Thanks for the constructive replies. I'll take some info back to my guild. To the non-constructive replies -- I wasn't complaining about how hard the encounter was. I was asking a question. I'm a fan of hard fights, this one just seems to have a huge difficulty curve compared to the rest of the instance. That's all. Please stop incorrectly reading into things that aren't there.

Me and my guild were running Karagga's Palace (8-man Normal) last night for the first time and we had absolutely zero issue with any boss up until G4-BC. We didn't hit any enrage timers beforehand, we made it through EV (8-man Normal) with no issues. As soon as we got to G4-BC, we hit a brick wall and had to call it a night because the servers were going down for maintenance. Never mind the fact that putting Towers of Hannoi in a raid instance is a stupid idea (my opinion, granted). But we just could not dent his health very much before the boss went ******* and the enrage timer killed us. Is there something wrong with this encounter? If we were able to make it through everything else without hitting enrages, it makes no sense that we would barely be able to get this guy to 50% before an enrage. Is the difficulty curve that steep? Perhaps our puzzle clicker is doing it wrong? What strategies do you guys use to get this droid down? One clicker or two (or more?). One tank or two? Is the tank doing clickies or a dps? Etc etc

Will tanks see any UI love any time soon? As a tank, it is very hard for me to gauge two things: Who pulled aggro on the boss (so I know who to guard) and whether or not I've got sufficient threat (Was it an aggro pull or a random target/threat dump mechanic). A target-of-target function would be great, as would a threat meter of some sort (even just a threat percentage on the target frame would be good).

I got my robes on the GTN. That's the only place I could find it. What do you mean the Talz Taskmaster is the best place for the pants? I've been looking for them for 3-4 weeks and have not been lucky. Is there any proof that the taskmasters are best? If you can show me a source, then I'm heading out to kill me some talz.

I love being an assassin tank. Nobody has complained about healing me yet. Unless I get a couple second head start I'm constantly having to fight for aggro with DPS but I'm convinced that's just a gear issue on my part. Go for it.

Does anybody know what the source of these pants is? I've been checking the GTN for 3 weeks and have not been able to find them at all. I've gotten everything except the pants for this set. Do they come from a lockbox? If so, what level so that I can start running TH missions for them. Do they come as a random drop? If so, what level range? Are they crafted?

Never mind, it's cause I had pending quest rewards. How dumb.

... but whenever I click on the item it tells me "You are not eligible for this conversation." I do have Khem Val out I have tried relogging I have left the building and re-entered I have tried releasing and re-summoning Khem Val any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it?

I keep walking past an NPC on an older planet and go, "Oh, did I forget to do that mission?" It would be so much better if the minimap icon for dailies were either another icon, or at least, a different color of the standard triangle.

Rumor has it that Shadows/Assassins used to use strength and not Willpower, but that was changed and the crafting wasn't. Kinda ****** cause I'm in the same boat.

Both of the double bladed sabers have orange 27 end crystals. I'll need to check the other ones on the trainer.

Why are there duplicates of each weapon on the Artificing trainer? I've compared the stats and I see absolutely no difference or no light/dark orientation. What am I missing?

If you are looking for a crafting profession that helps you in end-game, then artificing isn't the one for you. It was the same way for WoW in a long time. Artificing is more geared towards people who aren't going to be doing end-game content. People will always need to be modding their gear for their alts or even for their main when they're levelling. Not everybody is an end game raider, and not every profession needs to be geared for the personal use of a raider. Nothing wrong with a profession being meant to support people levelling and supporting their casual end-game experiences.

Is there by chance a list of crafting schematics? Me and my guild finally got to level 50 and started doing hard modes and I'm curious what drops to be keeping a lookout for and hoping will drop.

Fixed!

I'm on the Vornskyr server and everybody on Ilum just got stopped in their tracks and can't move or cast any abilities or anything (no emergency fleet pass) The server connection icon on the minimap has an X on it If we try to disconnect and reconnect, it won't let us, can't even get on alts, because it says our character is already logged in. We can't play People on the fleet and other planets are fine. It's just Ilum.

I'd have stuck with the original. It has quite a bit more Endurance and the utility of what accuracy provides. While sure, it has accuracy, it's not a totally wasted stat because it's threat generation, as well as debuff when we get a certain amount. Is it a primary stat we should focus on? No, but it is a stat that kind of matters. Now, I'm not some sort of tank theorycrafter, so this is just an opinion.

