If you are a healer, you should almost always go a dps pet. Note: you gotta keep both your companion and your gear up to date (But in Makeb with bolster not as important). Tank is useless unless you know how to LoS pull and clump multiple mobs together. Plus you can heal the tank by mounting and dismounting and he shouldn't be dying during the fight anyway.

All the comp gear is terrible since it over-emphasizes on crit, surge, etc. Anyways, on my Sorc I go with Ashara. She has the highest dps out of all companions. Just make sure you keep her on DoT stance when fighting elites and above. She can solo elites by herself, which Andronikos can't do. With Xalek, you get 45k+ (?) HP and you can usually pull like 10+ mobs and aoe them down before he gets to half. Same with Khem. For tanking they are almost identical, though I think Khem is better at aoe tanking (haven't tested). The best thing about a tank pet is they can easily clump mobs together and keep them from running around so you can aoe spam. And you can heal them quickly by mounting and dismounting. But pretty much, at max level and proficiency you should always be using a DPS pet since as the player you should never die nor have any downtime (specced healing bubble).

Tank pets are only good with substantial gear (and HP). 60 Legacy gear makes him amazing. Below that you got to pour gear onto him.

Builds are simplified now. No more hybrid builds. You are either black or white, no thought process needed. The utilities are widely the same. If you are looking for a game that involves complicated builds and theorycrafting, this ain't it. You will theorycraft your gear now. TK is the PvE spec due to increased mobility and DPS. Balance is the PvP spec usually (though TK holds its own). Also, even though dark and light side classes are identical, Sages have more bugged skills and gear sets than their counterpart. Amazing isn't it? Before the next patch, we are fairly top tier in terms of PvE and PvP. We are a staple healer and a great dpser, 4500+. In PvP we are also very good. Madness is currently the better PvP spec. Next patch your single target DPS is getting nerfed on TK, Balance remains unchanged. Balance was always considered the lesser PvE spec since they made the build simplification. This nerf is pretty left field considering that the forums unanimously cries about Sorcs/Sage Earthquake/Force Storm damage every 2 minutes being OP, but whatever that's a different debate. If you suck, yea. But not as bad as Marauders. Save your basic comms for 186 gear at 60. 186 is entry level raid gear. You need like 1400 or something for full set. You get like 300 from Rishi first quest when you get sent there from the class quests. Edit: forgot to add - read up on stat changes. Basically if you are dpsing you want accuracy to 109.5% then prioritize between crit chance (25%), surge (68-70%), power (or main stat) and alacrity (8-10%). The biggest stat change was alacrity. It's much more important than before since it now reduces the time on (and speeds up) anything that involves time (animation, cd timers, cast time, DoT ticks, etc).

*** do you mean by maintain? Dragging and dropping them on to a hotbar? You don't use all 20 during a fight brah.

I played it again, then left before Aion 4.7. Still as grindy as ever. But, they added mounts. I bought my toon a blue colored "Puff the Magic Dragon" mount. At least SWTOR was more forgiving then Aion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak7J3AOElXk http://i.imgur.com/jLZz4Na.gif On a serious note ... You're complaining about trash pulls ... in PvE? You just went full retard.

Don't they have some aoe taunt that damages? At least that's what that assassin said to me when I questioned his methods.

Assassin tank that CCs every pull then breaks CC with taunt. When you CC a tough mob after typing about it in chat and a DPS not only breaks it, but goes absolutely apeshi.t on it trying to solo it in terribad gear. When all members of the team except the healer (me) are hitting different mobs on a hard pull, making it exceptionally longer (Colicoids - first couple pulls after turrets). DPS Powertech that pulls mob to him after tank aggros, every pull (forget which class has the pull). Whole team that wants to take down trash mobs that can be avoided or pushed over an edge (that flashpoint with the wookie and ugnaught adds. This is a patience issue).

This thread will help get your dps back. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=799105

Casual or no casual, Bioware ****ed up when they only left two, monotonous, raids at 60. They lost my sub when they were too stupid to scale up. Good luck to you guys that stay to clear content in two nights then only log on to craft until reset.

You mean this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrvp67HMcWI

Community *****es about Force Storm but devs nerf single target. That's one way to make everyone pissed at you.

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