LOL - It's not punishable to chat in, OMG, general chat. If you don;t want to see spoilers turn off chat.

lol at 8k.

Except what he is trying to point out is that with that setup the group has to rely on nobody but themselves, which is very accurate.

Interesting point of view. At least the BH, Warrior, and Agent will be swimming in gear

No you should not be able to heal and dps with a hybrid build in PvE and expect people to group with you. If you want a PvP build, stay in the warfronts. If you want to kill bosses in PvE then respec to a proper PvE spec or accept the fact that nobody will want you as their healer.

In defense of our times at least, I have only done Ilum twice. I just don't care for the instance. As far as I recall, there aren't any hard bosses in there. The only one that can be remotely challenging is the one that stuns you and spawns the adds. However, there is a way to make that fight just simple as can be. All the others we run people through for gear. So maybe you can cut the hour down to 45 minutes. D7 and FE are always fast for us. As I mentioned we don't need anything from these areas so it's either to mess around or take a new person through. I doubt new groups will have the same times, but they based on the list you can see what will take longer.

There is so much trash in D7 that you just skip, it takes next to no time at all. FE you just throw most of it over the edge. Just because an instance has more mobs does not mean you need to kill every one of them.

Averages above. We can go faster or slower depending on if we are just screwing around or needing to get in and out. Kaon Under Siege - 45 min (You left that one off) Edit: Should also point out this is done with mostly Rakata gear.

Oh no!!! You did your first hardmode and didn't get purples...OMG what are you going to do.

No. Gear is easy enough to get. They should have never added Columi to flashpoints in the first place.

I think the bigger issue is that it took you 2 hours to run a 30 minute instance.

Wow....do you have any clue whatsoever what the OP is talking about? Have you ever run a flashpoint? Do you even play this game? Good lord the stupidity on these forums. Revive? If you die in an instance with a wipe, you have no option to revive where you died. It's outside...period. If you get thrown off the ledge during False Emperor, you cannot revive, you cannot be rezzed, you are outside. Green door, red door, LOL.

Yes it's real. We have gotten that a few times.

Forget the fact that they used master looter, which should have been fixed by now but isn't. The customer support they got was pathetic. Read those ignorant responses. I know it's some $2/hr person in some 3rd world shack, but FFS get someone that knows anything about the game at least. PATHETIC

That's just it. Put in time to get the rewards. Look at the two posts directly above yours. and Neither of those people want to put in the time. They want to clear easy mode and obtain the same items as people completing Nightmare. They aren't Hardcore, they aren't Casual. They are lazy! They are the worst group in an MMO. Stop making it about Hardcore and Casual. Lazy and Bad players are the worst of the bunch.

Or by someone who's been 50 more than a day or so. Sure 1 - 50 the game is solid and deserves good reviews. End game is where it plummets.

lol - what stupid mod moved this to the PvP section. READ THE POST BEFORE YOU MOVE THEM

No, they haven't fixed it. It works after the server comes down until someone bugs it.

Welcome to level 50. It's been bugged for ... well since the game came out. Most likely you have individuals bugging it on purpose. The crates bug when the even starts but not completes. It will bug the crate if you start it and die (no clue how you would die to this). More importantly, it will bug if someone starts it and then intentionally stealths and leaves.

Actually, no, you were looking for a fight or you wouldn't have phrased everything the way you did. Personally, PvP sucks in this game. It's gear vs. Gear, not player vs. player. Doesn't matter how well you react, how much better you are than another person, the one with the better gear will win most of the time.

Yes - at least it would give me something to do after all my ops are done for the week.

Hard content is needed. Not more pointless crap.

If you say so, I'll take my luck then. 18ish tries, no bugged out encounters. I wish I had that kinda luck with PvP gear

Never. We've done this every single week in multiple raid groups for over a month and not once have we ever bugged an encounter knocking back the cats. I highly doubt we have just been lucky for 3 raid groups for 6 weeks each. Again...cats. Don't knock back any of the guards.

Nope. We send 1 person to each side and punt them away. Never had an issue with them and we do it every week. We don't knock any of the guards off. Just kill them fast.