haven't played ranked yet but in regs lightning is totaly viable imho. edit: what is wrong with it in your opinion? with thundering blast on the move it becomes very mobile and you can pick up the same utilities that madness can

if your gonna ignore guard might as well focus the tank, works better usually ;-)

it's a quote from the warrior story :-) http://fr.xfire.com/video/61f360/

on my cybertech chars it's just another cooldown...

some of the best games i get to play when pugging is when 2 good premades battle it out, if you separate queues this would never happen again. Also the face stomping premades are really only like 5% of all premades, most are just some randoms deciding to queue together. You just perceive it as a premade problem because you only notice the premade when you get stomped (or do the stomping maybe). Lately i've been grouping a lot with random f2p players just so they get to play, i'm pretty sure we don't do any pug stomping...

currently on live we get a hindered effect with our overload. If this is still there i feel like electric bindings is kinda redundant. If it's gone i agree electric bindings is gonna be awesome. Since, as you said, our main issue is not getting bursted down i think we have to take shapeless spirit in tier 3, even though force haste would be really really good. Maybe (heresy!) don't take force mobility?

i totally agree they should ban some people. imo it wouldn't take much, like 5 people or so and word would get around and it would stop. There's no way to do this automated, actual humans would have to monitor and decide, but imho it would help a lot. It doesn't even matter what the tos says, as long as they don't ban people because of their religion race etc they can do whatever they want, same as a club can deny entry to people, a casino can ban people etc. It's their servers, and if 100s of people would enjoy the game more if they make an example out of a few that would totally be in their best interest as well.

I'm one of them, and i actually posted a vid of twente; what we always say is "it's probably an ability that you don't know of, why don't you fraps it and post a vid" But no vid ever shows up. In this case (same as gingers a year or so back) within 24 hours there are multiple vids posted. I give you that you could use the same speed hack at like 105% and it would be very hard to detect. But all those people who are unstunnable or do too much damage or have no cooldowns, if it existed, somebody would have frapsed it by now, don't you think? if a vid does show up i'll be the first to admit that i'm wrong, but it's always "i have seen it and so have multiple of my friends" but none of them is capable of frapsing it for some reason edit: look at the first 5 posts in the other twente thread, it shows beautifully how it's supposed to happen http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=771485

**** i really wanted to hear it :-(

the thing is you will usually only heal yourself with it unless by chance some teammates stand there as well, and you have to give up something useful for it, either the +6% willpower, the +10% bubble or the +30% force mend. But yeah it would be cool to have, but i personally think the other things are more important. But it's certainly not horrible to pick it up

do you take the slow on affliction? i would love to have it but i don't find the points to take it. would you mind posting your spec? this is mine: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#600hRrddRMorGukZbc0MZ0M.3 rep side sorry

the pvp forums seem to be the perfect place to ask about how to play sorc heals vs assassin. The title was obviously meant to be funny. As one of the best assassins in the game, you would be the perfect person to give him some pointers actually, that would be awesome of you :-)

he's gone, "twenté doesn't exist" i can't believe they banned him on the week-end

im not cox, but i do play sage heals; imho, there's no real "dealing with them" as in killing them, even if you could, you wouldn't heal anyone during this time, and it would take forever. what i try to do is keep them at a distance; pay attention to their resilliece, if it's active your stun, knockback and slow won't work, don't waste them! ideally, you get help from your team, and all you have to do is hold out long enough until they kill him / them. When you kite, don't isolate yourself, make sure that your teams ranged at least have a clear shot at him. If possible, kiting right in front of your snipers or mercs helps a lot, but make sure you dont stand in line of sight of the enemies ranged. If you can combo the hindered effect from your knockback with force speed, you can often go behind a pillar and it will take them some time to catch up, and you can heal yourself and your team for a bit before you go to survival mode again. (some shadows may even decide that they'll pursue easier prey) Once they catch up they will often stun you; if you are standing in your own aoe with the hot ticking and bubbled, it will really take the edge of their burst. Basically it's staying alive between force speeds, then changing position to something that's good for you and sucks for him, and repeat. In arenas you often have multiple dps on you for the whole match. Without a tank there's no surviving this forever, the best you can do is staying alive long enough so your team can kill one of them. Again los, knockback, stun, space your cooldowns, don't waste your bubble too early or you'll die quickly once you come out of it. If it goes well you should be able to use your self heal multiple times. Try to combo polarity shift with full resolve so you can't get stunned through it. If you find a good los spot, use your potency with a big heal and a self heal for 20k HP. Sorc heals in arena is usually really tanking tons of damage and holding out as long as possible, i personally love it but some people absolutely hate it. In 8mans it's usually just phases where you take tons of damage, but if you position yourself cleverly you can often heal whithout too much interference for big parts of the warzone. edit: one more small thing, if you are harassed by dps with very low hp, just kill them

