Thanks for the heads up... I know it's a terrible idea to tank in dps gear. I was hoping that the armor rating of 136 would outweigh the missing absorption, at least for the first couple flashpoints so i can get Tionese tank pve gear... Whelp, back to the drawing boards with Ilum quests for mods and pvp duplicates becoming tank gear. Thanks to those with genuine replies. ~Cheers

Guess you didnt read the part where i listed my shield and absorption; then you proceed to comment about how you were a dps and tanked HMBT in dps gear... I really hate that 'holier than thou' mentality some people have.

I attempted to tank HM BT the other night and failed miserably! On the first gold fight, i was spiked down before the healer even knew i needed to be healed. It was so fast, it felt instantaneous. We figured it was a fluke and moved on after the Sorc tanked those mobs. When we got to the first actual boss, the giant robot, once again, I was killed almost instantaneously. The complete failure of the Flash Point was not the healers fault and was not the DPS' fault, it must have been my lack of gear.... So here is where i have a problem: My spec: Tank I have ~15k hps, 6200 armor rating, 17% defense, 35% shield, 20% absorb I am almost completely decked out in Champ dps pvp gear. I understand that i should be a bit squishy due to my lack of absorb and having dps pvp gear and not tank pve gear... but the time it took for me to die, it seems the extra 1k hps would go just as fast as the first 15k went and that my armor rating being very respectable for attempting the first hard mode flash point would make up for the lack of absorption. Any other sins having this problem? All stats are base, without outside buffs.

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