Not to sound offending but hate to break it to you, BW is EA and I just came back to SWTOR after leaving in 2011. And I still see the same bugs I seen back then. And I was surprised SWTOR was still around. But they never added things just about all MMORPG's have now. Swapping specs and the action bars and gear would swap automatically. That is just one example I can think of right now. But that is just a basic thing they could add for QoL. Then also, letting any gear level into a MM FP. This is something any MMORPG doesn't allow until you have the right gear for the FP! It is after seeing these bugs from beta not fixed, the serious lag issues on empty worlds and QoL never added that surprises me SWTOR is still popular and "working". I do like the idea of this game. But I see EA's hands all over how it it managed and it is really sad. SWTOR could be a damn good MMORPG if really taken care of.

So awesome and sadly, so true but you left out the worse of the worse. The Governor EA. He tells what all those fellas are supposed to do. Gov'ner EA also fired the original Sheriff. So what we have here is Gov'ment EA putting all the towns to ruin. SWTOR included.

Ok good. That is where I am at with stims and all. Thanks you. So far, the most DPS I can do after 5 mins is between 1626 - 1600 with mostly BH gear and a few Hazmat mods and both DG relics (clicky power and elemental one).

Right on man! Didn't think about leaving out MS to test. Thanks again. Oh and about the crit question, was meaning was the 32%-33% crit with or without stim and just the buffs? I ask because some people call "buffed" with a stim and some without.

I confess I am definitely not a math person either. All I did was 5 min MOX on the Ops dummy with 33% and 5 mins Ops Dummy at 34%, 32% and 35%. Keeping the same rotation (like in the guide) on each. Oh, and before I forget, are the crit numbers with or without stim? I see buffed but didn't know if you also include the stim and either exotech or rakata. Though I assume Exotech. One thing I have noticed as well as lag seems to play a factor. I do my test on my ships Ops dummy to reduce server lag as much as possible but its still been bad since 1.7. I have noticed my number will vary a good swing with the server lagging on some of my attacks. As in I hit my hot key and it shows the animation but its not actually doing it. So I have to spam the attack until it "hits" so that will affect the numbers. Got to include that DPSing on a Guardian as Vigilance is the most fluid and cool looking whether soloing, pvp or in a raid. And surprising to those that think a Guardian DPS is not good, love to show them wrong.

Really great guide, Matt. thank you. I did find out something interesting while testing on a Ops dummy. I swapped out 41 power for 41 crit to bring my crit chance to 35.10% (with buffs and Rakata Might stimmed) and was doing 500 more DPS. So with 35% crit, I was doing better on damage. Is that normal?

Oh wow, I had that guide bookmarked but forgot about it! Thanks for the slap to my head and recalling it! lol Ok, so by that, I am doing pretty good. Just got to get some more gear..but the RNG hates me...

I just want to know what are the "official" percentages for crit, surge, accuracy and power. I put those in that order as I have been seeing sort of mixed percents (yes I use percents as it is easy to just look at in a glance). Right now, with buffs (not stimmed): Acc: 101.35% Crit (Melee): 33.55% Crit (Force): 36.62% Surge: 77.36% Force Bonus Damage: 985 Would like to shave that 1% off Accuracy for some more Power but not as easy right now. I am BH and a smidgen of HazMat gear right now. In MOX, I parse for about 1500 DPS after 5 mins and have hit 1800 and a little higher in bursting. Any tips that I probably should know would be great!

Oh really? Well that's nice, I have been told wrong by my friend then.. Well crap, my apologies then... except for the first responder. OK then, I feel dumb now. Don't get to have much time to look at all the times for this event. Thank you for letting me know! And I will go find a corner now... And no, if I was the type as you say, Mr. I am better, I am not, if you would read the whole thing. Thank you.

At least the Gray Helix's should be Legacy bound or account bound. That would be much better.

Really? I didn't know that! Brilliant! Should have known a troll would jump on first. Now when you get outside and have a life with less time to play games, then you can talk. And don't come up with the "Oh I have blah blah, 12 kids, 5 jobs and sleep an hour before I get up" lie please.

Just a question. If we don't get to do the Heroic everyday and, as a DPS, never get to be in a WB or HM, we basically get the shaft to get enough of those Gray Helix to even get anything cool, like a weapon? Didn't get to do the WB or HM yet because as a DPS, we are a dime a dozen and everyone else has done it or DPS wasn't lucky enough to get in a group. Loved the other events much better as I was able to give stuff from my alts to my main. But these are bound...really?

The OP may have a game problem and not his fault. I was just in Esseles HM for the daily and at the last person to talk to and finish the long freaking run, the game crashes. It will not finish because of it. Plus, there is also that problem with Taval V (maybe fixed by now) and the room sealing the group up after the talk with Kilran and he is bombing the place but the dorrs will not open, stopping the run there. Sadly, the devs and people on the game now are not the ones originally working on SWTOR. So the new guys and gals have to do the best they can because of EA's f'in up the whole thing. What happens now is every "patch" will have something breaking something. This is worse than WoW's worse year! Its like a football game where the coach at halftime, pulls the pro team out and puts in all subs for the 2nd half and then wonder why they lost! The worst part is the new team gets the blame for the loss and not the coach.

I have searched around and seen people have been asking for a DoT timer as its its a mini-game just trying to know what your DoT's are at in a 16-man. Or heck, even a 8-man! Since nothing has been released to have addon's in this game, why has nothing been made for DoT and HoT timers in the UI? You guys did great for a CD timer on the UI Action bars, how about some "bar's" or something that helps us see our DoT''s?

Awww, aren't you just the special little snowflake. Ahem, no you are not. You statement is usually from players that are very casual people that play maybe once a month and want the world to revolve around them. The rest of the PLAYER base has ran these FP's for a very very long time. Just because you run them maybe once every 2 months does not (thankfully) set the rules of what the real player base wants. Sorry, I cannot help but rant on snide comments like, "I feel sorry for these people". On topic, if there was more reward, reason, chance for something new or even good money, finding a group wouldn't take almost an hour (unless you are a tank) to run a daily.