While generally I think the design of these flashpoints is a blast, I was in multi-wipe mode on the last boss of Manaan (by far the most difficult fight of the four solo flashponts). The boss (Stivastin) needs to be tanked underneath the fire to lose his shield and get stunned, but what if you're DPS or Heal spec? Oops. Companions aren't known for their precision of placement when tanking, and Kaliyo, who never likes to obey orders anyway, doesn't help. I died three times trying to pure DPS him down to zero (Sniper) but never made it inside the 5-minute timer. Of course, you and your companion will also be snacking on the flames, but the bosses in the solo flashpoints are like Kuat Drive Yards with heals around the chamber. Even if you're not an excellent player you'll probably be fine.

Maintenance windows If the sales distribution is like most US AAA MMO games, the customer base is probably about half North America, a third Europe, and the remainder for APAC/ROW. So while I can understand they choose their patch time when NA isn't playing, they happen to hit European lunchtime on every single occasion - which is when a lot of workers and students try to sneak in an hour. So I'm actually all for the APAC suggestion to move it forward 2 hours; 4 AM PST / 7 AM EST shouldn't lose BW a lot of player hours or sympathy points compared to APAC raid nights and Euro lunch.

a question: what does force breach do in shadow technique?

You guys were right. LARGE facepalm. Went ahead and tried anyway, and it worked. Opening cinematics are enormous. Excuse me while I go kill a few good guys.

Pre-ordered July 26. Received confirmation e-mail of my code registration from BW on July 31. Still waiting for an invite. Not impressed. _________________________ Edited : Okay, I lied. Unintentionally. I just went ahead and logged in anyway... and it worked! Cool. Oops. Thx to Tarotdoom...