I do agree with this. IMO, i would like to see tokens added to the older nim Ops, But change them to specific pieces. So for example, Nefra drops Belts only. First bosses should drop junk gear.

Didn't almost all force users get owned by simple clones Luls

Casuals aren't doing nim's prior to this. Also hate to break it to you but those of us completing R4, were also completing nims prior to R4. Casuals just got an easy boost to 336 without having to do much.

Dev's, can we get a hide weapon button for outfitter. I would love to play without a saber at times on my sorc and sage.

You are correct. I hit a home run ! Jackie, if you agree keep ignoring this silly thread.

From the 340 vendor on fleet ! 😃

He isn’t implying the tank grabbing their loot is bad. He is saying the tank cannot hold aggro which is 95% of the case. Especially with geared dps helping others in sm or vm. They are not used to having to know their rotation to hold aggro, or having to guard dps because half the pop still thinks healers should be guarded no matter what.

This theory is seriously delusional. What do you think Jackie ?

It isn’t fun. Sm are just faceroll.

I do agree with this. Except that as someone that knows better than to pug. I do it often. I actually have a pug discord I help with. I have been teaching them some HM mechanics. Sunday I helped them work thru HM TFB. We ended up doing prog on 3rd boss but ended up killing it.

I would argue the majority of people do not want to learn. pugs half the time have at least 2-3 players not out dpsing a tank when they are in the group. People don’t know simple rotations. People don’t listen when you do tell them. the majority of players in the game don’t care if they are good or not. Which is why sm got nerfed in the first place.

There will always be people that are not good clearly. They won’t be able to get the best gear in the game. Why I proposed is something to help them gear up to the tier below. Maybe the additional stats will help some people. Some people it won’t for sure.

They should just allow SM r4 tokens to continue to be upgraded up to 338. Make a VM token be required to get to 340. This would give everyone enough to clear ICP in VM.

So, my opinion is going to be one that you all disagree with. Inflation is only an issue if money is hard to come by. If the rich are rich and you can’t obtain that thru in game means. This is not the case. Over the last two weeks I ran my credits down to 70 million. Then ran them back up to 2.5 billion in less than a two week period playing fairly casually. Mainly on weekends. When you can early 500 million credits in roughly an hour. 🤷*♂️ Are credit farmers annoying ? Yes, if you don’t use them are they actually hurting you ? No, Sales runs may be against what you believe in. They are not against the tos. It’s essentially a group helping another player with terms. Why are you against that help ? I just don’t see the problem. I’ve done multiple mail transactions with friends where I will tip them for crafting me something. This would eliminate that completely. I don’t think the economy needs reset I don’t think prices have gone up like you think they have based on the time it takes to get said credits ow vs a year ago. It’s actually easier now than it used to be. My two cents.

It is by far not the best of the specs to use. Just because people play a spec doesnt mean its the best. I wasn't stating its the best damage overall i meant between the sage specs. A lot of the fights appear to leaning towards balance. Very few get out parsed by lightning sorcs. Maybe just not a lot of good ones play. Maybe i dont see a lot of good lightning sorcs. Not sure, But in all the groups I run with most sages either play balance, or they are mid pack dps.

And yet the top parses for R4 last boss are all madness ??? That is both SM and VM

People in gf don’t do gods or nop. At least not prior to this patch. Gf isn’t even used as a gf, it’s just for pre made pugs to get more coms. SM is meant to be easily passed by pugs. Lady Dom is not. Simple nerd would be to lower the number of knock backs on recursive blast to two people. It still teaches the mechanic but it doesn’t kill the group. B. Monstrosities shouldn’t spawn in SM. They can be a hm mechanic. This would easily teach pugs the mechanics without checks that eliminate The ability to carry bads.

I agree, having to do 123k dps to kill a SM boss between 4 dps and tanks is crazy. Much less a 8-10 minute fight for a sm. DF you can complete the entire ops in 12 minutes. It’s just way off. I love harder content. I think the first three bosses are not to far off. The last boss is definitely in need of the piñata service from the nerf bar wielding devs.

7.15% for alacrity rest in crit.

I agree. I did a sm df in 12 minutes. Kinda ridiculously easy. To the point of ignoring everything.

Last boss in R4 drops main hand if I remember correctly and it’s hard mode. I am not saying I don’t like them. I said they needed them way to much.

I love 7.1. The new operation is challenging. It requires you to do mechanics. Over I think it is a win. For those still complaining about gearing I love it. We are back to our SWTOR roots on how to get gear via ops. Certain bosses drop certain gear and I love it. Thank you BioWare. Give us a reason to complete the operation not just farm one boss over and over and over. To those that hate gearing sorry it’s not longer super say. MMO’s are designed to be played for long periods. Making gear obtainable in a week is stupid imo. The nerf to the old ops seems a bit drastic. Some may have needed reduced but when you can run a SM op in 12 minutes and get 2k tech frags it’s a little ridiculous.

Cleared Apex HM no issues. Cleared a lot of the NIM bosses with a little work. How many groups would actually try that in previous expansions ? We are basically attempting to clear bosses in 296 gear, if this were 6.0. It sucks they didn’t release the top tier of gear at the start of the expand but it’s what we got and we have to get buy until it comes out. Again, at 340 it will be a lot different conversation. I know I’ve tested the gear on pTS.

Pulled this fight once at the end of raid got to 25% when people died to the explosion in the middle haha. Fun fight. Seems better tuned for SM than the first two bosses in the raid from what ive seen. We basically ignored the mechanic for the most part just messing around on our last pull of the night.