What you all seem to have overlooked is the extent to which all stuns are being resisted in the game today. If stuns, their amount and longevity, is even the principal reason for ditching it, you've misjudged the 2.0 proc's utility.

Can someone explain how to pull using the Staff of Viral Flux.

Sorry for the late response, Are you still having lag?  I haven't seen any,  but I may have been playing lower level alts during February and not in CoV.

As for Raid DPS, since I returned to the game I have not been raiding, just playing with a regular group.

Kanan,

I would start by looking at the Heroic Beastlord info here: https://beastlords.org/index.php?topic=30890.0  Hopefully there is enought there to get you started.  When I came back after a 3 year hiatus I started in Hot Zones that were light blue to me.  That way I could get back into the swing of things with dying every few minutes.

The number 1 change is our warders can now hold agro with you in agro range.  There are a few exceptions on certain missions, but 99.9% of the time in the group game this holds true.  You can molo effectively with a DPS merc and healing your pet.

Number 2 on the hit parade, we now have FD, in fact we have 2 versions.  The first version gives you instant aggro drop and the second one requires you to "stay down" for a while until aggro clears.  I put both of them on the same macro.  If the fast fade version activates, it blocks second (slow fade) version.  If the fast version is in cool down it will still activate the second (slow fade) version.

Number 3 is there has been a ton of AA consolidation over the last few expansions.  It can make it hard to find the AA ability that use to do be called something else.  Finding the Companion's Relocation AA so you can make a hot key can be challenging.  Feel free to ask questions here on in the discord channel.
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