Also missing, in P3 the 3rd or 4th pillar will decide to not break his shield. Even at 6% *cry*

Also look for the pre-smash that occurs right before the pillar comes down.

Best way to do it, is start the engagement, kill all the trash, then do both turns together and make sure the lock in at the same time. It is very easy.... This engagement isn't bugged and should always be free loot.

Either way, look at it this way. EV is the first raid and karraga is the second raid. If raid gear from raid 1 is required to do raid 2 I would say you would need at least 9/13ths rakata gear before entering Nightmare bonethrasher. As this was your first raid... those numbers are impossible. If you were the only dps on, i would also assume your guild didn't have this kind of gear. Just try hard mode first... it is significantly easier.

Yeah... he also has a point, I'm a tank and have over 100 more str than you unbuffed.

I have 22k health but i'm an exception. For hardmode you need 15.5k minimum for this encounter for clothies. This will allow you to survive swipes without a bubble just fine. For nightmare we believe one needs to have a party of 17.5k+ health people or do it by kiting. Kiting is tough but doable. Would never suggest that as the intended purpose due to the knockbacks and large drop in dps but our other group cleared by kiting. Yes i am a member of this guild.

Nightmare is a little different because you need a bigger health pool for this strat but here you go.

I despise it. Seriously, if you are going to take away armour mods and rarely drop armouring mods than give me a head piece i will enjoy. I don't like the entire PvE set, but it was bearable until i got my rakata head piece last night. Now i'm forced to wear a head piece that was obviously not designed to fit the rest of the set nor my character. Please add the ability to rip armouring mods out of things for an obscene price because I'd do it. Till then, head piece turned off.

I don't want surge on my gear. The threat increase from something that is activated by crits isn't enough to justify taking away something like shield rating/absorb. If anything I want power if you are going to give me a dps stat. I quickly changed out the surge enhancement from my rakata boots for the one from my columi boots.

Gratz guys!

The bleeds in vengeance are honestly found wanting (here's looking at force scream). It needs some tuning without a doubt, but ultimately i think it is close to being a viable spec just not all the way there yet.

They are puggable up to Hard Mode Soa.

You don't need to do the channel for 1 second. It is a free 1 second channel. You can choose to cast it or move to cancel the 1 second channel. Either way you will still get the promised 3 second force choke without channeling. With that said, i do not think (and haven't since the last build of the beta) that this is working as intended.

Technically Rakata Gear is Tier 1 Raiding gear. Everything else can be obtained through hard modes except weapons. We will see how loot progression truly is come patch 1.1