Actually, when the NGE hit, you COULD just change your class for a tidy sum in credits. If you had a level 90 combat toon, you could just POOF.. change and become any other level 90 combat toon. If you had a level 90 trader (droids), you could just POOF... change and become a level 90 tailor. Entertainer was different. You had to actually take the few hours and an automatic macro to level to 90. So, you would have to manually level to 90 as any combat, level to 90 as a trader (which took about 2 hours tops), then level to 90 as an Entertainer (which took a few hours with an AFK macro), and BAM!!! You could respec into ANY class in the game at any profession counselor. 25 million credits was the cap, but pretty much anyone worth a damn in that game had far more than a billion credits, so it was no big deal. The system still wasn't as broken as the skill box system used pre-NGE, but meant that after any patch, the FotM reigned supreme (usually Spies).

I like how in World of Warcraft, I could pay some gold to change between being a Warrior and a Paladin. They should have that here. ..... oh wait.

Consular Shadow: 20 Smuggler Scoundrel: 13 Sith Warrior: 16 Bounty Hunter: 8 Jedi Knight: 4 Considering how many hours I have played to get those where they are, it makes me wonder how many people have just skipped all convos/cut scenes. Just sitting through everything on my Consular + all the walking that had to be done, especially on Taris, I have spent 40 hours on him alone. I fricking love this game.