55s versus a lvl 38 and your surprised? lol Revan may as well have been naked with no defense whatsoever and I bet he didnt even tickle you

All I see is another on the rails space shooter, I dont see any evidence that we are going to be given full control of our ship and unless that is what they give us it will still be classed as a crappy mini-game. I havent played any space missions since about the 2nd month of launch because of its piss poor implementation and the fact it is repetitive and boring.

No some of it was not ganking, most of it was ganking. Holding off 10 people? Wheres that part? I see lots of individuals but they were obviosuly not grouped. Funny how it ends when 5 take on you 3 and wipe the floor with you. This doesnt take any skill, go play ranked with your uber 3 man team and post them vids pls so we can all laugh at you. World PVP my ***. Gankfest more like.

So we allow a lvl 55 who has been doing PVP only to walk into an op in lvl 1 greens and bioware bolsters them does that mean they will know tactics or perform better? Unlikely. You gear through flashpoints/crafting then through raids, if you havent geared through the correct progression why do you expect the rest of the raid to carry you? If you geared through the correct progression at least you will have some understanding of PVE fight mechanics etc which you would not get from PVP.

So while those 3 derps standing there waiting for the force barrier to end and hit me with their execute ability my team is at the opposite door/pylon/turret capping, yeah I like it It can also be specced to heal so I may be at 10% health before it ends pop my force mend, back in the game

So I spend 18 mats to create a Lvl 54 green ear, I reverse it and I receive back 3 mats and 1 augment slot component. Seems worth it. I would say not only is the gathering broken (whch hopefully they will fix tomorrow) but the returns from reversing are ridiculous in relation to cost of materials, especially since these new mats are not returning what they should from gathering missions in relation to cost of credits.

No, they didnt in BETA, they didnt the last time the PTS was up and prove again they dont by doing the same as they have always done, ignored bugs and released the patch regardless. There is no point in the PTS apart from getting to see the content first...

If we didnt know how to use a mouse and keyboard you would be responding to nothing 1 Click gear swap is about functionality and efficiency, 1 click = <1 second to swap gear, many clicks (nevermind the fact your implants and relics cant be right click equipped for both) = longer. Nothing to do with elitism. Do you check people's gear before raiding? My guild/friends do always so why can this not be automated for group finder in some way that works for the community, I am not saying I have the best solution but its frustrating being put into a group of 4 when 3 players dont know the tactics (which I am fine with explaining to them btw) but then ontop of that a tank without tanking stats or a healer that couldnt even take 1 hit from a boss before they die. No matter how well I explain tactics if they are not geared enough to take 1 hit from a boss we will not progress past him.

Well something like this wouldnt be a problem if we could have a 2nd set of gear lined up and ready within the game so 1 click could equip our alternative gear set (this should also have been in from launch). This would also help with PVP'ers. They could then do the gear check on the alternative gear set also. Its not hard to implement or come up with better ways to do this but the fact that a fresh lvl 50 can put on lvl 1 greens and queue for a lvl 50 hm flashpoint is no way a good system to continue with surely.

To be honest OP, I didnt pre-order in time due to Bioware not having a product I felt deserved any sort of payment for so I went F2P for a while. I resubbed and pre-ordered expansion last month and tbh from what I have heard I am not disappointed about not having early access it sounds like the BETA testers were ignored from the PTS again and I knew this would be a 5 day BETA test but what I was expecting was those bugs to be fixed before I had access to it. Unfortunately any fixes that we should have had on the first day of access is now not going to happen till 16th so its actually a 7 day BETA test. Ah well, one day they may actually not ignore the PTS forum posts but considering the game is over 1 year old and its still the same from pre-launch BETA I won't hold out much hope.

No, I doubt there will ever be cross faction raiding it would affect too many things including story. Roll a Vanguard/Commando if u want similar play experience.

I did inspect his gear but as u may know it is bugged with regards to shield and absorb on tanks so you can't see them but I specifically asked what his stats were and he told me and he was a 50 without xpac. How about splitting it up so that you can go into the "dont care about teamwork/stats/tactics" queue and I can go into the "I am here for progression queue"?

So can you confirm that you have 0% additional def, shield and absorb from your gear and just the stats from your skill tree? Did you even respec into the Defense tree? I dont mind having a tank in dps gear as long as the mitigation is enough to avoid making my job as a healer almost impossible.

