Bump, for anymore bright ideas? Also, how is spam running FPs for XP when with a 50?

Is there any reason, other than 0 xp from mob kills, for the 50 to NOT be grouped with you? Because you would lose credit from stuff like kill quests.

I have a level 50 Sorc. I want to have a 50 assasin but I don't particularly look forward to doing the slowish grind to 50 all over again with the exact same quests. A buddy of mine with a level 50 has agreed to power level me. What is the fastest way to hit 50 with a low level character while being power-leveled?

4 man- Tionese and Tionese equivelent off-set from most bosses, Columni equivalent NON-set piece(xenotech or w/e its called) from the last boss. Columni set pieces from this seems silly. 8/16 normal: Mostly columni with maybe some Tionese 8/16 hard: Columni with a chance at Rakata off most/some bosses 8/16 NiM: All Rakata(if you can clear NiM you should be able to get geared quickly)

I vote we make Lord AND Lady available for both genders.

It looks like my Main Assets got corrupted. Its DLing them now. Thanks for the help finding the repair utility. I'll let you know if this works. EDIT: Fixed. Thanks again guys.

Where is the repair utility? Checked through the game directory and couldn't find it. And there is no way its a temp issue. That is the ONLY texture that is borked. I have 0 issues with the rest of the game. (Couldn't tell you what my temps are off the top off my head, but it's a liquid cooled single GPU.) And yah, that is THE ONLY thing borked, and it persists through game restarts and comp restarts. I'm sure a repair would fix it, but I have no idea where to find it.

http://i123.photobucket.com/albums/o311/Liayorn/Screenshot_2012-01-23_01_53_09_171685.jpg Pretty much says it all. I've been putting up with this bug, and after 4 days and numerous game restarts and computer restarts and fiddling with settings and such, have realized it IS NOT going to fix itself... Sooo... Any suggestions? And just to be clear, ANYONE who is wearing that chestpiece is bugging out also. Another sorc in my guild wears the same one and it appears normally to him but jacked up to me.

We have the exact opposite issue. Because Empire had way more 50s early on, they spent the first couple weeks farming gear with nearly no opposition. Now the Pubs can't get geared since they get rolled nearly every match. The exception are a couple of Republic PvP guilds that are arguably better than anyone Emp side and tend to trash Emp pre-mades

Or hey! Maybe I was running as DPS, in a full healing set, running with people who have a fraction of my gear, trying to kill a fairly challenging 4 man boss. Crazy how that works huh? /abandons thread I guess I will continue to farm a 10-15 minute quest for EVERY SINGLE DEATH I take. Thanks guys! I mean, it's not like damn near every other modern MMO besides this one has begun ditching or nerfing to hell the entire concept of repair bills.

You can blow an hours worth of dailies money in sub-30 minutes of attempts on a new boss. How does that make sense?

We only wiped on the bonus boss. Mainly because I was running with some people I just met trying to get a feel for them before I brought them into the main raid group. I was running as DPS instead of my normal heal spec. Just throwing this out here, but several of these bosses(second boss in Ilum, Revan, this dude) is head and shoulders harder than anything in HM EV 8m

I have almost half rakata gear. It jumps up substantially to over 10k per death.

Before I say anything. I *********** LOVE this game. I've been having a blast. My guild has already cleared EV on 8m HM and we are going to begin 16m Ops this weekend. I love running HM flashpoints. The harder bosses are a blast. But that brings up an issue. I find myself extremely discouraged when working on something like the new bonus boss in Kaon Under Siege, for the simple reason that in 30 minutes worth of wipes (call it 6-8ish attempts) I was able to blow nearly 100k credits JUST on repair bills. Thats *********** insane. 100k credits is equivalent to: Aprox 20 WZ matches, The absolute best blue Str lightsaber on the GTN at this moment, Several dozen stimpacks, Rank 2 mount training, 1/3 of Rank 3 mount training, Around 10 solo dailies(a bit less than that, more like 8, if you vendor the rewards)... etc etc. To give you an idea, a single death for me, being fully geared in Columni/Champion/Rakata epics, is equivalent to about 11-12k cred repair bill. When I have the knowledge that each one of my deaths costs the equivalent of about 10 minutes of questing, or 20+ minutes of running WZs, it makes me NOT WANT to do hard content. Because I know for every death i sustain, I'm incurring massive costs to myself. It ESPECIALY makes me not want to run PUGs, and try to meet new people, which I honestly love to do(some of the people I met in PUG dungeon runs in previous MMOs I was friends with for years) To make it clear, I have no intrinsic objection to the idea of repair bills. It's an MMO, it needs money sinks or inflation gets out of control. But over the last 3 weeks or so, I've spent something like over half my total income (that is, more than a million creds) on repair bills while doing HM FPs and Ops. They need to be adjusted, as you get geared up the repair cost per death just spirals wildly out of control. Whats going to happen is either they reduce the difficulty of HMs, which given that they are not absurdly hard to begin with (Usually one boss per dungeon is a bit nuts, but hell, thats the fun one), or they reduce the the penalties for repeated attempts at a boss. Or else people like me, that dislike soloing, so have reduced income (Not THAT reduced, I still clear something like 100k an hour if I knock it out), are going to quit running them.

Anyone know about 16 man? Both EV and Karraga's. 1 tank or 2? HM/NiM