So... I would like to start a thread to get feedback on desired content from a guild perspective. A lot of focus lately has been on story driven content with Bioware claiming that "the Story" matters. No need to go into the negative feedback already posted about the Feb Subscriber reward "BIG" announcement as there are plenty of threads on that topic. What I would like to address is the lack of any information on proposed content that my guild is interested in. New Operations New PVP Maps Nightmare Drops We are a very active guild and have pretty much cleared all content (apart from some 16M HM\NiM raids due to the Aussie Ping debuff) - within a few hours of the KoTFE expansion, many of us had power levelled multiple 65 toons and on the next night of raiding punched out a few HM OPS. Since the expansion I personally have levelled 13 toons to 65, ran all HM content, Maxed out the alliance, completed all the SF challenges, geared 3 toons in 224\220 gear. I am not alone in my guild and many of us have reached simular achievements. What is on the horizon for us now? Nothing, apart from keep grinding through the same OP content until Feb, take a break for a few hours and pump out the tiny piece of single player content and then back to grinding. At the rate we are going with multiple teams running 15+ ops per week we will have something like 8 BiS 224 geared toons each. Then what? wait some more for details on a new OP, grind, wait for new OP, Have fun. Simular deal for PVP content, we are not a PVP guild but a lot of us casually play on off-nights and there is nothing on the horizon that we know of (Apart from the "Better than Cross Server Warzones" that was highlighted almost a year ago) For Nightmare content at the moment - What is the point? no 224 drops and a few cosmetic items. Frankly not worth the effort given that we have cleared that content multiple times already. So, I am inviting Guild Leaders\Officers to comment on what they would like to see from a Guild perspective, taking the desires from their collection of members. This way, we can collect the collective of needs from a broad player base. Please use a format such as below when posting (If you are not a Guild Leader or an authorised voice for the guild, please refrain from posting. This is a guild specific thread only) Guild Name = EPIDEMIC Unique Accounts = 106 Total Members = 487 Stuff we want More Operations, at least 4 by the end of 2016 (SM,HM and NiM) More PVP Maps, at least 4 Maps by the end of 2016 Nightmare TOS, Ravagers and all current NiM OPS to drop 224 AND very unique items or Legendary level cosmetic gear 2 new secret bosses in 2 Operations

Totally not a Bump

Sorry I liEd This is totally a Guild recruitment Post. Ask yourself a few questions before hItting the back button on your browser... Are you baseD in thE APAC region? Do you like raiding? Can you cop a joke and dish out as good as you get? Do you like playing SWTOR with Mates? Do you want to master your class? Do you want to progress on new content and achIeve server firsts? Are you an evil force to be reckoned with and loyal to the Emperor? If you answered yes to the above, then we CaN bE thE guild for you. We have full Reputaion and Experience boost, TeamSpeak (and backup Mumble and Vent) Guild Facebook page, many of us have BiS geareD altS for Pugs or Raid group Fill-Ins (IMP and PUB side) and can prettY much clear any content. We are a great bunch to raid with and all humour aside (outside of raids mOstly) we knuckle down and get the job done. With 4.0 we will be very active with planetary conquests (even though most of us have the Galaxy title) for end game crafting. Currently we have 2 Full time raid teams but would like to setup more We also welcome complete teams (don't worry, your team will remain intact and the current team leader will retain control) individUals and alts are also welcome. We generally raid Wednesday \ Thursday \ Monday at 7PM AEST, with random runs on other days depending on who is on. I left a not really subtle clue to the guild name in the post, so hit me up in game on one of my main toons below XEEVÄ AGENTSITH-MDN

Did you end up getting a Guild? we are recruiting at the moment.

Sorry I liEd This is totally a Guild recruitment Post. Ask yourself a few questions before hItting the back button on your browser... Are you baseD in thE APAC region? Do you like raiding? Can you cop a joke and dish out as good as you get? Do you like playing SWTOR with Mates? Do you want to master your class? Do you want to progress on new content and achIeve server firsts? Are you an evil force to be reckoned with and loyal to the Emperor? If you answered yes to the above, then we CaN bE thE guild for you. We have full Reputaion and Experience boost, TeamSpeak (and backup Mumble and Vent) Guild Facebook page, many of us have BiS geareD altS for Pugs or Raid group Fill-Ins (IMP and PUB side) and can prettY much clear any content. We are a great bunch to raid with and all humour aside (outside of raids mOstly) we knuckle down and get the job done. With 4.0 we will be very active with planetary conquests (even though most of us have the Galaxy title) for end game crafting. Currently we have 2 Full time raid teams but would like to setup more We also welcome complete teams (don't worry, your team will remain intact and the current team leader will retain control) individUals and alts are also welcome. We generally raid Wednesday \ Thursday \ Monday at 7PM AEST, with random runs on other days depending on who is on. I left a not really subtle clue to the guild name in the post, so hit me up in game on one of my main toons below XEEVÄ AGENTSITH-MDN

We killed it last night for fun, did not notice any issues

Although native game support is limited, there are 3rd party middleware apps that can force a game to use the rift. I personally use VorpX and it does a fairly decent job on some games. Have thought about trying it with swtor, but to be honest I don't think this style of game is good for the rift, since you cannot easily see the keyboard. Unless you can touch type blind folded then it may be ok. But you might end up with a neck injury with the amount of camera turning that your head would be doing.

