Don't get discouraged by what some stranger writes on a forum. You will need a bit thicker skin than that if you want to enjoy pugging and/or the usual 'forum-pvp' every MMO has. I assure you there are other people struggling with the EC-content. I'm one of them:p I play SWTOR incredible casual, and almost never group here (swtor is for me only a relax-mmo when I want to take a break from grinding in my main-game). I went into EC the first time ever 2 days ago. And I never read any guides for single player content (I prefer to figure out the mechanics myself, it's part of the fun for me). I got totally owned already by the second fight, after I had it down same happened with the third etc. But every time you learn how one of the fights works the next time you do it is a guaranteed win, and they are pretty short so starting over is not a big deal tbh. Would I prefer a system where I can 'save' every second boss or so? Absolutely. But it doesn't work that way, so I rather use my energy on learning them than complaining. Keep on trying, after a while the first couple of bosses are only a couple of minutes. (I look at them as a good warmup before the fight I struggle with...) Today I managed to get a bit better gear, already looking forward to beat a boss or 2 more this evening, hoping to get to boss 7, I will be proud of I manage (but first a couple of pints at the local pub of course:)) But I'm pretty old-school when it comes to MMO's, I like resistance, no fun at all succeeding in the first try. I'm all about progression, learn while failing->gear up->fail again etc. Until success. Victory tastes better if you prepared the meal yourself! Regards /T

1. All 2+ planet-heroics are soloable. (The star-fortress 2+ ones are also soloable with decent gear, but they take quite some time to finish solo, so very bad for credit-farming) 2. There are lists floating around on the net wich tells you which are fastest. But some general rules I go by: a) The lower the planet-level is the easier they normally are. b) Avoid Makeb. Just take the quests (fleet or Odessan) in chunks of 10-15 a run and you will soon find out which ones are perfect for you and the class/classes you play. Already the map and the quest-description is a good hint on how much work they are. If you struggle, abandon and run the next one inststead. Regards /T

Hi, If it is the Aurora-cannon you are talking about then you can choose to avoid the boss-fight entirely (boss is not needed for completion). You can just walk past him on the sides and click the core. Regards /T

Hi, Sorry to hear, and there is nothing I can do really to make it suck less. The only thing I can say (as an older guy who has seen mom and dad and quite a few friends die already) is: It sounds to me you loved your grandpa. Hang onto that feeling. It will not help you now. But it will in the long run. You will probably miss him, for ever. That is also a good thing. He lives on in the memories you have. In the things you two did together and how those things affected and shaped you. Right now my next sentence will not make much sense, but I hope it will sooner or later: In a couple of years you will not only celebrate your birthday, you will celebrate your birthday AND the wonderfull times you spent with your grandpa on the same day. Not very helpfull maybe, I'm just a stranger on internet and the pain you feel is personal and not sharable, but hang in there, it gets better. Best wishes to you and your family. /T

Hi, I would probably be one of the players this content is supposed to be aimed at. I'm a very casual solo-player. Not that I'm against grouping, but I only play swtor a couple of weeks now and then to take a break from my main MMO. Therefore I'm non-guilded and only group up if someone needs help with something and I feel I'm up to the the task. Sadly I must say that even from my casual perspective this new content is going to be a pretty big fail. Simply because there will be very little reason for me to run it because of rewards/loot. I'm already geared up in full 216-220 via solo-play without ever even have run an OPS. Just from doing heroics and dailies. 208- and 216-gear mods via crystals are therefore useless. Fixed-stat-gear is also useless, I always use adaptive. I would never augment any gear-piece I think I will throw away a week or 3 later (except ear, implant and relics of course). Conclusion: Imho soloers have no reason to run it. Raiders of course even less. So who is this content aimed at really? Regards /T

