Lost Island, ***...

A) This is a FP that has a weekly for BH comms. They clearly intended this to be a progression FP. Sure the gear drops are crap and it only drops Tionese crystals and Tionese comms (not even Columi), but that's an itemization issue and not indicative of the difficulty of the FP.

B) Every class can interrupt - some have better interrupts than others (BH, crap interrupt on too long a CD, but whatever). Your group should have a least 1 other along with the tank that can interrupt. That's all you ever need. You just need to interrupt the right spells (not every spell) and not have a scrub healer.

C) Yes, this game is not very friendly to melee DPS, but it's not exactly friendly to a sniper either whose DPS depends on being stationary (especially the droid fight and Lorrick).

This FP is not gear dependent at all - it's about mechanics and coordination. Gear makes it slightly easier in that you can out-DPS a poor healer or tank, but it's only a very small portion of the success. I hate to say it, and usually don't, but this is L2P time - if you are consistently failing at this FP, check what you are doing and what your group is doing - clearly something is wrong there.

First of all I never said I was having trouble in the place, I was commenting on how a ranged stacked group, all with interupts, with full rakata, should have no trouble at all.

I just think it's kinda funny how in an 18 page thread about how hard it is for melee groups, newish 50's, and groups lacking interupts to complete the instance, you come in telling everyone how easy it was in your overgeared group of ranged dps with 4 interupts.

This. And if you have 2 melee DPS, even full Columi is doubtful.

If you really think it's your skill that did the job, try it again after downgrading half your pieces to say Tionese level, and bring 2 melee DPS, then come back and tell me how easy it was.

Try 3 minimum. The plasma arc is used about every 10 seconds, interrupts are on longer cooldowns than this. And you have to have someone for incinerate watching only that cause as soon as a plasma arc is interrupted, the droid will likely throw incinerate (as it has a 15 second cooldown).

They shouldn't have "no trouble at all." I never said that. The fights are difficult and require understanding the mechanics and coordinating the group. If you can't do that, you will fail no matter how well geared you are. Gear is not everything, contrary to popular belief.

And it really doesn't matter how many interrupts you have - you just need to interrupt the right spells, not all of them, as I said before. We may have had a slight advantage in our group, but for all intents and purposes, we only have 3 interrupts because the healer is not going to stop heals and interrupt a boss ability. And it's still possible to miss or have 2 burn on the same cast - having interrupts is not an instant "I win" button for any fight.



There's a lot of people in this thread complaining about that, but there are also posts from people who have said they've done it successfully in melee heavy groups. Learn the mechanics - i.e. don't stand in the fire. His incinerate is a cone, melee DPS should be behind him. It's also possible to kite him to move him out of the lightning storms - ranged have to move to get out of them, if you're melee stacked, you move the whole group plus boss instead of just the group (and we had two spawn on the tank/boss and had to move the boss). Again, learn the mechanics - sure it's harder, but you're talking like it's impossible if you don't have ranged. That's crap.

Also, there is a progression to FPs, just like there is in Ops. If a fresh 50 expects to faceroll HM LI in a PUG, they're deluding themselves. There's a normal mode which will help those players learn the fights and other HMs to get some better gear before they attempt this on HM.

As others have said, people complained about content being too easy, and now that we have good, hard fights with some real progression built-in, we have "it's too hard" posts on the forums within hours of the patch going live. You just can't please anyone these days. It's too much of the entitlement mentality combined with people thinking they want hard, progression content, failing at it, and then realizing they really didn't want that, they just wanted free purples.