I have to toss it in as well that this is bugged. This fight would be challenging enough to the masses with the OS working on all the adds. If its intended then give the two left (not literally left) with shields a buff or the group a debuff or something to indicate that the OS won't work on the other two. Absolutely love the difficulty of the new HM FPs but this needs fixing.

I have been around since early access with no breaks and I have tried every aspect of the game. I am an experienced OPs PVE'r and dabbled in PVP and GSF. Now not that I'm getting tired of OP's but I liked PVP and GSF a lot as well however I find there is no way you can really survive in PVP/GSF unless you completely devote to it unlike OPs where you can be a casual OPs player. I mean I do OK in some battles but for the most part it's just me reloading at the spawn point cuz people who play all the time are just so damn good. Is there anyway we could have a more matchable system where people who can devote that amount of time to the game get to have acceptable queue times and people who want to just PVP/GSF for a night don't have their evening wasted by being farmed by pros? P.S. no offence to the pros. Your doing what you are doing.

Seems I am only allowed 1 level 6 Underworld Metal gathering mission at a time. Is anyone else having the same issue? Also there are only Abundant or Moderate gathering missions at level 6 for some gathering skills. This is not as it always was.

I forgot about the change and didn't really notice a difference. The spikiness is not as prominent which is good. I am generally good with the changes although I would like to see shadow protection duration increased even just a hair. I can keep it at 4 stacks forever if all I do is basic rotation but this is boring. If I stray outside of the basic rotation I find myself literally being a fraction of a second too late to keep the 4 stacks. I understand that the self heals were not reliable either but the main difference to me is that now I have ANOTHER stacking buff to watch for and it doesn't leave me enough of a window to change tactics to other things. Those 4 stacks could be the difference when I am taking a ton of damage and need to interrupt an add or tank swap. Thok I totally understand your view but I think this may also be about the groups we are playing with as well. Not everyone who is good at shadow tanking plays with the best tanks in the world not to mention you probably play with the best healers and dps in the world as well. There is forgiveness when everyone is an A+ player after all we are still only human

I have learned a lot from Kitru, KBN, and Xin. Congratz to all for being nominated and I am sure Kitru will do a fine job.

It's simple, the word is out because of real life experience, not math. Shadow tanks are not a welcome sight in ops. It is really really happening that we are being turned away and replaced by guardians. I say good for guardians but shame to whoever did this to us for not correcting this totally obvious situation. I see it also in the gear. Not one piece of underworld gear has BIS enhancements. Alacrity? Accuracy? come on. I listened to a GS today from my guild show off his MH underworld and say "look at it. It's perfect. All the mods are perfect". Now I've played every class from dps to heals to tank and none other used to match my shadow being fun and a challenge to play properly. Now it's just being drained of all that.

Unfortunately my money is on no fix. I believe a fix will come but not for awhile. I am thumbs up for a fix to this btw. I have really seen evidence of the problem since tanking S&V HM. A DR bonus in our skill tree is probably the best since we have a lot of extra damage skills we could shed if we want to PVE or keep the damage skills and not the DR if we want to PVP. This may not be a straight across trade off but covered over multiple skills. Who knows. What I do know is that bioware/EA should be taking any help offered to them for FREE to help solve imbalance but should take the time needed to explore a proper fix.

Slow Time also reduces the damage output of all targets by 5%. I did not like putting Shadow Strike in my rotation in the beginning but I decided to try it. Now I love it. It procs almost all the time and is only 2 force more than double strike(after psychokinesis and shadow wrap bonuses) and can proc particle acceleration.

Regarding the 39/3/4 build. Totally works. However I don't believe there is any need for psychokinesis anymore. I used to have 2 points in it and no matter what I tried I could not drain my force out unless I chained whirling blow:rolleyes: I would suggest taking Martial Prowess only because I get lots of use out of it as a quality of life power as an extra interrupt or a knock down as the situation dictates. Plus hey it does damage on top of those things.