This doesnt just happen in low-lvl flashpoints, I had a jugger "tank" in vindicator gear who had 15% def, 23% shield and 30% absorb queuing for Lost Island HM, got to boss that jumps on pipes and he was going down fast, its not just tank stats that need to be checked u need a full gear check implemented. I have had a healer at 14k queue for EC SM and he lasted approx 10 secs from starting fight on Toth and Zorn. We waited over 1 year for a ready check, do we have to wait 1 year for a gear check?

Due to the fact they havent fixed the shadow tanking matrix cube (which returns an aim cube) since BETA, they obviously have no idea how to make changes to these matrix cubes, at least if they stay the same they cant break them further.

The response above is incorrect in a couple of ways, currently reversing those crystals is bugged there is a post about this in the forums which bioware have responded to (also in dev blog). Secondly user crafted items can no longer be reversed as was stated a while ago. Wait until they fix the bug and u will see lots on gtn.

Surely the death of PVE is lvl 50? Dailies, HM Flashpoints, Ops and their lockouts that is the end of the PVE and its all repetitive rubbish.

Now they are far too busy adding fluff to the Cartel Market, I fear your features will never materialize. I would be begging for bug fixes before features if I was still subscribed and I too have unsubbed out of dissatisfaction, I gave them a year to sort themselves out, its only gotten worse.

Bugs, lack of competent customer service and now the Cartel Market trying to bleed subs for everything they can get have basically been the final straw for me so I cancelled my sub. I was in BETA, early access and I love the Star Wars universe, loved KOTOR1 & 2, even loved this game but since patch 1.2 its been nothing but more bugs and no fixes for old bugs and now the fact CS completely ignore anything to do with those old bugs (some since BETA) and no sign of them focusing their efforts on fixing them instead of packing a Cartel Market full of fluff (even some of those items broken) its just too much. What exactly are subs paying for now? The only thing a sub gets now ahead of Preferred/F2P is less annoyances but the major annoyances (bugs) are not being fixed. We certainly dont/didnt receive the Customer Service we are/were supposedly paying for.

u notice bugs from BETA still havent been fixed so you unsubscribe in disgust

Same old rhetoric I see, I dont claim to be able to make a game like this, I pay them to make a game that satisfies me. The lack of bug fixes even from BETA/PTS, more bugs every patch, they even introduced another bugged double-bladed lightsaber to the CM after plenty of people informed them the first one they added was broken and before fixing that and the new one they add more fluff to the CM. You must also be very happy with the level of customer services you are receiving, unfortunately I am not, over a week for a standard reply, irrelevant reply or just being ignored completely are all experiences I have had so because you are happy to continue playing the game that you have no issues with bugs, customer service then I hope you enjoy it but I doubt it will be long till you are affected by this and then we will see. The only sense of entitlement I have is I pay for a service that they are not delivering on so I can choose to leave when I want, I post here cos there are so many people who say why all the whining, I am trying to give you a heads up from someone who has been here since day 1 and of my experiences. You can continue to play I have no problem with that at all, but dont go round calling people whiners because of the rubbish experiences they have had with this game just because you havent, we all play differently.

I think Bioware got confused between CE Vendor and Cartel Market when they posted that cos read below and tell me if its true: "The Cartel Market will feature items found nowhere else in the game! The Cartel Market will be stocked with exclusive social items for yourself, and unique appearances for your companion. The store will also have regular updates to give players incentive to keep coming back." All I did was replace CE Vendor from that paragraph, funny that...

The problem with this thread is you have just resubbed, I for one have been here since BETA and Early Access and all we have had is bugs (new bugs introduced each patch, old bugs still not fixed), rubbish customer service and lack of information about anything. So when you do a full 1 year sub and experience these issues for yourself you will maybe agree with those of us who are now leaving the game due to these issues not being handled correctly and the direction this game is taking with the Cartel Market.

They are moddable and as such will never be optimized to the best stats as Bioware have stated many times before, you have to optimize your gear as they can't/won't do it for you.

Easier to keep aggro on a shadow and rotation is easier than that of a guardian. However I do prefer playing Guardian but I like a challenge.