Hitting a target from 36m+ is just impossible in a world with spaceships, cybernetic implants, and blaster pistols that aren't subject to things like wind or gravity.

I know right? Even though Keeper chastises your agent for not adopting a local accent, you'd think your agent would completely disregard a direct order from the leader of your intelligence organization to avoid breaking immersion! Don't ask stupid questions.

Taken from the March 2nd Community Q&A: ---- spcdog - When will we be able to add people to our Friends List who are not online? The main point of the Friends List is to let you know when friends are online. Right now, I have to already know when friends are online to add them, which kind of defeats the purpose. Damion Schubert: This is a bug - thanks for calling my attention to it (this issue is somewhat sporadic, so it fell through the cracks). We are getting this into the pipe to get fixed, most likely for Game Update 1.2. ---- Is it really any surprise that the devs are convinced the OOC time is 8 seconds when I'm pretty sure that any operative can confirm that it's not?

Think ahead about your positioning. Try to have your back to something that will stop your momentum. Barring that, try to be near a cover point and roll into it when you get knocked. As a stealth class you have the option to at least open on someone in an advantageous position. Then use your root (if specced concealment) to keep the fight in a place where a knockback isn't the end of the world.

I like to pretend that my operative is a crazy person, and when she brings out her invisible rifle to shoot people, they play dead so she'll leave them alone and move on.

This is the same group of people that balanced Bright Wizards. Just saying...

I was already planning on bailing for Tera as soon as it went live. Fell in love with it during beta. These patch notes make me glad I chose to do this. The upside of all of this is that sorcs are getting nerfed. It's really not that bad for them: their aoe dps is getting nerfed by removing Wrath procced Chain Lightning, but I'd be willing to bet that their single target DPS might be relatively unaffected since Wrath will now affect the dot portion of Crushing Darkness. Still, their tears are so, so tasty.

It makes people seem hip and edgy to say that wow is terrible or whatever. Sort of like the way people are fans of indie bands until they sign with a label. The music might not change, but it's no longer cool to like them. I'm sure the wow devs are crying all the way to the bank.

What's a snear?

If you read the article, the author is quoting a line from a PDF file linked in the article. In the PDF, the results are from a quarter ending December 31st, 2011. Since you have to subscribe to the game in order to play it (despite having a free month of game time), it's not hard to believe that the game would have that many subscriptions in the first month of selling 2 million copies. What's interesting to me is that the number of subscribers is around 300k less than the number of copies sold before the free trial period ended. That indicates to me that people canceled their subscriptions before playing a full month. Anyone have a link to a more recent population announcement from EA/Bioware? Specifically something after the first free month?

Considering that operatives are a burst damage class, and that many encounters require burst healing, it's kind of silly to punish us for doing what we are supposed to be doing. You can make whatever skill arguments you want, but if your mechanics require you to unload attacks costing 12-20 energy every 1.5 seconds (net loss of 4.5-12.5 energy per second at the full 5 energy regen rate) in a 9 GCD window to be effective, and then punishes your resource regeneration for going under 60 energy, then someone didn't think things through. But hey, if you think everything is peachy and are satisfied with how your class performs, then that's all that really matters for you. I'd advise you to not look at the resource models of other classes, though. It may be depressing.

Why does Sleep Dart fill the resolve bar but Mind Maze does not? Tons of stuff doesn't make sense in this game.

Operatives get Cloaking Screen to exit combat and enter stealth, and it may be used in combat. 3 minute cooldown, decreases all healing done and received by 100% for the next 10 seconds. It can be talented to a 2 minute cooldown and to not reduce healing received or done by speccing into the concealment (melee dps) tree. They also have a skill, Sneak, that increases their stealth level (while in stealth already) by 15. It is a 1 minute cooldown.

Let's say you take 50% damage and 50% is sent to the other tank. Then 50% of that is sent back to you (25% of total) of which you take 50% (12.5%, or 1/8). The cycle repeats, and you can then say that you take: 1/2 + (1/4)*(1/2) + (1/4)*(1/4)*(1/2) + ... This is equivalent to an infinite sum of (1/4)^n (n = 0, 1, 2, ...) times an overall 1/2. The infinite sum is equal to 1/(1-1/4) = 4/3. Times 1/2 is 2/3.

They should make higher valor ranks unlock a progressively functional combat log.

We're talking about people who can't figure out how to make a combat log work, and took 3 patches announcing that they fixed a WZ win counting bug before it was actually fixed. Baby steps.

Other operatives' poisons do allow you to proc a 2nd TA.

Your melee attacks are classified as Tech attacks. To check an ability classification, hit P and look to the right of the ability. It will be listed as Force, Tech, Melee, or Ranged.

Are they in your guild? Are you grouped?

He should have saved charge instead of blowing it in the opener. Maul wasn't even stealthed.

Rapid Shots are a BH ability so I'm not sure what you're getting that there. Acid Blade is a 31 point concealment ability that does not have anything to do with TA. Corrosive Dart is a DoT that also had nothing to do with TA. Are we playing the same game? The only 2 abilities that apply TA are Hidden Strike (stealth opener) and Shiv. Medicine can talent Kolto Probes to proc TAs approximately once every 6 seconds (to make up for the fact that they are not using Shiv on cooldown while healing).

Yes, it is the weakest class. In PvE, does that mean no one should take any operatives? If you enjoy missing out on 5% crit, sure, but I feel that 5% crit on everyone in the party > the loss of taking an operative. In PvP, concealment operatives can do well if there is a large enough gear differential and they are able to attack their targets 1v1. In group play, they aren't as spectacular as a marauder or assassin, nor do they really help with huttball scoring. They can stealth cap objectives in Voidstar and Alderaan, however. I would be hesitant to bring an operative healer over a sorc or merc to any fight, PvP or PvE. They go down pretty fast in organized play, and they don't have the burst tools to keep someone up against focused fire. I laugh at lethality oepratives fairly regularly. They DoT me up, I scan the debuffs, and they are now useless for the next 15 seconds.

Why would you want people to stay in an obviously imbalanced fight? Is that actually fun for anyone, on the winning or losing side? Granted it's less fun for the losing side, but as someone who's been on the winning side of that, I can say it's nowhere near as fun as a close game where everyone is performing well. If you see a bunch of people quitting, just quit yourself. Requeue until you get a match that's more balanced. These warzones don't have any impact on anything if we win or lose, so what's the incentive to stick it out?

Mouse over your +damage stat in the character sheet.

There is medium armor with cunning and shield rating in this game. You give the Devs way too much credit.