc out for his Powertech DPS. That doesn't mean Sorcs can't clear the last fight. Zorz has a sorc that cleared it.

After the nerf, Torque was the only boss our group had to adjust a bit, but we still one shot it. It was sloppy, but a kill is a kill.. I was concerned that we'd notice a difference on Cora. That fight has a high dps requirement similar to Revan, and because of the single target loss on Lightning. It wasn't that bad and we didn't notice a difference in overall dps according to Starparse. Sorcs are still viable and can put out some good numbers in Lighting. Here is what I don't like about BW's rotational design philosophy. What could you say about Madness/Balance keeping this in mind? "We would like to take this opportunity to discuss Marauders/Sentinels and their present state in the game. To do so, we wish to start by outlining the rotational design philosophies of the three Marauder/Sentinel rotations. Carnage/Combat: Low Rotation Difficulty, Moderate Burst and Moderate Sustained Damage Annihilation/Watchman: High Rotation Difficulty, High Sustained and Low Burst Damage Fury/Concentration: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, High Burst and Low Sustained Damage" Madness should be pulling ahead of lightning in single target fights.. Oh but wait, that would affect PVP, and since this game does not separate the two

Yessir. Here it is http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=791466&highlight=compendium

Face it BW, some people do not want to swtch to the FOTM, or use you double XP weekends to try to hurry up and lvl a new AC in preparation for future nerfs.. They really enjoy the Marauder/Sentinel in raids and really want to see it have a better place and be more desirable in progression guilds. I can't speak for PVP, but it sounds like they are a disservice to the group just as much as in PVE.

There is a well seasoned Marauder on my Ops progression team. He has played Marauder since launch and made many guides to all specs, mainly Annihilation. He considers the Marauder/Sentinel his main. Even for 3.0 he took the time to make an Annihilation compendium that actually works. Our Guild is 10/10 on Tos/Ravagers HM and he plays Merc... End of story..

Just join the WoW train like everybone else. Stop by and take a look at the community forums.. Significant difference in response and feedback.

According to the Dev's "Rotational Design Philosophy", AND the pre - 3.0 twitch class streams of Burst damage vs. sustained. Sage/Sorc dps should look a little like this... Lighting/Telekinetics: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, Moderate/high Burst and Low Sustained Damage Madness/Balance: High Rotation Difficulty, High Sustained and Low Burst Damage Here is what we currently have.. Lighting/Telekinetics: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, Moderate/high Burst and High Sustained Damage Madness/Balance: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, Low Burst and Low Sustained Damage Here is what we're getting in 3.1.2.. Lightining/Telekinetics: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, Moderate/High Burst and Low Sustained Damage Madness/Balance: Moderate Rotation Difficulty, Low Burst and Low Sustained Damage What's wrong with this picture?

Yes lol, For SWTOR that is. Thats a subscription man. Keep your Gamers (customers) interested, satisfied and coming back for more. The legacy system is a bit stale and could you some work to accommodate the new and long-term players. And with respect to the OP, I'm gonna just go ahead and stick with commenting on that for now sir.. Sorry, I would love to sit and compare apples and oranges but that just goes nowhere.. But I'll certainly keep that in mind the next time at Safeway and ever feel I'm just not getting what I paid for lol. But, I'm with ya and I understand, no one wants to see the other guy get everything handed to him/her that took others months or years of commitment. Like I said, the legacy is in a pretty stale place right now and could use some fine tuning. 12xp was pretty awesome, but making it permanent for class quests in the form of a Cartel Purchase is a bit too much. For the recent expansion it made sense to increase the overall player population. Introducing something like this should be given in small bites, require some time (grinding) but ultimately make leveling a NEW character quicker. I will only say creating a new character of the same Class will grant you a legacy bonus, Ex. but if you've never lvl'd a Knight, you'd only be left with Rested XP or CM XP boosts.

No, but this is a little different.. We're customers, so in this case yes. Customers investing time and money into their GAME. So absolutely give your customers rewards for time spent. Why should you have to repeat the same boring grind again if there is a legacy system. Unless there are some out there that have a passion for "the grind" itself and not so much the game.. Good for you Anyway, the spoiler in Ekwalizer's signature is a pretty good example. It's not exactly instantly gratifying the customers with a lump some of XP. The gradual progression through class missions and the higher legacy lvl you have, the more xp you gain through the class story as you complete it. But at legacy lvl 50 gaining 12x XP? I don't know about that lol.. I've been sitting at Max lvl 50 for over a year. Perhaps an item like an Heirloom gained after completing your class story, similar to an adaptive legacy headpiece (crown) that grants the character additional XP (on top of the CM XP boost, rested XP). Only to be worn by a new character of the Same Class.. For example, I just completed the Agent (sniper) Class quest, but I really want to lvl an OPERATIVE now. After aligning your family tree, your descendant adopts the traits and is able to repeat the Class story a little quicker with a legacy boost.

Ha!! I love it. Let me get off my Lazy butt, and ..... Get back on my lazy butt to lvl a new toon.... I think what many of us are getting at is there is no real added benefit to being maxed lvl 50 legacy. The character perks added for convenience, FP XP, class missions, Area discovery are barely making a dent into a quicker enjoyable lvling experience. Lets say, I love playing the Merc, and I really want to have another and another, and another. Having put time into the game, being max legacy, should allow us to lvl a new toon of the same AC in AT LEAST half the time. Legacy should allow that. Make some good use of that family tree by allowing the descendants to gain quicker XP in a previously mastered AC/discipline.. Or, lets say my Sentinel is geared, love the play style and I really want to see how it compares to the Marauder, but first I have to repeat the same long process of lvl ing the exact mirror class. A maxed legacy and a better use of the family tree could improve this experience for the Player. Not make it easy mode or a breeze, but create a system where mastered traits can be passed down to increase XP gained on Class missions. Maybe not 12x XP but at least double.

I think it would be a good idea to at least include a 12x XP pack available from the cartel market for class missions. Lots of progression raiders are having to switch to different toons or lvl new ones because of upcoming nerfs, and if they're main was a Mara/Sent, most top guilds are not recruiting them for PVE.

I still miss the original sound of the Gunslinger's Charged blast from Launch. Why was it taken away, A pvp'er cried that it was loud and obnoxious....

I'm curious to see what the difference will be post 3.2. The single target nerf to Lighting is about 200-300 dps. We're supposed to be getting a 15% dmg buff to dots in 3.2. Has anyone tested the difference? The devs did intend on the sustained spec to be putting out more dps compared to burst specs (lightning), but something tells me pvp changes all of this....