Why is nobody asking for advice on how to play?

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Ya'll missed the sarcasm...

You'll raise me a post that was posted before mine, by the same person, and has less detail than mine?

Also, it can be done with someone and their companion, with relative ease. Just because you cannot doesn't mean what he said isn't true.

He even said in his post that some people might not be able to do it alone (at least at first).

I came here from Wildstar and am in a raiding guild that's on the cusp of taking on Avatus (for those who know the raids and such). In that game raids in that game consist of 20 people and the mechanics can be quite unforgiving. Everyone must play their part or the raid fails. I'm not an elite player but I can certainly hold my own.

While I agree that the companions were overtuned in 4.0, I think they got hit too hard in 4.0.2.

I have several level 65 toons; my main is a Sith Inquisitor. Alliance influence is 12 or higher for each of the alliance NPCs, so yeah i get and use the alliance items. My gear is mostly 216s, one 220, and a couple of 208s. I've found that my level 29 Scorpio became pretty useless as a healer post 4.0.2. I tried taking down a Knight of Zakuul a few times. Her heals were pretty small and after awhile she'd just sit there doing nothing while my health dropped. Thanks, Scorpio. I then tried her out as a tank and that went somewhat better.

The biggest issue I have is in heroic SFs is the 3rd generator room and getting overwhelmed by mobs that storm into the room. Seems no matter how I set her up (tank, heals, dps) Scorpio and I pretty much die quickly.

All 4.0 companions did was mask how poor the companions were coded and the bugs only add to frustration levels

And a lot of people forget its NOT the hard core raider or pvp player or player with 16 toons legacy 50 that is the core audience and pays the bills. Its the casuals and the cartel store whales.

Even if you still think that this is all correct and everyone just need l2p you should be concerned how this whole situation was handled by the Dev Team. They tried to sneak through a sweeping change only to be caught out by data mining. After forum went ablaze they were forced to make a statement.

Then patch hits and forums really go up in flames and you got threads with hundreds and thousand + posts going up all over and silence for 2 days then. Then having the gall to ask for feedback ?!!?!?!?

I dont believe for 1 sec all of that keep defending BW can stand there with straight face and say BW did not mishandle this and created a customer service shi*t storm that is causing them lost subs.

I never said i couldn't do it. did it last night it's time consuming and not worth the rewards now

You quoted a post he made I quoted one were said something different. Honestly, I think the one you quoted was a Cover my hiney post from the day before. don't get your feeling hurt

I don't have a problem killing any mobs because the game is not more difficult. I would really like to do dailies without falling asleep or wanting to log off and watch paint dry. I don't use healing companions my companions are almost always in tanking or dps stance but if you have some advice to get their damage back up to around 4.0 numbers so I can quest at a fun pace I would appreciate it. Also defense is bugged when companions are in tank stance so if you have any advice on how to get Bioware to address that issue would appreciate it.

How do you claim to know otherwise? Were you there? Complaining on the forum might not be enough but cutting the money sure will. Even for those addicted, being ftp for a month or two to prove a point wont hurt. I suggest everyone who is unhappy with the changes think it over at the very least. It is to make the game we love better. Money is the only language they speak.

Heroic SF was really hard for me pre-patch and now I think it is too hard, at least on my one character that has gone through KotFE so far. But I wouldn't ask for advice because:

- I can find a lot of tips already without having to specifically ask.

- A lot of people are rude or condescending, or will simply state the above point.

- Advice often consists of some variation of "play something different", disregarding that I am playing my chosen AC/discipline because I like it and want to play it.

- My skill will only take me so far, and all the advice in the world can't change this. Sorry, I am not a master kiter that can simultaneously micromanage my companion and cooldowns and procs while keeping an eye on the clicky thing that needs to be clicked at a certain time and the adds that spawn on opposite sides of the room 4 seconds later while paying attention to the boss's 2 second cast bar to interrupt their super attack . . . all, of course, while keeping out of fire and DPS'ing in melee range. I exaggerate, but hopefully you get the idea. I am just not that awesome.

That said, I am not really upset that I can't solo Heroic SF -- I will simply not do it, except grouping for it once when and if I want the associated companion. But I am peeved that grinding H2's (which I can still do!) is more tedious. Not more fun or a challenge, it just takes longer!

It's a cycle common to MMOs, they release an expansion, server populations increase dramatically while people consume the new content over the course of a month or two, then drop as the hardcore players get bored and drop out until the next expansion. More casual players do not consume content as quickly, so some players remain even several months later, working their way through the content.

It's not possible to create enough content, fast enough, to satisfy the first group. There are constant complaints because most companies don't even try. They could extend the active period by a month or two, but it would take longer to develop the expansion or cost more to develop and this would not translate into more profit for the company and would still result in the same complaints when there is a gap between expansions.

Arenanet with Guild Wars 2 tried to do what BW plans to do, they divided up their content into small updates over the course of several months, and players complained that they finished each chapter in a day or two and went back to the same old grind... eventually they caved in and went to the waiting.... expansion... waiting.... model that other games use.

Companies want happy customers who spend money. But spending more money to make them happy than the customers are spending lead to bankruptcy and no company or customers at all. So they have to balance "happy customers" with "budget for creating content to make customers happy." This means that some customers are going to be unhappy. There is no way to make everyone happy and still make a profit.