The solo story game is still good but the group content stinks. I don't know why Bioware made a MMO, they make the best RPGs but MMOs kinda suck in general. There should be solo versions of Boarding Party, Foundry and False Emperor at least.

And no, before someone chimes in with "but it's sci-fi", no it's not. It's fantasy. SW has more in common with a fairy tale than with any serious work of science fiction.

It's Star Wars, it's cartoony by it's very nature. The original film was inspired by the old matinee serials like Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon that G. Lucas used to watch as a kid. I agree if it was "realistic" the universe would likely be ruled by Force users like the Jedi or Sith, possibly made corrupt by their political power, but not necessarily villainous evil characters as they are portrayed in TOR. Star Wars isn't realism though, it's fantasy.

How can anyone take the Jedi seriously? They throw pebbles at you with the Force and call that a power.

The short answer is no.

Sorry it was 4 years. Early 2005 to 2009 or so. Yeah JTL was part of it but also just the sandbox elements that gave that MMO it's staying power like the Crafting and the Entertainer professions, Housing, Decorations, Badges, Bestiary, open world PvP and so on. Those are all elements that TOR is lacking. SWTOR is more "cinematic" than "virtual reality", which is cool, but it doesn't have the same longevity. You're not living in the SW universe, it's more like you're playing along with a movie that's set in the SW universe. What do you do when the movie ends? Well, you leave the theater of course.

Word, I subscribed to SWG for 5 years. It's been one year of TOR and I'm already thinking about dropping it.

I'm guessing the winner would be determined by the fan-fiction author writing the story and whatever goals that author had for their narrative. I find that's always the case when discussing a duel between 2 fictional characters from 2 completely different fictional universes.

No Scoundrel and Gunslinger are the adv. classes for Smuggler. Scoundrel and Operative play very differently than Sniper and Gunslinger. There is no such thing as a Scoundrel Gunslinger.

Yeah I've never been a really big fan of Sniper/Gunslinger for PvP but that's just because I prefer to be more mobile when playing against other people. It may be that you are like me and are just realizing that your playstyle favors mobility in PvP. I'm sure some people wreck house with Snipers in Warzones but I prefer my Vanguard and my Warriors.

power or critical rating. expertise is for PvP and endurance is generally for tanks. if you're dps you want power, critical and surge

Same here, I've been running on Low preset since 1.4 because otherwise SWTOR lags and stutters bad. Strange since I can run LOTRO on Very High in 1080p HD.

You can still buy Campaign relics with Daily comms but yeah they basically made the Daily mods obsolete by giving out Tionese gear. I guess you can use them to gear up companions.

Yeah the game gives out free Tionese gear just for reaching lvl 50 nowadays. Check your in-game mail.

It's okay, you basically run the same dungeons over and over for gear. I wish TOR had a bit more sandbox in the endgame with better crafting, achievements and exploration. I've got a bunch of characters for the class stories but once they get to endgame I pretty much get bored. Endgame is not good if you're mostly a solo player; the same dailies or space missions over and over.

I wouldn't know, no way I'm going to pay extra just to get the new ship parts for these new missions. I already pay my sub, which at this point is like paying charity.

^this exactly^ I'm not against skipping MOBs but there is a big difference between pulls that are easily skipped and pulls you have to go out of your way to avoid fighting. If it's on the main path and you can't easily skip it by hugging a wall or jumping over a ledge or something then chances are you're better off just killing them.

There were quite a few times I played hardmodes in the past when people trying to skip MOBs or knock them off the ledges actually ended up costing us more time and difficulty than if we just cleared everything on our way through the instance. My favorite is stealth classes that skip MOB that are impossible to skip without stealth and then won't help you when you pull aggro. idiots. How hard is it to clear all the MOBs on the path through the FP? It's not. Seriously, you're going to sit there and wait minutes to sleepdart a trash MOB so people can sneak past when it will literally take you 12 seconds to just clear them all out. I don't get it. Just kill everything in your way, it's easier.

I don't really like stealth classes either but I don't think they are unbalanced in the current build. At least not like operatives used to be, unstoppable killing machines. They used to kill you in 2 or 3 globals before their opener CC wore off.

Don't play Sniper.

I celebrated by playing LOTRO because 12000ms lag spikes kept kicking me from the SWTOR server.

Absolutely, the WZ bolster does not effect Expertise. Expertise has a huge effect on your character in PvP, especially when you have it and others do not (like in pre lvl 50 WZs) Classic example of pay-to-win from the cash shop. You're talking like a 5% boost in damage, healing and armor vs other players just from having those 2 cash shop crystals. Pay to win I say!

Never trust anyone with an Esh-Kha avatar. JK that's a good idea.

Or they could make resolve actually work. I've lost count of how many times I've had a full white resolve bar and my toon is still CC'd. The way it's designed now you have to have your lvl 10 CC break ability available if you get full resolve otherwise it doesn't do anything. Even still, the duration of the immunity is so short it's barely worth anything. I can remember 1 or 2 times when CC immunity actually helped me in PvP and both times it was when I was getting chain-healed as the ball carrier in Huttball. Usually you're dead before resolve can even get full (or you're immune just long enough to die)

I bought one just to see what all the fuss is about, I wasn't impressed. I'd much rather have actual content.