Phantom Stride/Shadow Stride has been broken since the ability was introduced with 4.0 in fall of 2015, almost two years ago. When is this going to be fixed? The gap closing ability for an entire class has been broken for two years. For someone who mains an assassin, this is frustrating beyond belief. There is a reason memes like this exist: http://i.imgur.com/rovKILq.jpg Phantom Stride working as intended (Jan 2017): I can't tell you how many times phantom stride has failed me and either caused me to die or caused me to fail to obtain/stop an objective in pvp and operations. Its not just tiny bumps between me and my target, which is plain stupid to begin with. It just FAILS to work entirely 90% of time and either leaves me where I was when I activated the ability or worse, puts me somewhere I never intended to be. It all depends on whether RNGeezus is on my side. The ability says that you "appear" at your enemy implying teleportation, not that you run really fast and trip on pebbles along the way. This ability should behave no differently than force charge or any other gap closing ability. Instead we are stuck with an unreliable ability at best which sometimes procs to give us some added dps.

I'm aware of the ability to do this, But I would consider that an exploit/unintended. You can't summon them outside of that and you also can never play another chapter or they will be gone which prevents you from advancing or enjoying the story. I just really like both of those characters and think they are BAMFs and would like to have them around when I'm running heroics or other things with a companion.

I would imagine someone has brought this up at some point in time, its hard to search in the forums here, but I really wish for dark side players that we could at a minimum reclaim I think its fine to have them "die" and be no longer available for that character during story quests, but I really wish I could use them as companions on my dark side assassin. They are awesome characters and companions and hate that such amazing content is not available for my main character!

Same here.... stuck at 98.41% and doing nothing for over 20 minutes. "Slow downloading"? Try not downloading at all.

Yeah it is supposedly "back up" but launcher still stuck at initializing. Great.

You know, in an enterprise environment, most folks are required to have what we call a "backout plan". It's this wild concept that when you make a change to a production system you have a plan in place to "backout" the changes if you cause an outage like this. Y U NO HAVE BACKOUT PLAN BW??

I was leveling one of my alts today and drove past a Reek NPC on Tatooine. I was thinking this would be a cool idea for a new mount. They are pint sized versions of Thrasher from SnV. Just a thought, but we have a lot of cool animal mounts now including dewbacks, varactyls, and rancors. I think there is a Bantha now as well, so this wouldn't be much different size wise. http://swtor.gamingfeeds.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files/HLIC/57f78b07320d4998bf9e7f51f1291275.jpg

Tick tock tick tock. More time spent here and nothing... boredom. This is just plain stupid. 8.5 hours at this point.

I don't understand the purpose of making someone wait that long for the spawn. This is not a new daily area or a new mount. BW MAKE IT SPAWN MORE OFTEN!

Didn't get it yesterday with 6 hours total camping. Working on it again right now for the past hour. So 7 total at this point with no luck. Hopefully it will hit soon.

No, spent over 5 hours then left for dinner. Just got home and trying again.

Over 5 hours now and no luck.... have to leave for dinner shortly.

Nice. That guy raging was pretty funny. I've past the 4.5 hour mark now with no luck yet. Don't have much time left before I have to go offline.... sigh

Please do. I'm sitting here bored out of my mind waiting for this. Here is one of my favorites: Tight Pants Body Rolls

That was amazing. Thank you for that.