Green I just vendor. They're a dime a dozen and are rarely more than a minor upgrade for companions. However, all my blues I can't use I throw on the GTN... and every single one of em has sold so far. Sometimes I have to throw them in a few times, but eventually they'll sell and I make a few thousand credits extra off of em than I would had I just vendored them. You're missing out on a pretty sizeable financial boost if you're just tossing them to the vendors. Bank em' until you can go to a GTN kiosk, most certainly worth it. Green though... just more trouble than they're worth. You'll likely just clog up the GTN (and your own limit of items in it) and a great deal of them may never realistically sell... probably make more credits out killing things in the same time it'll take you to repost all the greens that didn't sell.

And? I've heard of people Empire side being booted from flashpoints for picking Light Side choices. Given the fact I've been yelled at before for making a Light Side choice Empire side, I can believe it. And where do people get the idea you can't make evil choices Republic side? Way back on Ord Mantell I pulled a gun on a doctor who was just trying to help some orphans, infront of the orphans. Later in that same quest line you have the choice to leave said orphans behind when you take the doctor back to base. Christ, spacing the engineers in Esseles is way darker than anything the Empire can do in Black Talon. Oh wow, you can kill the fat traitor you were ordered to capture (which is hilarious... the dialogue should just be "You know what, I enjoy failing at my job" /kills General). Yes, as a Republic player you can be sickeningly good (I truly loathe the Jedi who take the " WE CAN WORK THIS OUT!!!" options nonstop), but there's nothing stopping you from being a geniune sociopath.

Started just as the servers went live... 35 Vanguard main 20 Jedi Shadow 12 Operative What can I say, I have a life... and got Skyrim for Christmas.

Aye, some people are retarded. It's not like those folks can't replay Black Talon or that they didn't get the points for their intended decision. But yes, I agree with you... I've been yelled at before for making Dark Side choices on my Trooper.

Bingo. Stop teaming with your friend until he grows up.

Aye, depends on your class. I'm a Vanguard (which is basically just a Powertech), and I'll admit I'm damn near unstoppable in a lot of PvE content with Elara Dorne healing me. Course, there's nothing stopping me from busting out M1-4X from time to time for kicks. With the exception of Champion level mobs, I've yet to run into anything I absolutely had to have Dorne with me for.

I've actually encountered the exact opposite.... my Trooper is (mostly) Dark Side, and I've been yelled at before for making Dark Side choices in flashpoints. Way back in Esseles, a Jedi tried to verbally lay into me for choosing the space the engineers instead of wasting time to figure out how to save em'. And yes, all three of the other folks chose the Light Side decision... Admittingly, on the way their the guy was screaming "Everyone's making the light side choice, right? NO ONE CHOOSE DARK SIDE!!!" But what can I say, I play my character. With my Trooper, it means about 66% of my choices are Dark Side ones (what can I say, I think just smacking the Dark/Light choice everytime it comes up is lame... same for always going with whatever decision is at the top/bottom of the list). Making choices is part of why the game is so fun... as some engineers found out the hard way.

Am I the only one who's about 90% sure the OP works for Belkin?

Black Suns territory

While out questing, I recieved a purple helm that's better than the orange I was wearing and I can't get mods to make the orange surpass the purple at the moment. Also... well, it's your choice. There is absolutely nothing forcing you to focus on keeping a single piece of orange gear and working on keeping it properly modded. In fact, I've seen very few players while leveling with more than a piece of it on at a time, and often it's a piece of gear that was likely looted with the same mods in it then. Oh, and it's just fun to get new pieces of orange gear to mix n' match with.

Yup. And I STILL see people trying to do it, thankfully it breaks away into the stuff I'm actually looking for pretty quickly. Hope they never change it, I'm more than happy selling my loads of mats in stacks of 10.

You asked why they released it "earlier" than it should of been. I pointed out the fact that every MMO I've played at launch, from WoW, to SWG, to COH, to STO and on, wasn't as "ready for launch" as TOR was. If you disagree, then I'm more than happy to sit here while you tell me an MMO that was more polished and had more content than SWTOR when it launched. Or you could just sit back and be sarcastic and dance around actually making a real counterpoint some more.

Sook-aaay...

I can't even understand what the OP is talking about, because half of his frikkin' post is censored.

Noticed the OP never responded to this... well, at least in the several pages I bothered to read. C'mon, OP, answer it.

Maybe. Course then, people would probably be screaming about how the questing sucks and isn't up to par with what BW is known for/what they promised. I'm not saying the game is perfect, because it isn't. However, it's a better game at launch than any other MMO I've ever played at launch. Also, I think the word you're looking for is "concentrated".

This mmo has released with more content in it than any other I've personally played had at launch. So, umm... yeah, there's that.

You're right, some of the light side choices are just absolutely ridiculous... yet people hammer them all the time for the sake of going "it means my character is a good guy!", along with all the upper choices. Nothin' worse than running Esseless while a bunch of Jedi all scramble to be the first to rent space on the Grand Moff's, well... you know where. Some of the Dark Side choices are ridiculous, too, ranging from the comically Golden Age Batman villain level to "I decided to do something evil despite the fact it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, but it's the only thing evil I can do right now." Example: It's stuff like that which annoys me. Sometimes the Dark Side choices are just illogical and feels like a shoe-horned reason to do something evil all of a sudden, and sometimes the Light Side choices will make your character seem like he's completely spineless if you go with em'.

Honestly, I don't think you can go wrong. Smuggler and Agent are two of the best stories in my opinion... so it's gonna come down to personal tastes. IA's story is a little on the darker side, while the Smuggler's is a little more lighthearted and funny (telling the chick you just hooked up with that "it's too dangerous to stay together" and them promptly hauling *** off the planet to go seek out other female parts= epic win... you know, just not in real life). Personally, in terms of looks I say Smuggler's win hands down. Gunslingers=space cowboys, which is never a bad thing. Agents can look cool, too, but they've also got a few really weird looking pieces of gear. As for faction... well, do you enjoy being the underdog like the Horde of old (that's right folks, once upon a time on PvP servers Alliance heavily outnumbered the Horde... still do on most of the launch servers), or do you want to be able to run around mostly worry free because everyone around you is an ally? Again, just me personally, I'd go underdog. No fun in being a bully, but you might disagree. So yeah, there you have it. Honestly, nothing stopping you from rolling both and taking them in different AC directions, too. A Gunslinger plays a lot differently than an Operative.

But in DA:O, she really is just "some woman".

My female IA got freaky on the very first planet due to following the [Flirt] options. So, yeah.

I use it, and I've made a few credits off of it. Crafting materials sell like crazy, and I'm yet to have a blue item I've thrown on their not sell eventually.

I, for one, have a freakin' blast hunting down and getting datacrons. It's an amusing sidetrack from running around pew pewing everything.

1. It was incredibly difficult to climb most of that stuff, and you practically had to exploit half the time to do so. I'd know, I'm one of the people who did this sorta thing (in fact, I was the first to post screenshots of that farm in Arathi Highlands you have to swim along the coast to get to, long before a bunch of Dwarf NPCs showed up there). 2. I've already done a lot of pointless exploring for the sake of exploring in SWTOR, too. Bet you didn't know there's an elevator on the northwest coast of Hutta.

Really, Guild Wars? It's more heavily instanced than STO!