Couple things to point out here 1) there is a solo option for that. It would probably take you 20 minutes to do 2) an op is either 8 or 16 people so why you would ask for 9 is rather confusing

about as long as it takes to type a response no one can prove or disprove

Oh also while im thinking about it, Oblivion has been done for awhile and Nightmare Power and Crimson Sky also said they were done on JC.

Privates Under Attack on JC is done, with no new raids coming our NiM team called it. Most of our second team seems to be staying but they are more an HM team than NiM.

Why are you running any defense on a dps class?

What server are you on (if that matters) and can you fill multiple roles or just one?

The issue with this is that many new players who you are asking veterans to teach dont want to learn. The amount of times that i have noticed major fundamental flaws in what people were doing and politely tried to help only to get told "i know what im doing" or "this has worked fine i dont want to change anything" is staggering. I was in a pug KP a few months back that sticks out because the mara in the group did NOTHING but force charge and basic attack. That was LITTERALLY it, he didnt even use vicious slash to dump rage. We cleared the op just fine though because the other 3 dps were on point. I multiple times tried to give him advise but was told that since im a tank i dont know about dps (my main is a mara fyi) and that what he was doing was working fine. So your basicly asking people who signed up and are PAYING to play a game and relax to give up their free time to teach people who dont want to be taught and will curse you out for offering it. Pretty sure most people who have that kind of job description in real life GET paid to do that. If you can talk BW into paying me to play this game and teach other people i will happily put up with all the **** people want to give until then dont blame others for not wanting to spend their free time that way.

To be fair BW handling of this is just down right horrible. We go through lengthy stretches where the same person will be spamming in chats for weeks sometimes even months with no action. Due to the fact that they are so slow to deal with these issues people who report them have a massive back log of open tickets. I have had actual game issues happen that i needed to open tickets for happen that i couldnt because i had too many pending tickets from WEEKS AND WEEKS of reporting the same spammer on multiple characters. Since that can prevent you from reporting and getting help with issues that directly hinder the game most people i know dont even report them anymore.

I do agree that the FPs were hard when they first came out and the mechanics were new. Players gaining familiarity with the them though is far from the only reason that they have gotten easier. HM Blood Hunt is the perfect example, the first boss now has a lower dps check 5 levels higher than he did at release. I do think that he was over tune and more difficult than should be expected from a first boss of a FP that isnt a separate que (ie LI style). At the same time with the current content drought its hard to defend making stuff easier even if the nerfs were done awhile ago.

If our choices will make such an impact couldnt BW implement a similar system to what they did with Dragon Age Inquisitions where they give you a list of the choices that have impact and you get to choose how your character would have made them. That would prevent people with 20-30+ characters from having to run through the SAME filler chapters and endless hallways of sky troopers. Not that we dont all LOVE killing sky troopers... its basicly content Though i dont think they would ever do this since it would me admitting and listing how few "choices" you made actually mattered.

Thank you very much, that video is exactly what i was looking for. I was probably over complicating it since i heard that it was a very difficult task but looking at that video it seems very straight forward.... though a good tank makes the hardest things look simple Currently a Vanguard though if one of the other classes does it better/ easier swapping is a simple thing. Thats good to hear, one of the few things i remember hearing about that fight is that the bestia tank (usually a shadow) had to do some dance with force speed at the right times along the right path or they got killed. The video that someone else was kind enough to link and your tip should hopefully make this a much easier process than we feared.

This past weekend when working on NiM DP our group was able to clear the first 4. During our time working on Council however it became clear that we didnt have enough information at least from a tank perspective about the path to be kiting Bestia. We tried looking up videos/guides but all the videos we could fine either involved a tank swap on Bestia (which we can fall back to but we figured it would be worth trying to solo tank her first) or were from a perspective other than the Bestia tank and guides were just non existent. What im asking then is does anyone have a good video of the fight from that perspective or just tips for how your group handled it. Appreciate whatever help we can get.

Privates Under Attack on JC Pubside has a team working on DP NiM atm, cleared first 2 bosses and Caly should be down this week, had him at 7% when our holocron carrier decided he wanted to go back to the past instead of planting

Endure pain is great cd for pve, helps counter spikes in damage and is a fake medpack if healers are aware. For PvP it is a last ditch survival cd in a duel that also buffs your medpack, can also give healers time to save you. Snipers arent supposed to have the same mobility as operatives is why, can you imagine trying to kill a sniper on a melee class if they could roll twice into cover on a 9 second cd? Cause IO can proc mag shot every 6 (?) seconds where as arsenal can only use a fully proced rail shot evey 15 seconds or so Carbine burst just sucks ill give you that PTs flamethrower is actually very good for aoe its just that it is a pain to aim, is a 3 second stationary channel and generates a ton of heat.