Cartel Market is a salad bar. Take what you want and leave the rest if you can afford it. I myself have paid money so I can get packs to gamble for something I want, or to sell on the GTN, and to buy skins to trick out my toon's appearance but if I couldn't afford it I would still play. It would be impossible to please everyone. If EA makes enough extra money in a specific area then they will flesh the area out further to maximize it's potential and use some of those resources to other areas of the company that make financial sense to them. If the Cartel market makes them more money it in all probability will be good for SWTOR. As for trolls... If you come on the forums with negativity towards a game in general or the company that makes it then you are a troll. If you are just giving your opinion about what you think about an aspect of the game then your not. Simple. Look if you don't like a game so much why are you not going to customer service? None of us can help you with your displeasure. If you get no action there don't spend another dime on it and play something else? Your wasting your time here. The forums are full of negativity because if the people who are having fun with the game have free time THEY WILL BE PLAYING THE GAME not throwing happy face threads all over the forums or sifting through all the bash threads. People who are liking the game come on the forums for/(to give) advice on their character or for strategies in PVE/PVP. I mostly go to specific topics when I'm here for said advice but when I have a spare moment at work I will sometimes reply to threads like this one to offer my support against smear campaigns trying to recruit people to leave the game. Otherwise I'm playing one of my favorite games of all time with my guildies that for the most part don't go on the forums at all because they don't particularly like hearing whining and crap (not to be confused with constructive criticism).

Please, first of all realize there is no hate intended and that I am simply imparting my experience to the community in the hopes that this issue will be identified and solved by Bioware. There is no doubt that there is a problem. I am a founder from a deleted server that was moved to Harbinger before the mega servers were rolled out. People on general chat are mentioning it now and then when it was never mentioned before. Everywhere I go I see lag spikes and everyone I team with is seeing the same thing and has been seeing it since shortly after the mega servers were introduced and it has become worse with F2P going live. It makes the game unplayable sometimes and should be looked at. Also I don't know if this is linked but it started happening the same time. As soon as the mega servers went online I noticed that loading the game took a lot longer. Before, I would double click my desktop icon, input my user name and password, and if there were no updates then it would almost immediately make the "PLAY" button available. Now there is a long wait of approx. 3 minutes. I have an above average PC that is about one year old.

My guild is having issues with EC HM. Most likely due to the fact that we only raid on weekends but it has really turned into a brick wall for us. We have not attempted TFB HM but all other ops are absolutely no problem for us including EC SM pre nerf. We have defeated Zorn and Toth twice recently and are having trouble with them again probably due to over dps since we are seeing weird stuff like Toth jumping to Zorn just before the red circle phase ends. The 2 times we faced FB and SC it was disheartening to say the least. I am a shadow tank and I find that threat is being ripped away from me after double destruction. Most likely due to high dps again. We are having trouble making it the shields quickly enough as well. FYI we use the tank switch method of dealing with the incinerate armor. I know we just need to learn the timing of things better and sharpen our skill but any tips that might help would be much appreciated. Thanks

I love ripping through FPs as fast as you can. I also however realize that its an MMO and not everyone is into that. I slow down for everyone who needs to. Last night I played my alt healer and the random I got on was 2 totally geared sents for dps, a brand new 50 shadow tank, and myself geared in rak/BH. It was apparent that the shadow had not done the FP before and although there were mistakes made because of that no one lost it and we burned through it pretty fast. I remember what one of the sents said afterward when the shadow apologized for their mistakes and thanked us for our patience, he said "everyone has to do it a first time".

I agree with the OP totally. So I should only grind BH comms with my main so I can transfer over the mods through legacy gear... So when should I play my alt? Only when I have all BH Mods? The main problem I see also is there is a huge gap in gear advancement. Please tell me if I'm wrong but there are only 2 ops which drop campaign and higher which is of course EC HM and TFB HM. Since the majority of people believe that you need to have all BH mods to even attempt those 2 what is the point of doing EC HM if not for the main hand HILT. Oh sorry and to clear the quest for the nightscythe. The fix is simple enough. We have tionese comms, columni comms, and then BH comms? Why do they not have a daily or weekly for rakata and campaign comms?

You did nothing wrong. Just the same as you did not ask to "need" it, they did not inquire as to why you did. I encounter this all the time. I belong to a raiding guild and we look to pugs once in awhile due to RL issues. If it happens once during a FP with gear that is of no consequence then it isn't even mentioned. If it happens a second time then it will be questioned and if there is some sort of "assumed" edequette then it will be explained. However. I would like to say that ninjas always leave people feeling very bitter and resolute to never letting it happen again. So they may have been sore still from a previous encounter. Take the high road and move on without malice.