Bump, for anymore bright ideas? Also, how is spam running FPs for XP when with a 50?

Is there any reason, other than 0 xp from mob kills, for the 50 to NOT be grouped with you? Because you would lose credit from stuff like kill quests.

I have a level 50 Sorc. I want to have a 50 assasin but I don't particularly look forward to doing the slowish grind to 50 all over again with the exact same quests. A buddy of mine with a level 50 has agreed to power level me. What is the fastest way to hit 50 with a low level character while being power-leveled?

4 man- Tionese and Tionese equivelent off-set from most bosses, Columni equivalent NON-set piece(xenotech or w/e its called) from the last boss. Columni set pieces from this seems silly. 8/16 normal: Mostly columni with maybe some Tionese 8/16 hard: Columni with a chance at Rakata off most/some bosses 8/16 NiM: All Rakata(if you can clear NiM you should be able to get geared quickly)

I vote we make Lord AND Lady available for both genders.

It looks like my Main Assets got corrupted. Its DLing them now. Thanks for the help finding the repair utility. I'll let you know if this works. EDIT: Fixed. Thanks again guys.

Where is the repair utility? Checked through the game directory and couldn't find it. And there is no way its a temp issue. That is the ONLY texture that is borked. I have 0 issues with the rest of the game. (Couldn't tell you what my temps are off the top off my head, but it's a liquid cooled single GPU.) And yah, that is THE ONLY thing borked, and it persists through game restarts and comp restarts. I'm sure a repair would fix it, but I have no idea where to find it.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/Liayorn/Screenshot_2012-01-23_01_53_09_171685.jpg Pretty much says it all. I've been putting up with this bug, and after 4 days and numerous game restarts and computer restarts and fiddling with settings and such, have realized it IS NOT going to fix itself... Sooo... Any suggestions? And just to be clear, ANYONE who is wearing that chestpiece is bugging out also. Another sorc in my guild wears the same one and it appears normally to him but jacked up to me.

We have the exact opposite issue. Because Empire had way more 50s early on, they spent the first couple weeks farming gear with nearly no opposition. Now the Pubs can't get geared since they get rolled nearly every match. The exception are a couple of Republic PvP guilds that are arguably better than anyone Emp side and tend to trash Emp pre-mades

Or hey! Maybe I was running as DPS, in a full healing set, running with people who have a fraction of my gear, trying to kill a fairly challenging 4 man boss. Crazy how that works huh? /abandons thread I guess I will continue to farm a 10-15 minute quest for EVERY SINGLE DEATH I take. Thanks guys! I mean, it's not like damn near every other modern MMO besides this one has begun ditching or nerfing to hell the entire concept of repair bills.

You can blow an hours worth of dailies money in sub-30 minutes of attempts on a new boss. How does that make sense?

We only wiped on the bonus boss. Mainly because I was running with some people I just met trying to get a feel for them before I brought them into the main raid group. I was running as DPS instead of my normal heal spec. Just throwing this out here, but several of these bosses(second boss in Ilum, Revan, this dude) is head and shoulders harder than anything in HM EV 8m

I have almost half rakata gear. It jumps up substantially to over 10k per death.

Before I say anything. I *********** LOVE this game. I've been having a blast. My guild has already cleared EV on 8m HM and we are going to begin 16m Ops this weekend. I love running HM flashpoints. The harder bosses are a blast. But that brings up an issue. I find myself extremely discouraged when working on something like the new bonus boss in Kaon Under Siege, for the simple reason that in 30 minutes worth of wipes (call it 6-8ish attempts) I was able to blow nearly 100k credits JUST on repair bills. Thats *********** insane. 100k credits is equivalent to: Aprox 20 WZ matches, The absolute best blue Str lightsaber on the GTN at this moment, Several dozen stimpacks, Rank 2 mount training, 1/3 of Rank 3 mount training, Around 10 solo dailies(a bit less than that, more like 8, if you vendor the rewards)... etc etc. To give you an idea, a single death for me, being fully geared in Columni/Champion/Rakata epics, is equivalent to about 11-12k cred repair bill. When I have the knowledge that each one of my deaths costs the equivalent of about 10 minutes of questing, or 20+ minutes of running WZs, it makes me NOT WANT to do hard content. Because I know for every death i sustain, I'm incurring massive costs to myself. It ESPECIALY makes me not want to run PUGs, and try to meet new people, which I honestly love to do(some of the people I met in PUG dungeon runs in previous MMOs I was friends with for years) To make it clear, I have no intrinsic objection to the idea of repair bills. It's an MMO, it needs money sinks or inflation gets out of control. But over the last 3 weeks or so, I've spent something like over half my total income (that is, more than a million creds) on repair bills while doing HM FPs and Ops. They need to be adjusted, as you get geared up the repair cost per death just spirals wildly out of control. Whats going to happen is either they reduce the difficulty of HMs, which given that they are not absurdly hard to begin with (Usually one boss per dungeon is a bit nuts, but hell, thats the fun one), or they reduce the the penalties for repeated attempts at a boss. Or else people like me, that dislike soloing, so have reduced income (Not THAT reduced, I still clear something like 100k an hour if I knock it out), are going to quit running them.

