Time is ticking for Bioware tik-tak , tik-tak. They yet need to prove to the playerbase that they are capable enough to fix all this issues we now all know that exist because players dont need words or PR talk about fixing those problems , they need concrete fixes in the game. Nobody wants to continue to pay for the game to just play the beta.

They should make LFG tool with toggle option between search on the server and cross-realm search so that everyone can have their prefered option, players which want to only group with players on the servers they play on and players which dont mind grouping with players from other realms and want to get their groups faster. Cross-realm option is necesary for those players which play republic on the servers which dont have high population.

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I have to agree with your opinion on this. This entire summit reminds me more on Blizzcon because it looks more like a marketing - propaganda summit than a serious meeting where many of the problems and issues of the game will be discussed . Bioware way of communication has not been very good since this game launched , devs should be more open and step in to communicate with the community members and answer some of the more important issues throught the forums , they should look on the way how Trion devs communite with Rift players now because most gamers are pleased in the way how Trion devs communicate with their community regularly on the forums about each more important issue which did poped up in that game. Also one fantastic way of how would they get some better picture of what community thinks about their game would be to have surveys with the polls about each aspect of the game in the game.

I seen similiar threads poping up on Star Trek Online and Warhammer boards in past where rabid fanboys where deluding themself how their games where perfect and marking anyone who would say anything negative or have any valid critic towards their game as hater of the game preaching to the devs how they shouldnt listen voices of the community. Look where those games are now and how many ppl play them still.

Used to like it but not anymore , not in this current state so you can change my yes for no now OP because my opinion has changed. I rly wanted to love this game and been following its development for years before it released but atm its far from the game I expected it to be. -Questing and story presentation in the game while leveling was amazing I loved it better than in any other MMO I played in the past. But after some time once youre 50 you start to realize that this game is missing on so many features : - Current PVP is meaningless with farming of valor because it rewards farmers not skilled PVP players which like to see PVP as major content for them to do at endgame and world PVP is broken with curent state of Ilum due faction imbalances and slow motion feeling when there are larger number of players in one place on the screen . -In this game there is lack of open world feeling , everything in this game seems heavy instanced , planets feel empty and you barely see other players while doing quests around you , game world feels to much static like nothing is changing around us because everything looks the same all the time without dinamyc events which would change things around on the planets and there is no reason besides datacron hunt for players to visit planets in this game and return to starting zones and that most players can do in 1-2 days max . -Current crafting is meaningless when you reach level 50 there is not rly any need for crafters besides biochem for stims and all the work players invested to level their crafting professions seems useless because players can get everything better than crafters can do easy throught the endgame content and by doing dailies. ( dont want to compare it to WoW crafting but I have to because there is huge difference because players in WoW need enchants, gems and alchemy products all the time while here nobody needs crafters at endgame ) - There is lack of any decent gear customization and most ppl at endgame look like the clones of each other. - Current space combat is joke after few times you try it you figure out its also meaningless , it feels like some stupid arcade game from the days of amiga and first consoles instead of been awesome space flight multiplayer game with free flight , exploration and ship vs ship pvp combat. - Operations and hard mode flashpoints in this game are way to easy , most raiding guilds finished normal mode on the first day they started raiding and hard mode within the first week, only challenging fight a bit is SOA and that on nightmare , all other fights are based around tank and spank mechanics with only difference that on hard mode and nightmare bosses have enrage and are gearchecks. There is not even one hard flashpoints in the game. - This game lack of time sinks, achievements arent sorted out good , there is a lack of social games in the game ( pazzak , pod / swoop racing etc) , lack of reputations with factions for players or game events which would keep bussy players in the game to.

I finally found this thread and have to say that republic fleet which supposed to be big social hub on republic side where players could gather and interact with each other looks like most depressing place I ever seen in any MMO , it feels like a prison. Bioware needs to do something with this either with providing us alternatives like placing dailies and option to travel to flashpoints directly from Coruscant , making new casino with games and big social hub on Nar Shaada or they should remade the look of republic fleet because it looks rly that bad. I personally would much more prefer to have social hubs on planets and cities in the open world than have it as large instanced lifeless areas as they are now.

Empire had better looking races as option from start than republic , this also can be one of the big reasons why a lot of players decided to go for empire over republic. I think that one way of how population balance can be fixed is also if BW would give some races exclusively to republic side as playable like togruta and cathar , empire based on the lore in the game is anti-alienish society anyway.

What clear argument, your entire post looks like a whine thread based on nothing more than a false subjective assumption without any real evidence to support it. When rated warzones come together with the combat logs to the game and devs start to look better in the overall situation behind balance between classes than we will know better how current balance is between classes .

My good sir you started this entire thread based on nothing more than your subjective experience because you havent posted any proof behind your claims about how bh / troopers are OP compared to other classes in DPS. I just want to know do you have any proofs that bh/ troopers outdamage sages / sorcerers or any other dps classes for that matter in 90 % of warzones ? Also do you have any proof which would show how dps bh/ troopers beat mauraders / sentinels in 1 vs 1 situations in 90 % of situations which would show us how melee classes are bad compared to ranged ones in PVP ?

Sadly this is not far from truth about how current TOR PVE endgame looks like atm.

Yeah good BH/troopers can end up in top 3 dps in warzones but I seen a lot more times in top dps positions sages and sorcerers and once one my friend which plays sentinel watchman spec maded up to 600 000 k dps in one warzone and I never seen any trooper or bh doing that kind of damage.

Yeah good BH/troopers can end up in top 3 dps in warzones but I seen a lot more times in top dps positions sages and sorcerers and once one my friend which plays sentinel watchman spec maded up to 600 000 k dps in one warzone and I never seen any trooper or bh doing that kind of damage.

