Hehe, for me it is the other way around. I am looking for Luxury Fabric missions and all I can see is 1 of those if I am lucky. Metal missions I sometimes have 2 at once. Rest is always companion gift missions.

And you still can - it is still feasible to do so. Also BP - still feasible (even with the nerfs).

This is as close to an official statement as you will get. Because in my opinion that is the most likely reason why there are that many and that expensive credit sinks in this game. I remember watching the Guild Summit when BioWare showed just the tip of the iceberg of economic data they were tracking. Also, they did lower the PVE repair costs didn't they. This combined with the credit sinks and shifts in availability of certain items post-patch does hint at a balancing act rather than blind adjustments just to spite people. I mean I would like reduced prices for some of the credit sink items as well - who wouldn't?! - I dont't think it's reasonable to just lower the prices at this point and be done with it.

Are you sure you have Xalek in tanking stance? For me Xalek isn't bugged and the Columi/Rakata he wears properly boosts secondary stats on him. I am not ingame right now, but some of his defensive stats is set to 0% (can't remember if it is Shield or Absorption ratin) when I switch him to DPS stance.

Yep we experienced the same bug regarding Fearful. It seems quite dodgy, like if you stay around the max range it seems to work in favor of avoiding it but if you move out of the range of Fearful by a large margin you will still sometimes get it. Another bug I have noticed is, that Mental Anguish and Weakened were applied even though the boss was turned around to the wall with his backside facing the raid group when he was doing his Shriek. It feels a bit like Bonethrasher's 3D model not actually facing in the direction the gaming logic is actually calculating with all over again. Edit: we were doing 8man HM.

I don't understand it either... and ofc I made the mistake of pulling all my mods out of my pve gear and putting them in the crafted BM gear without looking at the valor rank requirement since I just assumed all BM gear doesnt have a requirement. Oh well, just need to invest a week to get to 60 (from 57) :/ (yeah ,yeah I know it's totally my fault. Stil makes no sense, however. The only argument that I heard which comes closest to making sense is that of giving meaning to otherwise useless valor ranks)

The ones you mentioned are all already in game.

Well, Dr Lorrick is the boss from Lost Island HM so maybe its tied to the new FP somehow?

The new PVP area world boss gives an entry in category Events, titled "Rakghoul Pandemic: Defeated Urtagh"

I livestreamed both the dailies and the new world boss in the PVP area if anyones interested. Tatooine NEW World Boss - Infected Bantha (27min full version) Tatooine NEW World Boss - Infected Bantha (5min highlight version) Was fun, well done BioWare

Gonna give it a try. Thanks for the tip!

Aha. What would you recommend sacrificing for the additional skill point in Subversion to make it 100%? The only thing I can think of (for PVE endgame healing) is mabye take Will of the Sith down to 1/2 ? (e.g. 31/9/1)

Could you pls elaborate on that? Does it involve Subversion?

On my sorc healer I have done Lost Island HM, Explosive Conflict (Story) and revisited a couple 1.1 HM flashpoints. Here's what I have found: Since the basic goto combo (resurg + DI) is no longer there with the reduced cast time healing just became much more situational. The single most important thing I have learnt so far: Use resurg + DI whenever you can get away with it bc it is so darn efficient now. You can get away with it whenever you have predictable damage incoming so you can start casting before it becomes just reactionary. If you can increase your alacrity a little without sacrificing too much surge or power to get the cast time closer to 2s, the better! Innervate and Dark Heal of course are your emergency reactionary heals for unpredictable burst damage. Just don't overdue the dark heals bc they will make it so you need to blow too many GCDs on techniques to regain your force. When in stress try to remain calm (I know obvious, right?) to avoid keyboard mashing - it will bite you more now. Speaking of techniques to regain your force, as you already said, the main thing that kinda replaces the unlimited power combo from before is dipping in your AOE heal whenever you can heal others with it as well, then do 1 or 2 consumptions if you have the GCD time for 2 or more. If an AOE can't be placed strategically, consumption + resurg on you. Btw, you can't consumption yourself to death - it won't let you. Ofc, Dark Resilience 2/2 is a must to talent into now. Overall I must pay more attention now. Before I could always remain reactionary and basically alternate between 1 or 2 mini-rotations. Sometimes I didn't need to watch my force at all. I can say this at least: Yes it was annoying as all heck to get used to in the beginning. Now it does feel more gratifying when I pull the group through a tougher fight. Ofc, I haven't revisited any HM/NMM ops yet and I havent done the new OP on HM yet either. So this is just what I have found so far.

