To the Devs working on Disciplines: Remember the NGE?

Take something like Aurora Cannon in Section X or Ancient Pylons in Eternity Vault. These would have to be completely reworked since they cannot be done without multiple people doing tasks at variable times. It's not a matter of having a companion do something for you.

The puzzle type fights are some of the most enjoyable to figure out and that is lost on a solo player. Everything would just be a tank and spank with no additional value over the content you can already do as a solo player. Literally every encounter would have to be designed with solo players in mind to make the content enjoyable.

I'll have to check when I get home and into the game, it's been a while since I've bothered to look at them.

It's not just that they're all actively bad, some are underwhelming, some seem way too dependent on circumstances, and some are just... not interesting.

Yea he's got a really funny view of the situation. I wonder if he was an SOE investor then or something, trying to justify his losses.

So in other words, you have no clue what you're talking about?

What? Ok, you're going to have to spell out exactly which trees you are talking about, because offhand, I can only think of two or three specs with lackluster top talents. The majority vastly improve the performance and flow of the spec.

Sentinels: Merciless Slash for Watchman does great damage while resetting the CD of another vital ability. Blade Rush in Combat is vital for proccing your Dispatch and auto-crit Bladestorm, which are key to the spec's burst ability. In Focus, Force Exhaustion produces stacks of Singularity, and more Singularity stacks means more uber-powered Force Sweeps. Not to mention all three specs have passives in the upper third of their tree that considerably boost their output.

Commandos: Bacta Infusion for Combat Medic is an excellent free, instant heal that vastly improves resource management, increases your healing output, and makes you much better at responding to burst damage. Demo Round for Gunnery is just excellent damage all around, and not picking up Curtain of Fire near the top of the tree is just foolish. Assault Plastique in Assault is the only one that I feel is kind of weak, as the spec has other dots for proccing its key abilities so it isn't vital for the function of the spec, but it is still a dps increase over not taking it.

Guardians: For Defense, just look at the tooltip for Guardian Slash; the shear number of perks tied to that ability is ridiculous. The existence of the hybrid tank spec owes more to the strength of the lower abilities in Vigilance than the weakness of the top of the tank tree, and even then, the hybrid makes considerable sacrifices for a little more durability. For Vigilance, Plasma Brand is vital for the stacks of ZenStrike, because not taking it drastically increases the time between Master Strikes, which is a *bad* thing. And Focus is the same story as for Sentinels.

Those are just the three classes I am most familiar with, and of them, only 1 out of 9 specs has a top tier ability that could be considered weak. So trying to argue that most top tier talents aren't worth taking is a load of crap.

edit: dang it, took too long to post, and someone beat me to it

They are almost always key abilities. Take the top tier of the Madness tree (since you mentioned you have a sorc).
With Creeping Terror y your Force Lightning hits 25% harder against targets affected by it, in addition to continuing to tick away itself.
Thundering Blast gives some burst, as well as a chance to proc Chain Lightning to instant cast and be free. Not to mention TB auto-crits against enemies affected by your Affliction. Not to mention TB has a 30% chance to do 30% more damage; RNG burst.

Yeah, a lot of the abilities on their own are meh... but they fit into a rotation and gain synergy with the other abilities in the tree or base abilities. Very few are lackluster when those effects are factored in.

Yea, I don't know. He has clung to this for some time, because he needed the NGE to be about saving the game from death for some reason.

It's a very odd stance to take to be sure.

Personally, I'm not a fan of puzzle mazes.

Instead of insisting that they all be taken out or changed. I just don't do those FPs / OPs. I do AC as part of the credit grind once or twice a week, it's not hard to find a group for that at some point between the resets on the weekly.

well there is a liar her eLA but sorry you only need to look in mirror

but only you would claim investment reports from a company (that been linked 1000000 times over for you, so not going to again) less reliable then some fan site report

But hey, you newest set of blinders are very flashy and colorful!

Lol Kalfear. You never cease to disapoint.

Kalfear. You were rebuked. Over and over again. I understand that that frustrates you, but you need to come to terms with it. Posting the same inaccurate information over and over is just sad.

Thanks. I liked the pair you use and decided to get my own.