Tos, Walter, Panzer and myself took on the Flash Point Lost Island Hard Mode as an official Guild run last night.

For those Zergadins out there that don’t know, the Lost Island Flash Point is the most demanding 4 man content available in SWTOR.  The first Boss has adds to be switched and burned, a group wiping interupt, room filling electricity, floor filling lava, and party member focus fire to be healed through.  That level of coordination is Ops and Raid worthy.

The first boss proved to be our most difficult to conquer.  The second boss, a Poop flinging rakghoul, was one-shotted.  The final boss was a nice three shot work of Art.

Grats to Tos, who scored a Rakata Chest piece!  Afterwards we finished up the rakghoul weekly with a breeze through the Kaon Hard Mode Flash Point.

In other SWTOR Zerg news, we busted in on the newest Ops – Explosive Conflict.  Sunday night Walter and I, Zerg Healed the 3rd ‘Minesweeper’ boss.  A fun fight to say the least.  EC Story mode is our end goal for the near Ops future.  We will down Eternity Vault Story Mode, and then evaluate moving on the EC for the mount achievement.

The MoX desktop parser is in use full time for grouping as well.  A dps player can feel confident if holding 1.2k dps in HM Ops encounters.  800 – 1k dps is on par for Story Mode.  Burst damage is of course much higher than just 1.2k dps.  I’m keeping an eye out for Valent, our Aussie member, to out DPS me as a marauder in the near future.

Speaking of Valent, while his raid time rarely matches ours, he did successfully lead a Story Mode Eternity Vault run last week.  No small feat when you factor in the ground and mechanics you have to cover!