Hi, PvP is PvP, if you say you accept it (by being yellow) you are (and should be!) fair game. That said I still sometimes encounter people who tries to get me to PvP when I don't want to by getting close to me in a fight and hoping I will use AoE (if they are flagged this will flag you too because it's counted as an attack). What I normally do is putting companion on passive and only use ST-skills until I can move on. More fun is to pretend doing it, use the NPC you are fighting to build up focus (i main Sith jugg). And then slowly kill the mob with standard-attack. The griefer will lose concentration while whatching you and not succeed in the griefing. Then BAM you kill the npc and hurt the griefer with a good AoE-skill (this flags you) and give him/her hell. I promise you they will always be unprepared for this, and in PvP every GCD counts. Worst case you die, best case you win and get the warm and fuzzy feeling of revenge:)) Regards /T

Hi, I don't play swtor much, just casually joining in for a week or two now and then. Normally i play LoTRo and i often end up in groups where i am the youngest (i'm 46). Gaming has nothing with age to to tbh. I know people in LoTRo who are 70+ and they still rock the boat:) Harbinger is an US-Server i think, else i happily would have joined with an alt (or 2:)). Good luck with recruiting and a nice initiative! Regards /T I held the Europe-record for 'Defenders' on the 2600 console for a week or two back in 82. I would have gotten an even higher score if it would not have been dinner time. I had so many 'smart-bombs', i could clear everything in front of me by just using them... Thanks for some nice memories Doc:)

Hi, I like the idea of level-sync. And it was more or less needed to try and make old content relevant for the alliance-grind. But as many others have pointed out already it doesn't really work. I play swtor super-casually, you might never even meet anyone more casual than me. Still I am more or less a god when I run heroics. Ok, I get scaled down to a level (often to high though) but I still have all my skills and it also seems augments and some tertiary stats still apply. Then you add companions of high level and the difference between running the stuff over-leveled or scaled down gets minuscule, so the only difference we get with LS is getting better rewards for easy content. Not easy to solve, I agree. But maybe they should have scaled UP the heroics to 65 instead if you run them on a lev 65. That way it could still have been kept somewhat of a challenge without destroying the fun for those who run them on level. Regards /T

Hi, That video is brilliant:) Healing PUG's is to painfull for me nowadays, i still might join if the instance is faceroll, but in anything which requires a decent tank and/or dps i only heal kinnies/friends. One of the most 'funny' moments i ever had in a pug was me and a friend healing one side each of a 12-man (LoTRo). The tank (who also was pug-leader) started way before anyone even could buff anyone up or start a HoT. He just grabbed the boss, ran as fast as possible away from the group and around a corner. Impossible to heal, ranged dps couldn't do anything, the poor melee-classes tried to chase after him in panik, but no use, he died in less than 5 seconds. Ok, new try. Someone tried to start a discussion about ready-checks and strategy in chat, but to late; tank was already running and did the exact same thing once again... This time no one even tried to chase after him. A couple of seconds of deafening silence in chat, then it came: (From the tank of course...) 'Guys, i think we have a healing problem...' Almost 4 years ago, we still laugh about it when we meet for a pint. Healing PUG's is only for masochists for sure... Regards /T

Hi, Tried to Google a bit , but didn't find any clear answers. 1. Is there anyway to log in as anonymous (as in: no one sees you are online)? 2. Can you somehow disable xp-gain? Regards /T

Hi, New in this game but long time Lotro-freak. About a year ago (or 2... time flyes by:p) they made a simple solution: instead of only the tagging player getting the kill and the reward, everyone involved in the kill (or healing someone involved in the kill) got both the kill-count AND a hit on the RNG for the reward. Some people didn't like it (i did 90% of the damage and it counted for everyone else...) but it sure made people help each other out more. Before this everyone was scared to help out (to not get screamed at for kill-stealing...) after this it was more /bow, thanks for the help. I'm not saying it's a perfect system, but i always like changes which encourage people to help out in a MMO, that's what the second M in MMO is all about after all:) (imho as always of course) Regards /T

Hi, If you have space enough in your chassi and enough sata-connections i recommend getting 2 smaller ssd's instead. Old HD's are getting cheaper per GB the bigger they are. SSD's are about the same $ per GB regardless of size. Get a 64 only for the OS (that's plenty) and a 128 for your favourite games. This will probably be cheaper than one 256 and you will get incredible speed loading any game you run from the second ssd. Regards and happy hunting:) /T