I was talking on the empire side and from the money making perspective.

Yeah, stuns are also a big problem in PvP for maras. 90% of time I close the distance, start to go through my rotation to try and shell out some dmg just to either be stunned or thrown off right in to the acid pit. It's extremally irritating. The thing is though: I don't wanna play Operative, or Merc od whatever. I like the warrior storyline, characters and everything and I would like to see it through.

How can I be better with that class when I've been playing with it for literally just a couple of hrs? What, I have a natural talent to play merc and I just genetically suck at mara? Also, I don't feel like the whole "it all levels out at 50" argument is valid. I don't have a lvl 50 char and I will not have one for quite some time. Shouldn't the playingfield be equal across all levels? I know that a lot of ppl only play these games to race to max level as quickly as possibile and do end game content. I'm not one of those ppl. I wanna enjoy the whole ride, all the way through.

Wow, so I asked a question and that makes me a "whining noob" now? Seriously?

Ahh, that explains a lot. What it doesn't explain is the accual MASSIVE amount of dmg I can do in PvP, without even breaking a sweat.

I can understand some slight balancing issues, especially at launch, all mmo have them. But this doesn't seem like a slight balancing issue, this, to me, is a GIANT blancing issue. Seems like almost everybody playes either Bounty Hunter or Sorcerer and almost nobody plays Warrior, especially mara (obiously the same thing prolly applies to republic as well). This get's so riddicolous that it even messes up the economy of the game. I've been investing HUGE amounts of money in to synthweaving medium armor (as that's what maras wear) but since nobody is playing mara nobody wan't to buy my stuff.

Ok so this has been disscussed to the death plenty of times before, im sure, still the problem persists and I would love if someone could explain this to me. I have a lvl 33 mara. I don't know how many warzones I did with him, but he has a Valor rank of 22, so definitelly quite a lot. Now the thing is: no matter what I do in PvP I always struggle to get to even top half as far as dmg is conserned. Most of the time I don't even get the 75k dmg done medal. Before you ask, yes I do have lvl appropriate, mostly orange gear. Now you could say: you just suck at playing mara, and that's prolly the case, I certainly seen ppl who claim they do a lot of dmg as mara and they love it for PvP. But here's the thing. I just made myself an alt. He's lvl 11 merc, and I just did my first PvP with him. Bear in mind that's the first time EVER I'm doing PvP as merc, so essentially I'm just pressing buttons, mostly just spamming the basic attack and hoping for the best. I end up in the top half, scoring 4 medals and doing over 110k dmg. That's with a lvl 11 char going against ppl who were mostly lvl 35+. How the hell does that work? Her's another question: how is dmg even calculated? My lvl 33 mara dmg numbers are: Damage (Pri): 257 - 315 Damage (Sec): 35 - 53 Bonus Damage: 139,6 My lvl 11 merc dmg numbers are: Damage (Pri): 716 - 1056 Damage (Sec): 117 - 219 Bonus Damage: 32,5 Note: both are WITHOUT PvP stat boosts, mara with Unnatural Might, merc with Hunter's Boon. Again: could someone plz explain how the hell does that work?

This is a question I've been meaning to ask a long time ago when I was playing WoW and never got to it. With SWTOR it makes even more sense to ask it now. How and why are you guys power leveling? As for the first part: It took me more then a month to lvl my last char in WoW to 85, and I've been playing SWTOR for 9 days now and I'm not even lvl 30 yet. And I'm not what you would call a casual gamer, I've easily spent way over 100hrs playing this thing. Yet I know there are ppl who can lvl chars in wow from 1 to 85 in just a couple of days and I've already seen lvl 50 chars in SWTOR a couple of days ago. How the hell is that possibile? It seems that even you play the game 24/7 non stop (which is impossibile, you need to eat, sleep, poop etc.) that's still not enough time to do it. So again: how are you guys doing it? And as for the question why: I can sort of see the point of doing it in WoW at this point, there's so much end game content in WoW it makes sense to get to lvl cap and then just play raids. But in SWTOR? A this point there just a handfull of raids and I don't think BW will be adding any new content anytime soon. So it seems if you keep playing at this pace you'll run out of things to do in a week. I for one would rather take it slow, play at my own pace and just enjoy it. I'm not asking this becasue I want to power lvl my chars and I wanna learn how to do it. I'm just curious

Ok so im going with Quinn right now, hope that helps. What sucks is thst I really like rolling with Vette, I just bought her some new blasters for over 10k hoping it would increase her dmg and in turn help me with the whole getting killed over and over problem...

Are you playing as mara? And how far in to the game are you? Acually, to all you ppl saying the game is easy: are you all playing maras? And no, I'm not doing heroics solo and yes, I know my damn rotations.

No I'm using Vette

I'm a lvl 25 mara and I never had problems with PvE, in fact I thought it was fairly easy. All the way until I left Nar Shadda. I'm on Tatooine right now and I literally keep dying over and over and OVER again. A single, Strong Jawa can kill me, this is getting plain stupid. I have all the level appropriate armor and weapons, I upgraded Vetts weapons as well, I'm using all my abilities as best I can and still I keep dying and dying and dying. There are Strong mobs everywhere, I can usually take them in sigle combat, but they are never alone, usually in packs of 2-3-4, stims are useless if I'll need to buy new ones eveytime I die (did I mention I die A LOT) and I honeslty don't know what to do anymore. The game went from being fairly easy to very difficult in a heart beat. Anyone else have this problem?

I play Empire and I gotta say I disagree. The balance might be slighlty on our side ATM, but we definitelly lose a lot of matches as well, sometimes really badly. And aren't Republic classes mirror images of Empire classes? How could the Empire be overpowered? You prolly just had bad luck.