Right now, my Ashara is sitting at 3046. According to the companion guides I've read, one of her favorites is Military Gear. I gave her a Rank 3 Military Gear green and only got 24 affection from her. A rank 1 Blue Republic Memorabilia only gave me 20 affection. I could have easily given these items to other companions for significantly more affection. I feel like I'm wasting them on her. Is her affection bugged? I understand she needs to warm up to me but at 3000 affection, shouldn't that have happened by now?

Andronikos The problems I found with Ashara is that when a mob does a point blank AoE, she is in it. I move the mob out, she moves with me and then he does it again, she's in it again. Enemies never (as far as I can tell) target companion characters for AoEs so a ranged DPS, imo, is the best option for when you want a dps companion.

So after I created the thread I geared up a few companions and found myself wanting to stick with Andronikos. He agrees with most of my dark side decisions and does pretty good dps. I switch to Talos when I am doing something and need heals, but I prefer the DPS from Andronikos or Ashara to kill them faster than I'd need heals, and Force Lightning keeps me healed enough. The problems I found with Ashara is that when a mob does a point blank AoE, she is in it. I move the mob out, she moves with me and then he does it again, she's in it again. Enemies never (as far as I can tell) target companion characters for AoEs so a ranged DPS, imo, is the best option for when you want a dps companion.

He was being facetious

Allow us to preview weapons in the preview window Use better texture resolutions in the armor preview window Allow hoods over helmets/masks Allow me to shift+click someone's name in chat to get their level/class Allow companions to deliver mission gathering materials into your bank (If they can take from it, why not put in it?) Some sort of better LFG implementation Allow us to /friend offline players Severely compact the number of craftable items, make them random stats upon crafting if need be, but going through a list of 600+ is ridiculous Please let us use high resolution textures during gameplay if our PCs can handle it, don't make that decision for us Add some end/wp/defense shields to Artificing Put a notification on an item we're REing if there is a better version available to us Allow us to hide low-level quests from the minimap

So I just hit 400 Artificing and finished spending over 100k to train all my 380/400 schematics. Now, I just counted and there are 48 green quality level 49 schematics. Why do we need that many? That would equal 144 different L49 enhancements if you learn all the blue and purple qualities. That's just the max level enhancements that are trainable, which isn't even L50. If you add the OTHER levels available to make, you're looking at a list of over 500 enhancements to sort through whenever someone wants something. That's just the enhancements. The hilts are a shorter list, but still suffers the same problems. The wieldables, same thing. I play an assassin tank. I can't even make an End/WP shield generator. WHY? I can make every other stat combination in the world, why not one that's useful to me? Why are we unable to train anything L50 that doesn't come from a raid boss? We should be able to craft gear and enhancements that get us ready for raiding. Raids should drop better quality ones. I understand we can do dailies to get our enhancements, but then why even bother training level 49 enhancements? or level 47 ones? We can't make color crystals past L47. The list of things to sort through is quite preposterous, as is the fact that I can't make items that my class needs, as is the fact that we can't craft stuff that's on par with things we get after doing 5 quests every day. Now, I'm just Artificing. My alts haven't touched crafting yet. Do other crafting professions suffer from this same problem? IMO the list should be vastly shrunken down and instead of enhancements that have the same stats w/ different numbers, the stat values should be randomly chosen.

I'd like to hear people's opinions on what companions they use to complete quests. I recently hit level 50 and now that I'm down to a daily grind I'd like to get them done with as quickly as possible. Obviously, as tanks, we hit like wet noodles. I just started gearing up Andronikos. I figure the ranged DPS would be better than the melee dps in that he won't be hit by as many AoEs as Ashara does, and there won't be that small travel time between enemies. What do you use when you solo grind quests?

Thank you for your insightful response. Without you, I would be lost. Did you really have a need to respond? Like, does it make you feel like your pecker is bigger having been the big bully man and told me that I suck at playing? You have 30 buttons hotkeyed, do ya? You never click a single ability? For those who have responded intelligently; I have a few situational abilities up there, all of my primary abilities are hotkeyed but I have no way of hotkeying 30 different buttons for the bars. I know I can shuffle things around but that screws me up since i've been playing the way it is for the past 50 levels. I'm assuming the answer to my question is no, there is no way to move that map since nobody has responded so. Thanks.