Not a really wise complaint. Smash was already nerfed post 2.0, and depending on the class you play, smash is easily avoidable. Instead of asking for it to be 'brought in line' ask yourself what skills your class has to avoid it or minimise it's effect..

Aside from the endless complaints about Bolster (of which are entirely justified imo) This is a simple rant about a few warzones i had the misfortune of being part of. Novare Coast Game starts, 3 go West, 5 go South. The 3 that cap west, leave west unguarded and move to take East. We lose West. We don't have enough man power to control South so we lose that too. I tell off the 3 idiots and their excuse was "the game just started the imps won't come to West" Ancient Hypergate Start of the game , 2 go to cap our Pylon, rest go mid, after 20 seconds i open up the map to notice nobody is guarding, we lose the pylon and lose the game. I mean these guy are clearly smart enough to realise that capping this pylon is an objective. Why can't they understand that holding that pylon is also an objective? How can you simple run off from the pylon knowing you are the last person there and not having a care in the world? Another situation, around 3-4 minutes into the game, some Merc is guarding the pylon. With 30s left of the game, i open up the map to see him leaving it unguarded and running to mid. I tell him off in chat and advise him quite aggressively to stay at the pylon (my aggression was justified considering the repeated horrible warzones i had played). He tells me "there's only 30 seconds left and nobody was guarding when i had got there", the following round i went to guard (healer sorc ... not the ideal node guard). These 2 Warzones are both my favourite, and to see idiots completely ruin the game experience for me by behaving like that really bothers me. I can't always play in a premade with my guild, so i'm left with these PuGs. And if anyone's interested, The Novare Scenario is from a 55 wz, the Hypergate scenario is from a Lowbie.

i read somewhere that you have to do the transfer via the swtor.com site. Not 100% though

This has probably been done before, but i'd like to organise a PvP competition. Anyone from this server, if you could let me know the toon you want to participate (55's only). We'll head over to Illum/Tatooine Open world PvP section and start the comp. I'll organise everything regarding draws and what not. Any ideas are more than welcome, I've never done something like this before so it'll obviously be flawed but bare with me, I'll do my best =) I'll advertise more on the fleet during peak hours (yea peak,,) and get a list of toons down, but if you can, let me know on this forum. I'll be playing Hammurabi

Hey, take a look at my post over here -->http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=631175 What i can gather from the responses is 1. Make sure all your mods are tanking mods and not dps mods 2. Make sure your healer is always cleansing you at the right time ... i.e. not letting the debuffs stack up (and not only for boss fights) 3. Make sure your healer is well geared and is healing properly, not just tagging along for the ride 4. Looking at your gear, i think you're pretty suitably geared for HM FP's take a read of the post i linked you. Goodluck

Ok, an update for you guys, at the moment, all my armourings are 66, with 2 pieces of 69 gear, my mods are all defence based and my augments are all advanced absorbs 28's. My current stats are as follows Health; 34,629 Armor Rating: 6089 Damage Reduction: 32.31% Defence Chance: 18.83% Shield Chance: 45.40% (with KW) Shield Absorption: 36.88% I've done a few HM FP's and i've definitely noticed a big difference. As i said, All my armourings are Force wielder 28 (purple) (i have 2 resolve 30), All my mods are Redoubt 28 (purple) and all my augments are absorb 28 (purple). Have i focussed too much on one stat? Should i sacrifice Def for a higher Absorb? or push my shield up? Some people say stack endurance =/

This makes a lot more sense, i play a jugg tank and i don't see the same issue with mobs

You're a legend mate, can't thank you enough!

what u recommend they be at?

Armor rating 5979 Damage Reduction 29.93% Def chance 18.69 Shield Chance 28.23% Shield Absorb 25.50%

fyi, my stats are presence 496, endurance 2662 willpower 1846 this is at level 55 with 30662 HP does this change anything?

Good to know im not super squishy!!

Yep, definitely aware of that =)

I guess more cc's and better augments and i should be good. otherwise just gonna go dps =( Thanks for the responses guys

to be honest, i only do this in boss fights, when the main boss has 2 buddies beside him, never do this for the mobs of 8+ droids/creatures Happens all the time yes, only cc the weaker bosses in boss fights (if possible) and i cannot say about DPS because i'm not sure on the role they play, they're jumping around here and there and i try to take aggro away from everyone all the time. It's been hard for me, especially hilts and enhancements coz i have no alts that do them + they cost 300k a piece on my server's GTN (aussie server) Problem is, the easiest way for me to gear up is HM FP's and that's where i struggle to even reach the end boss fights sometimes