Groupfinder Flashpoints Beginner's Guide 

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This should be mandatory viewing before going into a FP!!!

I recall one flashpoint i queued as Healer 😊, with my mercernary, and the guys was so amazing that explained me how to heal the littel i could, we took one hour but we did it, it's so satify to find such nice people

I've been playing since the game came out and one thing that I feel is necessary is to say "Hi" to your group however you want. Then when the FP is done you say "Thanks for the group" or "Thanks for the run". Usually I say Howdy and Thanks for the run as my go to words.

Why am I watching this? I've been playing Flashpoints for at least five years.

the more videos I watch from Swtorista the more it makes me wanna play SWTOR again XD

9:53 We'll take him together--- No I'm taking him NOW --- No Anakin NO!

Cant believe you still make videos. Thats some dedication.

I've been using the GF to do a lot of MM FP the past week to farm the weekly Ossus mission, and I must say that I had some of the most fun times ever when repeating a boss fight of master mod for like 7 times, and MAN! when you finally beat him, and everyone goes nuts and congrats each other. I just LOVE IT

The dps should be killing weak to strong not going after what the tank is attacking. This will help the healer from drawing agro, and make the non-boss fights go a lot smoother. When I tank I can tell the dps know their job if the elite is the last thing to die in any given mob. Any level DPS should be able to solo on one strong or 3 weaks per fight

Now you gotta make tutorials for every single flashpoint. Thanks for making these! I used to just do flashpoints. I think they've changed, I've been focusing more on heroics and story. I wanna get back into flashpoints again. I help take care of my little sister so I've been guilty with letting my group know I was AFK(away from keyboard) and they've always been nice, and I'm nice too when other players have to AFK as well.

Another thing you could add that i found useful in flashpoints is being able to combat rez with support classes such as mercenary or operative. As always great video!

I'm a veteran noobie! I took a long, long break and now I am back and watching your videos! they are pretty helpful

I gave up saying it's my first time in flashpoints for a while, because it was clear nobody was listening, they were still rushing ahead, expecting me to know every weird speedrun trick, and yelling "skiiiip" during the cutscenes (this was stuff like Hammer Station where they're really short, too). But after I ran Kaon Under Siege for the first time and it ended with a particularly annoying player typing "....." in the chat a bunch of times when everyone didn't do everything perfectly and ending the run by saying "**** run," I decided to give it a shot for my run of Lost Island (I was queueing for specific ones). As soon as I could, I said "hi, first time, won't skip cutscenes" and it was the chillest run I've ever had, no weird shortcuts (don't know if the flashpoint has any), they made sure we got all the holorecordings, and nobody rushed me during the one conversation there was.

one main advise i would give all (not just new) DDs: focus the weakest mobs first in groups, as they die fastest and deal the same damage as the elite mobs

Swtorista, I currently play WoW and have played SWTOR, ESO, GW2 and others and by far you have the best mmo guides! Keep up the great work you do!!!

11:00 My rule of thumb with Need/Greed in group finder is Need only if you can use that item (ie, its a better helm than what you have), greed anything you would just sell to vendors or common mats, and pass on anything you honestly don't even want to go through the trouble of selling. In OPs groups I run, I have Master Looter on and keep track of everyone's loot. I say "Who needs this item?" Whoever needs the item and has needed the least of those people gets the item. In ties, a /roll commences. If no one needs the item, then a greed roll occurs which I don't keep track of (since its just greed).

Great video as always! Yeah it's def a good refresher when watching the videos. Been playing for quite awhile and always use the videos for guides! Keep it up!

I've been playing off and on a very long time, but rarely in groups. Thanks for the tips! Your vids are very well produced, great job!

Awesome content, it helps alot, thank you!

Tip: On Flashpoints there are many Areas/Enemy Groups you can skip, by either going around or having a cloaker sleep a target. If you wanna go fast either follow a player that knows the map or take a look around yourself to find the exploits.

You really are the master of the game. Thank you master

I played this game from the start up to 2014 or so, I lost interest and people I knew all quit the game but I watch your videos you're so awesome 😏

Someone making Basic videos for Beginners after the Game already exists for Years? Dedication!!! i like that.

I helped out on my first heroic mission the other day. I was very nervous because of being first time and not playing well with others, but the other player was patient and we got quite a bit done. I cocked up but was not big deal. Might even do it again. =D

Another great video Stworista :D

A nice guide. Thank you very much :)

Essels/Black Talon was probably the most fun my friends and I had playing SWTOR. imho if they had focused on making more dungeons like that with interesting choices, it'd be a way more successful game I'm still waiting for another game with a system like that :/

Nice vid Swtorista! I'm a solo player but if I do ever want to try a grouped FP I'll keep these tips in mind.

