It took my group about 1-2h to clear a Hardmode flashpoint, and it was an okay group. It took my operation group 1-2h to clear normal EV. (5 columi drops). To be honest it's the flashpoints which are useless, not the other way around.

I do agree that there should be something for the casuals players. But there should also be some kind of reward for the hard working Hardcore gamers. And at the moment this is not the case, this is a game solely just for casuals, as gearing is such an easy thing. I wouldn't have minded actually putting a little effort in to the whole gearing thing, but I didn't have to. Everybody seem to have either full columi or rakata after a week or two due to the easy endgame content which is offered. Also what's the point of running hardmode flashpoints? It takes about 1hour to do a HM flashpoint if run very quickly, can probably be done a bit faster (1 columi piece). Anyways Eternity vault which drops more (5 columi pieces total plus exotech gear) takes approx. 1 hour with a pug (without SOA). It's just wrong.. It's so easy to get gear. Well hopefully they'll fix the difficulties of the next operation tier.

If that happens, try and go out of stealth and put your companion to "passive" and then just proc a heal. Sometimes your companion wants to go attack the mobs as you've taken damage when proccing disappearing act.

EV normal doesn't need you to bring geared people. It's easily doable with 8 level 50's as the instance is made for that purpose. But as a side note, if those 4 "nabs" really don't know how to use their abilities, moving out of AE etc. then ye, you're right - we can now carry people through

My point was just to post it as someone said it hadn't been done with 20-man in classic wow. Anyways I understand that EV is possible to solo 4 man in full rakata or even columi when you know the fight and have experience - it's intended for people who just got to 50. I like the idea, but sadly.. Makes HM fps kinda useless when EV is so fast to clear.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJVC6Cj8fcw Onyxia being 4-manned in classic wow. All lvl 60.

Please teach me to enter HM ops/fps with 60+ people.

Regarding the esseles one shot kill, you need to interrupt hes Headshot ability - or whatever it's called. Easy FPs: The false emperor (ilum), The maelstrom prison (Fleet), Directive 7 (fleet) Medium hard: Esseles (1. & 2. can be a problem, rest is a walk in the park), taral V, kaon under siege Hard: In my opinion Battle of ilum is the hardest UNLESS you have ranged tank/dps - else make sure your dps does not hit him when he shields. All FPs can be done with low gear if people know what they're doing.

Yes you need a tank for this, but you can switch him out after. For the other one who commented about Mind traps - no a tank does not become mind trapped normally in second phase, only in start of phase 3. Anyways it shouldn't be necesarry to bring an off tank for SOA even if a tank was mind trapped in phase 2, as all damage on SOA is mostly from lightning balls (which some people have a huge problem with..).

There's no need to split into two groups, and when you "have" to that phase is when you drop from plateforms to kill cells - there's nothing to tank here. You shouldn't need to bring a secondary tank, and you can also just jump on the platforms in a grp. TO OP: If you've got a smart dps which can taunt, get him to taunt SOA - he won't take much damage in phase 3, not even on HM (the only one where I haven't seen damage from NM). But I second this - I hate those SOA bugs..

We've started using free for all, which is really great. Click an item and everyone has to roll on it afterwards - makes it easy.

Hi everyone, I know that gearing up at the current state maybe aren't hard, anyhow I have a suggestion for Nightmare as I hear a lot of people who can't be arsed to do it, because Hard mode drops Rakata aswell (I'm not against that, I think it's fine). Suggestion: When defeating a boss on Nightmare Difficulty it should drop Rakata commendations - this way if you needed your last piece, which just don't seem to drop you could buy it from these. This way Nightmare actually provides just that tiny bit more than Hard Mode. This also means people can acquire the right mods/enchancements from extra rakata pieces to become even better. I know that Nightmare have a bigger chance of Rakata. What do you think? Feel free to comment.

Maelstrom prison -> Easy Taral V -> Almost everything easy but the bonus boss The flase emperor -> Easy Esseles -> Two first bosses is a bit tough - but if good players you can do it with low gear. Battle for Ilum -> If you have ranged dps and tank it's easy, if melee make sure they don't hit the shield of the second or third boss (anyone who knows more specific can support me ). Directive 7 -> Hard Kaon undersiege -> haven't tried it yet.

How to explain this. When you say you got sith assassin gear I assume you got something with willpower and for example accuracy on it as that's one of their most used stats. And if that's the case, yes you can easily use it if it's better than your current. All you would have to do is remod it if possible, if not - check the stats to see if it improves more, if then of course you can use it.

I'm wondering about this aswell. It does bug sometimes though, and everytime you kill a spike he doesn't loose a stack - if this happens everyone get out of the operation and reset phase.