For synthweaving endgame, besides augments and kits, isn't there a really good schematic available from the crafting vendor?

I call BS. If he had LOSed properly, the assassin would have had no chance.

The thing that sucks about a scoundrel/operative capping from cover is that they are standing up, and there is no way to see visually that they are in cover. At least snipers are standing next to their cover screen.

Does Dodge remove Electronet? Because it removes every other root and snare that people are insisting will "counter" spammable roll. They can heal. They can stealth ahead for passes. They can kill fotm snipers. They have plenty to do without spammable roll. Having the ball and being able to roll on a 6 second cd would still be crazy powerful. They don't need to also be able to get the ball first and hand it off the to the tank Jugg, uncontested, at the beginning of every match. Please tell us more about how Guardians don't require a target for this leap of theirs. Blame the idiot who allowed the leap, not the leaper.

The words inc, east, west, snow, grass, mid, south, left, right and pylon should all play the sound that occurs when someone whispers you or says your name in chat. Maybe it could play 3 times in succession to really grab your attention. If the devs are really feeling ambitious, they could give us a pane in preferences to set our own, so we could add door, help, etc as desired.

How many times has this actually happened though? Be honest. Most pugs do not discuss who is what. No one ever says "Oh, no healers? I will respec." No, most pugs say "Oh, no healers? I will quit."

Marauders can do it pretty easily now too because they can double-predate by building fury with channel hatred, then use their long instant fury cooldown. Personally I am kind of sick of warzones that depend on classes pulling out all the stops to get to something quickly at the beginning of the match. That includes the Op roll, which needs a short cooldown, like 6 seconds.

I think people don't tank because leveling and doing dailies as a tank is just painful. I usually do group content as a tank, and really enjoy it, but hell if I'm going to slog through 90 different Makeb Mesas as a tank. I always respec and regear to dps, but not everyone has the gear for that. Meanwhile, healers can easily respec without worrying about gear, since all their stats (minus accuracy) are useful for both roles.

My favorite example is Master Strike. Fun to see my jedi launch into the animation (complete with cast/channel bar!) only to realize no damage is being done and the ability has not gone on cooldown. Also get this with dirty kick. I can be running at someone who is running at me, the button is lit up, I am spamming the button. But no dirty kick.

Not you too!

I'm not saying we shouldn't be extremely frustrated that bolster went live in a terribly bugged state. It would even be reasonable to ask for some kind of recompense, like a mount shaped like a torn couch pillow to commemorate broken Bolster for all time. And as a customer you are always free to take your money elsewhere. But by now it should be obvious that Bioware is committed to Bolster. They are aware that we are annoyed. Posts like "just remove bolster," "this should never have gone live," and "get rid of expertise, problem solved" are just as useless as the people posting them.

^ This guy gets it.

This is the problem right here. For some reason, a big bunch of you are making this huge leap from "they haven't implemented bolster properly yet" to "they never will." That is unfounded nonsense. Seriously, some of you have all the patience of a gnat.

For more comms than the full armoring pieces they come in. I'm surprised there are not more posts about this.

I didn't realize that to be considered spam, an ability had to be usable indefinitely. You can get like nine rolls off before running out of energy if you pop cooldowns and wait a tiny beat in between for energy regen. That's spam. If you can get to the huttball and pass it before someone from the other team with predation is even in range to leap to you, that's broken. Duh.

Setting aside that you are not going to fill 3/4 of your slots with full comms (and forgetting that it's dumb to expect people to grind out max comms instead of leveling on a brand new planet), it just sounds like you want to make sure there are always a few people around that you can obliterate, and use "they should have been more prepared" as an excuse. There is a definite argument to be made for the viability of Recruit set in solving the endgame PvP fairness problem. However, after the first one was introduced, I found it was totally trivializing the first two steps of my endgame PvE gear progression. And that kinda rubbed me wrong, to be honest. When Bioware gave away free Tionese, they were just admitting defeat. An MK-III set like you describe would just re-introduce this issue. The problem isn't the concept of Bolster, but its implementation. If it had actually gone Live working as intended, hardly anyone would have had a problem with it. Without expertise, you'd either have raid gear be the best gear for pvp, or you'd have grindable pvp gear be BiS for endgame raiding, and we both know that neither situation is acceptable to an mmo community. We do both know that, right?

Yeah, spreading out is essential. Of course, it's just awesome when the tank is shackled in the corner right after the dps on the opposite side of the boss have been knocked back, forcing someone to run after the tank while that square is filling up with smoke.... Cademimu is the new Colicoid War Games, as far as pug trolling goes.

Yeah, remove Bolster from 55 pvp, great idea. Have fun dinging 55 and getting blown up in 2 gcds by a powertech. A powertech, for pete's sake! O, the humiliation! Instead of recruit gear, they are using Bolster. It's a good idea that is taking an embarrassingly long time to implement properly. Deal with it and move on. Suggestions about removing expertise are equally stupid. PvE Carebears turn into Grizzly Bears when you trivialize their progression.

This. When it comes to testing, Bioware doesn't care about our opinions on class balance or related feedback, they just want us to find the bugs. Although, the OP's suggestion that all the devs spend time reading the forums everyday would probably lead to severe depression, possible catatonia, and eventual mass suicide. Not everyone can be a world class flak-catcher like Eric Musco!

Dulfy's site made it seem like the shackles were applied randomly. Thanks for the tip!

So far the only nerf needed is for the final Cademimu boss to only ever shackle 3 people max.

Kettlebell, this is what you would sound like if you weren't a *****.

Thanks for the update on continued efforts to fix bolster. One specific issue that has been brought up a bit: It appears that top tier PvE hilts and barrels are going to be a better bet than their PvP counterparts, even when bolster is working as intended. Is this a rumor you are prepared to dispel, or a legitimate concern?

Well, I didn't scrutinize my stats that closely, but if you had, say, High Aim, Low Endurance armoring and that was reversed in the conversion, yeah that's lame. As for the situation you describe, it doesn't sound any different from a level 50 with pvp gear running into a level 47 on Corellia. If that guy in your story had been level 54 instead of level 55, he wouldn't have had much of a gear advantage at all, right? I guess I can't disagree with any of this. But you're upset for all the right reasons. The people who are stamping their feet that their gear isn't endgame-viable any more, after an expansion, are really the ones driving me nuts.

And I think the constant "Why wasn't this fixed before Live!?!?!?", while a valid complaint, isn't really productive anymore as far as the 2.0 bolster changes are concerned, and also that none of this will matter once we are all at least full Partisan (hey, in America, everyone is already fully partisan!) Edited for clarity. Yeesh.