The ranked scene is full of people who think their numbers, rewards, etc. matter in a 10 year old game. Someone is throwing it so their friend can get their rating up. People do get on alts to ruin the game for others, but to do it for hours against the same one healer probably sounds like someone is throwing it to help that other healer get rating.

I only play balance sage and the last 7 years I've played it has always been fun. Right now, I'm not having fun. Yeah, I hear I should respec to TK but it really isn't fun that I need to change my gameplay because the spec I used to play is more liability now. It is a struggle to go from gold / silver tier to just getting farmed when I join. Yesterday I was vote kicked because I joined as a balance sage. I guess at this point it is respec to be more helpful for my team, keep queuing because it is BW's fault they don't know how to balance, or move on. Anyone else experiencing this? I know a lot of you play multiple classes and respec on a whim, but it isn't fun where I need to pick certain classes, certain specs, to be helpful. Thanks for listening to me rant.

Thank you for this. When I was gearing I was told 2800-3200 crit and then 1213 alacrity. Everything else augment wise thrown into versatile augments. What are your thoughts on that?

I'm just about min/maxed for gear and I'm looking at amps for my sage / sorc (balance/madness). No, I don't want to play TK or lightning. I enjoy playing the DoT specs. I've been going full periodic intensity. But I wonder if I should blend between intensity and maybe force sensitivity? What do you think or just stick with periodic intensity?

I know there are pve guides out there for building sets for PvE content. If I am sticking with story and veteran mode, it doesn't matter that I push that mastery for pvp builds right since sm/vm content is so easy that I should be fine? I would not do master mode unless I was extremely bored and then probably switched out my left side.

This is an interesting consideration. I feel like I won't ever do NiM stuff again just because I find operations boring these days. PvP is always fun because the comps are usually different each time. I feel like I would gear for what I want to continue which is mostly pvp. I think I would do the occasional story mode or maybe a veteran mode, but those are so easy it doesn't matter really. At least that was how it was when I last played. Are the diminishing returns really apparent in the capped content? Would I be seeing a huge enough difference to go from mastery to all crit?

Someone mentioned in chat that pvp now recommends 105% accuracy, but I thought that pvp dps was always no accuracy except for certain cases? Have you seen that change at all at least for balance/madness sage?

Nice, thank you for your help.

Got it, so should I be aiming for mods / enhancements (I think the 80r or whatever the 306 is) that give lowest endurance but more mastery instead of power? I would go all mastery augments too I guess minus what I needed to get alacrity/crit numbers.

Thank you for this. For sage healing does it change much?

Thank you for this info. What about other stats like master, crit, power? I am not sure what kind of numbers I should be aiming for or if I should just throw it all into a certain augment?

I saw this dude's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukBy9Bwzt4 Video and comments suggest 3207 alacrity and then everything else into crit. Thoughts or adjustments?

I saw this dude's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oukBy9Bwzt4 Video and comments suggest 3207 alacrity and then everything else into crit. Thoughts or adjustments?

I think there are good points about the teams only queue when they are alone with mat farmers, but if a better group joins queue they stop. It seems like the ratings will be lower this time to account for the solo ratings OR they might have different ratings this season.

Looking at Star Forge only, which is being commonly referred to as the most populous NA server. The top 50 in solo ranked are hovering around 1450-1750. The top 50 in group ranked are hovering around 1625-2625. There are some classes in solo ranked haven't broken 1500. A discussion could be had on the clear class disparities in ranked. I think they will stay close to whatever solo ranked is because they will opt towards making more players be eligible versus limiting the awards. Plus, solo ranked is a crap shoot with wintraders, throwers, trolls, etc. Group ranked is commonly known for people making groups for just mats and/or have people play on characters to feed a team's rating thus ratings are way inflated for SOME players. What do you think will be the tiers for rewards this season?

Give us their eyes please and we'll give you money.

This is not fair to those who were not switched off of servers and/or made characters to merge into the new server. The bug is that people had their characters merged and the prestige was merged with it. This is not right when the prestige boards show someone with over 1.5 million prestige when the majority of people are capping off around 500-800k.

I have characters on pub side and imp side. I'm down for heroics, FP's, operations, or just lending a helping hand. Let me know! Message me on here with your character name or PM me and I'll email you in game. I can also RP with you if you'd like that during our adventures!

I'm struggling this season in ranked, which is okay it is week one. I noticed a plethora of different setups and I'm lost on what to do. I would stack some crit, alac, then push power, but I see these gold mastery augments too. What should I be doing because the gearing thread is over a year old. Looking for specifically madness/balance sorc/sage gearing and sorc/sage heals gearing. Thanks wonderful community.

I like how you call it a "space wizard dress-up game" then comment that there are people who care about how their eyes look in their dressed up space wizard... Then you comment about how your dark space wizard stabs people/pull their helmet down. Admit it, you play dress up space wizard too.

If we can send to be healed, we can send Vaylin to be healed. We're talking the Force, not someone's trauma focused CBT

That's a good point actually. I forget that it isn't too foreign that Pubs/Imps have worked together in the past and it makes sense that some would have switched sides after the whole Zakuul conflic

Check by thread, I've been playing since mid 2013. I've mostly played Pub side, but having some different dark side options isn't a request that should die lol I just find it silly that we have characters that have better looking eyes than what is available to players. They made the three options versus just making what the characters have as available to everyone which doesn't make much sense to me. I will agree that there are other things the devs could be working on, but since this would be a Cartel Market item why not request it from the people (person?) who does Cartel Market items? I think it is a fair request. Plus, they would probably get a lot of people to purchase them.

After Nathema conspiracy, Lana can join the Commander in reuniting with the Republic. If things are going to start going Republic vs. Empire, it is pretty strange that a Sith is by the commander's side especially if we choose to marry her. She deserves an option that turns her to the light side that gives her a change of eyes to reflect no longer drawing on the dark side. The quick cutscene could be her considering the Force and if she should turn away from the Sith teachings considering where they are going to be (Republic and/or light side commander).

When I first played my sage 5+ years ago, Nadia was it for romance. In hindsight, should have had an option to send her to Tython to be trained. Starting a love affair with a woman who's dad just died isn't really Jedi-like lol Lana should have an option where her eyes can be returned to a normal color versus always being Sith. Especially with what happens after