Been thru Voss 3 times - IT. NEEDS. REBALANCING.

Whoever said it was the armor debuffs is spot on.

10 seconds into the fight and you have 5+ debuffs that all take away a decent chunk of armor...

Well, i haven't been to Voss yet, but nevertheless I think it's always a good idea to quote Georg when the difficulty topic comes up:

You are suppose to time when you break from the threat.

So as a dps, you will want to use your med pack first, put up your wards and soak up the damage as good as a tank at that point. Use all your interrupts, and your dps rotation.

Then break from threat with your invis before dying, and then your companion can take some dmg.

When they die your other cool downs should be refreshed such as med pac and wards, if not then use the med pac and use your slow and kite the target until the other timers are cooled down.

Its not easy, but thats the best you can do. If that does not work, then you need to be a higher lvl.

Also other than med pac you are suppose to use stims, adernals, and your relics.

Its not easy to coordinate all of that without practise, and unfortunately swtor does not allow you to practise that unless you are in a FP, or in pvp since if you are on your own the targets are too easy and die quickly before you can practise long rotations, or they are too hard and dying to them makes you have to wait for the respawn and of course the high costs.

Also you can try to kite, or use your environment more. If it is a melee boss, then running around while your companion attacks them is probably the easiest if that works, or if they are ranged try line of sight tactics. The line of sight tactics needs a large enough object to block the targets view.

edit: Also dont forget to use heroic call. and timing the bonus ability you get with that which becomes refreshed, and using that ability first, and then using heroic call.

In the end it becomes a rotation as complicated as it sounds, and there are some situation interrupts or even using the environment as such, but if you want to practice then I would start with perfecting the rotation, and then trying to use the environment more since imo, when you are using the environment you are so familiar with your rotation that you wont be distracted by looking around, kiting etc.

To help with rotations, for me, I wrote it on paper and of course practiced lvling up. So when I started to pvp, using keybinds was not difficult and using the rotations for dmg or other depending on class.


edit:1 So that training driod for 1.2 I hope it is what it is, and we can practice rotations on it. That should also help.

Voss is easy. No fix or changes are required. Next!

Over and over I read posts by players who complain that the game is too easy and that they want a challenge, but when there is an actual hard quest or encounter the cries of "nerf this" go flying around faster than you can blink. I've leveled a Juggernaut, a Sniper, and most recently a Powertech through Voss and each time I did the Gormak Sabotage quest I had to work my tail off to not die from the opening salvo but I beat them, and I wouldn't change a thing about that quest. Use the tools the game gives you instead of begging for wowmode aka easymode gaming where you press a button and you get insta-epics.

I've done Voss on a Sage (healer) and Guardian (tank) with absolutely no power / balance problems anywhere on the planet.

Nah, there's just one quest, the area quest with the 2 strong mobs.

other than that, it's cake.

Played though it with my Defense spec Guardian and Kira, and never had any more problems then anywhere else. The hardest thing I deal with up to 50 was the elite Sith Battlelords on Corellia who were guarding the big guns. Those I had to actually use Doc on.

OP needs to L2P. Don't panic and dont mash buttons randomly. Gear up (go nuts on AH for purples or equip decent mods in your oranges, and use stims EQUAL to your level.


Learn how to put a slow on a "boss, elite strongs" , kite, hide and LOS behind a object. Bounce aggro between your pet and you and combine your health with your pet's to that big healthpool...

Any class in this game can solo champs, you just have to practice and RELLY learn your class, and a little "quest line/class boss is a fart in the universe.

And no you don't stand toe to toe like a wow-nub. Play in pve as you play in PvP.

Learn what abilities and attacks the mobs use and use your brain/spec/abilities/cd/consumables/friends to counter them (as in all pve, fp, Op. Nightmares etc. Instead of running to the forums crying about it.

That is what MMOS are ALL about.

They definitely shouldn't nerf quests unless they're also planning to nerf the hard mode flashpoints and operations, because the quests teach you how to play. I've noticed a pattern in my guild where the people who ask for help completing quests tend to perform poorly in end game. The most common problems are:

--they don't know when to interrupt (if there are multiple spells, they interrupt the least damaging one, for example)
--they don't know how to LoS (line of sight will save your butt on many occasions)
--they don't know how to swap aggro with their companion (aggro management is very important in end game)
--they don't know how to kite (there are many occasions when it's good to make sure the thing chasing you can't actually hit you)
--they don't know how to cc, or they break the cc (crowd control is essential in many fights)
--they don't pick the best place to stand and get knocked into other mobs

These are just some of the things I've noticed when people ask me for help, and after we're done I explain how they could've soloed it. Sadly, a lot of people don't want to hear the post mortem; they just wanna press on to the next quest and make all the same mistakes.

This game does have an identity crisis in that it was designed for story people who tend to know very little about raiding, yet the closer you get to end game the more raiding skills are required.