I would say for the reasons mentioned above that Elara is perfect romance companion.

Sign me up as one of the ppl which support 100 % cross-realm dungeon finder because I'm paying this game to have fun and to enjoy every moment of it and not to spamm in frustration for 2 hours or more general chat looking for that tank or that healer to show up while having other players in my group waiting to get that role filled which might not get filled in the end at all. Also when were at dungeon finder I think that cross-realm finder should be also introduced for heroic quests on planets because sometimes those quests just cant be done because there is lack of ppl to do them on planets. And ppl should know that this tool if introduced would be totally optional so nobody would be forced to use it but for us who would like to see it and I beleive there are a lot of ppl which want it it should get into game. LFG tool should come with the option to toggle between cross-server and just server search.

I love this ideas , this is most constructive post on the subject, it would be great if BW would have someone like you in their dev team now. I would only add this to the list : 17. BW should use more their planets and open world and give to players reasons apart from looking for datactrons to visit planets in the game and return to starting areas , make some use of the big cities in the game like Coruscant and Kaas because its shame they are waiste right now and they look much better than the fleets which looks like a prisons. They should make Nar Shaada into big social hub for all players in the game , make neutral casino there where all players could hang out and implement there gambling and social games like pazzak and pod racing tournaments.

No wonder that more players choosed to play empire over republic when most of the cooler races are on empire side. Republic needs exclusively playable togruta or cathar to make that even.

Yeah this reminded me on when I played still WoW during Wotlk and pug of several level 80 wanted to get throught SWP but they got wiped badly on Felmyst. As someone who played WoW for 6 years since vanilla I have to agree with this post Blizzard with their end-game caters to both casual and hardcore players while it feels that Bioware with current TOR content caters only to very casual crowd which is not good for this game in the long run because for this game to survive and to keep subs and popularity they need different kind of players to be satisfated with their content , they need time sinks and variety of challenges at the endgame for the players to not get bored of the content fast.

Great post OP and I totally agree with it , we can all see that a lot of players are mentioning nowadays how there is lack of content to do at endgame and current way of gaining gear and progressing throught the raids doesent help this game at all because players just " storm-rush " throught the content because its way to easy and than dont have anything to do at endgame. First of all hm flashpoints shouldnt drop same gear which normal raids drop , flashpoint should drop good gear but only gear which would be good for entry level of raiding and i think that prototype gear should be the one which drops in flashpoints . Than if BW wants to continue with 3 difficulty modes of raiding I think that best thing would be if every mode would give different type of gear : Normal - tionese Hard - columi Nightmare - rakata Also to make raids more interesting bosses on hm and nm should gain some new unique abilities apart from enrage which would make raiding in those modes harder and more interesting. Nice thing would be if we would see also new type of achievements introduced to the game in the way that there would be different ways to kill bosses in raids and even hard mode flashpoints and players which would do those achievements would be rewarded with some cosmetic items like mounts etc for investing more effort in the game and doing encuanters on the harder way. Current design of raid encuanters needs to be changed because most of the fights are based around tank and spank mechanics with no difference in boss fights besides enrage in hm and nm modes and I'm hoping that we will see more variety of encuanter design in the future content. If all those changes mentioned in this thread would be introduced that would only benefit to the game because longetivity of the end-game content would be expanded and more players would have fun in this game in the long run.

Togruta and Cathar.

I like TOR atm considering the fact that its the game just recently released but there are things where this game could improve and be only better : - Flashpoints in this game are nice , they are a lot of fun , better than in some other game I will not mention here , I especially like Maelstrom prison , Esseles, False emperor for its story components ( playing republic ) - Questing in this game and the way how it is presented throught the story is very nice and while leveling I havent not even once feelt like grinding but rather like playing some good rpg game. - Introduction of the crossrealm LFG tool for flashpoints would be greatly accepted on republic side since on most servers there are a lot more of empire players than republic and sometimes its hard to fill some specific role and get the flashpoints groups going. Also ppl should remember that this tool would not be mandatory and whoever would not like to use it doesent have to. - Current difficulty of the raids in the game is okay for entry level of the raids , its on pair with most other MMOS which where released in past and ppl should remember that this MMO also introduced a lot of unexperienced players to this genre of games. - PVP did got better since introduction of level brackets for the warzones so none side get stormed anymore in the warzones because other side got like all 50 and other one several lowbies. In the long run I and I'm sure many other players which enjoy PVP would like added some competitive aspects to PVP and I think that introduction of the ranked warzones where teams would be ranked based on their perfomance would be great idea. Also when devs are adding new PVE content to the game they should be adding also some new warzones because repeating same ones for x number of times might get boring. - In the future expanded space combat and some space PVP would be nice idea , I would like to see some multiplayer concepts for the space game. - I got used to the current UI of this game and dont have any problems with it , also graphics is good in this game considering its an MMO and game needs to run good and smooth for majority of the users and especially in the situation where there a lot of users on one place. Also I never considered this game as co-op or single player game like some ppl have mentioned on this forum because I'm grouping up constantly with other players either for heroic quest in the game or for flashpoints, ops and pvp.

I had few tickets open since game launched but never had any response in the game and I'm playing on the european server .

Troopers look good with body type 2 , default Shepard from ME is also body type 2.

I used till level 50 both Dorne and Forex but Forex is only good with good gear from cybertech and Dorne was easy to gear up with just swaping gear over to her I used previously when i acquired a new one for my character. At level 50 I use Dorne, Jorgen and Forex but Dorne is best if youre going somewhere to PVP zone and if youre soloing some elite mobs , Jorgen is best for nuking fast stuff together with my commando and Forex is good for random fun and I feel that he is way better for leveling till level 50 as tank than now for questing at 50.