I agree with the OP. By not emplementing these changings and consolidating servers bioware is going to wound themselves in ways that are going to be hard to come back from. I enjoy the game in alot of ways but pvp is starting to take to long and I dont pve at all because of the difficulty in finding groups.

Thanks for the insight gents, I kind of like the idea of going with Cull. I am no swtor expert but I believe internal damage bipasses armor. Which would help overcome some of the limitations of not having acid blade from concealment. I liked the idea of lethality but disliked that it didn't have a TA generating ability in the tree, limits your TA to being primarily from Skiv which has a CD. So the goal is to be primarily dps with some healing, not focusing as much on burst of course, but applying alot of pressure. Kolto Probe will help generate the TA for Cull, which will be my hard hitting talent. Will be interesting to see if its as viable in pvp as other builds, depending on my guilds needs I may run with the healing build that Crocolisk linked however.

Can't decide on which healing spec to roll at lvl 50. Currently lvl 32. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#401MffMzhZZhrbkrbhd.1 http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#401MffMzhZMIModkZhr.1 http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#401MffMzhMkzZMIModkZ0M.1 Or something similiar to one of these, any opinions on viability? Currently lvling as medic and feel I have an abundance of tactical advantage that could be used for dps.

Oct 4th here. So close yet so far.

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The only reason I look forward to getting into the game early is for a chance to get certain avatar names that I have wanted to play, having to wait multiple day’s puts a damper on that chance. Obviously your servers can withstand a great deal of stress, it handled it just fine on Thanksgiving. So while you don't want to stress out your servers, this is something not done by other MMOs and is causing a great deal of outrage by the community. You mention letting people login in waves but don't give any real timeline that people can expect, so players are basically left in limbo. Obviously this is going to cause a great deal of irritation as players saw how smoothly the servers ran during beta and don't have a clue when they will be able to play. Feels very misleading and while you give explanations players feel that is a copout.