I think it is in the right section. It maybe pvp related, but it has to do with the PTS and testing so if it is op then it needs to be here. 6 rolls is game breaking. Needs to be checked in Hutball and any other pvp battleground. No one plays hutball correctly cause it is broken but somewhat functional. This shatters it.

So I was not on the PTS for long before it dropped out today. What I did notice is the prices going down on mods, armoring, and enhancements from 325 to 175 making them okay. Still took thousands of tech to get a good selection of mods to work with. I gained 1.6 billion credits which is about 160k tech fragments 30000 was spent on two gear set and 3 tacticals. I am very particular on my armoring being 471 mastery, mods having mastery/power value of 727/8 having the highest crit enhancements and just enough alacrity and accuracy to hit caps of the 1.4GCD and 110% respectively with 228 augments. mods only dropped dps mods ya! Armoring and enhancements were still half and half with tank specs. 5000 is enough to get all the armoring, mod enhancement, and weapon barrel or hilt in one shot if you didn't get tank stuff in the mix. Not that the stat would be any good, but it would be a start. When it comes back up I will be running all the heroics or various missions and seeing how I like the death knell set or the berserker set. might not beat out the stimulated set I have still have to test it.

so phase three starts and deals with heroics, missions, and chapters on top of whether a new ability is too weak or too strong. Hate to bust your post but you were too soon on this one. However did you get a chance with the few hours that it was up to retest it?

Can we get the PTS added to Server Status Page?

So did a download expecting it to deal with phase three. Get on pts and test, PTS down. I guess we have to wait another four days?

First mistake of a non player You have to hit the boss to get any amount of threat and then taunt to get their attention so when the taunt ends you are still at the top of the threat chart as you did damage before you taunted. Second mistake. Gives us a useless situational ability that might work half the time in a perfect world. Third mistake. Gives us an ability that does not fit inside of the current rotation. @ Rion_Starkiller You got your set bonuses backwards this is the new set. Whenever you consume a charge of Recklessness you gain a stack of Reckless Slaughter, increasing melee damage bonus by 5% for 20 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times. 10% not 30%

I have only one thing to say kick out those who you would not trust to give the guild back on your return. Problem mitigated. If they liked you when you do return then they will come back when you came back. Sorry as with how the system is then you lose if you don't do what you need to do.

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I set the difficulty and if it is too much of a pain then I will not play it again. I did the chapters exactly once completely. Tried to do it with a dark character but just could not stomach the loops and grind to do so. The rest of characters skipped to Kotet chapter one and then left it for Iokath which never got done either more than one or twice. For a few of my characters I have not gone passed Ziost. A few never saw a single chapter of kotfe kotet iokath and went straight to ossus. Did I want the stuff harder more grindy? Nope not at all. I do things smarter not harder. Challenging is one thing grindy and difficult just for being difficult is not challenging. Traitor among the Chiss I did once or twice solo is a perfect example of grindy. Too many mobs too much to do the bonus too much health on mobs that didn't do more than waist your time.

I have 1307 Alacrity on one of my sets and my cast times are 1.39 seconds. Crit at 3161 which gives 42./13% and 69.41% Accuracy at 1612 110.1% 3258 gives you 15.55% alacrity but only 1147 crit at 27.2 and 59.75% Haven't tried to get any closer to the threshold

Not going to happen as the old sets are far superior to the lame new sets. I mean really 2% of 1000 is only 20 or 2000 equals 40 doesn't even change the percentage 0.01%

Nice pic just one thing big feet?

Our modern bi system is not a part of the Star Wars system as they deal with over 5 million different species who represent all sorts of different biologic systems, lifestyles, and choices. My view of the technology level at times in the Star Wars galaxy waxes and wains depending not just when in the time line you are but where in the galaxy. How would any child know they are transgendered if from birth they have had proper medical treatment that could have identified this at a very young age and been medically corrected with a procedure they got from the Gree or from the Clawdites to genetically modify you to be female or male. The psychological testing and the medical testing would find the signs needed to make the change would be no problem with a universe that can make cyborgs or androids that look perfectly human, a Human replica droid named Guri, later purchased by Prince Xizor. Not even a scanner could tell she was not a meatbag. The only thing that would define a trans gender would be how they speak, but even then their voice box could be genetically modified to be female sounding without active effort or training. Everything about being trans and fitting in, with passing would be perfect so only if you are told they were male or female or in-between is the only way you would be able to know other than they are presented. Other than that making all outfits being able to be worn by both sexes. Making all options in character design universal to all classes and sexes could someone show a feminine male or a masculine female (other than body type 3 females who dance like the guys). To allowing a male toon to dance like a female or a female like a male. There is very little in the way of making such a distinction without making it the sole reason for such an NPC in the game. Final point. In a world in a galaxy engulfed in war and conflict on nearly all planets much of the concerns of a peaceful society go away when the question of where your next meal is coming from is all you think about. Your hero toon may have the best food available, but is dealing with a galaxy that is fighting over every bit of resources there is to have. A galaxy where Jedi and Sith, Light and Dark, Good and Evil are the defining conflict and issues of the time. GID is a medically treated issue it is like having a sixth toe that makes it a non issue to anyone in the Star Wars Galaxy. Twenty five thousand years separate them from us. Transgender are represented you just cant see it as they all pass perfectly. Or how many guys run around as female toons or the few girls who run around as male toons, and no one says a thing? [big Closet, FictionMania]

