I rather like that attacks have an animation before the attack goes off, it adds a touch of realism to the game. Can you imagine how much worse this game would look if attacks did not flow though like they do now, lightsabers movements would be jerky and we might as well go back to WoW where warriors were pretty much stuck in midair doing that jumping slash with a two hander, or spinning more then a ballerina if he is dual-wielding weapons.

I have found that my Rakata gear alone gives me more then enough accuracy, So I am able to play with my defense, shield, and absorb ratings and I am overall pretty happy with my stats. 29% defense rating(with Blade Barricade), 35% shield, and 32% absorb. (I have the Experimental Shield Overcharger which really shoots my absorb up) Overall I fell pretty damn solid in Hardmodes and Nightmares.

I just want to say I know how you all feel, but a lot of you are angry and upset when the patch has not even come out yet and have no real clue how much or how little you have been nerfed. Bioware has a very large staff of people watching and paying attention to game balance and this is the first huge balance patch and I think many of you can agree that you were very very powerful before, and now your going to be a bit more even and now its going to require a bit more work but I'm certain you guys can do it. And if it turns out that you are to weak, I am sure Bioware will come out with a hotfix or buffs in the next patch, but sitting in the forums complaining about how bad a patch that has not come out, only serves to show how foolish some of you are. Good luck, I can promise you that this is not nearly as bad as you think and if any of you have played WoW or any other MMO, you know this as well.

I don't see how they have been overused at all. Kaon is the only flashpoint where we can go and fight them, and only one planet has them. Frankly, seeing them use the Left For Dead zombies in the Flashpoint was beyond fun because it was placed in the Starwars setting, and we aren't really fighting zombies and its been cannon that a single scratch from a Rakghoul could cause a person to transform into one. If you didn't see a kind of zombie-like gameplay from such a beast while playing KoTOR then I don't know what to tell you, it was very very obvious.

Edit: Next time I should watch the video before commenting. It looks like the level 40 PVP armor, so yeah It does exists.

I found that playing though the game as Lightsided Sith was far more rewarding from a moral standpoint then many of the other classes. Besides the SI, whose story I didn't really find interesting at all, all the other classes fit with being light side because only the SW and SI really practice the dark side of the force. Being a Sith Warrior and picking lightside choices, you feel like a mercyful god stalking the land rather then a "Oh my god, I will kill everyone that so much as looks at me" type feeling when you play darkside. And what truly makes it interesting, is that we have all seen and read story's of the good guy turned bad, or the evil person being evil, but this has to be the first real instance I have experienced where I use dark side powers, and yet I break the mold by being somewhat good. The turning point that really made me love the Light side Warrior was after finishing a part of your story quest where you help some republic soldiers, one of them says as you walk away, "Goodbye Sith, and thank you for saving my life". Easily the most profound moment for me in the game.

if I remember right, Soa is immune to damage in the last phase while his shield is up and so the amount of threat your able to place on him is limited.

Not true, if shes lightsided her skins on Taris are pretty damn good looking

You are outright just bad, seeing how mobs lower level then you deal far less damage and have a much greater chance to miss with their attacks. I take back what I said, seeing the title and how you can't kill two mobs lower level then you...your just a troll. Well played but no cigar for you.

Fall damage is based on percent, a level 1 character can fall from the same height as you and will lose the same percentage of health as you do.

There is a stat in the game called absorption rating, which increase the percentage of damage blocked when your shield is activated. The talent is worth taking, only because there isn't anywhere else to place those points that would give you more mitigation. And as a tank you want that extra shield rating, because even only 20% damage reduction is better then taking the full force of an attack.