I like most killing ll 3 together, but it's hard to find coordinated enough group.

Gurdians did very well in NiM raids I was in over last couple of months. We almost always have at least one.

I can't remember numbers atm, but good indication is how quickly she goes down during kephess phase. With good DPS you need to stop DPS just before 3rd Kephess-clone. For clock phase you need special rotations for most DPS classes. Have everyone work on their highest burst combos for first droid. I am however afraid that if you struggle in that phase there is no chance you can get through last phase.

If L50 HM you can solo most bosses anyway so roll a tank or solo those you need if others are skipping

If you care that much about FP gear drop you must be doing something wrong I would think!

OP asked about competitive raiding. So my answer refers to top skill and NiM content.

Sage/sorc is the strongest ranged DPS at the moment.

Ruskaeth while I 100% agree with you I hate that people don't have the guts to just say "People you suck so much this run is completely hopeless and I'm leaving" instead of providing false excuses of having to go, or outright "DCing" with Alt+F4.

I used to be very laid back, but with the conquest thing after doing a few PUGs and stuff I am becoming less. I think kind of "broken veteran" period I'm having. Even asked some people if they are watching their screens after tanking Kephess in TFB on DPS shadow when both tanks were doing nothing through whole fight.

Does it actually say anywhere in game what is the intended way of using lockouts? Or intended way of getting conquest points? I know BW approach to terms of use and such is a bit weird, but generally in most enviroments it is assumed that what isn't explicitly forbidden is allowed. Kudos to those who can organise enough and have ALTs to optimise the conquest process. Even if I am bound to loose with some of them I can respect to organisation needed to do it as efficiently as possible.

Problem is most **** sapiens are not that intelligent, but internet access is more and more common. Oh the glorious 90's when most users were academics, IT pro's and such. That kind of means that you will only see more dumbness, incompetence, and ignorant abuse as described above.

I'd say until everyone pulls 3500+ in actual fights while executing mechanics at least most of the time it will be very very hard. But then you guys are not yet in full DF gear so even first pieces from DF will increase your DPS significantly and off-hands and such will make massive difference. Don't worry too much and keep going. Somebody mentioned this and it's one of the hardest things in NiM in my opinion - at some point you will find out that some on your team cannot do any better and need to be replaced to progress further. It's very frustrating especially if said people can't realise it themselves, but team mates can hold you back and then everyone grows frustrated and people start to leave - usually the most talented ones first. To be fair the human part of NiM raiding is harder then actual content itself. I think I spent more time trrying to organise the raids and make people do what they need to do when they need to do it then in actual raiding over last couple of months.

Believe me droids are the least of the problems in that fight

It is and was with buff perfectly tankable through enrage so that isn't much of a problem. Problem is when she casts the dot during enrage if you don't have that many cleanses.

At 15 stacks she channels "NIghtmare Twin Attack" at that point there must be 6 people in front of her. If there isn't 6 people she kills one person in front with 0 dmg. BTW having done all roles on this fight and both tactics I strongly suggest DPS moving to tanks it's much less messy then tanks moving in most cases.

That means tanks are incompetent and need to retrain

Depending on what other DPSes are I would say you may even HAVE to go infiltration for DPS challenge on Raptus. And Infiltration is surely better for Calphayus although both work.

At the level you can actually do this FP you don't have an interrupt And tanks have almost zero to hold to hold aggro against multiple targets. If I'm correct you can do it at a level when tank doesn't have a taunt yet.

That's just pure incompetence. But then the game offers little or no in a way of tutorial to gameplay, tanking, DPS rotations, how to heal, how to set-up your interface. No suggestion of useful key-binds etc. So if someone plays really casually and never tried to search The Internet for any know-how how he is supposed to know how to do those things?

There are very few fights in SWTOR with actual "off-tank" role. Most ops fights require simply two tanks.

You know this could have been his ALT and he might have done that only for the off-chance the OH drops for main? I have done Nefra countless times on ALT's hoping for off-hand drop.

Looks awesome, is boring as hell. Feels like doing L50 dailies.

Don't worry - I recently had this brilliant idea to queue for random FP on my shadow as a DPS and a tank asked me to DPS less as he can't keep aggro He couldn't even after I stealthed out after he taunted of me and then used aggro drop after he taunted again. Not that it matter I could tank HM FP in DPS gear, just he was really unhappy with me doing too much DPS. I put this under #pro_dps_problems ;-)

Thanks much appreciated. Video to be published soon you'll see how close a call it was. LOL

If I do a PUG and it's not some in-game friends on mine I always state clearly that I will need stuff for an ALT. That being said if I see someone horribly undergeared I'll usually hand the loot to them anyway. I once been in DP HM 16-man where we handed everything to a first timer I think he entered with less then 30k HP and came out with more then 40