How about giving the respec bot ability to train new skills on field? I don't like running to town to train every time I level while playing my alts. Would love to be able to train on the field while questing.

This is a pretty solid update. When I looked at that tab in legacy and saw them locked in game, I started wondering when they would unlock these features for us. The features are damn solid. /drool Wish they were available right now.

Maybe have a toggle option to turn off XP in the settings. That way u can be a completionist without overlevelling. As it stands, completionists tend to get way overleved past content.

World economy has a major impact, yes. Every company is taking a hit thanks to EU mess and Greece. In other news Vivendi is planning to sell part or all of its share in Activision Blizzard.

Quarterly report in a few weeks. We shall see where the current sub numbers really are.

That was the best time to take a quick shower or grab a bite before you go back to your marathon gaming session. 1-2 minute is too short for either and too long to be staring at the screen doing nothing. @OP - IMO alt tab and troll the foums while you are in a taxi ride.

Absolutely! Agree 100%. Also rest of your post is extremely good at defining expansions in various games. /bow I think I should have used the phrase "box expansion" in the OP. I will fix it. Thanks.

Ditch that POS AMD and get an i5 or i7. Go for 3rd gen Ivy bridge if budget allows.

This is a possibility, yes. So the content patches leading up to the expansion needs to be very strong.

Released in Q4 2011, so 2 years is the best you can hope for the release of the new expansion. Being the first expansion I added 6 months to it. So, Q2-3 2014 for 2.0 That doesn't mean that they should stop doing the regular content patches 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 ..., 1.9 leading upto 2.0

In a month or so from now, we will have the Q2 (Fiscal Q1 for EA) quarterly results from EA. EA should release some subscription info at that time. It will be interesting to see where SWTOR stands with regards to subs at the end of this quarter.

Too soon to release but not too soon to announce.

It's not about announcing something. It's about announcing some HUGE like a new expansion altogether. Clearly you have never been to an expansion announcement in any other MMO before.

Do you not understand the simple difference between a content patch and an expansion? For Wow for example--- Dragon soul was Patch 4.3 -- this was a content patch for the Cataclysm expansion Mists of Pandaria is a new expansion What BW announced at E3 was future content patches and not expansion. /sigh

There seems to be some misunderstanding here between content patch and expansion. An expansion is a massive content patch which actually bumps the revision number up -- i.e. SWTOR 2.0 What they announced in E3 were content patch based on current release - 1.4, 1.5 etc Content patches == short term goals -- 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 Expansion == long term goal. --- 2.0, 3.0 etc

Content Patch != expansion. Expansion is like the next boxed large content release with a new title, trailers and everything -- SWTOR 2.0 Drives hype back real fast. Content Patches based of 1.xx.xx will continue on till the expansion is released.

I think it's time for SWTOR to announce their first box expansion with a targeted release date of Q3-4 2014. There's a lot of negative publicity around the game which is harming the game. The promise of a new box expansion 15-18 months from now will drive the hype back up for the game that so many of us have grown to love. It also gives a great sign to the naysayers that SWTOR is moving forward quickly. people will once again have something to talk about and look forward to.

Doesnt all the bike run at the same speed ?

Current UI allows u to save templates. So, you can just switch your key bindings back and forth when you switch specs.

Fastest way-- Join a decent guild with friends. Get carried through EV and KP normal 8mans. Now you are geared up.

Yep. Once the newness wears off, people will just stop caring.

Really? Didnt know that. Good to know that we can use alts and pad out.

It's more to do with the following scenario- Say you are chain running Warzones and are specced into PvP. Now a guild group asks you if you can heal for them in a HM FP. So, now you have to respec twice unless you turn them down -- "Sorry, specced for Wz right now"

Dual spec is in that wall of crazy.

That's a pretty sweet chart.