Heh. I have the opposite problem. I haven't finished my Rakghoul weekly in over 2 months because the groupfinder never gives me Kaon. Or, if it does, the tank/healer immediately leaves and after 10 minutes of waiting I give up. I always seem to get cancer-ridden black talon and it's 30 hours of cutscenes.

The delay is really noticeable. It's a big part of the reason why I don't want to play my PT tank. The effect is basically instant on Shadows and Juggernauts.

It's applicable to everyone.

That would be a game changing nerf for PvE. So no. PvP balance should not affect PvE.

Since letting someone die in any form of difficult content in this game generally means a wipe, and if the content isn't difficult enough that a DPS dying will cause a wipe, then why does it really matter what they're doing?

9 DPS could matter, but 9 min for 9 max doesn't really, it ends up averaging out the same.

Vibroswords have a very slightly smaller maximum damage and a very slightly higher minimum damage than lightsabers.

Yeah, no, you didn't. Two things wrong with what you said : 1. Only one Columi piece drops at a time from the final boss in Kaon. 2. Trooper helms will not drop if a trooper is not present. Prove it, or stop spreading lies.

The Columi piece at the end of a HM FP, the columi and Rakata pieces in Lost Island, and Rakata pieces in operations only for the classes present, always. Anyone saying otherwise, prove it, because I've done literally hundreds of HM FPs and never seen a single columi piece drop from the final boss that wasn't for one of the classes involved. Everything else I'm not sure. I've helped gear fresh 50 sorcs by running even HM FP with a sin tank, two sorc dps, and sorc healer, because the inquisitor piece is guaranteed to drop from the last boss.

cap both WZ and rated, use rated to buy EWH MH and OH, use normal to buy 3-4 pieces of WH, farm the rest

I do dailies fastest on my marauder. Torvix is a bit of a bother to solo, still doable, though, everything else is easy. This is ignoring Section X, because I haven't bothered doing dailies since long before its launch.

Your response to Bioware's attempt to fix the gear gap so that fresh 50s aren't scared away from PvP is to make it even worse?

It's literally impossible to get a 7k crit with Death field / FiB with current gear. In PvE gear with 1000 power and 2300 willpower I dont' even break 5k on 0 defense enemies. PvP hits would be a lot higher with expertise, but even a 30% gain is only 6.5k, but you couldn't reach that because you'd need PvE gear stats AND 1200 expertise.

assembly is a programming language maybe he was cheating

Your misses are with your basic attack, though. There is NO reason to stack accuracy above 100%, because it only affects your basic attack and offhand hits.

I've never noticed this with either warrior stun... People CC break force choke a lot, though.

If they're DPS I generally don't care. A recruit geared healer or tank I worry about somewhat, though, because there's a good chance that if they're in recruit and queue'd for it they don't know the fights well enough to make up for their gear.

Wait, there are Pubs on PoT5? I thought it was imp vs imp all day every day.

I twink all my characters in perfect augmented gear at 49. I have over 1800 cunning on my operative at level 49 at the moment and can hit 4.5k with hidden strike. I have around 16k HP. I don't think I've lost a WZ since I hit 49. I don't leave WZs at the end to avoid exp, though. I just want to make that last level of lowbie pvp hilariously fun.

You do need a piece of legacy gear for each slot, but not for each class.

Sorcs/Sages could never cleanse it if they weren't talented correctly.

I think you rotate rapid shots in too often. You want to below 40 heat, yes, but you don't have to always be below 10. I personally open similarly, charge, rocket punch, railshot + heatblast, then depending on heat flame burst and rapid shots as filler. Rapid shots if heat is above 25 or so, flame burst if it's not.

rip the hilt out of your current OH and then get a second drop for a new OH

They were always slot specific. You're wrong.

Carnage and Annihilation are very close for end game PvE, with Annihilation pulling a little bit higher. Carnage has a lot more burst though, and a lot of end game PvE is burst heavy. Rage is below them both, but still beats out any equally geared Sorcerer...