The blind leading the blind would be the only ones to like how it is now. More data can help if there were more people to test even if they are only running HS or going into KP. I see maybe thirty people doing various things on imp side and nearly no one on pub side unless they are all from the same guild. More testers are needed. THE community coordinators need to be on the PTS to learn what they will be promoting. I know one is sitting back with a handful of salt. This expansion has so much changing in it that it will no longer be the same game. People are not afraid of change they are afraid of too much change that never needed to be fixed in the first place. Crafting did not need to be changed. Gearing did, but not the way it is going to be. RNG everything is not the answer. Tech fragments are not the answer. A good system would be to add everything we had before to the game and then find out what everyone wants and I would guarantee that most would go for the direct purchase. No fuss all win. What this gearing system lacks completely in quality it thinks it can make up for in quantity. My fear it is will be lacking in quantity as well.

New materials window was not too hard to deal with or learn how to use. Don't link that it acts like a vendor as I want grab and drop the whole stack when I want it in my inventory I do not like how it is in a list format but understand that it cant be in a grid format without limiting the space. I would rather have unlimited storage than limited. It needs to be sortable in several different ways. 1. High to low low to high 2. Rank 1 to rank 11, rank 11 to rank 1 By current skill. Seeing biochem if you are a biochem or artifice if you are artifice. I am not so worried about seeing what I might be low on if I can sort by high to low or low to high. Having tabs stay closed or open until opened or closed again. This would be really nice or have the different types of materials always closed as it would be faster to find what I then want by targeting only the one tab. Once this blends into the current UI I think it will do well, but as it looks now it looks grade school level and not professionally done. Window looks much better. Do you understand how to access the Materials Inventory? YES Do you understand how to put items in, and to withdraw them? YES Do you understand what can or cannot be placed into the Material Inventory? YES Is the way items are displayed in the Material Inventory clear? YES Thank you for the search window will help with finding a certain material. Can we get a sort by crafting rank? Can we get a sort by craft IE biochem, armortech, Armstech so only those materials of that type of crafter needs is shown???

Heroics is a good place to start for those that do not have much to start with. From there turn in those crates to the supply specialists. Sell your gold companion gifts as blues give more bang for the buck. Can get 100k on average for a gold rank 6. Sell any of the crafting mats that are in demand. Farming can sometimes help like the planet Darvanis and Yavin has a lot and Onderon is looking like a place to farm some what when 6.0 drops. Even rank 1 mats can make you money. Join a larger guild that does commanders as there are a few that will pay you to help get the plans that the commanders drop. Crafting does pay if you put in the time to get to the items that people want. Augments and augmentation kits always do well but 6.0 might be a waste or a boon to those who craft. Dailies are designed to make credits and the faster you can complete them the more you make. However counter to this is if you have not been in the game that long so whatever you earn goes right back into your characters or strongholds or other places. For those who are whales, the cartel market is the fastest way for the lucky.

You mean the Exploit? It is an exploit to gain those tech fragments and if you have the credits and you do on PTS then you can get to 306 in a matter of hours and about 2 billion credits. They will never allow such an exploit to go live and if you had a biochem you would see that they do not get Tech fragments from them. They get mats and that will be not allowed either, I am sure of this. It took 30 hours for me to get to 306 and several hours messing with the exploit to get a desently balanced set I spent hundreds of millions to get there even then. As the next level of adjustments dropped the drop rat from four item to one to three for Hammer station. I can only assume it is going to go down from there. If they left the exploit in those who are rich or in control of rich guilds will be the only ones with such gear and this would be everyone else calling for them to be banned. Sorry but they want you playing the game and not cheesing the game. Exploits are just that a form of cheating that is part of the game. Not intended and will be fixed. This was left in as it allowed us to do more with the RNG then intended. Though it would not surprise me they leave it in and then wielded the ban hammer. IMO!

I would counter in it needs to do what it says and add 2% to Alacrity percentage along with the other sets that add 2% to critical. The ones for Mastery and Endurance seem fairish. Power not so much, but that is only for anything that is at level 75 any place lower and they don't matter as gear doesn't matter.

I just went to a few planets Korriban Dromund Kaas. Ilum and a few instances False Emperor and Korriban Incursion and my Alacrity didn't change at all.

