Hmm let's see. 6% aim which increases the damage on all of your abilities or 6% damage to one ability.... tough choice.

Thank goodness game developer's disagree with your outdated point of view.

I find it amusing that so many people argue in favor of a credit sink, which is, in essence, a time sink. I never realized there were so many players who enjoy wasting time.

I pugged hard mode EV and went 4/5. It felt significantly easier than normal mode raiding in WoW. Examples of easiness: it is possible to heal through the annilator droid's missile barrage, we hit enrage on gharj and i managed to tank him for ~2 mins while group finished him (lost 2 melee early), and pylon boss plus council fight are both big jokes. Soa is the only boss in that instance that i would consider challenging.

it is random because normal mode is intended for pugs. Hard and nightmare loot functions normally.

I was able to craft as well even though the crafting window displayed 0 alloys. Try moving them around your inventory or transfering them to your cargo hold.

FF XI end game hard? What? Tank and spank encounters are never hard. And you must be a god among men to be able to see 8 things at once. You stick to the ff xi method and I'll use the modern tool to guage raid performance.

I've never seen more derp in one post before... ever. You really expect raid leaders to learn every single classes abilities/animations, the proper rotations/priorities for those classes, and then watch the other 7/15 players in the raid while performing their own duties and see who is not performing? Get real. As to the OP: I think the best way to gauge your dps is time yourself or your raiders during the council fight and see how quickly people can kill their mobs.

PvP gear hasn't been hard to get in a very long time. A time sink does not equate to difficulty. The only way to make PvP gear hard to get would be to restrict the best gear to the top x percentile, which of course doesn'twork because once that top x has the gear they shouldn't lose their top spot.

By queueing and not participating you are ruining other people's enjoyment of the game. Botters and people who just stand around lifetapping and healing themselves in warzones should be banned.

This tier of ops only requires one tank so to answer your question, no.

This orange doesn't taste like an apple! Fix it immediately bioware!

Expertise costs zero secondary stats so that's a null point. The same level pve gear will have the equivalent defense rating. I'll just be thankful my healer isn't you since you seem to be lacking in the hps area if you can't keep a champion geared tank up.

I have terrible luck so I have no columi. Champ bags have been more kind to me and given me 3 pieces, which will be replaced as soon as I actually do get my columi.

Actually champion gear is the best gear you can get outside of columni, which happens to be much more difficult to get. (Before nightmare mode) Edit - to those of you railing against pvp gear you do realize that the only difference between pvp gear and the equivalent pve gear is the pve gear has more of your main stat plus endurance, right? I would never wear a piece of tionese over champion... ever. And I have tanked hard fps as well as all normal ops.