So during a random parse on the OPS Dummy I noticed that the dummy only ever got 1 application of Vulnerable after my pre-cast of Crushing Darkness. Filtered my parsec log for that effect and confirmed only 1 entry 18:35:59.540 Operations Training Dummy gains Vulnerable (Force) So question for Sorcs before I submit a bug report, is this just a glitch with the dummy? anyone else seeing this on a fight or dummy?

Waiting outside DF for the rest of the group and a guildie on a FOTM PT in full pvp gear challenges my PVE geared sorc to a duel. Duel accepted, 1sec till engagement and I extricate him while still friendly and overload push him into the lava. Win While doing my favourite pastime killing randoms in Outlaws den on my Slinger, a random posts in Gen chat asking about the GTN terminal in the Den. I whisper him and tell him I can group up and show him where it is and that I'll protect him from getting ganked. He takes me up on the offer and I lead him to the GTN terminal, he is really really appreciative. I drop group and gank him, he does the *** song in chat, so I regroup and apologise, rez him and wait for him to heal up, drop group and kill him again Oh and my favourite so far. Summoning a full raid group to DF for a NiM run. Positioned myself at the very edge of the lava and summoned. They all accepted and fell to their deaths

WOW, Excelent suggestion JouerTue - I just spoke to the combat team and they are considering a BackPedal option. In a simular way to how Num Lock works for auto run. We do feel this is an important ability to add to the game, unfortunately due to development on our upcoming super secret "Kill Boss, Don't Die" Operations ability, we will not be able to implement this until Patch 3.1.3 So stay Tuned force wielders....

Hi DOVAHKllN, thank you for your question. Our new ability system does not require you to maintain 100 percent vision on the monitor. We did consider the fact that some of our players are vision impaired (I myself included) so we made the system as simple as possible, meaning that you no longer need to wear glasses to enjoy our PVP content

Thank you for the feedback NikSunrider - We have accounted for DVORAK keyboards with a new keybinding option that you can select if you do not have a standard QWERTY keyboard. This will remap the required key combination to suit your peripheral of choice

Very good point Kawabonga and thank you for bringing this up. During our internal testing we realised that not everyone has a standard sized face and\or keyboard. We also realised that the most consistent face type was the Sarah Jessica Parker face. So to allow for all types to flawlessly execute the rotation we added code to reject the top and bottom keyboard presses during the roll rotation. This only happens inside a warzone, so player key binds outside of a warzone remain unaffected.

Wow. How big is your face lol

Highlights Due to player raised issues and concerns with class balance, we are making exciting changes to Ranked Warzone Arena Season 4! General We have been actively monitoring the Ranked leader boards progress and have determined that migration from a Skill Tree point assignment method to a more structured Discipline system has created a large disparity between the Advanced Class performance in all modes of warzones. Specifically PT\Vangards and Sin\Shadows are dramatically out performing all other classes by a significant margin. Addressing this lack of balance is very tricky and we have learned that making sweeping changes to class abilities to satisfy the PVP community can have a negative impact on operations performance. We will be providing a new Class that can only be used for PVP and this class will have 2 Disciplines. Heal DPS We anticipate that this change will allow the PVE community to enjoy FP and OP content without interfering with the PVP content. By providing a fixed class with 1 ability per class we feel that Balance in the force has been reached and can never be broken. Now it is up to you "The player" to hone your skills and reach for fortune and glory. Classes + Combat General Cross server Warzone Queuing is now possible, purchasable as an unlock at Level 60 via 9000 Cartel All Base and Advanced classes are now not able to queue for any Warzone type, Ranked\Regular in either Group\Solo Modes Two new Advanced Classes have been added to the Star Wars Universe, purchasable at Level 60 via 9000 Cartel Coins. Both Characters come Equipped with non removable gear with base statistics that are not upgradeable in any shape or form. These stats provide the best balance between healing\dps and defensive abilities and dynamically change when the required discipline is selected (Non changeable when queued or inside a Warzone) Jedi Chump Stay away from My Sister Discipline New Ability "Face Roll": Deals 1k Damage to a single Target via the usage of a asdfghjkl;' ';lkjhgfdsa keyboard combination. Many players that are used to playing certain FOTM classes are already aware of the concept of placing the left ear on the A key and rolling the head in a clockwise direction until the right ear hits the ' key. This ability is off the global cooldown and the quicker a player can perform 1 rotation dictates the DPS output. Don't worry Bud, I got your back with heals and cuddles Discipline New Ability "Cuddle": Heals 1 friendly target dealing 1k healing. This ability uses our new voice activation system and the voice command "Cuddle" will activate the ability granting a bonus healing amount based on the volume of the command. Sith Chump Kill the Puppies Discipline New Ability "Face Smash": Deals 1k Damage to a single Target via the usage of a vfr45678uhbgty keyboard combination. These keys need to be pressed simultaneously and as per the Jedi counterpart this ability is off the global cooldown and the quicker a player can perform 1 rotation dictates the DPS output. Savy players will notice that the key combination does match the imprint of a face on the keyboard. Meh your dying. Not my problem Discipline New Ability "Meh": Heals 1 friendly target dealing 1k healing. This ability uses our new voice activation system and the voice command "Meh" will activate the ability granting a bonus healing amount based on the volume of the command.