I think we need to let Keith go crazy on details and keep Musco away from the mute button

Hi All, I used to play a long time ago and did NiM Brontes on tier (didn't quite get Council, guild was a bit meh), as well clearing ToS and Ravagers on tier. I have played on and off since launch. I play a Sorc healer and always have even during 2.x when they was considered to be pretty bad. Looking for a guild with a relatively relaxed attitude but still serious enough to get it together and do the NiM content. I quit after mostly solo healing Revan HM back in December after 4.0 dropped. I'm not an amazing player and do make mistakes but I'm fairly decent I guess. Might be a bit rusty but i'll get back into it.

Finally. Although it doesn't matter anymore, the original post was a catalyst caused most people to leave until new raids come out.

Will the encounters be tuned separately for each role?

What is the reason behind the other bosses only having a chance? To limit how fast you can gear up I would guess is what you would say, but gearing up was a joke as soon as you put EV and KP HM in the highlighted cycle. By not having the other bosses drop 224 you just make it tedious by forcing teams that want to only do NiM to do easier content. You don't delay gearing up at all, you just make it tedious to the point that no one wants to login anymore after doing it.

Make them all drop 224s since you like giving easier content NiM level loot while not letting it drop from NiM.

If you really want it to be a challenge you have to make it work separately for each role and tune it appropriately. First 5 should be relatively easy and give you 208s. 6 and 7 should be more HM balanced, drop 216s. 8, 9 and 10 should be tuned at NiM levels for someone in min maxed augmented 216 gear. You can drop 220s from this. 10 can grant a title "proven Healer, tank / DPS" Of course you will never do this and all 10 encounters are going to be faceroll with at most you have to interrupt one ability in the later waves.

How difficult are said encounters? Will clearing all 10 encounters be on par with NiM raids or face roll SM? I'm not sure we can answer what kind of gear they should drop without knowing how hard they are.

What happened to not going a year without a new raid? Not only are you breaking that promise you are exceeding the previous gap between content. Is it because of some senior employees leaving?

Sounds like combat logging isn't turned on in game.

It would help if we got a simple yes or no on more Operations content.

Eric it was stated before that we wouldn't have to wait as long as we did between DF / DP and Ravagers / ToS (14 months). With nothing for Ops coming in February you are not only breaking what you said on that but exceeding it without any news on what's coming. With the recent news of one of your Senior Operations designers departing recently as well as the illogical NiM loot decision I fear that your update will be yet another nail in the coffin for the raiding community.

Those things take forever and are quite costly to get to 50 now.

Art is probably the limiting factor for raids rather than the raid designers.

Group content.. in this game? Hah.

What? Why shouldn't it be a guaranteed drop? If it's not guaranteed then it's useless for gearing up. Why force the NiM community to do highlighted HM? Do you want people to quit or what? I'm fine with people that can't do NiM being able to get the gear through alternative means but this is just stupid. Who thought this was a good idea?

At this point I think everyone in this thread should just PM Tait and Musco everyday until they respond. That's what Musco said to do in a stream awhile back.

After todays stream combined with no communication on this issue, just shows they don't care about the raiding community at all.

This was extremely disappointing. What about PvE content? PvP content? Class balance? Any kind of end game content? Holy **** what is this rubbish?

One day we will find out what's going on with this... one day.. long after our bones have turned to dust.

Can't believe Tait hasn't got back to us on this yet.

Yeah, I would of thought that Tait would've heard what's going on with it by now or a designer would've decided what they wanted to do. Gearing through HMs is very boring, especially when it's only a specific one each week.

The fact that Tait couldn't get an immediate answer on it, sounds like no one at BW ever decided what it was supposed to be.

I guess Tait is too busy with other things to bother passing on this question

I wish we could get a comment from Bioware on this on if this is intended or not. I really hope it's not intended.