Anyone know about 16 man? Both EV and Karraga's. 1 tank or 2? HM/NiM

I'm so pissed at you right now. For some reason when I read this line I instantly laughed so hard I snorted coke through my nose all over my keyboard. It hurt

I am a Light V sith using a red lightsaber. How? The epic sabers have red crystals(which are restricted) but the sabers themselves are not. So if you want an off-alignment crystal, just get raiding or running HMs.

Social sets are bugged. They stop applying stats when you hit a load screen. Unequip and reequip every time you zone if you want to use them.

This dude is doing it right FYI. His guide is way better than the stuff the OP put out.

Working through the math as I type this. Using my current gear. Heal numbers are approximate since they have a range of around 200 healing points per cast, and I didn't have half an hour to record a real average without a combat log. Infusion: Normal: 2950 Crit: 4900 51 force 2.2 sec cast time Dark Heal: Normal: 1500 Crit: 2600 46 force 1.3 sec cast time Crit % = .35 (.348 actualy, but .35 makes the calculation a bit easier) This is an approximate heals done per minute(not counting crits, I'm not exactly sure how to calc that in, someone else can do it if they want): Infusion: (60 / 2.2 = 27) x 2950 = 79650 healing per minute 27 x 51 = 1377 FP 79650 / 1377 = 57.8 healing per force point Dark heal (60 / 1.3 = 46) x 1500 = 69000 HPM 46 x 46 = 2116 FP 69000 / 2116 = 32.6 HpFP Now mind you, this is PURE napkin math, but it gives you an idea of the massive disparity between the two spells without worrying about crits and Resurgence procs and such. However... If you bring Resurgence ahead calculating HpFP for Dark Heal is easy(just double it). So if you assume EVERY Dark Heal is resurgence boosted(which it NEVER EVER EVER will be), Dark Heal pulls ahead slightly to around 65.2 HpFP. Thats substantial, but you won't EVER have that many resurgence procs. More likely it will be more like 1/2 to 1/3 of your Dark heal casts. And that is even sacrificing Innervate/Resurgence combos(which is extremely retarded as I will explain). With Resurgence procs on my Dark infusion bring it down to 1.2 Sec cast which while does not effect the (already excellent) HpFP, blows the HpS out of the damn water. And given that Consumption restores 52 FP for me(with 650 total FP from talents and 4p set bonus) the vast majority of my Resurgence procs get eaten by Innervate anyways, destroying any HpFP advantage Dark Heal might have.

Part of the problem with this thread is that most of the people in here(I suspect) have only run HM flashpoints or norm EV. Once you start pushing HM and NiM Ops, the amount of damage output and the duration of fights means that, even with two healers, "managing" FPs is mostly hoping that your DPS kill the boss before you run out. (I'm mostly talking the first and last boss in EV, and Bonethrasher, the other's aren't really worth mentioning). An Alacrity stacked Sorc healer WILL NOT have the staying power for longer HM fights. Thats not to say you should run screaming in the opposite direction. You WILL pick up Alacrity on PvE raid gear. There is no way to avoid it. Crit/Surge/Power are all better stats.

I only looked at your guide for about 2 seconds(enough to get a feel for the talent spec) and I instantly noticed a huge problem... You are missing the +20% to Static Barrier in the lightning tree. Why in the world you thought 2% reduced damage was better than that I have no idea. You also suggest casting Dark Heal multiple times in a row. This is also a terrible idea since both it's HPS and efficiency compared to, well, ANYTHING else you have is terrible. That's not to say you should Never use but, well, it's Extremely situational. Dark Infusion is nearly always better as Corruption Spec. Dark Heal is mostly there for DPS Sorcs who need a quick self heal. Corruption sorcs should typically only use it when everyone is at near-full and they want to hit a different button on their keyboard. The correct rotation for single target heals is Static Barrier(if no debuff present)->Resurgence->Dark Infusion/Innervate->Innervate/Dark Infusion Innervate->Dark Infusion offers better force regen at lower gear levels(due to Force Surge Procs being based on crit rate) Dark Infusion->Innervate has more frontloaded healing if someone is dropping fast thanks to the -1 sec cast on Dark Infusion from Resurgence. The key to Sorc single target healing is being able to determine which spell you need to burn your Resurgence proc on... Innervate, Dark Infusion, or (nearly never) Dark Heal(I probably shouldn't even put that there, but, **** it, I've done it). AoE healing is more about pumping out revivify and Static barrier and tossing quick Resurgence->Innervate comboes on people to top off low health peeps and keep your FP high(keeping static barrier on more than one or two people will burn your FP fast)

The PvP gear on sorcs is pretty respectable. I actually like it. The PvE armour on the other hand... Well, first, it's PINK in the T1/2 version. And the models are just absurd. The T3 version is better, but god only knows when I'll kill HM Soa and get my chest. Pink chest and red skirt just looks bloody silly.

I got my Columni chest from False Emp in about 4 runs, my Tionese gloves from the first boss the next run after that. I saw the Inq Columni bracers drop my very first 2 times in BT and I've seen them drop once since(in about 8ish runs). I think I have a few other HM Inq drops also. On the other hand, my Juggernaught buddy has run about 80% as many HMs as I have and gotten 1 drop. TL;DR Random loot is random.

This, that seems pretty intense. I mean, I suppose it doable if you stack for AoE heals and there isnt to much AoE, but still...