even a ratio of 30>1 would be acceptable crystals are pointless, the game would lose nothing by them being removed, except some minibosses would drop nothing

it bugs out occasionally if the first time the ship returns it isn't killed immediately seems if you fire that center turret and the missile lock doesn't break, it can't be broken by any of the turrets for the rest of the encounter, leading to a guaranteed wipe our group beats it by having all 4 people run to the middle turret and all activating it as soon as the ship comes back, it seems to get the perfect timing and avoids the issue normal mode we could run to the other turrets and destroy the ship from those, but that doesn't work for whatever reason on hard mode since 1.1

kaon under siege was pretty excellent as well, maybe not for the story telling, but more the atmosphere and immersion

will try that tonight, hopefully that works.

can't really complain about the bonus/optional boss being too hard, since it's not mandatory I would be more upset with it if it only dropped crystals like some of the optional bosses, but the fact that it drops another headpiece is amazing. great FP for sure

Title Casual guild, not everyone's at 50 yet, and finding pugs seems way too difficult We've done a bunch of the HM FPs, not much trouble, we're geared above 50 with some tier 2 pve/pvp pieces just wondering if it's possible to even start them with less than 8 people, and if so, is it completable? cheers

Certain flashpoints have the option to be tuned to 'Hard Mode', which is roughly rank 50 some of them need higher than level 50 gear though it's not something you can do until you reach level 50, and it's not available for all flashpoints, just about 6-7 right now and there's no slider for difficulty, it's either normal mode, or hard mode

bugged for our group too multiple times, gonna try that strat suggested above edit: we had our whole group run to the center turret whenever the ship respawned, got it to back off right away. it blows up for good after 5 shots, then you can just burn him. irritating that it doesnt work like intended though