Anyone thought that when hybrid class offtanks, offheals or helps any other person in raid for whatever ****up that one just did, he looses dps. That's a hybrid tax! Or you can be selfish, care about meters, keep dpsing to look good and scream at someone else when the wipe occures...

On combat dummy both are capped at 1800-1900 dps. I'd say powertech can go higher but needs to be a great player. While mercs spam abilities their dps is more gear based, you can also see BiS geared powertechs with 300-400 dps difference on specific boss fights.

It's awsome, now you have better heat management when off-healing than actually healing spec mercs Apart from rapid shots not being able to heal

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Greetings merc community. I just wander now that relics will be changing, which are the ones to go for PVE operations, especially looking forward for nm Denova. New pvp relics: - 100 passive power (Battlemaster) - 113 passive power (War Hero) - 66 aim + 27 crit rating (new matrix cube) - 405 power on use (Campaign relic of Boundless ages) I see dubble war hero the way to go, even dubble battlemaster seems better than pve ones. Matrix might be useful still. Campaign one calculates with 1/6 uptime, mostly 1/9 if you used it with adrenal. Therefore it can contribute same as 67,5 passive power in 1st case and 45 passive power in 2nd case. I will probably test them a bit before deciding if I augment battlemaster ones or matrix, but I believe Campaign one will vanish from our usage. Maybe, just maybe if nm Denova has some burn phases where 300 more power for 20s make a difference, at the moment dps without CDs can kill just anything.

Playing with arsenal BH and still missing about 100 aim (mostly augments) and 100 power to reach top geared people. However I can say that EC is all about knowin the fight in every detail. I top the dps in our 8mans every fight (we don't have a marauder there though). Getting 1300 dps on toth and vorgath fights and 1500 on firebrand and kephess. We once puged arsenal merc doing 50 more dps than me on kephess but he was aoeing while I was sniping warriors. I can only say that knowing your position, when to move and which abilities to use on the move will make a huge difference: - Toth and Zorn; finding position where you stand still all the fight apart when moving from fearful or red circle phase, - Firebrand and Stormcaller; perfect stationary fight and moving between shield and tank takey you 2-3 globals max which can be filled with dps, - Colonel Vorgath; after minefield you stay near cave and don't need to move unless you get red circle, - Kephess; same... Know where to stand you you'll be dpsing whole fight. Overwhole, use global CDs on rail shot (high impact bolt) and heatseeking missle (demolition round) for movement. 3s of running makes huge distance, otherwise if they are on CD get to 50 heat and dump it for 3 globals when running.

You can always change mods and enhancements.

I simply don't know what else to say to some people... - Fast leveling -> Nothing to do when you level cap, it's to boring, - slow leveling -> To much time consuming, to much grinding, it's to boring, - difficult ops and FP content -> I can't do it, BW sucks, they could make it easier, - easy ops and FP content -> It's to easy, BW sucks, people get the gear and leave the game from boredom MMO always was grinding. You have hardcore players that take a vacation when new patch arrives and play 24/7 that week. You get a new content and someone out there in the world will very probably clear it in 1st 2 or 3 days. You can play game for like 16h per day, that's still 48h of playtime for that guild. And for the rest that raid 4h 2-3 days per week, well it will take them 4 weeks to clear. And it takes you an extra month or more to get all the gear when the place is cleared. What the hell do you want with something new? Character storylines (you say it was fun but now it's not), legacy (they are trying on it but people spit on every new thing that's coming out)... I'm not saying game is perfect but it's impossible to satisfy this community! Everyone compare it to WoW! If they implement something similar, everyone whines it's boring. If it's not similar to it, everyone says WoW got it right, why are you doing it so wrong? It simply can't happen this way... There are things that need to be fixed as: - healthy server population, - ranked warzones, - bugs, - character balances... But when they talk about this, people say there's no new content. And when they talk about new content, people whine they should fix the bugs 1st... It's a damn neverending circle...

Since everything is so boring, why do you even bother posting... Or playing game even...

^ this As well while leveling I liked rocket punch knockback effect. So 2 interupts and a stun. Otherwise keep LoS and keep yourself above 70% or choke + aoe will kill you.

It is 1.5s cast time? You could switch between support and nuke helping. But when healing yes, always combat support.

