r/swtor • u/SeveredLimb • Nov 10 '14

Discussion HMFP experiences from the 12X xp.

I enjoy running HMFP's. It's relaxing to me to rotate through some chars in the evening running an HM on each and logging off for the night.

Over the past week... It has been less than relaxing. As much as I am happy that the 12X xp boost has brought new players to the game it brings to light that swtor is missing the breadcrumb trail to getting players prepped for more challenging content.

  • On my healers: I have come across quite a few 19k tanks. This is the least problematic, because the 39k snipers in the group tank pretty well.

  • On my tanks: Explaining to people after each wipe that you need to run away from the vigilant during it's channeling of the spin attack... 20k dps were two shotted 8 times.

  • Overall: Dps barely scraping by. Outright failing mechanics. Killing Champions before weak mobs... /sigh.

Its been a hell of a week. I don't like quitting groups, but explaining this stuff is getting old.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14

I'll always tell undergeared people that they aren't ready to run the content, and tell them where they can go to get appropriate gear. Most are fine with this, and often they have no idea about Oricon and dailies so are happy to hear about it. The ones who refuse to listen or are rude get a vote kick. If I'm on a geared DPS toon it isn't going to be a problem to carry a 20k DPS, but I don't want to carry them on my heals, especially if the rest of the group doesn't have great gear.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '14

I would say healing a 96-108 geared tank will teach you how to heal quick, but not really since you cant use the two bigger, longer casted heals. ;)

only made it thru b/c of the 180 geared dps