Except the class I did it on is not my main, it is not one I play at all for any kind of content that requires a rotation. The hardest thing I've done on that Deception sin since 4.0 is DK heroic. The stuff in there does not require you to do anything but sleep, while spamming abilities. DPS check is non existent. You went on the assumption I took a class through EC on one I actually played. I didn't. If I intend to do MM FP's, or HM/NiM Ops it would be on a healer, Sniper, or Madness sorc, so the fact I actually did EC on a Sin shows you I was not going to have improved my DPS, or class knowledge much in all that time.

If your capable of clearing Explosive Conflict on Vet mode, your skilled enough to do Eternal Championship solo without a doubt. The problem is that the leveling Story is now so easy, that new players are not properly prepared for content that requires the understanding of doing mechanics. It's why they aren't prepared for MM FP's, or HM/NiM Ops. They can just let the companions kill everything in the story part of the game and fall asleep. Personally I have not improved my skills since 4.0. I used to do some NiM back in 2.x, but in truth I was the weakest of that group, and barely ready for that content (if I was ever ready). I've just started over the last year or so getting back into harder Ops, but definitely haven't really improved much. I've spent most of those years doing conquest or GSF. The question I have to ask, is it time to return some mechanics to older content so people will be prepared for it when they get to content like this? As long as the base game continues to be as easy as it is now, I can't see how threads like this won't keep popping up, when players are simply not prepared for this content.

I believe your thinking of boss #6 You have the 2 monsters starting Left, and right, with boss in the middle (all 3 have circles under them). You need to stand in the circles or they'll reflect. While this mechanic has been ignored for years, you want to in reality spread out the 2 monsters (I grab boss, + 1 monster, and have comp grab the other). You want to separate the 2 monsters enough so they do not glow red, but not to far so that the farthest one jumps to you. If they're to close they enrage, and do more damage. Obviously try staying in circle, while kiting to take less damage from boss, monster,+ reflect kill one monster, then the other, then boss. This and Fight 7 (Nocturno) are probably the 2 fights that take me the longest, and cause me to not get sprint champion, but they aren't difficult if your following the mechanics and don't need to be nerfed. I just need to get better. Many ignore this mechanic because they use reflects (as merc can probably do here) or other things that may be far better for them to be stacked instead, but for many classes keeping them apart is a better option.

I learned the Nocturno death enrages the other one in round 7 last week. I had forgotten about that. As for the Doom droid adds, that's what I was thinking of, when I mentioned the adds spawning during droid channel. That is 100% an issue with that person not understanding mechanics and is most likely tunneling the boss, instead of swapping to the adds. Clearly I already new to swap to adds (because I've always done that evidently, since I forgot or never even knew about a one shot mechanic). Clearly this is not a this needs to be nerfed issue, it's understanding of what the mechanics are of the fights issue. While BW made all of the early game so easy you can sleep walk through it, the eternal championship they claimed was put in to get people ready to do group content (or so they said at the time). Meaning mechanics mattered. If you don't follow the mechanics you will die. It's not meant to be derp easy. And if someone claims well I can't beat Sprint championship, so it needs a nerf, I'd counter with this. "Not all achievements need to be easy, if you are unable to do it, then you need to work on your play. Get better at your rotation, your understanding of DCD's, positioning during the fights, and most of all the mechanics."

If you read my earlier post I said I did it last week for Galactic Season's. So yes I did it in 7.0. It's not out of whack for balance. Learn the mechanics.

I don't remember any insta kill mechanic honestly. If it's the Nocturno fight (#7) you need to kite the tank symbol into the white circles. He does a lot of damage when he hits you, but he doesn't 1 shot you. Only other possible mechanic I can think is on one of the last 2 bosses when the boss is channeling, and droids spawn around the room. Kill the droids and nothing special happens. If that is the insta kill mechanic, that is definitely not a balance issue, but a stop tunneling the boss and learn mechanic's issue lol. As I said I just did this last week for Season's (on a Deception sin, and I wasn't spec'ed into having any heal from a DCD), and I saw no insta kill mechanics. Edit: Just redid Eternal Championship on my deception sin (remember Deception is by no means considered a top notch dps spec these days.). No one shot abilities went off. I even put my companion (shae) on DPS for rounds 1-4, Heal for 5,6, and 7. Round 8 she was on dps (was close to death on that rancor fight), heals on 9, and 10. I wiped once on Noctorno fight (round 7) from carelessness on kiting. Otherwise no other hiccups. As for getting the 1.3 GCD for eternal Championship I don't see where that is possible on all classes. Possibly for lightning sorc, but not worth it for classes that do not get an alac buff from either class or guild perk. Going on a toon with no alac buff it would not have been worth losing my accuracy for the 5400+ alac needed for that.

That is what many of us are trying to tell you. The balance isn't out of whack. It's about right. You don't need BiS gear to beat it. If you can't earn an achievement like Sprint champion (which I haven't), that not a balance issue, but a skill issue. I'm simply not good enough to get that 1 achievement. I have earned every other achievement from eternal championship after the nerf to companions in 4.0, and I'm telling you it is balanced fairly well as it is. To some extent it is easier now, then when it first came out.

