They're junk. The lack of crafted or dropped blue/purple items hurts severely. Precisely because it's a seer spec. A seer can keep almost any single person alive, and Nadia will efficiently butcher your enemies while you heal her. You'll actually be soloing as a healer, not an off-spec dps that occasionally heals.

There is almost no power you should never use, and you're going to have to bind pretty much every key on your keyboard. At high levels you'll be scrounging for spare keys you don't need. (I got rid of forwards and back a long time ago)

Get rid of Fail Lizard the moment that Iresso is available. Both of them are melee tanks, however: - Fail Lizard needs techblades which do not exist in the game, beyond his unique rewards. - Iresso does fairly good dps and AoEs, and can pull aggro from range. He also tends to live longer. - Iresso generally likes LS conversation options. Fail Lizard believes in eating his enemies while they are weak. (Don't get too attached though. You're going to use your final companion more, and only pull out Iresso when you have to outlast a boss that takes ages to kill)

Sages do, in fact, use their lightsabers. Your lightsaber is your shield. If you have time to look at your own character in busy combat, you'll notice they're using it to block blaster bolts. (I'm sympathetic to the "ugh just a stat stick" feeling you get, though)

...with the EU canon? Okay then. Have fun with that.

In fact, can anybody remember where that was and dig out the passage? I'm looking for the bit where Luke admits this, and Mara responds that she thought he always knew and that's why she left.

You would be closer to the truth by dropping a couple of letters: "the dark side is simply the use of the Force". That was Luke's second mistake - trying to use the Force. (He eventually figured this out around the time he hooked up with Mara - might have been the Black Fleet Crisis, I forget) When the Jedi say "calm your emotions, conserve your energy, let the force flow through you", they're being very precise about how you avoid using it. A lot of their apparent mysticism is more literal than it seems, in that way. To make it less literal and easier to understand, one might say: "Be the weapon, not the wielder". That can happen eventually. Not everybody who walks the dark path is consumed by it. Some turn back to the light, and some struggle with it for many series of books.

And this is precisely the quality which marks a dark Jedi - trying to do the right thing, but with power and emotion.

Power is the dark side. This is more literally true than it is figurative.

But, like Revan, Luke was a dark Jedi who scraped back from the brink. People tend to miss this.

Piffle. In Dragon Age you can have a foursome between your character (either gender), Leliana, Zevram, and some woman you met in a tavern.

You can actually destroy those by dumping roughly 20 missiles into them. On the missions where you make several passes, I do this all the time.

You do realise that it doesn't do anything yet?

Yes. Bioware's target market, in all their games, has always been the person who just had 30 minutes of entertainment. That is the sort of game they make. If you don't like the genre then you won't like their games much.

I think it's quiet and mostly deserted because most of the staff are on holiday. Continually amazed how many people forget that it's just a job and it's the same time of year for Bioware as for the rest of us.

It's temporarily disabled due to performance issues.

You realise Bioware doesn't make them? It's a Digipass GO 6 with a custom logo. When choosing which product they would use for two-factor authentication, I very much doubt that the number of digits was high on their priority list of reasons to prefer one over another.

The short version is that vbulletin's search is kinda bad, and doesn't scale effectively to the number of users here. Doing something about this is challenging; the underlying problem is that it uses mysql and there is just no way to get mysql to scale. I suspect they're just waiting for the load to drop off. (Beats me why big game developers keep using vbulletin, when it has these issues that make life hard for everybody)

I think that pretty much covers it. You are not the target market and Bioware is not the developer you should be buying games from. Bioware's mission is to make games that are exactly the opposite of what you want, basically interactive stories with gameplay woven through them. Click on the chat target button, select 'say'. That does exactly what you want.

No. They run routine 6-hour downtime each Tuesday, to perform assorted maintenance tasks. Coincidentally they also do software updates at that time. (I'd expect the frequency and/or duration to go down after a few weeks, we'll see) There have been four (count 'em) working days since release. What you're looking at in those patch notes is the amount of work they can get done and tested in four days, with many of the staff on holiday. Nothing more nor less than that. In deciding to make this release, their options were: 1. Release these changes that are ready to go 2. Release no changes and do a larger update at a later date Hopefully it's obvious why they picked 1.

To go through and argue point by point would be contentious and ultimately unproductive. So I shall merely state for the record that I do not agree with this list, which contains much that is inappropriate and little that is really important. In a month or two I might make my own list, once Bioware's development staff get back from their holidays and fix the worst of the bugs. But if I did, then it would be primarily a list of problems that should be addressed and maybe a suggestion or two about what might help, and not an attempt to design my own game.

You don't need hard CC. Try a knockdown, that'll interrupt a cast.

By making this post you have saved thousands of people from a life of slavery under the Empire.

Anybody who lets a sage get away with that isn't trying. A few interrupts is all it takes.

Anything that isn't a Jedi. Surprising nobody. Since all major roles are represented in the Jedi classes, this isn't a big deal.