Crafting is not worth doing and I did about an hour of farming for mats in Onderon and the amount of nodes were few and far between. Strange that in the hunting lodge I kept tripping over them, but I realized that was just the scavenging and slicng nodes mixed together. Out on the rest of the map it was okay. no where near how it is on Daravanis but it needs to be. With the extreme amounts of mats that are needed and everyone and their brother going to go after them people will be fighting over nodes. There are just not enough nodes on the map. I stopped farming mats when you moved the level 10 mats to Iokath as it was not worth the time. Roughly one hour got me about 75 crystals per color and various other mats. Not that I can tell since it does not post in chat what I looted. Please make the rank 11 mats and the schematic requirements match all the other ranks. Crafting takes long enough as it is and no green should ever, ever, ever, include a rare purple in its construction. Leave this in and many will just stop crafting making the situation even worse as most things you can craft are not worth the time or the mats to craft for so little gain. Please fix this nightmare and listen to the ones who took the time to see how horrible it truly is.

Certain governments have already started looking hard at game loot boxes and have determined several were exactly like gambling. My time is money and I used my time to get those credits so it is gambling whether with real currency or in game currency it is still gambling. :-(

I think I will never really use crafting like I have before, but then again the way it is now set up means I will have to make sure my crafters can do everything because just the basic costs millions to get what I need. Greens are looking really nice as far as the stats they give. Oh wait my 228 augments will work even better and I have tons of those. Same with the biochem stims and med pacs and adrenals. I have stated in my post that it would take five week for one toon to make conquest to make just one 268 gear piece. Just to turn around and hope that the reverse engineering god is nice to learn the blue and then another five or six weeks to learn the purple and then maybe the gold. Ya 500 million cost to get something I can run Hammer Station a dozen times to get a better version of said piece, maybe. Crafting is only for the insanely rich or desperate the way it is made now.

Madness/Balance doesn't even use slow in their rotation and volt rush has been proven to be a DPS loss for this spec. Only lightning/telekinetics gain anything from the new ability and only if they have the tactical and the full set. Sorry needs a lot of work to balance.

After reading other posts the prices on all the vendors are too high. The drops in Hammer Station are fewer so fewer tech fragment. About 150 if you deconstruct everything you get. Twenty runs or sixty bosses per gear piece from direct sale? I know I can run five or six HS and hour, but that is severe grinding. Still, need to see how this will work with all the other dailies. Reputation tokens need to remain as they are. Use on click. Bonus Renown tokens need to be the same way, and in no way should I be rolling on such a token in the first place. You are just changing this to be stingy and everyone is going to roll need on everything anyways so might as well take that option out too. Also why are you changing things that have been in the game since inception??? If it is not broke don't fix it. I like getting my tokens and clicking on them to collect the points. I like being able to save them if I have too many for next week. I like saving my bonus tokens for toons that have a lower command/renown rank. I have many toons and I love my collect on use tokens. Please work on the content of this game and stop trying to reinvent the wheel. Please get rid of all RNG. you would bring so many people back. Do any content you like earn currency and then buy exactly what you want, need, or desire.

Okay now that the Test server came back up I got on and the first thing I did not notice was some of my gear had changed. I had four complete sets at 306 rating and now they are a mix of 302 and 304 with only a few that remained 306. My left side stuff remained at 306. Had this been a live server then I would be very upset. My 368 set lost all the amplifiers it had it just says (nil) in the text spot. My 306 non-modifiable lightsabers are all broken as they have no mods inside. I knew something like this would happen. Surprised you bowed to such pressure. Now all you need to do is add Amplifiers to all the cartel market items cause it bob cant use his unstable lightsaber he will not be a happy camper. Crafting Nice that if I am on a toon that has a certain craft that you get mats from the deconstruction. Very nice. The down side is that I was on my cybertech and she could only deconstruct one item at a time unlike my armstech or biochem who could do 15 at a time. I still am highly disturbed that you have throttled crafting with the conquest and flashpoint mats. In two years I think I have gotten about 400 conquest mats with your new system I will be lucky if I can craft one piece in a month. THIS IS IN NO WAY PLAY MY WAY. Greens have been trash crafting since crafting designed cause yo reverse engineered it to get the blue and then the purple. Having to have mats from only one single source is against the phrase play the content I want. Having to have ten toons reach conquest goals and run multiple flashpoints is counter to the way you are setting things up just to make one item. Change crafting or change the drop rates for those items. Direct vendors Not much to say here but to please separate the non class set bonus gear from the class specific set bonus gear. I looked at each one and saw most of the sets repeated. Maybe nicer if you had a second vendor just for Tacticals. Was hoping the skins would come with armoring, mod, and enhancement even if they were random because of their cost. The tech fragment limit needs to be raised for a bit of wiggle room. Preferably to much higher as they are not Command tokens but the replacement for un-assembled components which were made unlimited. Takanna Vendor This is still highly unacceptable that the random armoring, mod, and enhancements are still dropping tanking pieces more than 50% of the time for a DPS. How many people have said this needs to be fixed? It is bad enough it is all random but you put in the spec selection so I expect it to work on everything! Overall I have seen some improvements, but you have a long way to go to make this a manageable system. If we are stuck with RNG for everything it needs to be way better balanced then it is now. I would like to see the armoring, mods and enhancements cleansed of all repeated stats. That the stats are balanced no matter which one you get. If one mod has a certain combined number for stat points then they all better have the same combined number. Still