I leveled an operative all the way to 65, and now I don't even want to log onto him anymore. I wanted a stealth class with a blaster. What I got was a stealth class that holds a ranged weapon for show but prefers to run up to their face and stab them with a knife. It's literally the same exact combat animation for 90% of fights and the weapon that I use the most isn't represented on my body in any way shape or form. I spend 90% of the game shanking people with knives that I don't even get to see hanging from my belt. I would happily change my advanced class to sniper too.

I would upvote you if I could. This is 99.99% of the conversation options in SWTOR and in most recent BioWare games. In SWTOR we have one faction who is angelic good for the sake of being good, and the other faction which is comically evil for the sake of being evil. My favorite conversation choices in the entire game are the ones that go like this: I slaughter my way through hundreds and hundreds of imperial troops on a planet. Chopping them all to little glowing bits with my chainsaw propeller lightsaber. Then I get to the main Sith Lord running the whole show on that planet. I duel him until he submits and then I get a conversation choice: 1) Let him live for LS points 2) Kill him for DS points Like seriously? I mean this guy is the one that ordered all the death and destruction on this planet. I mowed through his peons like they were stalks of corn in a combine, but killing the head evil kitten slayer is the DS choice? Really? Shouldn't my entire body be glowing red at this point from killing a good 500+ Imps, if killing their leader is the "bad guy" option?

Hardcore... lol, even the most difficult raids in this game are normal-mode. Take 24 people to Age of Conan and down even the first boss of T3.5 or T4, then come back. The raid content here is laughably easy and every raid is entirely puggable on HM without voice comms. Only NiM gives a decent bit of difficulty but who gives a crap since the drops aren't worth the added trouble. However, it's the only MMO with lightsabers so I'll play it occasionally to get my laser sword fix.

Sith don't crap. It's why they're so angry all the time.

Who cares? As long as there are other players to shoot at, and more maps to shoot them on, why would I ever want some ******, brainless AI to shoot at? If I want that, then I can grind another toon through a dozen planets of mobs standing around every ten feet picking their dingleberries.

Here is the real underlying problem with the Republic: There's a huge disconnect between what you're doing in between dialog moments with NPC's and what you're doing during those moments. For instance; My Jedi Knight shows up on a new planet, and immediately begins butchering his way through literally thousands of NPC's in order to get to an evil Sith Lord. I defeat him in combat and then I'm given a choice to kill or arrest him. KILL is worth dark side points, while arrest is worth light side points. Wait, wut? Didn't I just indiscriminately murder a few thousand other guys just to get to the one evil guy that definitely should be killed, but killing him makes ME the bad guy? THIS is why playing republic is stupid. It reminds me of a scene from Grosse Pointe Blank: Kevin McCullers: Man, why don't we just do his job, so we can do our job and get out of here? Steve: What do you mean, "do his job?" What am I, a cold-blooded killer? I'm not a cold-blooded killer. Kevin McCullers: Now, wait a minute... Steve: No, you wait a minute. You want to kill the good guy but not be the bad guy. Doesn't work like that. You have to wait until the bad guy kills the good guy, then when you kill the bad guy, you're the good guy. Kevin McCullers: So - just to clarify - if we do his job we're the bad guys, and if we do our job we're the good guys. Steve: Yes. Kevin McCullers: That's... great.

So ten years with a gear treadmill WoW clone as our Star Wars MMO. Maybe in 2023 I'll get the EVE clone I keep hoping companies will make.

I'll take any planet that doesn't funnel me through the content like I'm a rat in maze. So basically I would prefer planets more like Hoth and Tatooine than Nar Shadaa and *puke* Corellia *puke*.

Your laundry room is in your kitchen?? Talk about a space saver apartment!

I find it amusing that so many people are invested in keeping the status quo. Who really cares if someone pays to change their AC and avoid the tedious, monotonous grind to 55 across a half dozen static, lifeless planets? I sure don't. Some of the AC's are horribly broken and the dev response was; you're wrong, L2P. The class representative spent years trying to get improvements made to the shadow and finally threw his hands up in disgust and quit the game over it. But then again, all classes can just heal themselves to full, so I guess wanting to swap AC's is just dumb.

Honestly, I rarely have a sentinel or marauder out DPS my Infiltration Shadow. It only really happens if I'm out of the action for a while such as guarding a turret that no one is coming to. If I'm in the fight the whole time, then I usually out DPS everyone on our team except for a few really well played sages and commandos on our side, but never a sentinel. Maybe my server just has very few good sents, but I never even see them break 250k damage in a match, which I do consistently. But then again, I'm at 650 expertise with full champ gear.

It not only works, it's a huge difference. It's not nearly as easy to circle strafe keyboard turners without it. I might have to sacrifice something for it.

Come to think of it, I've had that talent forever too and I've never seen myself run any faster than anyone on my team in a WZ. I'm definitely gonna copy this spec tonight and see if it works for me the way it works for you. My current spec is actually 7/31/3 because I really really like being able to force speed more often. I find myself using Force Speed a lot. But I'll see if the damage goes up any using this and if it does, then that's probably worth sacrificing force speed.

50 Shadow... 4.3 mill and not a damn thing to spend them on that is better than what I currently have. Even my companions all have PVP gear that it is better than what I can buy. lol

Different things for different people I guess. I don't even like linear leveling or classes. I like an open ended system where I pick skills to train that make me better at what I want to do. If I want to swing a sword one day and then the next day I want to learn how to shoot a bow on the same character, then dammit, I want to do that. I don't want to be told, "oh well, you want to use a bow now, so you have to start over from the beginning with a different class because the class you have now isn't allowed to have bows." I guess that's why I like EVE so much. I can be whatever I want to be with one character instead of starting over at the starting area with a new character bashing low level mobs again just because OMG I want to do something different.