When you stop changing your spec every five minutes?

It's sad this is how the Legacy stuff will work, as a number of guilds with split populations on the topic of pve vs pvp went with the "Republic on one server, Imperial on another" method and now those people are effectively going to be losing out on Legacy features because of this.

Kind of.

My biggest concern with the Legacy stuff is that it seems to make it so that you kinda have to roll characters of both factions on the same server, in order to have a well-fleshed-out Family Tree. This is kinda annoying for people in large guilds who split their Republic/Empire branches across different server types in order to accommodate both PvE and PvP server desires.

Lore-based arguments against color crystals make no sense. The color comes from the crystal, not the user, and certainly not the Force. If you're a jedi and you fall to the Dark Side in the middle of a fight, your lightsaber does not immediately turn red, nor does it switch itself off because you're no longer allowed to use it.

Not exactly. You'll want to peek through this thread: Blaster Pistol Images So far it seems the closest silverish gun there is is the D-60 Sonic Enforcer from the commendation vendor on Voss.

First off, I really like the little lore-based blurbs explaining things. I also have a feeling that the reason some speeder types are going away is because 1.2 is going to bring in huge changes to crafting in general, not just the areas mentioned already, and that this may include Cybertech getting ALL of the fancy-looking speeder models and them no longer being bind-on-pickup (so they can be sold to players). That way if you want a basic, generic speeder you go to a vendor. If you want a fancy one, you go to a crafter.

Risha likes them once you're actually at the relationship stage of things. No sooner.

See ya.

Only one species in Star Wars was capable of funding an expedition far enough to reach Earth, we all know that didn't turn out too well. http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Children_of_the_Green_Planet

Browdaar also has a nasty habit of turning off his shield stance randomly. So it's possible to miss that and wonder why he's croaking faster than usual.

A simple cascading macro system like Rift has would solve most of the problems, allowing the combination of reactives and instants, making more room for situational/utility abilities on the hotbars.

My smug is Sab/DF and I levelled with Risha almost exclusively, barring against melee elites which forced me to use a tank. With her in AoE mode, we wiped the floor with virtually everything, including ranged elites.

I have a feeling that the key difference is probably rest xp. If you don't make the effort to park in a cantina, fleet, or your ship you lose out on a ton of extra xp.

1/10 for effort

Nope.

I don't pvp. I solo almost exclusively. When I hit 50 I was just starting Corellia, had tons left to do. I was consistently a few levels above all content I was doing, all the time. It wasn't until I was around 45 or so that the gap closed to as few as 3-4 levels above.

It's not just the gear issue though. If you spend 49 levels letting players determine their playstyle via the companion that suits them best, you don't then require them to use a companion and playstyle they're unfamiliar with. If you've played it safe with a tank the whole time, being forced to use a dps pet instead can result in failure after failure until you unlearn and relearn behaviours.

I only need a tank for melee elites, as ranged elites are a snap as a gunslinger with appropriate use of interrupt and cover. The problem is that even with decent gear, Bowdaar is a piece of wet tissue paper against any melee elites. I've honestly had better luck with a dps companion and me running around like a headless chicken.

Honestly, at this point, I wish they'd add code so that the *second* you cancel your subscription, you can no longer post on the forums.

They've already said numerous times that they're working on adding dual-specs. Have some damn patience.

Any time I open a "OMG X sucks" post regarding this game, I can almost guarantee the first thing the person is gonna talk about is something regarding pvp. I know generalizations are bad, but it really seems like 90% or more of all whining/complaining is pvpers with butthurt.

Yeah, I know the quest you're talking about and it is really odd that it's not labelled as heroic, since you not only have to kill the apprentice (who is a champ) but his master as well (who is likely even more of a champ). I skipped it.

The Q&A posts discuss the upcoming stuff quite in depth.

Some orange items have a minimum required level which cannot be affected by simply removing the mods. I am not sure if it is possible otherwise. One thing to be aware of though is that removing the mods from a BoE item binds it to you.