Newly re-subbed and fresh to this server so I'm just leveling up from scratch. I'm looking for a guild to chat with and do things with as I go. My in game name is Zinik and I plan to play DPS on my knight. Thanks!

No I'm saying we need the exact same system as used in WoW and Rift that finds your groups for you and puts you in the instance. It's 2012 now and that's how MMOs should be done.

Macros would be nice in order to use certain abilities before others such as a relic with a use or something else with an on-use effect. This would free up a few buttons because my bars are already getting pretty full.

The game just needs the same system used in WoW and Rift where it will find the groups for you and sends you to your destination. It makes it so much easier because you can do many other things while waiting on your group to form. I can't fathom how spamming trade chat channels is considered socializing anyway. If anything it's a huge nuisance as well as the fact that the majority of the time you won't even find enough people to do what you're wanting to do and you have to give up all together. As for ruining the community, that is already done. Every group I've been in that wasn't in my guild has been silent and done as quickly as possible which is no different than the random groups.

I just skip them. I haven't done one in a few planets now.

I don't understand how whisper / general spamming people equals to socializing...to me it's just another annoyance.

Looked on Kaas City earlier, a total of 14 people in LFG and the one I wrote to do a quest didn't respond. Working as intended right?

I am on the same page as the OP in every aspect he pointed out. Hopefully the devs will implement all of this in a timely manner.

The people I've actually grouped with and guild members are top notch but the general chat spam on the Dromund Kaas planet was absolutely horrible on my server. I think my ignore list is going to fill up if it doesn't slow down. I was hoping it would stop after early access but I guess people are actually paying money to annoy people in general chat.

I really like the look of the orange items I found in the first couple of flashpoints

I don't see why people would be against a dual spec. If you don't want to use it then it has completely no effect on your character in any way but for those that do want it it's a huge convenience and time/money saver.

I thought it did. Did they take it out after beta?

It would be nice if they offered free transfers like Rift does with a week cooldown. It's always nice over there if you find a new group of friends and want to jump in without releveling or chunking out a decent sum of money to transfer.

I'm on board with this. And a group finder while we're at it.

You can create your own channel by typing /create (channelname) and then it will be /4 the only hard part will be convincing the rest of the server to type /cjoin (channelname) and then actually using it.