Why are all the outer wheel rooms on Empire's Fleet wide open and the Republic's walled off except for a door? This makes no sense to me.

Two schools of thought here. 1) All End Game gear is the same. You can hit metrics in PvP to get access to different tiers or complete raid content and do the same. It won't matter which path (or both) you follow, you end up in the same place. This would require about the same amount of time working through both trees to reach each metric or one path will take over the game. PvP is always available even when playing solo, raids are not. PvP results vary between each match, raids are either successful or not. How can you make the time and skill involved for both equal? If you can answer this, you are smarter than me. 2) Two completely seperate paths with entirely seperate gear sets. This allows the progression to be independent for each path. It requires time put into each path to excel at both. It is easy for the Devs because they don't have to worry about balance between the two paths. The downside is this requires each set of gear to stand out within its environment. They use expertise for PvP, nothing currently exists for PvE other than better stats. Either the PvP gear stats have to lag behind PvE stats or there is a one way transfer from PvP to PvE. Would I like for my gear to be equally good for both paths, hell yeah. Do I think it is possible for the Devs to setup a system that allows this without giving an advantage to one path or the other? NO.

Make the Crit Crafted gear Bind on Pickup and then only the crafters will have that gear.

Tell that to the Level 50 who camps Tattooine Empire speeder points on DWC.

You do know that you can switch which companion follows you? As a Bounty Hunter, unless you are Healer spec, you will likely want Mako around especially when dealing with elites. Press N on your keyboard and the window with your crew skills will open. There is a button for each companion on the right hand side with an arrow and another symbol. Click that to call up the companion.

As an Arsenal BH, I would love the whole tree to be reworked to limit the importance of Tracer Missle. If it weren't so damn important, most of the Nerf request would disappear and maybe I would not be targeted so quickly.

AMD/ATI just fired an old friend from the Austin TX plant so EFF THEM, nVidia RULES!!!

Didnt see this posted so if I missed it, appologies... Can you imagine how infrequently you would encounter other players if the entire planet was playable? I see posts everyday talking about how empty the game feels and that players are happy to see one other person and that is within the confines of the current planet setup. Sure I would love to see the future location of Luke's childhood home on Tattooine but not at the risk of never seeing anyone on any planet ever again. As much as my inner explorer wants to cruze all over each and every planet, I don't want to see random animations repeated over and over again. If there were to be complete planets, they had better have something to see and hopefully do.

Do you have to name class/race/spec or just,"WOW another player!!!"?

Actually I use this as a feature. I hit my castable ability, change targets and shoot again. Case in point, the casted 60s stun. Launch that at an elite/strong, switch targets during cast and open fire on a weak target as soon as the first cast is complete. If you target the wrong mob, take a step in any direction and retarget.

And what you fail to grasp is that DPS is not the end all/be all. My merc has great DPS WHEN I GET TO USE IT. Most of the time, I am stun locked/interupted and can barely do any damage with almost no ability to escape or stop the stun lock/interupt. At least you have other options. I am either ranged DPS or dogfood with nothing in the middle.

A-BH dps is only high when not being stun locked/interupted. I mean if your never-get-killed Sorc/Sage needs more DPS and still never dies, my BH should be able to use my DPS on the move right?

Well hell, while we are at it let's buff the Arsenal tree BH to allow mobility while hitting you with a dozen tracer missles. I mean, everyone knows how to kill a Arsenal BH is to stun lock em and interupt so at least with mobility I can try to run away while Tracer Missle-ing you to death.

So says the lightning spammer above.

ditto, after a dozen or so MMOs and playing a PvE, good guy tank, I was ready to be a PvP, bad guy DPS.

WooHoo!! After 20 years I am finally a Troll!!! or maybe the guy CC'g needs to tell his team mates what he is doing rather than relying on them seeing something in the heat of battle while their focus is split on other things.

So you believe in mind reading then? Cool.

Out of curiosity, are you announcing your CC or just expecting everyone to read your mind?

As long as the Devs don't have to ratchet up the difficulty in ops and HM FPs because the content is too easy for those who like to Min/Max and have used meters. I don't care if a player wants to know how to min/max using data from a meter but I sure as hell don't want to be told how to play my character and have end game content sealed away from me because I won't min/max. Call me a Bad all you want but expect Elitest remarks coming back your way. It is a game not a job and I pay my monthly subscription just like you do. Play the way you want and I will do the same.

So then we all agree it isn't about nerfing Tracer Missle, it is about reworking the ENTIRE Arsenal tree. So long as that is the discussion, then continue. If you are just wanting a nerf to the TM ability, you deserve every TM you receive whether or not you can beat the BH. Until the TM ability is adjusted to a longer debuff along with additional heat or a cool down, each and every Arsenal merc will continue to use it as often as their heat can afford. The debuff lasts 15 seconds and when being interupted/stunned regularly combined with 3 second timers for many of the big hitting abilities the BH is forced to go back to TM just to keep the debuff on the target. God forbid that debuff drop and you are looking at three TM in a row to put it back on target, again that is before the interupts and stuns.

I would consider myself a long time casual player. I love the story arc in this game and for the first time ever, I will actually play this game through multiple times. Usually I play one character and may have a few lower level alts but never do they get even half way through to level cap. In SWTOR, I have four characters and at least three of them will reach the cap as I want to know how the story ends. My one and only complaint is that it will only take me 6-8 months to complete all the story arcs I have already begun. It took my WOW character well over a year to hit 60 in Vanilla, so 6-8 months for 4 characters at the level cap in less time disappoints me.

My first character was a BH-Arsenal Merc and having Mako from the start spoiled me rotten. Now with my Juggernaut, Assassin and Operative I keep wondering why every fight is so much harder. Then I remember I don't have Mako keeping me flush with HP.

if they would just let us mount up and ride through it... I hope that there is a reason, like space ship to space station combat or PvP world conquest. That way incoming players get dropped into a space battle rather than dropping right on planet or the planetside shuttle being overrun by the opposing faction blocking landing.

Cybertech also has a speeder at 25 and while the pattern can be bought off the GTM, the manufactured speeder is Bind on Pickup and cannot be traded or sold.

I am sad he left, I wanted to encourage him to keep buying everything he sees as undervalued so I can keep selling my stuff to him. I get far more fun farming in game, either by sending companions on missions or picking stuff off the ground than I ever would looking at the GTM. I am just glad that I know my mats will sell if I use the default with guys like him around. I have bought two items off the GTM, both because I was a couple points short in crafting to use mats I already had and it was easier to buy than to go collect. With the fat stacks of credits I already possess, I didn't even have to break my bank to buy them at over inflated prices. Net, I am probably around even or just ahead compairing what I have sold vs what I have bought. Seems to me the market is working perfect.