Both sides dont really team up though. It was more that both sides were short on people and so they rescued a few of the other sides foot soldiers to bolster their own ranks. I get that the enemy of my enemy is my friend but in this case it seemed more like they were just not actively working against each other instead of teaming up.

So what your saying is that BW should have NOT given EVERYONE something by making Oricon a daily area with quest and mobs. Instead they should have made it like Manaan where there is an entrance to the 2 ops and thats it? Im sorry but people who are argue this are basicly asking for content to be removed so they dont have to do stuff they dont want to. Had BW just made you walk into the instances and kill the dread masters it would have been much simplier and easier on them but they actually made a really good story and people are up in arms that they tied the multiplayer content INTO the story.... in an MMO..... isnt that the point of an MMO?

Lets be fair now, EA screws up sports games just as much and they do everything else. The only reason people so widely play madden is that EA has a strangle hold on the NFL due to their exclusive agreement with them. The NBA is the perfect example of that, due to EA's lack of a exclusive agreement with the NBA there is an open market on that. Every year EA makes NBA Live while 2kxx comes out. Every year 2k becomes incredibly popular due to the massive improvements that are made from year to year while NBA Live is something most stores probably cant give away. EA simply has a reputation for sports games not because they make them well but because they are in most cases the only one who CAN make them. Other developers have tried making football games using the CFL instead of the NFL but while the game play would actually be much better than Madden the games just wouldnt stick cause people dont want to play with the players they have never heard of on the teams they dont know.

sssssh we need more posts talking about how anni needs buffs like the first guy Though if BW starts ability pruning i will be pissed

I dont know who you have been talking and what your idea of progression raiders are but anyone who says that tactical flashpoints are the hardest content in the game is NOT a progression raider.

Bolster is in ALL the HM fps, including the harder ones

As someone who had a similar thing happen to them i can understand the frustration of having a guild you spent time with and enjoyed being a part of thrust upon you as it is dying. The best advise i can give is take a long hard look at yourself and answer a few questions as honestly as you can. Is your guild worth rebuilding? There are many active guilds and are the reasons you want to rebuild your current guild strong enough that you shouldnt just join a new guild? Do you even want to be GM? Being a GM of a active guild is a responsibility, it comes with a whole new set of problems just playing the game doesnt have. If you dont REALLY want to be a GM the added burden can ruin the game for you. Would you even make a good GM? This isnt a personal attack its an honest question. Not everyone has the right personality, time available or patience to be a GM. there are plenty that try anyways and it rarely ends well. Do you have a end goal? Just recruiting any group of random people is easy, go spam the starter worlds for awhile and boom you have people. keeping them and building a community takes a goal of what you want your guild to be about. Know what your guilds focus will be and play to that and build around that. Last but most importantly: What are 3 reasons that people should join and stay in my guild? Dont give the general "we are fun, social and active" there are tons of guilds that are already established that can say the same thing. Think of 3 reasons unique to your guild about why people should be in your guild instead of someone elses. Understand that rebuilding a guild is no small task, i tried to rebuild the guild that i inherited but that task nearly caused me to quit the game. It was only my decision to let the guild die that allowed me to move on from my time as a GM and just enjoy playing the game that brought enjoyment back into the game for me. Whatever your choice best of luck and i hope you make the right decision for you and your guild whatever that may be.

My guess is he is after the old one that actually gave a armor buff over the absorb/shield ones. BW changed them though so now they are the same and give shield/absorb even if you already had them crafted (kinda ticked me off to be sure)

Seen a powertech called Fail Tech and a mando called Critless Wonder

Really? your choosing to complain about a mercs cc over an operative or assassins? would be interesting to see how that would be done though i dont know how effective it would be 10m i could see maybe 15m if they are feeling very nice, 30m is much too long a range to have on a AoE hard stun especially since they cut all the stun distances down from 30m before. i get that the game was much different then as there was no where near as much mobility but i still dont think a 30m AoE hard stun is even close to balanced.

Is it a attempt to be on the winning side? absolutely That said though when the winning side is winning simply due to role composition it is hard to feel like it was a balanced game. Most people are at least willing to say they want competitive matches. If that is actually true is debatable. What isnt debatable is that no one likes to feel like they have lost the match before it even starts through no fault of their own. Losing to a team of 3-4 healers is just depressing, its usually not cause the other team was better its just because they had that many healers and it usually also takes forever. I get that even if we get this there will still be people complaining about how bad their team is and how they have to do everything but if you get matches where both side have 2 healers instead of one side having 4 and the other having none that is generally much more fun for everyone. Will balanced teams allow better players to do better? Yes. If the healer on team 1 team is gods gift to healing while the other team only has a healer just trying out the spec for the first time then of course they will do better and help their team more. at the same time though that is pvp. it will always have the random chance when solo queing that the other team will be more skilled than yours. what people are asking for with matchmaking is that we lose games because the other team was better than ours that round because they PLAYED better not because they had 4 healers.