haha the man himself commented on my vid of him :-)

uh madness sorcs are one of the easier classes to put up high numbers currently. I main one...

i don't think they work on the week-end, we should hold our pitchforks until monday imo

i read through it and i think your wrong, i'm sorry; look at this: http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/FaceOfMankind/052013/25185_A-Journey-Into-MMO-Server-Architecture it's not about swtor, but you can probably safely assume that the swtor architecture is somewhat similar as in tons of information about your toon are stored in some kind of database. We actually know they are because you can download swtor on a new machine, and your toon with all the same stats is already there. So for what you're suggesting to make sense it would either have to be possible to manipulate the database (which would be shocking) or swtor would have to make a local copy of the relevant database entries on your local machine to work with (which would be stupid) On the hacker forums, i did look at some, and the thing is there is nothing there. A lot of threads look active, but it's only some recent spam posts, the actual content is from 2012, and its speed / positioning hacks, a lot of crafting and on rails space bots and a warzone bot that never really worked. I actually remember when the warzone bots were active, and bioware took their sweet time in getting rid of them, but i guess they did because you really don't see them anymore. And my last point still remains, if it was possible to do shocking things beyond our imagination by client side hacking why is nobody doing it? Sure the smart people would do it in a way that is hard to detect, probably the same with the speed hack, but this is a free to play game. Surely somebody at some point would have used it in the most trollish possible way just to get attention, yet nobody ever frapsed anything like it, so i chose to believe that it doesn't exist for now, sorry.

you can still calculate it; it may not be obvious at a glance, but for example if you see my shadow with 3% too much endurance you can assume i took the +3% endurance talent. same with the companion buff, or an end stim. You should be able to deduce why a chars HP is what it is by inspecting him. It would be shocked if it was possible to modify this in any form client side, it would be an extremely stupid way to do it. Your graphics settings are obviously different, there's no need for anyone else to know what your graphic settings are, so there is no need to do this server side. (and i'm aware that changing the max camera distance to more than the in game max is kinda proofing why this is not always 100% true) edit: also, if it was possible, at some point in the past 3 years someone would have used it just to troll and it would have been posted, the fact that we have never seen anything but speed hacks, but several extremely blatant speed hacks leads me to believe that it's the only hack that exists (other than random farming bots which are wrong but not really relevant to the discussion)

i would be seriously surprised if you could change stats; you can always inspect a toon and look at the mods and add it up. are you suggesting that his mods would show a higher number when you mouse over, or that it wouldn't add up if you count? both seem highly improbable to me

here we go. i backfilled and it took me a moment to realize, that's why it's not from the start i find him at 25 seconds, he's kinda hard to keep in sight :-) my guess is he'll be gone by monday edit: also for some reason my pull doesn't work on him; you can see at 1:07 the ability never lights up

i mean my brain says this will never work but my guts say hell yeah this would be awesome :-)

That's totally wrong pubs who want to do rated are just kinda forced to reroll imp now on tofn. I mean since you consider pub side the "detention center" what would you do if your main was a pub slinger?

if he plays again tonight i'll take a vid, it's certainly not predation, it's like a 1000% speed buff

in 8mans it's hard to deny that madness is a bit too strong right now, while in arenas it seems fine to me. hard to balance i guess.