I play a merc healer. The other healer in my regular HM/NiM 8m ops group is a sorcerer. We have always had comparable numbers, but tonight, she did 50-70% of my effective healing. That is an outrageous nerf, and does not appear to be viable for HM/NiM raiding.

When I logged in after updating to 5.2 today, I saw that all progress on all six of the [WEEKLY] missions my main character is on had been erased. I had 1 of the 2 [WEEKLY] Heart of Ruin bosses down. Now, none. I had 9/10 Story Mode Uprisings and 3/5 Veteran Mode Uprisings. Now I'm at 0/10 and 0/5. I was half way through both Veteran and Master Flashpoint weekly quests, too. My weekly PvP quest progress is also gone. It's all gone. I don't usually finish all weekly quests in a single week. I pick them up and work on them at my own pace. This has never been a problem before. [WEEKLY] was a limit to how often you could repeat the quests, not a deadline on how long you had to finish them. They're worth a ton of command points, so I'm really ticked off about this, and I doubt I'm the only person affected by it.

Wow. Just searched to see what was up with this and I find out it's been a known issue for over a month, with "we'll fix it in *a month* as a solution? If it's going to take you that long to fix it, remove it from the random queue. What a waste of time.

My experience: Trainable and usable some places, such as Ilum, but lost upon traveling to other places, such as the Fleet or Ilum Orbital Station, where it appears as available from trainers but does not become usable after training. Exiting and restarting the game client does not help. Rezoning to places where it was trainable/usable doesn't restore the ability. Screenshots detailing this: http://imgur.com/a/N1Wml I've heard enough people arguing that everything is fine to make me wonder if it's server-specific or level-specific. 60 Commando on Shadowlands here.

Same problem. Level 60 Commando (leveled the old fashioned way) on Shadowlands. Noticed it last night and hoped that it'd be taken care of during Tuesday AM maintenance. Silly me.

Unreal. This is not the sort of thing you sit on without fixing for days on end. It's game-breaking for those of us who play Combat Medics as a main. "Go play an alt until we fix it" isn't a solution. What a slap in the face.

I've noticed that there are people who will run towards defence points for a minute, and then leave, or engage a bunch of people in 1 on 1 combat in the middle of nowhere. Whenever I ask them why they aren't helping us win, they say they're getting the medals. Coincidentally, every match I've seen this happen in has been lost. The medals are a more enticing reward then victory to a lot of players, and the people who are helping win the match (And thus, don't care about winning a 1v1 fight or getting defender medals just for the sake of it) end up suffering for it. The fact that the reward is the same whether or not you win makes it much more worthwhile for some people to do this meaningless tasks away from the action just for the sake of it. If medals had a reduced reward if you lost, perhaps this would cause medal hunters to focus on the game at hand, because at the moment, there are too many people ignoring defence points and instead focusing on conveniently alone squishy characters. Maybe I just have bad luck with Warzones, but this seems to me to be a big problem, unless I'm completely missing the point or something.

What's with the god awful stream quality?

Forgive me for not Americanizing my dates. The video footage is from 3 December, 2011 (3/12/11), posted 6 December, 2011 (6/12/11) and I never expected it to get more than a handful of views from the folks I was discussing alacrity with at the time I (hastily) threw it together, so it's not the easiest thing to follow. Alacrity certainly does bring the "GCD" of abilities with an activation time less than 1.5s (but greater than zero) down to whatever the new activation time of the ability is. With relics and adrenals popped, I can fire off Healing Scans and Power Shots in 1.1s and it's pretty much impossible to miss that there is ABSOLUTELY NO DELAY (let alone a 0.4 second gap) before I can activate another one or something else. BUT! Alacrity doesn't lower the GCD of instant abilities or channeled abilities. That stays at 1.5s.

Congrats. Figured we could follow suit, so we did a nightmare EV (16m) in 1hr 49 min tonight ... and got nothing for it.

He just up and disappeared at ~50% health, respawned behind his new gate and came out at full health to smash some more faces in. This is in 16-player Nightmare Mode, post patch 1.1, as seen here: http://youtu.be/iknDuBquVIE

Biochemists do not have to reverse engineer to get their reusable Rakata Medpacks, Stims or Adrenals. They do however have to RE to get the lower level reusables.

The problem here is that Biochemists have access to stims, adrenals and medpacks that are not only reusable, but better than anything a non-Biochemist can use. They can be sold on the GTN, but they can only be used by Biochemists. The imbalance comes from the fact that the "profession exclusive" bind on pick-up items those with other professions can create do not compensates for the increased buffs/healing value of these biochem items. I think having reusable stims, adrenals and medpacks for Biochemists is fine, but the rest of us should at least have access to equivalent consumables. The pressure on those involved in competitive PvE or PvP to go Biochem is not a good thing.

The "scramble" is time-based. You don't need to send your companions out after gifts. Just close the crew skills window and wait 10-15 minutes.

The Modified DTB-27 Bolt Pistol is the correct color for a legendary (indigo), but in fact it's no different from a custom (orange) blaster pistol. It's stats and damage are entirely dependent on the mods put into it.