Hmm tried solo'ing Kuat Drive Yards, got that jedi guy as the boss.. Holy mother of.. 90% of the fight spent cc'd.. Killed him.. but still :s Oh well, guess I can just stay out of flash points if knockbacks aren't going to be changed, there's ways to enjoy the game and even raid without them ^^

Hah, i searched for it. You got me.

But as I said earlier in the thread, would my life be easier if I rerolled a ranged dps? knockbacks as a tank just stressing me out too much.

These posts exactly. A single boss with the occasional knockback that requires you to have spatial awareness, and to position yourself accordingly, or a knockback that has a cast time, these are fine. It's knockbacks that send you across the room for NO reason, apart to annoy you, and it's knockbacks that have NO cast time and seem to be spammable so you're being pingponged across the map. These are too excessive and need to go.

... There's knockbacks in every game I've played, and most of the time they don't annoy me, but in no game are they as bad as they are in swtor, because like I said, 9/10 times it's not just a knockback, its a knockback + stun(or knockdown) or knockback + slow.. And lol.. being annoyed by a mechanic has literally nothing to do with skill, as I've said it's a nuisance with no purpose but to annoy you most of the time, the skill of the player has literally no factor in this.. .. >.>

Well my main class atm is a darkness assassin, and I'd say 90% of the time I'm knocked back while channelling depredating volts, which is the main reason why I'm being driven up-the-wall mad.. In addition, I find the mobs that actually annoy me with knockbacks, are the one's that do it so often that my Force Speed is most of the time still on cooldown from the last knockback. Not to mention there's times when you're knocked back, and you activate force speed but your character appears to be "stuck" for a moment before it actually starts to respond and move. I agree with the spatial awareness checks though, those kind of knockbacks serve a purpose, so that you don't stand next to a ledge or other hazard which would kill you if knocked into it, I'm talking about fights where the knockback is COMPLETELY unwarranted, and is just there to simply annoy you.

So just about last week I returned to the game after a series of breaks, reached lvl60 2 days ago and now I'm starting to gear up my assassin tank, and yeah.. I've done like, hmm, 10-15 Flash Points? and I've already got bruised knuckles from punching the wall whenever I get knocked back too many times. I've tanked in every game I've played, even ones where tanking isn't exactly a designated role, and I have to say that no game comes close to swtor in the amount of rage a knockback induces.. I remember before I quit that the one thing I wished I could change about the game, would be to remove knockbacks from PvE mobs, I just think they're ridiculous and FAR too common. Most of the time it's not just a knockback though, you get knocked across the room, then your char falls on its back for 1-3 seconds, or you get knocked back and get a massive movement speed reduction. It's not just annoying because of the actual knockback, and or the effects it comes with, but 90% of the time you're channelling some important ability when the knockback comes in, and most of the time you don't even know when its coming. Seriously, knockbacks just COMPLETELY put me off tanking, they need to be HEAVILY trimmed, or hell, even completely removed except for a very few amount of bosses that do the odd knockback every minute or so.. Well that's my rant done, just thought I'd make the thread in the desperate hope that something is done about the amount of knockbacks NPC's have.. But I'd like to ask for advice in the mean time, will my life be easier if I rerolled a ranged character or started a melee dps? because right now tanking is just driving me insane, solely because of knockbacks.. So yeah.. should I just reroll for now? cus getting this angry is definitely not healthy.. Like seriously this is me when I get knocked back too many times -

My server is Tomb of Freedon Nadd EU, think its a pretty decent/active server, prefer pvp servers for the added danger ^^ In regards to whether or not I'm going to create a new char, after playing my assassin for a bit with all the stuff she has collected, it's just not worth it to delete the char ;p too costly. PvP is currently the best way to level a new char though? wouldn't have thought that.

Shadow of Revan Prelude: Forged Alliances, that's the 1 you accept from the mech-droid on the spacedock, correct? not the 1 you get inside your starship? So the order I should go is Oricon - Forged Alliances - Attack on Tython - Korriban Incursion - Revan - Ziost?

