This argument might hold weight if the one shots didn't serve a very specific purpose. They are there to ensure you must do mechanics or fail the encounter. If you take away the one shot mechanics on low level content then you might as well remove all mechanics and allow people to beat on a parse dummy for loot.

The Phobis Device has no significance here. They were force users before coming in contact with the device and they were brought back as force ghosts in a dark side ritual. That's all the info you need. Nobody has suggested they were as powerful as before. You keep making this argument but it doesn't change the fact that the changes to Kephess were more significant than the changes to the Dread Masters when it comes to the powers exhibited.

Maybe you need to go back and replay that entire series. After the death of Styrak the other 5 Dread Masters appeared and siphoned off what power they could from his corpse. The same happened after Brontes died with the other 4. During the point in the Council fight where you encounter Styrak and Brontes, the other 4 are at their thrones performing a ritual to summon their force ghosts using the power they siphoned. As I said previously, the force ghost retains the essence of what that person was. The changes to Kephiss were much different.

Seriously, do you know nothing about Star Wars lore? Force ghost info Basically, the changes in Kephess mechanics was due to changes made to his body while the inclusion of previous mechanics for the Force ghosts were because they tried to retain their powers even after death. The story even supports the dev decisions in both of these scenarios.

I'm still stuck trying to figure out how the OP doesn't realize there's a difference between Warlord Kephess and Kephess the Undying... One is a standard Trandoshan and the other is a revitalized version using cybernetics and sith alchemy. Their character models are even completely different. Warlord Kephess Kephess the Undying When Kephess shows back up on the Brontes phase as a clone he even uses a subset of his powers as Kephess the Undying. The powers Styrak and Brontes use on the council fight aren't exactly the same but very similar.

Pretty sure he was talking about the guy being carried and not the group carrying him... When did it become a bragging right to be carried through content?

I'm sorry, but if it's happened to you 5 times already then why do you still need to ask this question. It is pretty obvious what their policy is from the actions they have taken with you on multiple occassions.

I do not think this word means what you think it means. The word you are looking for is "successor". Also, why not just create a new thread with a link to the old instead of a useless necro post?

http://www.wikihow.com/Detect-Sarcasm-in-Writing

Uhhh... I just solo'd the Quesh datacron 2 days ago on a Merc. Not sure why you bothered to wait for others...

JouerTue: I have put many beautiful mounts in the storeroom, each of them able to be ridden. El Guapo: Many mounts? JouerTue: Oh yes, many! El Guapo: Would you say I have a Bantha mount? JouerTue: A what? El Guapo: A *Bantha*. JouerTue: Oh yes, you have a Bantha. El Guapo: JouerTue, what is a Bantha? JouerTue: Why, El Guapo? El Guapo: Well, you told me I have a Bantha. And I just would like to know if you know what a Bantha is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a Bantha, and then find out that that person has *no idea* what it means to have a Bantha.

Kudos to you, however, it would appear that not everybody had the same experience you did. This change makes sense as it makes the abilities more streamlined and aligned with other classes.

He was clearly referring to the base skill being a shared ability. He was saying having the healing linked to a shared skill was causing problems. How was that hard to understand?

I believe it may have been a patch to prevent people from glitching the run to quickly grind comms. Basically, people would run a gf op with 16 and have 1 or more log to an alt for the last boss. After downing that boss they would form a group with 15 alts and a character that dropped from the previous run in order to skip the first 4 bosses and still get the comms. You could do this over and over to abuse the lockout system.

^This. Raiding 101

I'm saying that with the current leveling system in place people should adjust their expectations of unranked pvp. Anybody that pre-ordered the expansion is not going to bother leveling in Warzones when it is 12x faster to level by story missions. As a result, there are lots of level 55 players who have 0 pvp commendations to spend on gear and relatively low cash reserves to buy gear from the GTN. Sure, they COULD take time away from leveling via story missions to grind pvp but I doubt many people are doing that. After hitting 55, the fastest way to get pvp gear is by playing in unranked warzones, so that's what they're doing. I don't expect any serious PVP player to like it but they are going to have to realize that there isn't any preventing it right now. Hopefully these people will fully gear one of their toons and then use legacy gear for their alts but I doubt all of them will. Me? I do nothing in WZs currently because I haven't done any pvp since rejoining, the last time I did any pvp was in 2012 before I quit playing for a year and a half. Even then I was grouping with friends and playing to have fun. I'd have to go check my old character to figure out how geared he was but I had a full pvp set. I have been to Outlaw's den a few times since coming back, it has always been dead when I was there. There is a difference between ranked and unranked PVP. I agree that ranked PVP should be all about competition but I don't agree that unranked PVP should be all about competition. Unranked should be more relaxed with fewer expectations. As I said above, right now people are using the 12x boost for xp and have no incentive to play pvp before hitting 55. That's just the current state of the game. I don't disagree that ranked pvp is endgame at 55 but don't try to take the one option away that a casual has to pvp. Also, keep in mind that some of these people have never pvp'd. Are you going to drop a ton of cash on something you don't know if you're going to enjoy? You'll probably just hop in at the lowest level available and see what it's like before committing time and energy to getting what's necessary. At this time that is unranked pvp.

if you want to tout your epeen then go into ranked, that's what it's for, but don't assume that because you consider that to be fun that everyone else in the gen pop does. Some people want to PVP in a relaxed environment where winning and losing isn't such a big deal, that's what unranked is for. Setting the expectation that everyone in UNRANKED is going to be or wants to be highly competitive is stupid and you're going to have a bad time if that is your expectation while solo queuing.

Then add a link in your new thread...

What does it matter? Seriously, it's a game. If you don't like it then find a group that will put up with you (probably not going to happen) and quit queuing solo (derp). Expecting people to do this in solo queue is idiotic and ************ about it is pointless, grow up.

Uhh... then start a new thread in the correct forum? Seriously, how was that not your first choice? And for the record, this necro was over 33 months.

Sorry, just my personal opinion. I would rather have someone using their 180/186 gear than some 156/162 gear that they threw together so they didn't have to hear someone complaining about needing for alts because that is what would happen.

So, you're justification to leveling slower is that you can buy stims? Wow, that's brilliant, I will happily level 12x slower simply so that I can buy some stims at 55. If you can't figure out that grinding levels in a few days and then using a month of 55 WZs to gear up is preferable to grinding pvp for a month then perhaps I'm not the one that is clueless.

How do you know they aren't simply needing those items for an alt? I'd rather have a player that is well geared rolling for an alt in my group than the jerks who come in with lvl 30 gear, no clue how to play their class, and expect to be carried through.

I'm confused, if it takes 3-4 hours to clear a NiM operation and you play 60-90 minutes a night then you should be able to clear both DF and DP before the weekly reset, you just need to find a group that is willing to accommodate that schedule. Also, what kind of gear would you expect to drop from a NiM FP? If you're hoping for 186 gear then I think you are going to be disappointed, it likely wouldn't be higher than 168.

Either you didn't read what the devs said or you didn't comprehend what they said. They laid out that players were already taking the same skills with very little variance and that is why they are making this change. All that is going to really change is that the devs won't have to waste time on stat balancing any longer and can focus on better things like content.