HI SWTORISTA!!! THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER GREAT BEGINNERS VIDEO!!! I SURE WISH I COULD PLAY WITH YOU. YOU SEEM SO WONDERFUL TO PLAY WITH AND YOUR VERY PATIENCENT. HUGS.

This it going to be my go-to video to send new SWTOR players i meet. ps, dam i love your voice. It catches me off guard every time i watch your videos, hah.

Another great video! Thanks for this! :D

Awesome vid! Super clear, thanks! :D

I love your videos have found alot of useful info keep it coming

Compared to some other online games I've played, swtor has a reasonably friendly environment, so communication is easy. One thing I find useful is to ask, at the start, if people want to play quickly or not. In my experience, most people are okay with playing the whole mission, including bonuses, if one of the players wants to do that, but you need to tell them that that's what you want. Similarly, it pays for veteran players to ask if everyone is familiar with the special quirks of the boss fights (if any). That can save a lot of frustration.

I miss the old times with a tank, 2 dmg and a healer..xDD

i have played this game on and off for 10 years all of it solo i have never tried to do any team stuff cause of bad experiences on other games and the fact most people seem to use some kind of voice chat i don't have a mic so discord is useless to me when i attempted to use discord to just listen to people it would not work right for me and i don't like getting yelled at or booted out for doing something wrong and not knowing what it was i did wrong so i don't even try to us the finder but it would be nice to try it to get gear n stuff your videos help me a lot so thanks for posting them

Just jumped back in and wanted to thank you for your helpful videos. Used your link too. ~ Bons baisers de France.

perfect timing, i stopped playing and im about to start my sub back up. RIGHT as you start posting again :D

Thank you swtorista

Thank for all the help

Great video.....wish I had this when I started..lol

Great content!

great vid!

I LOVE YOU SWTORISTA!!!

I cannot wait for school to stop so i can jump back into this game! Haven't played since christmas and I still havent played the new expansion!

Hi I’m new to swtor and this video is really helpful and so are your other videos

Nice vid... I always try to ask if ppl if they know a bossfight (specifically on the ones with mechanics) beforehand n try to explain it if someone don't

Oh, the times ive kicked out of those just for wanting to see the cutscenes...

I've given up on SWTOR for my own reasons, but this video is still pleasant to watch. Your voice is very calming. The tutorial on this vid is also really well done. Thanks for the vid.

Perfect..😍 also, don't Q for Fps and WZ at the same time, cuz if one of them pops first, you will abandon an almost formed group, specially for Flashpoints groups! It takes time to find another person/it sucks waiting a "ghost", member 😂

Plz, make some OPS guide videos. Your videos are great

Great video..... GREAT VOICE to be exact.

cool vid swtorista.

I had to laugh when you said: "If one of your group is a tank always let them attack the enemies first..". Definitely, a do as Swtorista says and not as she does. I've played my Jugg tank Bellicent a couple of times with you and KidLee on Darth Malgus and you make it challenging, in a fun way. I guess if you give a former tank Force Storm the temptation is just too hard to resist, lol.

I just got into this game, and some of the newbie level 10 flash points are fucking hard! My first one was the uh, Foundry. I got creamed a lot, and the evil robot guy smashed me with the engine thing the first time and I had no idea. I've since ran a few others, and they vary in difficulty. Some are really easy like Black Talon, and some are pretty challenging like uh, one where I had to fight a bounty hunter who used fire a lot. We actually all died, and one guy carried that fight from 60% to dead over the course of like 20 minutes. It was nuts. ------------- People have been incredibly helpful so far, and I've never been kicked out yet. I'll tell everyone I'm new, and that I'm back for the EXP promotion, and woah, there's an expansion? I thought this game was dead? We joke about Warcraft. I miss Warcraft, but there's a reason why I'm on Swtor. I've died a lot, and people will wait before a boss fight and explain the mechanics, and one time I got battle-rezzed like 8 times. I didn't even know you could do that in this game. Another time a guy who queued up as a non-lightsaber dps class volunteered to leave and re-queued in as his tank. He's the guy mentioned in the above story who soloed the crazy fire-loving bounty hunter. Another player actually rage-quit during that 20 minute fight, because he wanted the tank to just wipe it and restart. But honestly, if he was willing to drop his leveling too to come and carry us with his epic character--I was all about letting him have some fun and glory soloing that encounter. Me and the other dps guy who didn't rage quit just talked about the Star Wars lore while we watched the epic fight. And then we all cheered when he won. It was close a lot of the time. Him constantly bouncing between 50% and 10%. I do hate that the harder instances are surprisingly challenging to new players, and I'll greatly appreciate the list provided on which ones to avoid. I love running group content, but I don't love dying all the time or being a liability. Thanks again for the guide.

