FFS when did the world become this whiny place where everyone needs to ban people for meaningless stuff? It is words. In a fictional game. Where we all play fictional characters. People want to give random people the power to ban people??? Like that won't get abused. This is a plague on society in general. get over yourselves. Your feelings are meaningless. Buck up and just deal with it.

1) There are several ways to learn to tank: a) As stated above, do heroics that are at level or slightly over with a DPS comp. b) Run the Flashpoints on Story mode c) Run the FP as a DPS d) Do all of the above and then run Master Mode FPs. Your role is needed there, and greatly appreciated. e) Run warzones on your Tank. Learn who to guard, how to use your CDs, how to interrupt. 2) Yes they were melting. Nor could they hold agro. What exactly should I do to change these facts? There are many FPs where the boss needs to be placed in a certain spot. How can this be effectively done if one person doesn't continuously hold threat? Lowbie tank in question was taunting when his taunt came off CD regardless of where the boss was, causing chaos. I only have one agro dump. Should I just auto attack and click koltos, causing the the FP to take 4x longer than it should? 3) I'm not saying lowbies shouldn't do anything. I am saying that I will follow the tank until he proves to be ineffective. I'm not going to gimp my run for your learning purposes. I am not going to purposely suck so a tank can learn to play. If I am leveling I will gladly help. If you are a lowbie tank and want to run FPs, I'll hop on my lowbie healer, and we can grab some lowbie DPS in chat and we can all queue together. But if I am running FPs on one of my max level toons, I want it done as fast as possible for more loot crates. This is the game that Bioware has created. They created FPs where no role is necessary. They made it to where gear is obtained by running FPs over and over again. They also made FPs you can run solo, to learn the basic mechanics. They gave you the option to respec to DPS to learn the fights. They gave us a mode where Tanks are necessary. They gave us companions that you can change roles. They gave us solo content that can be challenging and will test your tanking skills if you choose to not out level it. My time is just as important as your time. If you show you are a capable tank then Ill happily follow you. Otherwise don't stand on the tracks when the train is coming through.

What Flashpoints are you talking about? MM flashpoints go much smoother with a tank and healer because they are harder. The encounters are designed with the trinity in mind. Veteran flashpoints are designed to not require any role. Tanks aren't necessary, and usually just slow the group down. Healers aren't necessary either. Took me about 10 levels of healing flashpoints before I figured out I was just gimping the group with my crappy DPS.

Dear Vet mode tanks, Please spec DPS so we can finish the flashpoint faster. You can still learn the fight mechanics. Seriously, just last night there was a level 20 "tank" that would just melt every time he taunted and pulled agro. Me in my 234 commando tanked most of the fights and didn't drop below 75% health at anytime because I know how and when to use my DCDs. I do follow if you are geared. But if I'm going to be taking most of the agro anyways, I am going to set the pace.

I'm betting on it. My cargo holds are stuffed with loot crates.

This entire thread is pure comedy. SJWs are seriously the lamest people on the planet. Wahh wahh I need the government to make people I don't like go away.

Multiboxing is controlling multiple PCs (boxes) with one keyboard and one mouse. Pretty easy to do. I sucks in open world pvp when 10 rogues all back stab you at once and you just die. Don't really have that problem in SWTOR since you can just change instances if you don't want to open world pvp. If you can afford multiple subs, then have at it.

Change spec. PT's are usually first on the kill order because they melt like butter.

After a few times, I finally got past these guys today. On veteran. MM Sniper 234 gear, no augments. Bumped my comp up to lvl 20. Set to tank. Presence stim. You have to go all out nuke on one guy. Blow all CDs, use adrenal. Heroic moment, but don't bother using the attacks. Use the medpack that heals your companion. Once you kill one of them its easy. I could see this being tough for a class without many Defensive CDs. Snipers have quite a few that can all be refreshed.

just buy some cc

Returned to SWTOR after a long break about a month ago. Looking for other people in similar situation to start running ops on weeknights. Respond to this thread or message/mail in game "tweek" if interested.

You profit

You aren't a victim.

I just resubbed. Been out since 2014. Game is pretty fun. Flashpoint ques are quick. PVP ques are a bit slower. I've gotten 3 toons up to max level from 55 during double xp week. Haven't gotten into much endgame yet, but I don't have time to raid anymore so...yeah. It's a pretty decent solo MMO. Sucked me back in for at least a month.

I play MM. I have tested it out and it does it for all abilities, although it is more repeatable with Ambush at whatever cast time. I can keep it from happening if I wait to cast my next ability well after the first OS tick hits. Also the animation itself will stutter right before it happens. I never had this problem before 2.0. It happened on PTS, but with MUCH less frequency.