So Yeah, Jokes aside, I came back a few days ago, but when I log in lately all I've been doing is creating auctions and stuff, I haven't set foot off of the imperial fleet, because I just don't know where to start! You're probably about to say "Just jump into the new expansion and get going?" but yeah.. I've kinda developed this nerdy OCD where I just NEED to do everything in the correct chronological order, or it aggravates me to hell, it's funny cus I've only just developed this obsession, and now when I've looked at my char and realized I've done some things out of order, I'm almost tempted to delete it and completely start over >< Anyways, I've "come back" before, a couple of times, but for complicated reasons I've literally had to quit again the day after, but yeah now I can start playing properly. I last left the game after I had completed the Dread Seed , Seeker Droid & Microbinoculars quests, (after completing makeb of course) I think after I did those I did Karagga's Palace & Explosive Conflict.. and before that Section X and CZ-198 or.. something (this is where I totally messed up the chronological order, and what's driving me nuts!) So, now I'm clueless as to where I should start off, was running around spacedock and picked up a quest for "Kuat Drive Yards" also have a quest to go to oricon for "the masters revealed" Which 1 of these should I do first? if they're both before revan that is.. I also know that some of the Ops play a role in the story, but I doubt people are going to be interested in dragging a poorly geared lvl55 through some ops just so he can see the story, so I think i'll give those a miss (can I do that? or are they too important?) Sheesh.. I'm REALLY tempted to just make another char lol.. got like 100k cartel coins worth of stuff on this current char though.. Argh! would be nice if at lvl60 you could get a button to reset the storyline and play through it properly, while keeping all your gear.. that way I wouldn't have problems getting Ops done.

Never before have I been so upset at the loss of someone I didn't personally know.. I'm in tears.. R.I.P Leonard.. you will be sorely missed.

Ah.. damn, is there videos on the story of the original event? bummed out that I didn't experience it.

Is this basically the same event as the original Rakghoul Plague event? I missed out on that one.. and I kick myself for missing it, and all the others since, hoping to catch up on it now I have a break from my other obligations.

Thanks all! and thank you DarthDymond for that list, really helpful ty

Well let me start off by saying I've been on a pretty long break from SWTOR and I haven't played in.. I can't even remember how long. Anyway now I'm back and I see there's this new quest to Oricon, which follows the Dread Masters I believe? anyway before my long break I never really did many operations but now I want to before I go to oricon so I don't end up in a conversation asking myself "eh.. what happened when?" I know some of the operations aren't linked to the dread masters storyline, but I'd still be a lot happier if I completed them in the correct order that they were released so I'm up-to-speed on things before I go to Oricon.. My guess is it's this order: Eternity Vault -> Karagga's Palace -> Explosive Conflict -> The Terror from Beyond -> Scum and Villainy -> Go To Oricon -> Dread Fortress -> Dread Palace. Am I correct there or have I got it horribly wrong? This might not seem like a problem to you guys but im kinda ocd when it comes to my characters story and I wanna do everything in the correct order.. (which is why I was still doing lvl30 planets at lvl50) so any help on this would be appreciated.

I'll have a look for that. Don't wanna tank anymore, I'm going on tank-strike until they bring back my self heals or buff us in another way. I ain't the only one on tank-strike either ;p

Well I found a way around it, I just spam boosts into my team mates and have them shoot my chaser lol.. Might be a little bit of a ***** tactic, but its working and I'm having fun doing it, so w/e. Also it did really help to not think of being "up" or "down" no motion sickness so far, still get a tiny bit dizzy but nothing much. Idk.. I think maybe last night the fact I was pretty heavily drunk didn't help either.

True, I should do that, but I have wayyy too many items and time invested on my assassin.. plus I cant be bothered levelling again

Is madness really THAT bad? Thought the idea of playing a melee dot class with a few self heals would be awesome.

So yeah, Darkness got completely defecated on, and now I just refuse to tank, so I want to reroll madness (because everybody is playing deception in pvp and that's too mainstream *glasses*) So yeah.. What's the best spec to use? What's my stat priority? This is for PvE btw. Asking here because I don't trust noxxic.

Oh boy I have some SERIOUS L2P issues here, meh i'll give it up as a bad job and prolly try it again in a few months.

Yeah it's awesome to shoot turrets from rly far away, then get shot in the arse again and find myself spinning around like a dog chasing its tail trying to see who just shot me and from where. How the hell do you even hit a player with uh.. idk what its called, snipe or something.

Like seriously.. Someone comes into range (3500 meters or feet miles idk what measurement it is..) You scroll over to take a shot, BOOM they're 3000 meters behind you now shooting you up the butt. Soon as someone gets behind me it's pretty much GG, i'll run all over the place, try to circle round and i'll never get him in my sights.. Seriously all this spinning around all-over the place has given me a headache, nausea and made me throw up irl, (no I'm not joking, I literally just threw up cus of all the spinning). Obviously I immediately stopped playing at that point. But seriously, how the hell do you do this stuff without spinning around like an empty bottle at a frat party? Surely theres something im doing wrong, but the tutorial was kinda terrible.. Don't wanna completely give up on this, I loved space combat missions, so I thought id love this.. so far though, it's been absolutely god awful. Ugh.. I need to go lie down, still feeling dizzy.

1/10 because I replied.

Yes I know.. and i'm not asking them to abandon these changes, they will improve the assassin class greatly, however I just don't like the changes, it's just my personal preference. I'm only asking because I have 300 elite coms I haven't spent yet because I don't know if i'll be going tank or rerolling dps in 2.5