I'm just guessing, nothing confirmed for if thats what will actually happen but thats how it seems to me. Although Bioware is pushing it since the last tier of raids we got was in October and although NM is fun really NM DF / DP should've come out with GSF and 2.7 should've had a new tier of raids.

2.8 will probably have housing as the GSF sized expansion with the Makeb sized expansion at the end of the year.

Confirmed on the stream that the new Tython and Korriban flashpoints won't have hard modes.

Going to completely disagree here. I would say way more people at 55 run HMs than the Tacticals. They could do something like LI again or something in between that and the current HMs for difficulty and gearing. The flashpoints are still a joke in comparison to even the current difficulty of the current HMs.

You are probably right but it feels like sort of a cop out for the launch of these new flashpoints.

I think the issue here isn't that its through a flashpoint but the lack of a hard mode flashpoint for these new flashpoints.

Well, it's not available while leveling. Not really any reason for it not to have a HM with it being 55 only anyway.

You have to be 55 to do the new Tython / Korriban tactical flashpoints.

Would be nice if tait / eric could confirm if HMs will be present or not in 2.7

But you can't even run these below level 55.

All bosses drop blue 66s with the final boss dropping black market gear. Yes this is how it should be done imo. Some of the mechanics have sort of interesting mechanics to that could be fun with a little tweaking, if they didn't hit like a paper towel.

As of right now the PTS is up without any hard modes or any indication from the quest droids that it will be present.

It was as if a few hundred voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.

Even if the instance wasn't finished and wasn't working on yesterday's PTS build usually you would see quests referencing it. Who needs patch notes when you have swtor_miner

Edit: The PTS is now up, without any hard mode version of these flashpoints. The PTS didn't go up yesterday but the patch went out and we can see from the datamined info for the patch that no hard mode is available for the new Korriban / Tython flashpoints.. Only tactical. This is a pretty major oversight to me. Kuat being Tactical only was fine since it wasn't the start of a major new story arc, and was trying out some new mechanics. A major piece of content like this though not having a HM just shows that we can't expect much in the future for flashpoints, and I'm not sure how any of these bosses can be considered 'epic' when most 55s will be able to solo it without much of an issue. Hard mode flashpoints are pretty easy in their current state but atleast you need to utilise the trinity and pay attention to mechanics and it's an absolute must for these flashpoints IMO. It seems they are introducing a new weekly for completing 5 Tactical flashpoints that will reward elite and basic comms so we could really use a new tier of HM flashpoints that are a bit harder the current tier.

Maybe the annihilation question should reference the dotsmash hybrid being better for PvE.

As far as I know it has been working the whole time. You just needed to remove and reapply the key.

I would agree but the problem for doing this with NM is that then we have no way to get the belt / bracer armouring as you won't be able to get that gear with comms.

DP and not DF? It seems like it would make more sense coming from DF since that operation has a rancor boss.

It is very important that this is fixed before NM comes out. I wonder if Tait / Eric have read this thread and passed it on?

I get this and it seems to be related to companions being summoned. I would guess that it is caused by HDD seek times.. if you are running on an SSD then I don't think you can do anything about it. If you are using a HDD then if you have enough RAM you can try to use something like SWTOR Unleashed. The area transition lag isn't related to companions but probably caused by the same thing.

The tooltip for Steady Hands / Surgical Precision System and Smuggled Technology / Surgical Steadiness is incorrect. It states a 5% / 10% threat reduction of healing abilities but it is actually a 2.5% / 5% threat reduction.

It's fairly dead right now on most servers outside of prime time and will be until they either dramatically up the incentive or add cross server queues.

RAM and the CPU are obviously a bigger limitation to him than his GPU. More on the CPU side than the RAM though. His CPU is terribly low end in a highly CPU limited game. I can guarantee you he will see a much much bigger performance increase from upgrading his CPU than his graphics card. 5750 might be a lower end card by todays standards and have issues with a lot of modern games but this is SWTOR we are talking about, not PC games in general.

I think most serious raiders right now have unsubscribed because theres nothing to do in the game, no details announced for new content and rumours suggesting no new content will even come until 2.8. NM DF / DP really should've launched with GSF. We should of been expecting the next tier of raids after NM DF / DP in 2.8 tbh.