Oh, the possibilities. That would be pretty much the perfect route for turning her.

This one is easy. You pull the same thing Palpatine tried to pull on Luke, and the same thing Malak did pull on Bastilla. Through inflicting severe pain, you draw out her hate, and try and use yourself as a focus for directing said hate, causing them to give in to and act upon their hatred, to draw on their own inner darkness for strength. And if you go dark side, she does just that. But she is still largely light, which makes me sad. TL: DR You do a lot of scary stuff to her that emotionally scars her which warps her thinking.

According to the Principal Lead Combat Designer, the skill trees are designed to work how they do now. In other words, you are supposd to fill one out to the top. If you don't, you aren't supposed to be running at or beyond projected maximum effectiveness. At lower levels, there is nothing wrong with hybridizing until your heart is content, but at max level, if you don't fully specialize, you are in fact doing it wrong. As for WoW, again, according to the developers of this game, WoW was a "touchstone," it set up a lot of rules to develop by for MMOs, and in their view, breaking one of those rules is pretty dumb. Yes, they said breaking one of those rules was, "pretty dumb." Their words, not mine. I am not a WoW fanboy. I liked the game when I played it. I played it for almost too long, and gave it up when I got bored with it. I see it as a game like any other, perhaps a little lower quality than most due to its inane focus on the trinity system, which this game has inherited. Oh well. TOR is stil a great game and is great how it is now Of course MMOs in general and TOR specifically are going to change and grow as time goes on. I mean, I can think of several easy to implement improvements already without breaking their current model. For example, there are plenty of SI's out there that just don't want their male characters in a skirt and blouse, which I can understand. Anyway, the point is, the game is fine how it is, for now.

If you can't beat that fight without a companion you may want to look into re-thinking your playstyle. I had Khem fully geared and he would typically die in the first 20 seconds with me spamming heals on him and interrupting that blasted Force Storm whenever I could. So I just started kiting and DoTing, playing very carefully. Took me about 20 minutes but I killed her.

Look for the Supreme Inquisitor's Robe and the Supreme Inquisitor's Leggings. They are light armor, and they look exactly as true, quality Sith gear should look. No girly blouse on a male character, and pants to boot. It is a full-length hooded robe, open in the front, with what is basically black cargo pants. They come from a crafting pattern that is a drop off a worl boss on Hoth, I believe. If you guys manage to find any info on them, tell me. If you want to see them check out Torhead and look for the screenshots that are posted in the chat section under the item listing there.

I have no idea who wrote those. For all I know it could have been him, but I honestly doubt it. Doesn't seem like his style.

Plotholes and inconsistencies are not different ways of cooking meat, they would be hazardous to the health of a good story, hence mold.

Actually, you were the one who missed the point. He was saying that it makes no sense to call it a light side choice because it doesn't serve the Empire, nor does it line up with the meta-physics of the Force. Which I agreed with on both points. He understood what I was saying and agreed with me, as is evidenced by his response which I have posted here. The thing in question wasn't what is light or dark, but why that particular action doesn't match up with either the established paradigm for this game, or the established paradigm of the larger setting. There is literally no grounds to call that action light-sided. If being light-sided is, "doing as you are told," as you seem to think it is, then it would be light-sided to kill the Nekghouls, as those were the orders given to the character.

While that is true, there are things about stories that can make up a good story, that are obvious and objective for everyone. For example, you can't be wildly inconsistent within the story. Things get far too confusing and with no believable plot, things will fall flat quickly. Names of characters also have to be appropriate. You wouldn't expect a main character of a quality fantasy epic to be called Dopus Runboy, would you? It is also kind of stupid to see what is clearly a dark-side act within the setting, portrayed as a light side act withing the story. It breaks consistency, and not in a good way.

I don't know, honestly. My guess (note, I said guess, not fact) is that the ones who hate it, hate it because it was something other than what they expected or were hoping for. Though even I think it starts rolling in its own ***** by the start of the third act. The first and second acts were great though.