No help needed, when he starts casting **** on you just LoS him behind a pillar which will reduce his damage and give Mako time to heal you. Quest is really easy when you use tools that were given to you by designers.

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Well That seems my highest loss. Got 230 aim and nearly 300 power less. We didn't get an ops up for last 3 weeks. Server's population has dropped to less than 10 people on fleet and less than 20 overwhole at peak hours. Nothing to do but weekly BH and weekly LI+KuS until transfers...

Read more carefully. Before it was possible to climb a cliff and run to Kephess door with skipping about 3-5 trash packs, depending on picking the chest in between or not. Stealth nerf is called because it wasn't said in patch notes. And yes, 2nd commendation chest is bugged for all.

There was a bug earlier where loot in chest was not avaliable for looting and with that change they fixed it. Not defending them but explaining a bit since it happened to us. At that point costumer support distributed the items to people who should get them after a very long ticket explaining who was in raid, what exactly happened and when exactly it happened. Now they should have checked where this trigger was earlier and change it either to tanks dieing or door opening after encounter.

There is additional bar that you can use to prevent them from aoeing you know?

Another question I ask is on which dummy do you check your dps, since I have 1989 aim with stim up and keeping 5% crit buff from my operative alt and my numbers dont hit even close to your numbers. DPS Check the average numbers: Yours are about 20% higher than mine, sometimes more. My fight is shorter and I used rakata adrenal + campaign power relic twice. As said I have 1989 aim, 486 power and campaign main hand. I simply must use a different dummy (zoist shadow ops one).

Hey Areaz. Mind posting your stats at the time of combat log and the buffs you had, used adrenals+relics etc. Will try out my dps now and need it for comparison.

On our kills 7/8 were standing on tanks not moving during p1. I (merc dps) was a vabe on firebrand and got all blue shields and yellow circles. I was standing half way between tank and wall and the only time that things didn't hit me was during tank switch when assassin had to run. And that happened like 2 times in 1 month. If you have a person as a vabe, do it on firebrand since it doesn't have any aoe damage on dps. As for p2 people said it, Stormcaller tank kites the blue shields outside of your defencive shields while healer spam heals him.

Agree totally. We are doing 8man hm (or were doing it). We lost 3 people due to diablo and with no feedback they aint comming back. On the same side we have 3 guilds on our server, 2 with not enough people to do ops and another who can't clear HM Karagga or EV even half way. So where to get people to replace the ones we lost? Don't tell me to gear up people who can't kill Jorg and Sorno on hm, when they won't be able to follow EC tactics in any way...

Totally agree with Stormy here. When you make a content that majority of community can clear they will be happy to get gear for no effort. But small part of people do like to play a game and watch the encounter instead of mindlessly run on the boss and hope for the best. I love fights where thinking about something else while fighting a boss, even mobs sometimes can result in a death. And if BW makes content like LI hardcore players will be a bit satisfied while majority will cry for nurf. It's the nature of life. Our guild uses it as warming up before ops once a week with 2 4mans competing who will complete it 1st. From time to time we leave 1 spot open and try to pug someone to see what kind of player he is and check if he'd be suitable for the guild. Mostly people don't want to try it even though it would be a boost more or less. But it's up to them. I've seen pugs do it and in our better runs we do it in just a bit more than 20 minutes (skipping 3rd boss). I must say I like it much more than KuS with boss events that alone take no effort and 10 minutes of your time.

Ula Vii server... Same problem: - there has not been a lvl 50 warzone for 2 weeks, - there has not been a low lvl warzone for over a month, - we canceled explosive conflict HM for 3 nights already because many people in guild have stopped playing the game due to low population and nothing happening, and among 20 people on server who actually play, believe me half of them is not good enough to play 8man HM where 1 mistake causes a wipe, - MORE TIME YOU WAIT, MORE MONEY YOU LOSE, - just make that bloody transfer or merge already since your players are far to scattered around or you might lose over 30% of players till summer, - when summer comes always alot of people makes a break playing and the rest will simply stop due to noone to play with, - this is MMO, not single player game, we pay you each month for that, take that as a reminder! It is simply impossible to go along! Such a great game and such a slow response ruining the whole game...