OK this is getting rather silly regarding hard mode Flashpoint GF

game is slowly dying guys, no new content no people, most of them kids on vacations and gold spammers of course those keep the populations "light".

It was a lot harder than it is now, no it never was hard, but a few of the class fight boss fights did require people to play smart and I helped a many knight with their final boss fight. When I finally did it (third toon I leveled) it was easy, but I had seen the fight most likely 10 times by then and it had been nerfed.

I leveled a sawbones first, in my first MMO. I learned to use defensive cooldowns and interupts. Only had to have help with one fight "The Lightspring" on Tatooine. Still ticks me off that I couldn't get it myself, done it since on a slinger and it was a breeze, but slinger had better gear, I had a better knowledge of how to play a MMO and they had nerfed the heck out of the mission.

I think most people would say their first toons was hard, mine was. I did the Jedi Consular first, back on ver 1.1. I didn't understand gear very well, or the skills and such.... Rolled as a shadow, but never used it properly...

Today, my new alts are rich and well geared, and usually over leveled... I also have Treek, which the game wasn't designed for either...

Having full presence boost helps a lot with Treek, since I have at least one of every class at max everything, that makes new alts easy. Double that since even for starter planets I pay to get HK unlocked at level 1.

Do you know how easy the starter planets are with a companion? . Even if the gear doesn't work right, it doesn't matter.

Yeah for me it was, run a sentinel first couldn't finish then i started a shadow i finished, understood the game and then finish the sentinel.

Thats simple and already answered few times over

I been playing these games for 2+ decades (since first MMORPG NWN on AOL 1991-97) and am sick and tired of the drama and EPEEN contests found in modern guilds of all types

Ive looked anyways and have found no guilds that meet my requirement or expectations

I will NEVER join a guild that goes to zones and and broadcasts instant invites as their standards are way to low and they only interested in numbers, not quality.

So to find a guild that does suit my prefferences takes time and carerful screening

Are you suggesting I shouldnt be allowed to play while I do that search?

Amazes me how you all dont quite understand what GROUP FINDER is about

so did the OP roll a new tank yet?

I think he's still trying to figure out what we mean when we say that if DPS is easy you're doing it wrong.

I never insinuated that.
Group Finder is about finding you a group of people appropriate for that particular content from a pool of available people. If these people are not in the pool, there is nothing any developer can do about it, because it cannot be programmed around.

I've had mainly good HM FP GF experiences lately, queuing with my wife on Harbinger.

We queued as PT tank + Sorc heals (instant Q-pop ) and generally did okay until we got a sorc "DPS" in heal spec; group didn't have enough DPS and hit the rage timer on The Vigilant. The miss-q'd Sorc dropped out, we picked up a Sniper replacement, and had no problem. That Sorc was a bit keen to pull too, must have been new: started a lot of the fights and then pulled a group of seven silvers when the tank was out of range, and died quickly as a result. He/she said "I forgot to bubble," as if that would have helped much, but let the tank pull after that.

We also Q'd several times as 2 DPS operatives and did fine after moderate wait for Q pop - first time we ever finished the desert biosystem on CZ in only two sandstorms (overgeared DPS ).

Finally we Q'd as Heal+DPS (Sages) and did fine too.

It may just be that queuing with another person you can talk to during the op makes a big difference -- especially when it's heal+tank, where the heal can alert the tank to agro loss and track who the DPS agro-whores are. Don't let that last term fool you, "agro-whore" is a term of affection here. When I tank FPs I love high-output DPS and steal threat from them promptly when they grab agro.

You're not using target of target as a tank? Hell I use it on everything, but I can't imagine being able to tank without target of target up.