Can you make a more advanced guide for healing and tanking in flashpoints?

Don't queue and then AFK..... please!?!? lol

TYFG!

This is such a great video! I just canceled my WoW sub and am looking for a new home. Debating coming back to SWTOR... this may have just pulled me back!

Good video.

i love to listen to your voice, its so relaxing and its about my life love XD starwars

The graphics look improved👀 since the last time that I played this game lol.

I usualy go alone. Besides,i play for free,altoug i'm here from beginig(i cant afford anything else).

This is great! Can you make one for Galactic Starfighter?

I really hope to one days meet you on the digital playground.

This is great. Hey what server do you mostly play on? just curious. Hope you and yours are well

do a vid on operations next pleassse

Damn im glad i saw this…

Blood Hunt...thats definitely a tough one, but honestly the worst part for me was that the amount of fire on screen turned my game into a slide show

those Rakghoul flaspoints were super hard when they first came out.. Kaon Under Siege and what was the other one called? Lost Island. I remember Lost island being particularly difficult, the second boss (the droid) was very hard if you didn't have the right comp. by that I mean a tank 2 ranged dps and a healer. If yuou had that group setup, he was much easier as the tank could almost stand still as the debuff put on the person second highest on the threatmeter would be placed somewhere where it won't bother anyone. If you had a melee dps, it could land on him, needing you to reposition the boss all the time. it was just way harder, it was like an extra hardmode playing with melee. the WoW term "don't stand in fire" also applies here. standing in bad stuff is.. well, bad :) the good stuff to stand in is usually green or purple (the sorcerer aoe heal). speaking of silly things to click on, I clicked on the thing that activates the world boss on Tattooine and Voss haha, he jumped up and instant killed me, I was startled by it hahaha. I thought it was a lore object.

"Whereas a veteran player may have done it 8 times already..." Yep, only 8 times, I swear.

I believe a little patience goes a long way, and therefor I dont agree with alot that was said in this vid. The mechanics are useful of course. But dont hesitate, in my opinion, to queue for a FP when lvl 15. When you want to see the vids in a FP, just say so (ask). In my experience ppl usually understand. Some FP that are dead easy with a full group of geared 70's can de troublesome when too many of then team are low lvl, undergeared and dont know what to do. Ths can be frustrating, and in some cases makes the FP (nearly) impossible, like in the case of FP Nathema. I usually just explain this to the low lvl, and they leave, no biggie. If a high lvl doesnt like it they leave. Their choice. Point is, we play this game together. It is an MMO. Just communicate. If you want to do something specific (fast run for weekly/ daily) and you dont want to ' put up' with low lvls who dont know how to do a fast run, form guild groups and get more CQ :P. Of course this goes for Veteran Mode FP's. For Master Mode FP I agree with what Sworista said, I think.

Congrats Swtorista for being recognized with bioware.

This video could've been titled "I learned everything I ever needed to know about doing flashpoints when I was five." It's a great video for new players. We would wait for noobs to watch the cut scenes, before solo mode flashpoints came out. I've been the ops/raid tanks for various guilds and games I've played in. The worse players when it comes to pulling aggro before the tanks in SWTOR are Marauders/Sentinels aka Maratards and Sentards. We had a Maratard named Tree, in our guild and he would always aggro the mob, or do the double lightsaber throw and aggro the mob behind the one we're fighting. Of course you could hear me and/or the other tank yell "GODDAMIT TREE!!!, over mumble. It got so bad that our guild master forbade him from using his Marauder in ops. Fun times. If you ever get a chance look up "rules for marauders on the swtor forums." It's pretty funny. On a serious note, can you solo uprisings? I would like to know because that would help our command points. Once again, great video and love your work. Thanks!

hey - You told about subscription - so I did it :D

im not gonna be one of those guys that tells people to sb or yells at them. if they wanna see it then let them. and if someone DCs then i'll wait a few minutes (2-5) before voting yes to remove. i might be a veteran player, but im not mega sweat and can sympathize with the more casual crowd. and i apply that to all FPs, even hammer station. and if someone starts to act like a mega sweat and makes the FP unfun then guess who is getting kicked instead or has to wait while someone is watching the cutscene on purpose :)

Hi Swtorista, just got back into the game and a fresh lvl 75. I wanted to try to group up in specific Veteran Flashpoints for Galatic Season, but since I'm following your gearing guide and just equip the highest Item Rated gear, I have gear that doesn't match my stats... Should I just use group finder or try to ask around for the Flashpoints with people in the fleet?

