Congratulations Ace! Was a fun race to watch for the week it was around, sad I wasn't able to join in on the fun. Good luck on your title runs!

Congratulations guys! Enjoy the kill and the farming for the next 2 months!

Character Name: Reniu Faction: Republic Craftable Implants: 1. Dread Forged Stalker's MK-X Package (Will/Pow/Surge) 2. Dread Forged Field Medic's MK-X Package (Cunning/Pow/Surge) 3. Dread Forged Combat Medic MK-X Package (Aim/Pow/Surge) 4. Dread Forged Vindicator's MK-X Package (Strength/Pow/Surge)

I don't want to clutter this thread of progression tracking for all the 16-man guilds out there, but I just wanted to say good luck to everyone! I won't be in this tier of Nightmare content, but I look forward to watching some awesome kill videos and streams for the coming weeks. Best of luck!

You guys finally doing Entities tonight? If so good luck!

Good luck tonight on the Entities you guys. Wish you the best.

Character Name: Reniu Server: Prophecy of the Five An update for the Operation portion of the thread: http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag6/Katelyn0303/OperationUpdateScreen_zpsbe194233.jpg

Well in the end Kell Dragon gear became a simple "for show" set of armor considering the 78s just made it trash in the end. The gear itself was more for bragging rights, and also made the Fortress/Palace progression farm easier as well.

78 gear is already released in the Hard modes, which was the same for 2.0 when 72s became the minimum for the Nightmares to grind Kell Dragon gear (75s).

I was a little bit curious what sort of content SWTOR has in store down the road with new patches coming on the horizon. With the upcoming release of the Digital Expansion, I was curious what sort of goodies we have in store for both the PVE and PVP environments. Obviously the 12v12 space battles is a huge change for the PVP groups, as well as many class changes in the coming month, however I am curious what sort of Operations content for PVE we still have in store for the future. I am wondering what date we can roughly expect for the Nightmare Operations of Dread Fortress/Dread Palace mainly. In addition, I am curious about what other sort of goodies we have in store! Something like a end of the year upcoming announcement would be awesome, even if you couldn't reveal too much. Thanks!

Dread Council: http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag6/Katelyn0303/PalaceKill_zpsb3856bc6.jpg No UTC time on this one, but our GM can post that proof if needed. As shown by the date, the kill was before all the others posted here. Fun instance, thanks all.

In all honesty, it depends on what standpoint you are looking at for this fight in comparison to others. From my own personal healing standpoint, I felt that the Dread Guards in their original release (pre-enrage nerf, pre-damage/health nerf) was the toughest fight in all the 2.0 Nightmare content and beyond. That being said however, this fight is hard to heal, and sadly it is not because the fight itself is "challenging," but rather just stupid with all of the RNG elements thrown in. People got stuck in walls and glitched through the world, Dread Touch threw players in random directions, cleansing for the Deathmark fell at just the wrong time when you would be stunned - a lot of elements played into making this fight hard. Still, none of this is to say the fight is easy without these elements, but rather it just isn't that well designed. It is still a very strict DPS check for all the 75 gear we had, and from the video you can clearly see tanking the fight was no walk in the park either. Personally, it comes down to taste.

Screen of Codex: http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag6/Katelyn0303/HatefulEntity_zpsc1dfe263.jpg

<Severity Gaming> Pot5 Proof of 16-man Scum & Villainy Timed Run. Video link to follow soon. http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag6/Katelyn0303/TimedRun2_zpsa6ae2079.jpg

Sorry for another post so soon, but just wanted to update once again for Operations. Character: Reniu Server: Prophecy of the Five http://i1296.photobucket.com/albums/ag6/Katelyn0303/OperationUpdatePhoto_zps52a0ba6b.jpg