Guess you're right.... next time I'll think twice before I apologize to someone, anyway I'm done here.

Sorry I didn't know that, I just thought you got carried because you only done R-4 Anomaly once on story mode, how was I supposed to know you did it on HM...

Then what should they do if they can't get carried ? Never do this operation even on the lowest difficulty ? No I think we should give them a chance to finish this operation on story mode at least by nerfing it again.

Okay first of all 20K DPS is an average number and second I can do over 30K DPS against some bosses, but you got to understand that some players simply can't do those numbers, I have seen players on Youtube and in game who can't even do the average 20K DPS and these are players with rotations mind you. how can you expect them to learn to do something they can't do ?

Sorry man but it seems you got carried by better players it happened to me a few times too 🙂

So what you want to let players wipe 6+ times on IP-CPT or Lady Dominique and then leave the group ? or worse leave the game ? just because you want some challenge in an SM operation, sorry but that's not how story mode operations work they are supposed to be easy or at least a bit challenging like Gods from the machine or Nature of Progress, without major DPS checks and doable by most players and not just by the top 5% of level 80 players. And one final note I have seen DPS players with rotations that can't even scratch the number 20K so keep that in mind.

what's hard is the DPS check on IP-CPT and Lady Dominique SM, against IP-CPT SM when the boss reach about 25-30% health there is a 60 seconds timer so you have only 60 seconds to kill the boss before it explodes and kills the entire group, against Lady Dominique there is also a DPS check when Lady Dominique reach to 23% Health she summons a swarm of monsters and this is the burn phase, now every DPS Player need to do at least 20K DPS against her before the monsters overwhelm you, now most players can't do 20K DPS against her let alone against a dummy, that's why I always run this operation with my DPS players except for a few times when I ran it with my healer or my Tank, there are the Recursive blasts which knock back players too. and that's why R-4 Anomaly on SM is hard.

Well spoken not all players don't have a life and play all day and are the top 5% of the best players who can clear anything within 1 hour or 2 hours, having a weekly lockout for R-4 Anomaly SM could be nice, let's hope the developers read this.

That's exactly the problem most of these raiding guilds have players that can't even do 20K DPS against a training Dummy and I'm talking to you about players with Rotations, now the final burn against Lady Dominique requires every DPS to do more than 20K DPS during the burn phase (23% health) which most players simply can't do, and why would anyone want to form a team on discord or join a raiding guild just to do a story mode operation ?? I pugged R-4 Anomaly SM 14 times successfully but then again I only invited players who can do 20K DPS.

Just remove the damn puzzle it makes casual players leave the game because some of them have never completed a puzzle, and yes you are right the bonus boss should be more accessible to all players it should not be locked behind a puzzle as well.

This flashpoint isn't broken it's just a puzzle that you need to complete by igniting the several braziers around you, try watching my video on the Shrine of silence puzzle : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z1WrnEy1QY&pp=ygUpU1dUT1IgU2hyaW5lIG9mIHNpbGVuY2UgZnVsbCBwdXp6bGUgZ3VpZGU%3D but yeah you are right the Developers should remove this puzzle from this flashpoint.

I agree the fires coming from the ground need to be more visible I see many players standing on the fire and burning to death, the fires needs to look brighter instead of dark like they are now. I agree with you the burn phase against Lady Dominique should to start at 15% health, but also the recursive blasts circles needs to knockout only 2 players instead of 4 players right now it's too hard for most pugs.

Please nerf IP-CPT the first boss in R-4 SM and Lady Dominique the final boss in R-4 SM, now I finished R-4 Anomaly on SM 8 times with pugs since release so I can do this if I gather good players but not all the time ,here are the reasons why this operation need a second nerf : IP-CPT is destroying most pug groups there is AoE Damage almost everywhere, then there are those terminals you need to click on, destroy the exploding intrusion droids and the other droids, now Bioware can nerf these 2 factors but the DPS check during the burn phase should be nerfed above all during this encounter this 60 seconds burn timer needs to be removed from Story mode it kills so many groups it's overkill for pugs and even guilds. now about Lady Dominique SM the nerf that we got during 7.1.1 was the reduction of Lady Dominique's health from 46 Million to 45 Million and what do I think about it : it's not enough most groups still can't defeat Lady Dominique on SM players who can't do more than 20K DPS can't finish it, I do between 22K and 27K against her so for me it's not a problem and I have met players who just can't do more than 11K and 12K DPS who could not defeat Dominique after bringing 5 DPS players against her, so I say Reduce Lady Dominique health to at least 40 Million HP, and also remove the yellow Recursive circles that push you around during the burn phase so that most groups can finally defeat her and finish their story mission. R-4 Anomaly is a fun operation with good story and I think that most players should enjoy it not just HM raiders like me, and think about it if this operation gets the nerfs I listed above many players will return to the game after leaving at 7.1 and then again at 7.1.1 and we will have more players to do this operation with because right now the situation isn't looking good, players don't want to do this operation because they know they can't clear it on Story mode which is the lowest difficulty of an operation in this game, this operation needs a big nerf this time it's been 8 months now since this operation was released.

As one who cleared R-4 anomaly on SM on 12th of august as a healer I used a Raid/operation buff during the burn phase and we completed the operation after 4 wipes, now I had to relog to my healer and look for a new DPS now before you say that we defeated Lady Dominique because the DPS of the new player was higher than mine listen to this: we wiped then again after he joined us and I used my buff too late when most of the DPS died, it was my fault of course but on the 5th attempt I used my Raid Buff at the burn phase when all the DPS were still alive and at the end only 2 DPS players died to the monstrosities. and this after this successful night I formed a group again as a DPS and we wiped again, after the group was disbanded I checked the combat logs of the healers on Star pars e and I noticed something they didn't use their Raid buffs even once during the burn phase.... so that's when I realized that the problem was a lack of buffs, so try it tell your healers to use their Raid/operation buffs during the burn phase and you will most likely kill Dominique.

hey guys we just cleared R-4 Anomaly on SM and it was hard, I had to switch roles just so we can do it because some players left, I mean we got Lady Dominique twice to 1% and 0% health and then Lady Dominique killed us, the secret is to gather a group of experienced players who at least got to the last boss, (we were fleet pugs) still it shouldn't be like this we are not supposed to do an SM progression for SM operations, now before you call us complete pugs understand that we all have done it before, and that's why it should be nerfed immediately I don't want to form another progression team just for an SM operation lol.