First of all, I'm not a native speaker, so please excuse my bad English.
Did SF H2 solo last night. With the buffs, as I already had the achievement. Jugger DPS in 216 gear, no set bonus. Lana lvl 42 healing. It was challenging, not that I died, but I had to use heroic moments, def CDs, taunt, put Lana to passive because she sometimes stopped healing and just stood there (yeah the game NEEDS more bugs!), set her back to active again, all that stuff. In fact, harder than most hm operations, from a dps point of view.
By the way, companions needed a nerf, but 20-30 % would have been more than enough. This fells like 75 %. I have no exact numbers though, and I don't really care, just saying how it feels.
I play this game since launch, used to do hm operations and a lot of raiding in other games, too. Although I don't do operations and stuff anymore, I can handle the new difficulty, it 's probably how it should have been from the beginning of 4.0. Also, I think "the one and only" achievement is now probably exclusive for people with high end raid gear. Bad design, as I think these get enough rewards anyway, and there should be something for "solo" players aswell. But OK...
TODAY I did some H2 quests for the grind. First on my Marauder, ilvl 208, no augments, lana lvl 4 healing. Hard, Lana died some times. but OK, I thought I will just have to level her to 20 at it will be fine. Then did some H2s on my main, the jugger, with lvl 42 Lana. And guess what? No big difference! Def CDs on almost every bigger group, my health dropped down, just that I could prevent Lana from dying because I've got taunt. The marauder does a lot more damage, so the over all experience was about the same. Only that I spent hours and hours to gear the jugger... But yeah, there is no point in gearing because of the downscaling. As long as I had the option to power up the companions instead, to increase the grind experience, I was fine with that.
But now?? That's what I did all the grind for? That's why I spent millions of credits for companion gifts? Now, Lana heals worse than before with level 10. Just takes away all my motivation to keep grinding, I have just cancelled my subscribtion. In fact, it was a wake up call for me. There is no point in playing this game anymore (operations: old stuff / dailies: more than old stuff / pvp: no comment).
