Cease this sesquipedalian nonsense before I defenestrate you all. Or would you prefer a round of fisticuffs?

My thoughts exactly. Makeb Dailies, plus GSI dailies, plus a couple of weeklies, plus a pvp daily and FP daily, and you are easily at 25. I mean, without even breaking a sweat. Here is my latest idea: Make a Daily to complete all the Makeb Dailies, and another Daily to complete all the GSI Dailies. These missions do not need to give great rewards, they just need to light up the speeder icons on your map, so you know to visit those mesas. When you get to each Mesa, there is a terminal to get the quests for that mesa. So instead of picking up 14 quests, you pick up 2 quests 7 times. The layout of Makeb makes it uniquely suited to this kind of system.

Did my first HM 55 yesterday; tanking Cademimu. Found it downright frantic dealing with cc, aggro, how squishy I suddenly am, and new mechanics. We wiped once and had a couple of deaths here and there, but the entire group seemed to be enjoying themselves. Flashpoints are actually a challenge again! You know what I'm not excited about? The entire swtor community gearing past the content to the point that they becomes farm instances, where wipes and slowdowns make group members irritable.

How much?

Look everybody, it is our favorite Bioware apologist, here again to lump us all into a single category of mouthbreathing complainers for easier compartmentalizing into her small small world. People are running out of room in their logs for carrying around quests they have a legitimate reason to want to carry around. People have made good points about the achievement system not causing serious problems, suggesting that it's not a simple issue of database server limitations. But sometimes I guess it's better to feel superior...

Why not two Conqueror? Do they not stack with each other but Conqueror will stack with Partisan?

Well, I never expected them to let Shadows keep the ball for Phase Walk, that would almost be like letting a Marauder keep it during Camo or something. They probably figured that Sorcs are already crazy useful in huttball for friendly pull and speed+bubble. Letting them Barrier in a fire pit or w/e would just be too much. So even if it doesn't make any sense, it's may be best for balance.

What about the achievements system? Some of those are trivial to track (obtaining level 55) but some are like their own quests. Especially the ones where you have to defeat a certain number of mobs in a particular area, or defeating a certain number of mobs with a particular companion. In other words, I have a hard time believing that this is one of those technological limitations that we have to just swallow. It seems far more likely that the mission tracker was sloppily coded.

Probably, since you can still make progress on untracked missions, so the game needs to keep tabs on that. What would work is a "pause" feature for missions where you take away even your ability to make progress on a mission. But I doubt they would do that because it would cause a storm of customer service QQ if someone, say, completed a hardmode Operation, but their weekly was paused. Remember when having too many crafting recipes lagged people like crazy? They were able to fix that, but fixing this will probably be harder. It's absurd that the engine is so bad you can't have 35 active quests instead of 25, but we're stuck with it. Meanwhile, we should probably advocate for creative solutions instead. For example, is there any reason I need to pick up that Hard Mode Operation weekly? Why can't I just get the rewards for it after the first hard mode operation I complete that week?

I see it all the time on trash packs in flashpoints, and even while questing on Makeb I was often cc'ed for 5 seconds. This is for the brief time that I was stupid enough to not be specced in Vigilance. I had just finished tanking a flashpoint and was running around questing as a tank to see if I liked it. I've also heard that Mandolorian Raiders is particularly awful for immediate mob cc. Even 3 seconds is plenty of time to lose aggro to dps who are used to leaping in pretty much right away. Yeah, you can get it back, but it shouldn't be happening. Speaking of pleasing everybody, tell me who would complain if mobs didn't do cc's and knockbacks at the start of pulls? I mean, besides you, because then you couldn't be a forum hero about it anymore.

So you are saying that you can release a whole expansion, with a new planet, new quests, new abilities, new items, new crafting schematics, people running around digging in the ground with seeker droids, looking around with binoculars, and a 2000-item achievement list ... and that's fine ... ... but taking the mission log from 25 quests to 35 quests would cause unacceptable performance issues?

Pulled by another mob? That would be awesome. But, alas, no, we are stunned or knocked straight back (should be accompanied by a "Rejected!" audio cue) at a time when building early threat is most critical. For knockbacks you can maybe Guardian leap to your dps, but for stuns, your breaker is on a 2 minute cd. Give me a break. Guardians are totally awesome, and they make great tanks. They have the tools to get aggro, keep aggro, survive, and protect others. They are fun to play. Good Guardians are not complaining about Guardians. What is not fun and what good Guardians are complaining about is all the unnecessary, obnoxious mob cc.

Good guide! How have you been dealing with getting insta-stunned or knocked back?

Wow, rare to see a post so wrong on so many levels. Sounds like someone missed the description for the talent that makes Reflect last longer and build high threat. It's obviously meant as a tool to get threat on ranged mobs. It is stupid for those attacks to be avoided instead of reflected. Exactly this.

Um, last I checked you couldn't move while casting Barrier. It's basically a 10 second pause button for the carrier. Completely different from letting ops vanish and keep the ball, odd you don't see that.

Weekly limits for Basic Comms, and to some extent Elite comms, are already becoming an issue.

It is really hard to come up with a good reason for the weekly limit besides a shameless attempt to draw out the time it takes to gear up.

Weekly and Vehicle Achievement missions should not count towards the limit. Up the limit by 5-10. done.

Does anyone else think the taxi doesn't show you the stuff between mesas because Bioware simply didn't build anything in between mesas?

Alderaan Civil War ranked on my Guardian tank, I intercepted for our Grass capper, and who should they other team send but their own Jugg tank. I figured I'd duel him since it meant both tanks were occupied, and I was feeling good about my skillz. Well, we fought for like 2 minutes, had time to pop some defensive CDs twice, like Focused defense which gives the self-healing. Finally we were both around 15% hp and I wasn't sure I was going to win. I waited til Awe was available, mezzed him and ran to mid for some heals. Our node guarder was typing (so as not to spam voice comms) encouragement at me the whole time, I hated disappointing him

/signed Mission should be changed so toons without a speed boost of some kind can complete it solo. Very annoying to clear the whole place out and then wipe on a stupid clicky mechanic.

Eric and Alex, thanks for the update and thorough explanation. I have a funny feeling many of the TTK issues will be gone after tuesday.

You gotta admit, it was an interesting choice to allow them to carry the ball with a spammable roll, but not allow Sorcs to hold the ball during Barrier.

Perhaps you are reading the forums with your retard glasses on? He was clearly (and artfully) kidding.

Doesn't it only work for the frontal cone of where the cover screen is facing? Can you not simply go around?