Hi, I've recently returned to the game after a good few months break, and decided to play a mercenary from scratch as it is my favorite class. I've had a max level mercenary previously, and recall that i could cleanse a good many dots that were applied to me, such as incendiary missile, bleeds, poisons, sniper probes and snare, marauder snare etc, but that no longer seems to be the case (i can't be certain about snipers or marauders having not faced any since gaining cleanse). Could someone give me a rundown of what dots/effects i can still cleanse please? Thanks

Hi to Vio! Nice to see you are both still around, i'll make a character on TOFN this evening and hopefully chat to you there.

Haha good times indeed. <- Mardi What server are you playing on? I enjoyed the video btw, got the feeling there is some friction between you and Wildgun (or whatever his name was) the smuggler. He the Hezz of your server?

Snave the former mayor of orgrimmar?

The packs are the best selling items because the money grabbers running this game put all the best items into those packs - speeders, armour, +41 power crystals for level 10 - but you are only being sold the chance to acquire them, so naturally people will end up buying more packs to try and get what they want. Pretty sad that the biggest revenue maker is not the game itself but the in-game Argos catalogue.

The underworld force master set has a Kickass mask, I would actually prefer to run around in green and yellow pyjamas then wear this. The mercenary, and partisan warrior and inquisitor head armour is truly terrible. I do really like the operative armour though.

Aside from the manner in which the information is conveyed, I have to agree with the OP because I am experiencing all of the above. For example, I will use ravage on my vengeance juggernaut, the global cool-down will trigger and the animation fire, but my target will take no damage. Once the global cool-down has elapsed ravage still remains available for use. The most annoying bug I have encountered lately however, is people disappearing after I have stunned them, only to reappear once the stun has worn off. When this happens they still remain targeted, but I am unable to attack them. The latter, in my experience, is a recent development and is very annoying.

Hmm, interesting. I have had to make concessions on my graphic settings in this game to improve performance (a first), I shall give this a bash, thank you.

Smash will have it's damage reduced by 2.35% - Is that an honest recap of what was said? I find myself utterly dumbfounded by this being offered as a solution to tone down a high damage, AoE ability that can guarantee a critical hit. As if this wasn't bad enough, I interpret the comment around vicious throw as meaning that it will have it's damage increased by 30%, which is almost as much as a *** as removing leap invulnerability from snipers unless under the effect of entrench. Total pants on head, window licking lunacy from what, to me, is the most inept bunch of developers ever to curse an MMO. Honestly, what a colossal bunch of *****.

No dummy, it's not just sweep that is broken for. Regardless of this being an unpopular spec, this bug needs to be fixed.

I personally think the Cartel Market is a load of crap, largely full of recycled and re-skinned armour and mounts. The few items that are shiny new have been placed into gambling boxes with the sole intention of duping people out of a much money as possible - why let a person buy an item directly when you can instead dangle that item in front of them and offer a chance of acquiring it for a "few measly pennies", to bait them into gambling away their money. To me this and the pathetic punitive implementation of the F2P system, only serve to showcase the level desperation Bioware have reached to screw money from those who are supporting their game, and how little they care about them.

I think your warzone statistics are slightly exaggerated, nevertheless i was hit with a 4.5k sweep by a level 45 guardian on my sorcerer yesterday. Big thumbs up to BW for yet more piss poor class balancing.

Sziroten i completely sympathize with you, but i personally struggle to see what else other than the underlying engine or perhaps shoddy client code could be responsible. I've had a fair amount of experience with developing 3D applications, not games, but VR and visualization tools for academia, and some of the things we were trying to do were extremely calculation intensive so had to be written well. In addition there was a certain amount of auto configuration of the underlying engine depending upon the detected hardware which would certainly contribute to performance. I realize this is just speculation based upon my experiences, but i am a little perplexed as to how this game can perform so poorly on such a powerful rig. I also am experiencing all of the problems you are and it infuriates me at times.

That's not lag, that is the shocking performance of the game engine. I have an Alienware M18x with enough clout to run any game with a full compliment of maxed graphical settings without problem, any game other than this one. The frame rate i get at times is diabolical, even when there is no apparent reason for it - there isn't exactly a lot of eye candy on display in what is a largely static world. The only reason i keep playing this game is because i want a large scale Star Wars MMO to immerse myself in. There are some nice ideas in this game, but unfortunately they are surrounded by poor design decisions and half-arsed implementations.

That actually is the intention. Along with this terrible idea you are also faced with the ridiculous costs associated with removing mods. Working to earn commendations to get gear i am fine with, having to trade the like item from the previous tier as well is poor design with little or no thought behind it as it restricts what you can purchase. In most cases the 'upgrade' you are gaining is anything but because it is so poorly modded, you end up having to grind yet more commendations to gain another item with the mods you actually want and then have to pay to remove them. Who thought this would be fun and rewarding? What a moron.