I did eternal championship during 4.0, and now. The balance feels about the same if not easier to me as well. The only thing I never accomplished was the sprint champion, and that always felt like 1-2 bosses always kept me from doing that. Not due to difficulty (granted those 2 were more difficult then the rest), but from a mechanic standpoint The 6th and 7th boss always took me longer. Granted I don't play the specs that most ran for that being Vengeance Jugg (for reflect). I generally play deception or virulence when I run it. To me the rest of the bosses melt fairly easily. Edit: for the record I completed it in 340 Hyde/Zeek gear just last week, and not 344 Rakata.

I've had them count every season when I'm doing the FP objectives in Solo mode.

and 5-10 years later Swtor will still be around.

Interesting. I just did 2 Objective meridian's through the solo tab of activity finder, and neither counted. That's definitely a new change.

you sure on that? I've had Hive queen tick socialite 1 and 2 before.

Those new Objectives were a joke. I'm done with Seasons weekly objectives on Tuesday. I get no use out of some of those objectives after day 1.

Probably true, but I highly doubt they'll fully reverse it. I expect it to be a compromise at best.

No matter what decisions any developer makes it is going to push players away. All Developers are in a no win situation for that. No company can satisfy 100% of it's players, it's impossible.

Serious question. Just because people on these forums complain about this or that change, does it mean the majority of the playerbase doesn't like it? It has been well known for years that a small minority of the playerbase posts on these very forums While I'm sure they are scrambling to make a change to it for sometime this week (hopefully to raise the reputation points by a decent amount), it doesn't mean they will fully restore it as some on these forums are demanding. Just like all other changes that have been made in Swtor, some will move on because of them, while the rest will adapt to the changes and continue gaming like normal.

This needed to be done a long time ago. That respawn has always been to long.

even the small green tokens give far more then 100 per. If your going to go with something like this, then you would have to make it closer to 1,000. Most of the green, and blue tokens for the old rep give in the hundreds. Green is something like 300 or so, and blue 660 or so. Purple around 860 (or close to it)

Then you've never actually listened to a Lucas interviews. He took much of what he used from not recent history, but ancient Roman, and Greek History. Pay close attention to the political arena's in Episode 1, and it's definitely based around the Roman Empire.

and most of GL political stuff was taken from Centuries ago in ancient Rome. Not current Political or social views. And yes I found that interesting, because it was History, not current.

That is your opinion. For me Disney SW has done 1 good show, and NO good movies. So yes Disney has ruined SW for me, as it has for many others. All because of them putting current Political and social viewpoints into it. Star Wars and other forms of entertainment are just that, entertainment. It's meant as an escape from real life for a half hour or 2-3 hours to relax and just enjoy a good story, or graphical effects or whatever. Not have such nonsense forced into your entertainment.

possible. but we'll all find other stuff to make it quick either way. However, since it can be a credit sink, they may not want to.

Make sure to Google Despon's GSF school video's. They were made long before the meta change, but they give very good information for beginners to GSF.

It most definitely is a false narrative. People may use some reputation tokens for that, but not to the point of it mattering for collecting of CC's per server. Big deal if you can get 440 points into seasons (which is 400 CC's per server) (280 from daily, +160 from 4 days login per week). That is roughly level 55. Most of the CC's are beyond that point and have been for many seasons. If you've paid attention to the track over the last 3 seasons or so, you'd have noticed 1,200 of the CC's are from the mid 80's until rank 100. That means you still have to put in a decent amount of work to get them, and most people aren't going to be doing 20 weeks of popping a rep token every day. They are actually going to be doing the weekly objectives which will complete seasons long before week 20. Most would be done by week 11-13 if they are taking time and not pushing on each server to maximize points over the first 9 or 10 weeks. Not to mention getting the 25k can be done within 5 minutes or less even without that, even unguilded. Raise a comp level, do 1 heroic, kill 25 mobs. Done. So if BS did it for the CC reason, then honestly that's foolish, because it won't stop those that intend to do it on all 6 servers anyway.

This is a false narrative. Doing the reputation token once per day, 7 days a week for all 20 weeks will only get you 280 Galactic Season points, plus the 160 for logging in for 4 days per week (a total of 440). With that few points you wouldn't really get much of any CC's from Galactic season's if that is all your doing. Most of the CC's were moved to the end of the track a few season's ago. You'd still have to put in the work with Seasonal Objectives for those CC's. Without actually doing anything else for GS (meaning 0 objectives) you would only get 400 CC's per server, out of the possible 2k. Edit: Not to mention even those that do Season's on Multiple servers are usually doing it during the first 10-15 weeks, and being finished with it. I know when I did it in the past on multiple servers I was done by weeks 9-11 and went back to my main server. I wasn't wasting all of those additional days/weeks popping tokens for 2 points. It was get seasons done, so I can relax again after a week or 2 off of game.