I've been running LI HM every day since it came out. I just find it to be the most fun FP and it's pretty difficult. It's also nice to be able to gear some of our fresh 50s in Rakata. But I've run it quite a few times with 2 melee DPS, whether it be 2 Maras, 1 Mara 1 ***, 1 Mara 1 Powertech, or 1 Mara 1 Operative (I consider ops melee ranged DPS), and it can be done. Our basic strategy is that we tank the Droid on the corners of that middle platform, and if one of the plasma balls does get thrown down on us we have our tank move. Granted, our heals are great, our healer is 5/5 Black Hole Gear, which does help. Interrupt the incinerate ASAP every time, as that will be the doom of the tank, and interrupt the plasma arc as much as you can. But it can be done! Cheers!

The ear pieces and implants are the biggest power boosts that you're going to get over Rakata (or even Expert Overkill Nano Might Implants with augment slots). I'm a power whore, so a lot of my gear doesn't have its original mods. If you really want you DPS up then stack power, you lose out on some crit, but with berserk for Anni all your bleeds crit, and for some reason Annihilate seems to crit a lot for me. The only problem with stacking power is that, when I'm fully buffed my combined DPS is 1308, which is the highest in my guild by far. However, on HM EC, I pull aggro from the tanks a LOT. So you'll have to manage your DPS a little bit in boss fights so you aren't pulling aggro all the time. But the only thing I've bought so far are the ear pieces and implants. I believe the boots (or pants can't remember) also give you a power boost, so I plan on buying those and only those until I get campaign gear so I can rip the power mods/enhancements out and puttem in the gear that's more Crit/Surge friendly.

And now you're just putting words in my mouth. I've run every raid multiple times. I have modified my armor by getting enhancements as well as the Black Hole and Campaign armors that I already have. I was just hoping for more in the way of power enhancements already worked into this next tier of armor a little more than they had with the Rakata armor. Like maybe have half of the armor with power enhancements and the other half with Crit/Surge that was it balances out how many mods/enhancements extra people need to find based on their playstyle and preferences.

Obviously I have modified the heck out of my Rakata. But during a boss pull I never have problem with pulling aggro from the tank. And I'm not saying you shouldn't have to grind to have the perfect stats for your playstyle. I'm saying that I think the original armor should come with maybe equal mods for both power and Crit/Surge, that way depending on your playstyle everyone still has to do a good amount of extra work to get the stats they want. Not just people who like Power over Crit/Surge.

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See you just lost all credibility right there by insulting hardcore gamers. I'm a hardcore gamer; I'm also a full-time student at a 4 year university with a double major. I'm a NCAA Division 1 (albeit far from the top) student-athlete. And I get on an hour or two a day to finish dailies and raid on the weekends with my guild. So fix your **** before you around insulting hardcore gamers. As to your OP, no you don't have to do them to get the commendations, except for the few daily commendations if you want to do those. The whole point of an MMO is to be able to socialize and play with other people. Sometimes that takes time to find. Go the the space station and ask. If you don't want to put up with it and decide you're going to solo an entire game alone you should just go back to KotOR where you won't have to "waste" your money on a subscription. Good day.

Hello! Hope everyone's doing well today. I just wanted to make a statement about the current condition of the Black Hole and Campaign armors. Again, just like most Rakata pieces, this armor is specced more towards the Carnage tree, with high amounts of Crit/Surge and actually will give me less Power unless I play around with mods/enhancements. While this isn't a huge deal, it's still kind of aggravating, especially because BW said that this next tier of armor would better fit the class as a whole and not just one spec. The only exception I found was the Black Hole Earpiece which did raise my power +73 from the Rakata Earpiece. I'm hoping that in the future there are more armor option tailored to different stats and play-styles. Personally, I like power over Crit/Surge, because I need power more with Anni to boost my damage. My DPS is still 1023 for main hand and 199-299 for offhand, but it's still just a little aggravating to have to spent a ton of creds pulling lower level power enhancements/mods out of lower tiered armor and then have to remove the Black Hole/Campaign enhancements/mods in order to insert the lower level ones. TL;DR - Make more options for armor with power instead of Crit/Surge. Anyone else thoughts on this? Have a good one! Maverick

SM EC drops the Black Hole legs, as I have them for my Mara after defeating Kephess.

The whole reason for the Black-Hole commendations is so that you can get Black-Hole armor. That's going to help you complete EC. But, you can beat it with Rakata. My guild has beaten Story Mode no problem, and gotten to Kephess on HM with full Rakata and a few pieces of Black Hole. This is difficult, which is why it's the most fun I've had in this game thus far.

