Got back to the game recently, started doing HM fps to gear up, and so far 5 out of 5 times the tank in our party we're actually dps specced. I can understand that for tactical fps, but on hard mode? was I just unlucky or it's going to be like that for the majority of my runs? I know they're doing this for fast Q's, but the runs we're pretty horrible unfortunately,

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meprimate ! I have been looking all over the place for an orange chest piece like that, you say IA legacy, where can one find that? I left the game before legacy was implemented, and just resubbed recently, thanks for the answer!

5 reasons why I unsubbed? Dead server and no server merge/transfer. That is my only reason. I love pretty much everything about this game, I would see myself playing it for several years in the future, but unfortunately there is no one for me to play with. I used to be in a guild with 9/10 NM cleared pre 1.2, with around 40 hardcore players, and only 4 are still playing, and they rerolled on a fatman, everyone else quit, and it's mainly because of the lack of people to pvp with. I was willing to wait quite a bit, but it's been way too long already. Several good games are coming out in the next months, and this game will keep losing players if they don't get moving quickly. What pisses me off the most, is they actually have the ability to do it. They allowed people to transfer back to, was it asia or oceanic servers? That means they CAN do it, and for some reasons they're simply not doing it.

Thank you bioware, I was actually losing hope in this game after 1.2, but this quick fix made me change my opinion. It shows you actually care about what your players has to say, well done.

A friend and I duo'ed all of the HM flashpoint with relative ease, with gear similar to yours. We use a sorc healer / marauder combo, with most of the fight done with 2 dps companion (adronikos and vette). I think the only fight we used a tank companion was the turret boss in kaon, since the marauder was on the turret, and we used him to tank elites out of the way (didn't cheese the encounter by hiding on the platform). On easier bosses, we would use an healing companion instead of vette, and the sorc healer was dpsing. As far as D7 goes, the last boss was a bit tough, since we lost our companions rather early into the fight due to all the chaos going around, but taking our time and using LoS to our advantage made it not too bad. If you use a player tank, I would suggest having him as a dps spec, and keep a 'kill before you get killed' mentality. I know it worked for us, good luck!

Myself and 9 of my friends rerolled recently on the fatman, and it has been the best idea we've had since the launch of swtor. Hell earlier the wait time was estimated at 15 min, and it actually took less then 5, there's people everywhere (on drummon kaas imp side, 2 hours ago, there was 195 people, and a second drummon kaas with around 40 people...), the best part was wednesday, at around 2 am server time, I did a /who to check how many people were in pvp, and it was over 100! at 2am on a week day no less! Don't worry about the queue time, because trust me, it's worth it, and it's making me enjoy this game again.

I was wondering that as well, but came to the conclusion it was just bugged. My xalec is in full columni assassin tanking gear, with tionese level implants and ear, even switched out some mods that had accuracy and traded them for defense/shield rating... sitting at around 20k hp. Khem has a mix of orange, blue implants / ear, and 2 piece of tionese tanking gear, sitting at around 16k hp. khem tanks way way way better then xalec, even had him some bosses in hard mode flashpoints, and it was much easier healing him the xalec. While the armor rating does make a difference, it's clear to me the shield and absorption rating simply don't work on xalec. Ended up sending a /bug about it, and they replied to me saying they were awared of it and they were planning on taking care of it in the near 'future'. Guess we'll see....

YOU want to take 1 week to clear a boss, YOU are also part of the 0.5% of swtor's population that enjoys this. So for BW it's a choice of wether they want to please the very tiny population with extremely hard operations or well, the rest of the population with what we currently have. Easy choice if you ask me. WoW also learned this quickly, it didn't live that long for nothing.

Wait... dark infusion being sorc's main heal? As in, the one that's used the most often? guess I'm playing mine wrong... And while you're at it with all your balancing, how about you triple sorc's armor rating? But hey thanks for the laugh tho! reading this was sure a good way to start my day.

Yeah I'm mad at myself for not realising sooner you could just click the panels during combat, oh all that wasted time... Kinda do the same for the other heroic that requires you to kill lord raxxus, I just run tru the place, die near his room, revive and beat him and avoid the trash, takes 1 death but saves a ton of time. If you want a challenge much harder then these 2, try the crystal eater champion in the cave in ilum. Gotta jump down north of the heroic 2 daily into the chasm, and follow the path there to a cave (the one where the datacron is) he's tough, and a few bad crits can take khem down for good.

I solo both heroic 4 on belsavis everyday for commendation, same setup as yours, sorc healer with khem, takes a while but definitely not hard at all, or worthy of a video, but that's just my opinion. The heroic 2 daily in ilum is harder then those if you ask me (if you get a double, double-saber jedi spawn that is...). Gratz on the ghost solo.

Is there any reason his shield chance doesn't increase when I give him stuff with shield rating? With his abilities he's pretty much a clone of khem val, yet khem tanks waaay better with a mix of lv 50 greens and blue stuff, compared to my xalec in full defense assassin gear (mostly tier1 and 2 epics). Is he bugged or am I missing something? Actually I just double checked him, and even tho I got plenty of absorption, the bonus stays at 0. It goes like this: Absorption rating (174): +0.00% Sooo no bonus from shield and absorption, is he just made like that?

Whatever happends, don't let people mislead you when they say sorc has 'horrible' regen. They either heard it from other people, or haven't experienced a sorc in high end content. There's this thing called consumption, that takes 15% of your health and converts it into 8% force, and reduce your force regen by 25% for 10 secs. Force surge is a passive in the healing skill tree, when you get a crit on innervate, your consumption doesn't consume health nor reduce your regen. So basicaly get an innervate crit, and you get 8% force back by using consumption. Innervate is a 4 hit healing spell, channeled during 3 sec. You can boost the crit chance by 25% by applying resurgence first (instant cast HoT). It's not hard at all having a 30% crit base either, so add both and you get 55% crit. That's 4 hit on innervate, 55% crit each (you only need to crit once on the 4 hits to get the boost), so there's a VERY good chance (about 19 times out of 20 from my experience) that you will get force surge to activate. I've healed every 4 man hardmode flashpoint, some with very squishy tanks, healed a bunch of 8 man stuff too, and during those we even ended up doing dps during the fight thanks to the enrage timers, and I can tell you most of these fights I ended up with 70-80% force left, and that's because I was lazy, or just didn't feel the need to use my force surge boost. Needless to say, force was never a problem. If you want to know the weakness of a sorc, it's the armor rating. Light armor are squishy, while others can take a few more hits and survive, and that can make the difference between a death and staying alive. But when it comes to healing output, sorc is at the top.