Do you NEED to wear modable/adaptive gear to get the level boost on veteran mode? Let's say you're a lvl 50 using a crafted lvl 46 armor set and weapons, relics, ear piece and pack (rating 132 gear) (or the heroic version of the Crystalline armor set, also 132 rating)

I don't find it a problem people that aren't skipping the cutscenes but I know lots of people that do and I kinda agree with them. Skipping the cutscenes should be considered as default in veteran and master fp imo, if you want to see the story do story mode.

Hey swtorista, I'm following a google doc you had made that shows how to get the cartel coin achievements and I'm wondering about the 'story flashpoints' one it mentions. Does it mean all the ones that say [STORY] and appear on the solo tab in activities or are there more that are not listed there?

Two major pet peeves in random group finder FPs for me. First, when a new player doesn't speak up ahead of time and let the group know they're new to the game or that particular FP. Most are a lot more patient when they know the person is brand spankin' new & not just a bad player, and will share tips and helpful directions. Second, the player who pulls everything in sight causing multiple wipes and makes the whole thing take a lot longer. When asked by the rest of the group to cut it out they'll exclaim something along the lines of "EXP!!!!!!!"

Great video SWTORISTA, I hope you had a happy May 4th and don't forget me and my crew from Rogue One will always be there if you need us if Senator Mon Mothma doesn't mind. May the force be with you always!!!

Tap the spacebar!

question about the gear bolstering, you say that you need gear in each item slot, but what about Tacticals? They don't seem to drop until late/end game?

Great Video Swotorista - However its too bad the group finder is never used. At least on our server. You can sit in it for literal days and never get a que even as a healer or tank. Wish people actually ran them.

I do want to join flashpoints with other people however I do feel like my Sith Warrior isn't on par on what a Tank should be, with gear and mods. I think I would just let them down. I just tend to stay away from them and solo it.

Would you advise this for those who wish to hunt for the HK51 parts, are you going to do a video on how to get him

Swtorista, pls, Do you know Why I can not get battle-scarred helmet in the republic side?, And How can I get it or where? I try to get the MK 2 by doing heroics but my luck sucks a lot and can not catch it, what can I do?

I like how I can't do any of this! Can't queue for a flashpoint. Can't filter flashpoints. What a fun game!!!!! This game goes out of its way to make it difficult for new players to the point where it's best to move on to an MMO where the developers care. Why would I pay for a game where I can't even enjoy all of the content? "We just gave you the Hammer Station quest!" "You want to do the mission? HAHAHAHASHAHAHAHAHA NO!!!!!!!!! At every point, this game has made me feel like they don't want new players, let alone help them.

if it's a tactical flashpoint idc if people watch cutscenes, HM flashpoints it gets a little annoying and I would strongly prefer they skip.

How's SWTOR doing in general? I saw that a new expansion is coming this fall(?) and thought about playing again but I never felt the f2p option was actually viable for it, and I never really felt the game was different than other mmos(mechanics not story obviously) to be worth paying for. Basically, is the game worth getting back into f2p?

I must have looked like the biggest douche when in DF Czerka Labs I left after the second boss, believing it to be the last (second and third bosses are both human males). I was like, "ty, bye" and quit the group. Only about 5 minutes later did I notice I still had the quest. I even entered the instance to see the map, and there was an entire new area after that boss. XD

XD this is why I always play solo I’m too much of a rebel for rules.

fyi if you are new and trying to do random fp's be warned, there are rude max lvl 75 players who have been playing for years expecting everyone else to know how to do the fp's that will kick if you watch cutscenes or pull 1 extra group of mobs.... Had to learn this the hard way. People are actually that petty in this game.

Don't know why am I watching this? I like your vid and content, that must be it. I've never been or wanted to try a group finder fp. I don't like being put into one box: I'm a free spirit! I have my own stats and not according to the class specs; all my classes have the same specs with shield and absorption defense. #solointrovert4ever P. S. I still haven't figure out how to send a reply since my cybercafé doesn't have a lot of Qwerty keyboards, so with an Azerty, I can't do any reply which might sound rude for many so I blocked most chats.

hows the game right now? i kinda want to go back but as preferred status iam sure my equipment is going to get gimped. can i least finish the main story? even with preferred status?

Another tip, play your damn role, if you choose healer then actually heal, I can’t count the amount of times my team has wiped because a healer wanted to do nothing but sit there and attack

i cant remember, was there a group finder when the game was released or was it added later?

Hey buddy, can you answer me this? Is there a way to solo a flashpoint with 3 companions instead of having just 1 companion and a random npc combat droid