The game isn't too hard. It's cryptic.

 

Cryptic (adj): mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous

 

The game wouldn't be cryptic if we could see combat logs detailing how much damage we're doing and what killed us. Then tank and spank wouldn't be "hard" again for the first time in 6 years.

 

Go play WoW hard modes again before you cry panda land and you'll see how dps meters cause mechanics to actually require more movement and raid awareness, making the game more fun. Granted, in WoW by the end of Cataclysm, those mechanics amount to pressing a button to avoid raid damage, but it's still better than tank and spank with random enrage mechanics and no way to fix the problem except by replacing BOTH dps.

well you very well may get a combat log in the future, however bioware has specifically stated that they will not allow third party interface mods into the game. if they allow addons they'll impliment those themselves.

ok, you don't see the point, when it's a four person group for a flashpoint and two are dps with the best gear possible to get at 50 right when you could hit 50 (ie correllia gear), yet we're doing the best we can and still hit enrage timers on the first hard flashpoint you're to do to get gear, then something is wrong.

Maybe you should gear up through lvl 50 dailies and normal instances before rushing to hard-modes ? While there certainly are enrage timers in the game atm that are poorly tuned, the Black Talon ones are not. They are completely doable, although as I posted in my hard-mode summary thread about a week ago they are probably too hard for people who are new to MMOs.

Also, claiming you need a parser etc to figure out effective prioritizations/rotations is just pure BS. While you probably won't be able to push your class to the absolute max, it should be fairly easy to reach 95+% of your potential.

As for the whole "enrage timers are stupid" argument, without enrage timers not a single one of the hard-mode fights in this game would actually be hard. Almost every group will have a dpser that is able to throw out some heals or shields on the side, and if they didn't have to worry about putting out dps that would completely trivialize the content. And it's not like they can tune the content to require that either, as it would lead to a flood of complaining about dpsers having to heal.

So you admitted in your post that you aren't performing well.

 

Why should bosses die for you again?

Thanks but like others said, how am I to know how to improve? pop relics each time they're up do dps rotation, repeat, move when necessary. Doing the best I can atm and enrage timers just pop no matter what, only thing I can improve is gear, which is impossible if I can't get past the enrage timers, endless cycle of "just freaking pvp till I get champion gear so I can actually do hard modes"

Personally not a fan of Enrage timers.

I do like when a boss will heal themselves after a while meaning that if you say roll into a flashpoint with 1 tank 1 dps and 2 straight healers your just wasting your time.

Enrage timers are a crutch used when you can't obtain an ending naturally. I'm actually a proponent of the opposite and have a boss hit like a truck towards the beginning because that makes sense. As the fight goes on we're all worn down.

Maybe have the boss joined by adds. How about having the environment itself be a factor in the fight. Instead of the boss suddenly becoming super, which really makes no sense, have the platform your on start to degrade from the figthing.

Regardless, the first max level Flashpoint should be doable in Max Lvl - 2 gear. The next one should require lvl 50 Gear plus a few Flashpoint pieces.