I never want to get into an argument, ever. I like ignorance even less. Are you sure it was I who you got into an argument with? Because I don't remember you at all. What you mean to say is that your character ends up in two organizations, the Order of Revan, and an organization that calls itself Sith, after the same name of the species and the teachings. Your character is no longer a Sith though, as one cannot be a Sith without believing in their teachings. Strange, what he actually called it was, "heretical teachings." Strange, somehow my response meant for one thing ended up being directed at something entirely different. That said, it still works, because strapping live explosives to corpses in an attempt to kill people is still dark-sided, and the nature of that fact isn't changed after the redemption of the actor. I don't disagree that the later actions taken are of a different nature. If you read any of my posts on the subject before the forum wipe, you may remember how loudly I proclaimed my ideas that the light side Sith story would be one of a slow eventual redemption, though it was less intricate than I thought, the elements that I expected were still there. A light-sided person to act as a beacon, (Ashara Zavros for the SI) and teachings on the light side of the Force, so one could break from using the dark side all the time, and we have those in the form of Keleth Ur's teachings. Again, direct defense of life. What was going to happen to this guy that you captured once you captured him? While odd, that is not out of the realm of possibility given her mission to protect life, and the general reputation of the Sith, and the fact that she is only a padawan. Though, again, this goes back to what I have said previously about portrayals of various characters in the setting. You'll forgive me if I question how light-sided they actually are. That out of the way, I have yet to see what Jaesa says about them when she turns dark-sided. Not having seen that particular bit as dark-sided, I think there is every possibility that they aren't actually light-sided if you go dark-sided, especially based on the other inconcistencies found from the light-dark variations of the stories. For that one I will just have to wait and see. I don't recall saying that. I said Jedi aren't supposed to try and see good in people, and they aren't. Jedi are supposed to love the good and the evil, which was what Luke did. He loved his greatest enemy, who was incidentally also bound up in himself. There is a lot I could go on about Luke's greatest enemy being himself, and the goal of the dark cave (a story-telling archetype if ever there was one) but I will keep on point. This is the heart of how they serve the Force, show loyalty to the Order, and defend the Republic. Jedi shouldn't fight or not fight, Jedi should be guided by the Force in all things, however that looks, in whatever way it plays out. Also, Luke's action ran much deeper than a simple refusal to fight. And Phrik electrostaves block Obi-Wan's lightsaber in RotS. I know. I actually have a possible theory as to why the lightsaber attack was stopped, and it is supported by other canon, but the Phrik thing I have no explanation for. I am chalking that one up to a mistake on Lucas' part. As for my explanation on the armor stopping the lightsaber, I actually think it was Vader absorbing the energy of the attack, in the same way he stopped Han's blasterbolt, with his gloved, significantly less-armored, hand. I think what he did, was use Tutaminis, or energy absorption to stop the attack, and that makes a kind of sense, as the ones who designed the SW RPG do actually talk to canon managers, and have a picture of the scene where Vader stops the bolt as their example pic for that power in one of their core books. Note that I am not relying on any stats or anything like that, I am just saying there is a small amount of evidence for that theory.

I like the Inquisitor's story because you really got to explore the character of the power-hungry Sith, and got to examine the themes of the dark side and Sith teaching in general. It literally embodied what it means to be a Sith on the path to ruin, and epotmized the reality of the dark side, in that self matters more than anything else.

Jedi Consular story, the first act, from beginning to end. After the first act though, it all goes down hill in a major way. Not because act 2 and 3 suck, but because they don't live up to the awesomeness that is act one. Especially near the end, I really did feel like I was playing something with the quality of KotOR 2 again.

Joss Whedon is the guy who created Firefly, which is one of the single greatest works of fiction, of all time.

Seconded.

Your spelling, grammar, and punctuation are all atrocious.

As soon as I saw the first major space battle near the end of Episode 4, back when I was about 6 years old.

I am still around, it is just that the game is out so I don't post nearly as much, the only reason I am not playing now, is I am waiting for some friends of mine to catch up so I can quest with them. The reason I didn't put Thrawn up there with Quality writing as well as good story, and have it as average writing and good story, is because Timothy Zhan, concerning the technical handlings of the written English language, is not as skilled as Stover or Luceno. He is still good, and the stories he tells are still of incredibly high quality and worthy of recognition. But I personally don't believe he is a true master of the art, not like Stover or Luceno anyway, even though I recognize that he basically breathed life into the EU. As soon as I have the spare coin, I am going to pick up a copy of Darth Plagueis, but I already blew my two previous months' worth of book budget on a deluxe copy of Book of Sith: Secrets of the Dark Side.

