So here's the story: I have a bunch of lvl 60 toons over on POT5, but kinda got tired of playing on a PvP server, so I started some new characters on this server. Currently I have a lvl 30 gunslinger, lvl 42 sentinel and lvl 44 DPS commando. (I've been getting each character through Chapter 2 so I have the buffs as I start each new one.) I'm about to start Chapter 3 on the sent and commando, and am looking for a guild with levelers, that does PvE/ops/endgame, and does regs PvP. Chapter 3 planets are big and dull and time-consuming and doing them without a guild can be a major suckhole. (No, my commando is not named Major Suckhole.) Any guilds out there that fit the bill and are taking on new members?

I always just use the cardinal directions, east and west. If you're attacking, east is on your right. If you're defending, east is on your left.

The other night my guild was doing a Dread Fortress Story Mode run, the first for several of us, but many had done it several times. When we got to the Draxus fight, there appeared to be a bug, but I haven't seen anyone else mention it or anything in the bug reports so I wanted to check here before submitting a report. Basically, we managed all the waves of adds just fine, and had Draxus down to about 48% health before he disappeared after wave 5. We got to wave 9, and Draxus did not appear -- just the Guardians and other adds in that wave. AFTER we cleared them, Draxus re-appeared, already enraged, and insta-killed the entire raid. This happened 5 times before we decided to call it for the night. It's not a matter of timing -- all the SM videos I've watched have shown the entire fight taking about 9-9.5 minutes on average, and we were well within that zone. It just appeared to be that he wasn't spawning at the proper time in the last wave, then coming back enraged. Has anyone else encountered this?

Whoever the op was -- again, his toon name started with a "J" -- was grouped with members of Blood Bath. And 4 or 5 against a single player in PvE gear is obviously going to result in my death. And using stealth to attempt to get an unflagged player to flag is punk behavior. If you want your guild to get a reputation as griefers, good work! (And I've seen more than enough Hail Skroob 4-mans in PvP to know that "We really don't pvp at all" is . . . inaccurate.)

More specifically, for every single point of damage you alone put out, the enemy team healed nearly two points. (1.94, if you're doing the math.) Great work!

Yeah, when you're letting the other team's healer throw out 150k+ in healing, and nobody on your team has anything under Protection, you're definitely gonna do a lot of damage. You're going to lose -- which you did! -- but LEET DAMAGE!

I am not nearly stupid enough to purposefully flag myself for PvP on Oricon while wearing mostly unaugmented 69s, and if I was, I wouldn't be here complaining that I had gotten a well deserved a**-kicking. The obvious other explanation is that the op unstealthed in front of a member of the mob and assumed I'd catch him in my target switching. Either way, it was a tactic designed to get a player who wasn't intending to PvP into doing so. Having been in plenty of WZs with your guild while playing my sniper, it's not surprising that that's the kind of behavior you'd need to resort to.

Sorry, that's a load of BS. I arrived on Oricon, picked up my missions, grouped with two guildies who were unflagged and had already started, walked out of camp into the first area, unloaded Mortar Valley on the NPCs, and when I ran up to click the escape pod an operative from Hail Skroob whose name starts with a "J" unstealthed in red and demolished me. Then four of his buddies showed up. My guildies came back to meet me, I rezzed, and as we were going back into camp they again unstealthed around us and attacked again. Only after that, when we got back into the Rep camp and they came up around the side, did the others join in. It was punk behavior from a bunch of punks.

So apparently these guys like to stand in the AoEs of unflagged players with no PvP gear on on Oricon and then attack them as a group of 4-5 on 1. Real classy, guys. Nice guilds.

Not you, DainjaMouz, but Mr. "I am so smart! I am so smart! S-M-R-T!"

I bet I can guess to within +/- 3 months exactly how old you are based on the way you write.

?? I did the entirety of the Oricon dailies including the Heroic for the weekly in about 15 minutes with a guildie last night.

I'm not insulting you, I'm engaging in idle mockery because you are a patently silly person. It sure seems to get to you, though, since you keep diving into Baby's First Book of Fifty Cent Words in an attempt to say . . . something. ETA: It is hilarious that you appear to need to believe that people hate you or are angry at you, when in fact what they're doing is clowning you. This, in gambling, is referred to as a "tell."

Depending on enemy presence and density I can kinda see the first one - maybe they're hoping that if you both start planting and an enemy attacks, it will be a single-target attack that only interrupts one of you rather than an AoE? I don't advocate it in general, but if five of the other team are behind the spawn, I can see the reasoning.

Don't you have some "friendzoned" GIFS to make and upload to Memebase or something?

I had an arena like that in lowbie the other night - my shadow, a scoundrel, and i don't remember the other two on our team vs. three sins and a jugg. First round, we focus to destroy their jugg right away, then manage to kill two of the sins. The last one goes into stealth and we start teasing her in chat. The timer runs out, down comes the gas, and she manages to be last person standing, winning the round. The next two rounds, we destroyed the jugg again, but this time the scoundrel and I went into stealth right after and zipped all over the map, finding the other sins, stunning them and killing them one by one. We won.

Interesting build - I play the mirror class and am surprised to see you put the 2 points into Underworld Hardships in the middle tree. I'd rather have the extra accuracy from Sharpshooter in the first tier of the SS tree, along with Smoking Barrels (Muzzle Fluting in the sniper class). The reduced cost of charged burst/snipe makes a big difference to your energy management in my experience.

$10 says this dude is into the PUA and MRA communities. Any takers?

You must be the luckiest person alive. I play all my toons on JC and I have seen all these behaviors again and again. The other day I had a tank drop group on Mando Raiders because he didn't like the healer's name.

Was playing a lowbie match on my shadow the other day, decided to go check out Imp-held east while my team guarded west and fought at south. Stealthed over there and saw that they had a lvl 23 sniper guarding. He was standing up. Thanks for making it easy, sniper! I wonder if he even knew that going into cover gives him stealth detection?

Can't believe this dude has posted this much without using the word "sheeple." I wonder how many fedoras he owns?

Assumes facts not in evidence. He clearly thinks he is, and can write in complete sentences. But part of my professional life is editing other people's writing. Most of what he writes is either word salad or so incoherently expresses what he's trying to say that I'd advise a complete ground-up rewrite.

Yeah, I don't care for that too much either. I understand it, but I don't care for it. In those situations I'll often repeatedly suicide-run an opposing node just to see how many GCDs I'll last.

I continue to be confused about why people are still engaging with Mr. Special Snowflake, though. I bet I could make a lot of devastatingly accurate guesses about what he's like IRL based on what he's said here, but it would be a complete waste of energy.

JFTR my recommendation to my team to farm defense medals in the example I cited came when the score in CW was 250-40. That game lasted about another minute and a half. I know people's time is valuable, but yeesh.