Apparently that comment was so inflamatory that it required a rage. I dont get it.

Hard mode progression lol. Im playing fantasy football now so im assuming its not april anymore.

There is essentially only 1 difference between sents and maras. A sentinel keeps 30 stacks and never uses them. A mara will always spend them on PREDATION. Who would be in favor of maras getting an aoe knockback?

I wonder if people spent as much effort learning to kill something as they did skipping/cheating would there not be so many incredibads. BTW, Aggro drop on merc/commando dosent work. Neither does undying rage/guarded by force

In order for the higher dmg proc relics to be more effective than the lower dmg proc ones you need some sort of armor pen as well as having the armor debuff. So arsenal/smash/deception/carnage etc should use Cerulean nova or kinetic tempest. A dark radiance or elemental trans could be better for a sniper but bioware has them BOTH dealing force dmg for some inexplicable reason. Short answer: Snipers do not have a suitable dmg proc relic so SA/BA is our best (and only) option.

Rage on Havoc Squad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M203_grenade_launcher

You must remain still and channel it. Thus any knockback or or physics that move our stun you will interrupt it. It is immune to hard interrupts ike disruption, force kick, distracting shot etc...

I did NM dread guards on my commando about 100 times before downing it and was executing a near flawless rotation towards the end. Did NM dreadguards on my sniper and messed up rotation severely about 6 times in the fight and pulled 180 more dps on the sniper.

We are still on the first set of gear tiers in 2.0 also. So to answer your question, no I dont remember having 110% acc and 75 surge in rakata gear because it was an impossibility. Besides, isnt this post about alacrity?

Make that 2/5 NiM TFB. Dread Guards down 7-31. Op IX, Kephess and more coming soon.

If you think that means anything will be done, let me know when you hit lvl 25 on your first toon. Ill buy you a mount.

One thing i did when i used to play watchman which was pre 2.0 was when i had 2 stacks of the OS dot up id use blade storm (yeah blade storm). Reason being is that it would not add the 3rd stack and refresh the dot and OS would come back off cd before the 3 stack dot ran out. This allowed me to keep the OS dot up for 2 straight OS cycles but would only work every other time. No idea if this is still possible or even desirable. Just my .02.

My guild, which borders on casual/hardcore, is still in the top 20 on the official progression thread despite being 1 and 2/3 of 5 in NiM TFB. While the Dreadguards are admittedly easier now, i don't think there's gonna be a rash of guilds downing it now. In all 3 configurations the fight was and remains to be very difficult. IMO going from 10 to 20 guilds able to down a fight is not exactly "catering to the casual." That being said, mad props to all the guilds who were able to complete this encounter in its original release.

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14 pages and still no response from bioware. Maybe change thread title to "Need Cartel Market unlock to seperate HM and NiM lockouts."

I;m going to give another valid reason why these lockouts should be separated not at some nebulous time in the future but NOW! Why I'm wasting my time doing it, i have no idea. EA/BW will not even read or reply to this because it doesn't have anything to do with the cartel market or a daily quest. Relics. Bioware's inability to give appropriate tooltips on how a relic is supposed to work, code the relics to actually work that way, stay consistent with the way relics work and finally, actually fix their goof-ups when they screw it up makes it virtually impossible for a group to get BiS relics. My group went out and got their pair of BiS relics, then the system was changed so we did it again. Soon (my favorite term), this system will change again forcing those who want BIS gear to get new relics once again. Only this time we wont be able to without putting NiM progression on hold for 8 weeks. /signed /signed /signed (for all the good it will do)

Scrap the whole thing unless you can put it in a proper heirarchy of importance. Content is slow, OP tuning ranges from off to atrocious, annoying quality of life bugs have been in game launch since launch without their existence being acknowledged and any tickets related to actual gameplay are handled in a matter that would make Stalin cringe. But god forbid a cartel coin bug creep up and its emergency time at Bioware.

Ive actually seen a small dps increase in dummy parses by using it situationally. i.e. concentration and tremors have just been refreshed and everything else is on cd ill chunk a rock. That being said, vs a live target iprobably wouldnt do it unless i know for sure im not gonna be moving during the cd. Nothing is more useless than a moving tk sage with project on cd.

So far the best 5 min parses i have done in Gunny were with a setup of about 400-425 crit and zero alac. Turning out between 2400 and 2450 with underworld serendipitous and EWH. These numbers could definitely change in the future bc im still at only 72 surge and 98.5 accuracy. I doubt alacrity will figure much into gunnery bc the stat budget wont allow much and still have 100% acc and 76% (with comp buff) surge.

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/09/1362011240-dr-curve-2-0-swtor.png 300 crit rating will now net you about a whopping 5%. (compared to about 13 previously). The curve never really steepens at reachable levels. How about a link to this "plenty of thread aready" since this entire forum seems to have the relevance level of fleet chat.

Try moving slightly between HS/BS. Ive only ever encountered this in PVE while i was remaining still.

With about 3000 aim and 700 crit rating its only brought my buffed crit chance up to about 31 ish. From 28 when i hit 55 with around 320 crit. So Ive basically foregone 380 power to get 3% crit chance. Although i dont have all the mods available to parse it, it dosent take much extrapolation to guess which one will come out on top Also, even tho its a BS guide based on nothing in particular Noxxic.com has put power>crit in for EVERY dps/heal spec. Up until recently gunnery/arsenal were the only exceptions. Since your choice in optimization is always power or crit, I cant foresee any situation in which i would willingly choose crit.

The way some people overcome their handicaps should be an inspiration to all of us.

Maybe you will get a pet thats exactly like one you already have, slightly re-colored