no idea mate, but there is still a reference to this location in the proper Flashpoints subforum. Anyway, nice stream, especially the last boss had us stuck. For the LR5-Sentinel boss, since we didnt have many interrupters we had to take too many plasmic arcs and essentially did what we do when fighting Karagga the Unyielding in KP HM. Yes this made it very messy =)

Funny enough I am re-rolling to operative from my sorc healer. Actually its not really re-rolling since I heard from a friend that operative healing is so much more fun than sorc healing and I was curious to test it out before any of the nerfs were even announced. I have been Concealment until level 34-ish and just now have switched over to Medicine and both trees have been great fun so far. I might even make this my new main

Please excuse me, but what is it you are trying to say? Is it: you take it as a fact that all sorcerer players are bad, because they can just sit back and hit a couple of buttons to 2-shot people, so they don't have to learn to play and that explains the bias in the hate towards sorcerers? I have never seen a sorc 2-shot people in a 1v1, everything else is focus fire. Also if a sorc knows what he is doing and what class he is fighting against he can be tough to down without focus fire (esp. if corruption spec). But that would actually mean a sorc has to learn to play just like any other class that's serious about PVPing. Also, bias towards what? I can't quite see how the thread content connects to your post title.

Actually if you read the response from Georg Zöller's QA regarding the sorc and merc nerfs there is very good evidence that they won't be making changes to the incoming nerf. He said sth along the lines of them being ever more confident that those nerfs were needed. I appreciate what you are trying to do, though and I agree people need to actually be able to playtest the full picture before shouting "the sky is falling".

Just started levelling an operative (currently mid-level) and since I have some pvp and pve under my belt I fully support this. Disclaimer: my main is a lvl 50 pvp/pve sorc - and no, I started the operative before hearing about the 1.2 patch

Or empire battlemaster PVP lightsaber.

I think you need to have payed and played one subscription cycle on top of owning the game (yes it's kinda "meh") so I reckon you are out of luck but I don't know for sure.

Yes. Most likely you didn't complete your class quest. If I recall correctly I couldn't do the Illum and Belsavis dailies until I completed my class quest (even tho I was 50 long before) and recieved my Darth title. If you complete the bonus series on Belsavis that just unlocks the Rakata transporter taxi spots which allow you to even get to Deep Launch and Signal Monitoring. But to pick up the mission at Domination outpost for the dailies, you need to finish the class quest. Once you do that the mission box on the fleet should then also give you a mission.

You can find all you seek at sithwarrior.com in the section Game Mechanics.

Well, I have now done every HM except Directive 7 while specifically not using the "exploit" and we were fine. Well, ok, maybe our sniper that just has to pull aggro all the time while the tank's taunt is on cooldown died once or twice more For the record, I'm 31/8/2 in full Columi Force-Mystic + 2 Rakata from Synth where 1 has an augment slot.

Thanks for the input guys. I'll be healing through a few hard modes as if the fix had already happened and see how that goes. Edit: Yeah I can also confirm that cloud mind worked for me, but sometimes its hit or miss. For example when I was soloing champion mobs on Hoth with Ashara and Revel I had to let the comp build up damage and then use cloud mind. I'd say roughly 7 out of 10 times it would work.