Hi there I also have the experience of building a progression team from scratch and I know its tough to get rid of some of the pug strategies. Ill try to keep it simple: 1. Forget about giving the tank a head-start, my first malaphar kill happened with 10 seconds of the boss enraged, so yes, every dps GCD is precious, actually once you start getting the mechanics of the fight your dps should open with everything they have (adrenals, raid buffs, pre-casts) unless the mechanics dictate otherwise ofc 2. Your tanks need to know their 18 second taunt rotation, it depends on set bonus, true, but all of you should have 6 piece set bonus for hard modes 3. Tanks need to hit the dummies too, and practice their rotations, TPS witout taunts, opener TPS with taunts on CD 4. One of the toughest fights aggro-wise is bulo's initial pull (1st barrel) i'd suggest you go into SM and practice there how to maximize opening threat. you can even have the OT do the 1st taunt to maximize it 5. I know this sounds obvious, but every raid night me or my co-tank forget to put guards at least once, so make sure guards are up before the pull 6. Having a steady team opens the door for a lot of strategies not used in pug groups, communication is key to success, make sure you have clear rules of who is allowed to speak during fights, who calls out what and such

If you plan on doing dailies commendation gear is fine, it should be close to the 3000 mitigation budget. On the other hand if you plan to do HM flashpoints and operations i'd suggest you go get a lot of credits and buy the crafted 186 gear from GTN i went with full immunity enhancements, redoubt mods, veracity implants/ear that should give you 3300 mitigation budget iir which will be more than enough until you start getting the unassembled tokens

From my point of viem this is a problem if you are wearing 186's, once you start moving up gearing in 192's, that force starvation issue is gone since you shield more attacks (remember that we regain force only if you shield an attack) and the new operation bosses have less shieldable attacks. I'd suggest to stack a bit more shield and test it out until you don't see that problem anymore Also if you are out of force which usually happens to me in 1st phase of Blaster/Master, since i'm the one that takes master and i'm just dpsing blaster on that phase just spam single strike a couple of times, you'll be back at 100% faster than you think P.S. I'm currently at a 3700 mitigation budget

Wow that was fast, yesterday i got 2 pieces of gear and found your thread gone. Thanks and keep it up

This workaround worked for me: Use a tank comp (i used Treek but i guess any will do the trick) Fight him for about 10 secons Go grab a cup of coffee while the whole team fights it At around 20% he starts doing dark growth, interrupt it Done

Yup I just ran C9 for the 1st time in months, its patching atm, and i'm pretty sure it will finish before servers are up

This, at least tell us if you expect the servers to be up anytime soon, or should i dust off my console

My team did this one the other day for achievements sake, With 180 gear is actually pretty easy and this is what we did: 2 ranged dps on the 1st add, 1 ranged switches to boss as soon as 1 add is down, OT and the remaining ranged burns down the 2nd add, rinse and repeat, your goal is to bring the boss down around 8% between laser phases, at soft enrage (20%, aka radation leak) pop inspiration have OT get the boss while MT goes and grabs another iso buff (this is only to make life easier on healers so they can help bringing the boss down)

Actually the filters are there, the problem is that they reset after every logout, so nobody uses them anymore. So Bioware all you need to do is make it so that the filters don't reset. please do so

If you are on the jedi covenant server, send me an in-game mail we should be able to work something out

About dismounting what i usually do is find an ability that forces me to dismount (this depends on class obviously) i.e. force wave for consulars. Obviously you have to be careful to not hit anything you don't want to. Now if you are a sub then yes, just put the ability on one of your quickbars and keybind it

Hi guys, from the looks of this thread, my progression team isn't that far away (we've been raiding for 2 months now) still working on HM's but this week we made it to the dread council finally so NiM is looking closer. Anyway my question is if this thread is accurate/updated since i'm seeing still some spots open for top 10 in a few bosses

Mannequins please i'd love to get some in my room. Also a poster/rug for 100% completion of a particular achievement (planets, ops, flashpoints, companions, etc.) It would be great to place whatever decoration you get for killin a boss over the rug you get from the achievement Food/drink stands like the ones from tatooine in episode I, very useful for parties

**Update** We managed to kill him during last week run, thanks all for your tips, you've been golden, what a great fight and already looking forward to the next challenging fight

First of all thanks for both responses, i really appreciate it. Now just to clarify a couple of things 1. We never thought of cc'ing the droids, just noticed the boss immunity buff was there and made us wonder if the fight was bugged 2. Thanks a lot for this tip, we were really struggling trying to find some form to anticipate the tank swap and make the fight a bit less hectic 3. The guides we saw suggested the swap at 5-6 stacks, we toned it down to 3, we'll swap at 2 stacks now, again thanks And yes, we are not part of the hardcore groups.....yet, in fact this was our 5th run together in a hard mode. We used to do story modes but when 1 night we breezed through TFB going in half-naked we decided it was time to stop joking around and step up our game We are not scared, we knew this fight was the real first challenge we'd meet, so i'd really appreciate any other tips anyone has to offer.