2.0 Hardmode Flashpoints are not worth the payout.

I just have to say one thing.

"find a guild and stop pugging!"

as if a guild tag somehow magically makes players better and content - easier.

news flash, majority of the people you get in random pugs? they wear guild tags.

whether flashpoints are too hard or too easy or something in between depends on who's judging. but guild is not some magical fix to the difficulties someone might be having.

So its been a week of doing these new hardmodes and without question they need to be fixed. The cost of repairs, time, and effort level vs the payout is beyond off scale. These are the current problems as i have seen so far. feel free to add what i may have missed.

1. Bosses drops BLUE gear really? And dont hold your breath but a whooping 2 elite tokens . what is the point. If i can craft the level of gear given is too low.

2. Boss difficulty levels are set too high, perhaps they were set for pts when we all had full gear but no one does now, for example the wookie in cademimu spawns so many death trolls so fast it is near impossible to beat. the heat beam in hammer station cause so many wipes everyone quit. Both times i got que no we did not make it past the first boss.

3. Repair cost are tooo high to make the 10k payout at the end worth anything. The last run caused 5 wipes at a cost of 23k per wipe. so to do this flashpoint and get 0 gear from it i spent over 100k in repairs.

4. The overall payout for the vs the cost of gear per tokens if the gear goes from 80-140 tokens per item the payout is just not worth the repair bills or time.

i love flashpoints but if they cause more stress then fun i do not see any reason to do them at all. Doing a raid has a far better payout with less cost in repairs.

Tiny problem with that. The mechanics are almost the same as in the sm fp, FPs that are meant for players between levels 15 and 30. As such saying that they require operation type tactics is silly at best, insulting to anyone that has ever done ops at worst.
If you are not faced with the simplest of tank and spank fights you will always wipe, if you do not know the mechanics of it.


As for poor rewards. The last time I checked, the last and bonus boss drop ops level gear.

Ok then why have the tanks not be tanks?? I suffer more dmg 10 times over now than I ever had before! If they allowed tanks to be tanks, I wouldn't have such a problem with the new hardmodes. But dying from trash mobs hitting too hard is a big problem. And its because of this fact that more and more people quit being tanks and switch to dps.

Yeah. they obviously did a little more than increase the HP and damage of those low level flashpoints when they converted them into lvl 55 HM. While it's not near the diffculty of a operation it did add some op like mechanics that weren't present in lvl 50 hardmodes.

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It has gotten to the point that I don't even want to play anymore. It's not that it is too hard, it is the time commitment. The sheer weight of considering all the stuff I am going to have to do just to gear up makes me want to just do something else.