Bioware, OPSes are in a total mess....

...as the title says. You are probably not aware :rolleyes: thats why i start another "whining" topic, in desparate hope some of you accidentally see this and maybe even react somehow. I play on Red Eclipse and half (probably even 2\3) of PUG opses since 4.0 DONT finish.
For example, this week i played 1 character, i started 5 PUG SM opses and only 1 completed: EC - stopped at minefield (i explained what to do but it didnt help :o), KP - got decent group, completed fast and easy; TFB - last boss 3 or 4 wipes, lots of chatting\explaining still wipes, abandons, no replacement for about half an hour or more and gg bb....then EV (1 wipe on pylons, 2 leavers, no replacement found, gg), and today DF - 2 wipes on Draxus, half of group left, and the rest left within following 5 minutes :D

Dissapointing experience, in fact so terrible that i do less and less OPS runs and start to think i should give up on that content overall.

Actually flashpoints are also giving frustrating experience from time to time but the same problems that just lightly irritate in FPs (bad players unaware of their roles, skills and boss tactics) became absolutley unbearable for OPSes. And the reasons are:
1) group finder is helpless. i know there is shortage of tanks (and sometimes heals) but GF finds replacement tanks\heals for Flashpoints and at the same time rarely can do it for OPS. As I see the problem - its because people rarely use OPS GF to get into OPS (more often its fleet general chat). And you (Bioware) definetly could do something about it. Like giving weekly rewards ONLY for using GF and dont let people fleet-gathering OPS and then just queue it in GF. I know there will be lots of rages about that idea...but its the problem and it MUST be solved somehow, i have only that (crappy) idea.

2) (i dont know why but) people are constantly leaving OPSes after 1st-2nd wipe, much more often than they do it in flashpoints.....and after that....see above about OPS GF. Well there's nothing can be done here i suppose but i think overall improvement of OPS quality will also decrease people's leavings. Again in HM FPs at least you can summon companion and actually finish FP with him (except few hardest FPs).

3) bosses lockdowns. I understand why its implemented but it makes the problems much worse - your PUG raid killed 1-2 bosses and then disbanded? - that means this ops is ruined for you this week, no way you get into new group to finish it.
Why can t you just make lockdown more "personal"? - I mean i killed boss (no matter if i got loot or not) in one ops but I still can queue for other the same ops and kill that boss again but Ill be just forbidden to loot that boss. I wont get "unfair\additional" loot and at the same time i can "finish" the ops i started with another group.

p.s. i know its unrealistic but "teaching" solo-version OPS with bots would probably help wirh some of OPS problems. A version where the player is explained the tactics step by step, told and visiually demonstrated where to stand, what attacks to avoid and how, kill order etc....and all that done step by step and the player must do something requested to proceed further. Like:..... and now here you can see Brontes' finger spawns...as a DPS you should burn it asap...now kill that finger.....i know it sounds dumb and this game is for 14+ but hell ive seen so much stupid in that game :D