Back during the Magenta craze I was one of the only players on my server with the ability to craft it and the schem. So I made a lot of money. I'm pretty sure that I was also one of the only people who had every Columi implant schem for a while (this was after I picked up Biochem) so I made a lot of money off those. I had 19 mil. So I bought two of every color crystal for +41 power and a Blue and Green +41 expertise crystal. I needed something to put my credits into. It's pointless having that much. I liked all the colors so I boughtem all lol

Name: Leviathan Server: Saber of Exar Kun Guild: Sesame Street I'm more of a PvE player, I have a completely different character for PvP. But I enjoy the Marauder PvP every once in a while. And yes, Stmp is a God; luckily I get teamed up with him almost every time I hop into PvP. Edit: Whoops fail on me for reading I wrote about myself.....heh.

YAY! ME TOO!! I just got my mainhand (primary) dps over 1000 as well.

People just need to stop comparing this to other melee classes from other games. This is star wars, not WoW, not GW, not Rift, but STAR WARS. Also learn to play the class. If it doesn't suit you for whatever reason then it's not for you. My Mara is in full rakata and my I manage to pull aggro on 16 man nightmare modes. Marauder is fine. Even in PvP just have to learn to use your stuff in the right way. Anni is single target, I can bleed people out in less than 10 seconds every time.

I'm pretty sure on hard mode it's meant to be solved a specific way otherwise you get 4 acklays or the consoles stop responding. That's just part of the hard/nightmare mode puzzle. I don't think iti is a bug.

I see what your point is but this is an MMORPG it's not going to be all about the PvP aspect ESPECIALLY....ESPECIALLY with a bioware developed game that focuses so much on the PvE aspect of gaming.

I don't get what the complaining is. Run all 6 HM FPs a day. It takes maybe 3-4 hours if you have a good group. Bosses drop bio alloys I get like 3-6 a day. Just put some time into the end game raiding so 1. you can get your gear and 2. you can get your bio alloys.

Basically all I did with synth was get it to 400. Made my rakata bracers and belts till the procced an augment slot then got my Biochem back up to 400 so I could use all the rakata stuff that I had made when I got it to 400 the first time.

I'd have to disagree with that on a pretty big basis. I've gotten drops for Enegized armor a bunch that is for marauders. Really it is just luck of the draw. I have all Columi and 3 pieces of Rakata, granted two were crafted by me (belt/bracers). But I get Maura drops all the time for the Xenotech and Energized stuff. Maybe just bad luck on your part? I mean there's a 12.5% chance that what drops is gonna be for your class so that could be why too.

As I have hardmoded and nightmare moded E Vault as well as a hard mode with the NEW Hutt Hospitality I would disagree that they aren't useful. And generally if we wipe I am always the last to die. We may be squishy without any buffs but you gotta use your defensive buffs constantly. Play some end-game stuff (which really is what most MMOs are about). I even enjoyed the grind up to 50. I died maybe 10 times total to NPCs in that time. It's not a failed class. You just gotta micromanage so much more.

Here is my be all end all statement to Marauders being underpowered; they're not. I am level 50 CARNAGE specced; not Anni which most people are. I'm in full Columi with one piece of Rakata. The Columi offhand and a completely modded out with level 54s and higher level 50 saber. I have biochem so the Rakata stims and adrenals help very much. I have extra augment slots in all my ear pieces and implants. My force scream hits for about 5k crit with another 500-700 for the ataru form strike. It's partly about gear, it's partly about crew skills, and partly about just knowing how to play the class. Really as a Mara I feel more like a buff specialist than anything else with me spamming predations and putting my defensive buffs on me. I think part of the problem a lot of people are having is they're not popping their defensive buffs as much as they could. Just my opinion; but I wanted to say that there are many a Marauder out there that are successful! Good luck everyone!

He drops it the endurance crystal. I don't have proof as I've lost the roll on it 4 times thus far.

I don't get all the hate on carnage. People just must not be doing it right. I've played around with all 3 specs and carnage has always been the best for me. I hit about 320k a match in PvP. You just gotta figure out the right rotation and make sure you know when to use a specific move, same thing as any other class. I don't get the hate. But then again everyone is entitled to their opinions. Carnage ftw

Lol you are a few pages too many behind Figured that out about 10 minutes after I posted it. Thanks for your response though

I don't get why everyone is complaining so much about the crystal. It's extremely easy now that it's out and I've made well over 40 magenta crystals in the last few days. As for the crafting system that's part of the game. If you don't like if you're forced to move on. It's kind of makes me feel good when I've crafted for so long and finally get that upgrade. The actual obtaining of materials isn't too expensive and it's very easy to make credits in the game especially if you're above level 40.

I'm just curious as to on everyone's server what the average price for 1 Corusca gem and 1 Lorrdian gem is? And how much are people selling their finished Magenta Crystals for? On Saber of Exar Kun : 1 Corusca gem: ~10k 1 Lorrdian gem: ~4k I've sold my Magenta Crystals that I crafted anywhere from 100k (for people who supplied me with Adegan Crystal and all mats) to 400k (people who have nothing and just ant Crystal) and I'm constantly getting *****ed out by players for being overpriced even though it costs about 120k for all mats (if I were to buy) and an hour and a half of time per Adegan Crystal and craft. I don't think I'm being unreasonable.