They break away from G-canon, and any time a lower source of canon contradicts G-canon, it is rendered N-canon. In otherwords, if Jedi aren't acting according to how they are supposed to act in G-canon, then Jedi aren't acting how they are supposed to act, period. If we are talking strictly about the Force-users, then no, there are no Sith, light-sided or otherwise, in the Revanites, because you cannot be a Sith and a Revanite at the same time, as their teachings are mutually contradictory. While there may be some NPCs who pretend to the name of Sith, who are in the Order of Revan, they are not Sith. Keleth Ur was dead by this point, and his teachings are universally considered to be either heresy or incomplete by every single imperial/Sith that you actually encounter in the game. Keleth Ur was in fact, a Sith that discovered, or rather re-discovered, the light side of the Force. What exactly are you commenting on here? I was refering specifically to the act of turning a new group of Force-users to the dark side. That act does not magically become light-sided upon the actor's redemption. Not necessarily. Performing one dark act does not make you dark-sided. Note though, that when you kill in direct defense of life (not indirect) it is proportionally light-sided as well. This is all about the Campbellian theme of internal balance. She was willing to let me go if I just backed off when I played through as dark-sided. I also don't remember her insulting me. I remember her asking me to stand down, and telling me that I don't scare her. So I have heard, and that actually makes sense. But the canon portrayal will no doubt be her turning to the dark side because the currently unamed Sith Warrior will almost certainly be dark-side upon the release of canon information. If they ever do decide to release that. Luke Skywalker didn't have to try anything. He saw what he did for two reasons, the strength he had in the Force, and the love he had for his father. What the Jedi are supposed to have, is love for all life, even life that has no good left in it. In Lucas' own words, Jedi are supposed to love all life, Jedi should love their enemies, Jedi should love the Sith. Jedi aren't supposed to see good in people, they are supposed to be able to self-sacrificingly love the people who aren't good. Lucas himself is not involved in any of the creation of the EU, though he will on occassion use elements of the EU in his work if he feels it is appropriate. He does not keep up on the EU. He only just discovered cortosis and vibroblades during the filming of a certain episode of TCW, and he was angry enough to say he never wanted to see anything like that in any Star Wars, ever. If he actually kept up with some of the EU that has been retconned, (and some of the stuff htat hasn't, but needs to be, and some of the stuff that was retconned that shouldn't have been) I am sure he would have permanent high BP.

No, they don't say that, and neither does Wookieepedia. Here is the official stance of the people who manage Star Wars canon. G-canon. Movies, movie novelizations, movie scripts, original screenplays, and other things of simliar natures. T-canon. Any Star Wars television show. This was created originally for TCW. C-canon. Continuity canon, movies, books, and games. S-canon. Secondary canon, things like statistics in Role-playing games, and item descriptions. N-canon. Non-canon, what if stories, things that didn't actually happen. Higher elements of canon auto-contradict lower elements, pushing them into n-canon, when equal canon elements contradict each other, a ruling from Chee or Lucas is needed. See wookieepedia on there? I don't.

This isn't the first time I have seen this claim, and my opinion on it has not changed. I think it is very likely, but until this is confirmed, I am not going to call it true.

Darth Moord is 100% correct.

if that is the case then you should hate Karen Traviss and Troy Denning, because they are by far the two biggest offenders in canon-destruction. George Lucas, and pretty much every other writer in Star Wars, are saints compared to those two.

Thank you, forgot about her, and of course there was Cin Drallig. While I don't believe that was his prefered style, he was the one who taught Ayla how to dual-wield.

In the script for Episode 2, he was supposed to dual-wield. They just cut that out, likely for the same reason given in the RotS DVD commentary that they gave for why they had Greivious lose two of his lightsabers rather quickly. I do believe that there is also a scene where he is holding two lightsabers, threatening a downed opponent. I forget where though. I will have to watch it again.