Stephen Reid has been gone since May, and in fairness we had quite a bit of communication from him before then and a lot of posts pre-release. Sad to see him go and I hope he finds better work elsewhere. Have to say it's knocked my faith in the game further (if that's even possible..). Reid was one of the best members of staff, didn't get the feeling that he was just saying a load of BS to promote the game when he talked, and he actually seemed to know about the game unlike some of Bioware's members who I can't understand how they make mistakes in interviews etc about key facts about their game.

This please Bioware. I really had my hopes up that it had been recognised properly that warriors are totally underperforming as tanks at the moment. Their AoE threat is dreadful. Their health/damage mitigation is worse than other tanks, yet all we get is a buff to single target damage and threat...? Well great.. but that doesn't solve the issue we had at all! Put a talent deep into the immortal tree that increases the radius of Smash and increasing the damage or threat of Smash. Chain taunting groups of mobs is not tanking. It is just not fun, frankly it's just a joke of a mechanic. I really hope Immortals get the real buffs required asap.

I honestly just don't know how Bioware is going to justify that to the community. I love the game but are they trying to dig themselves a hole?

This. Suspect it'll be the same ole ones we can play atm just with differnt class combos though. I'm okay with it though as long as they don't make purebloods playable by republic side. That would be utterly ridiculous. Can't see it happening though after the complaining Daniel Erickson did about purebloods being able to play sith inquis despite starting off as slaves. Although I guess you could argue his complaining clearly didn't get him anywhere.

any server can pvp or pve, so do warzones and operations. PvE servers just mean you can go round killing other players in open world zones (except in the open world zones dedicated to pvp).

signed, would be nice to have.

The computer controlled factions could just stay in their respective bases though and just hand out quests or something which would keep it pvp as the poster i think intended, and it could be a way of balancing the sides. It's far from flawless though as it wouldn't make much sense for the player to change their allegiances to these two new factions based on demand, and if you had to stick with the new faction regardless of whether or not their imbalanced then you'd get just as many one sided fights as you do now. Either way it would probably be better than what we have now, but it wouldn't be worth going to all the hassle of implementing imo, especially with all the lore complications of introducing two sides that both Republic and Empire players would be torn for who to fight with, for something that wouldn't fully fix the issue. It'd just be easier for Bioware to turn Ilum into a Wintergrasp style area with buffs to the smaller team in my opinion. Would be more fun too, and you could better balance the reward system by giving a set amount of rewards to the winning side and a small amount of valor per kill. They may as well just close Ilum for now and give us a new warzone or two to make up for it.

Looks epic, glad new content is coming so soon.

Sigh at the trolls, I honestly don't understand a single complaint that people have come up with yet... I swear it's just people getting mad that they didn't order soon enough.. Bioware warned you it'd be first come first serve, why on earth does it matter if you have to wait anyway, its earlier game access not full launch? It's an MMO not a race.... ridiculous. Anyway the game is great so far, I loved WoW but I think ToR is considerably better (and better than the other MMOs i've played for that matter: SWG, Aion, Rift, EQ2 and a few not worth mentioning). Also i've experianced no bugs, no crashes and perfect fps (on both a high end and very low spec PC) and i've been playing since beta. A*

Redeemed and ready

Agreed amazing game BioWare! Now hurry up and finish server maintenance so I can return to my Bounty Hunter.

So much win in that post

WTB more invite waves! Can't wait to get playing