Probably the best part of the entire trooper storyline.

Yes. Most of them.

Is it the movement on those fights which disrupts ammo management or some other factor? I'm trying to figure out if the shift to passive regen in 1.3 will help here.

I'd be satisfied if they added a smoke trail and matched the projectile colour to your crystal.

I probably wouldn't have spent the money on augments while leveling tbh.

You'll be glad to hear that the threat bonus on soresu form is being buffed from 150% to 200% and your ability to splash around AOE is also being buffed in the next couple of weeks. I'm sure you've read it before but if you really take to heart the message that it is not necessary to tank every mob in a pack it gets a lot easier. Normal and weak mobs are not worth tanking, they die too fast and are passively CCed by so many of the DPSers' attacks anyway. Once you ignore them it's rare to fight more than three or four silver/gold mobs at a time. Why are you guarding the healer? They already generate half the threat of a dps and this is further reduced for every enemy in play.

If you're telling your guild what to do with THEIR ops group, you're a lousy team player.

PVP gear. The level 40 set (showcased by the trooper guild) is popular and good. I'm working on battlemaster for everyone though.

GTN default price is about 8k. I bought mine for that on Freedon Nadd and then 24hrs later another was up for the same price. I loled. Edit: Although not as hard as I did when I bought a battlelord chest for 25k.

During EGA I chose a medium server to avoid queues and it became the third lightest server in europe with weeks between WZs. I will NEVER complain about server queues or fleet lag ever again.

Definitely. Make it adaptive social and available for both factions. I've been wanting one for a while.

Depends if you like (primarily) melee combat or ranged. Also, the mods are directing people who ask to this thread here: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=459856

Synthweaving. Get the recipe from underworld trading or GTN.

You've proven that one idiot can't kick you out. It takes three idiots. If I was grouped with three idiots, I'd be kicking myself out of there.

There is some very valuable work in this thread. Is it possible to quantify and include the contribution of cooldowns though? This line in particular got me thinking that if "sustained" squishiness was balanced wouldn't cooldowns also need to be balanced in order to keep the classes even?

Interesting. Do you have any armour rating when naked? Could be some technicality like boosts armour from items by 150% rather than total armour. Or maybe it's stacking multiplicatively with Eye of the Storm instead of additively?

I think Rescue would be ok if it's a tank you work with all the time, one who you've discussed it with and you coordinate it well. I can more easily see it used as part of the movement in a fight rather than as a focus generator. Focus isn't an issue on my vanguard but I get sages to Rescue me when switching islands on Garj. Lets me hang back for longer while the rest move and causes Garj to walk across lava to get to us rather than the path. All it takes is one taunt and my aggro is fine.

There are 520 threads in the healer forum. 360 threads in the tank forum. 160 in the DPS forum. It is possible that most DPS are illiterate though.

His companion's AI will auto-taunt anything it doesn't have aggro on. Taunt overrides everything. There's nothing you can do to keep up with that. I relax and go with the flow if I'm doing group quests with someone using a tank companion but it was pretty infuriating when I was trying to learn the ropes. Energy management improves for vanguards later on. There's a definite mid-level period where it feels like you have most of the abilties that consume ammo but not many that restore it. Reserve powercell, recharge cells but crucially shield cycler and energy blast. Every vanguard tree has some mechanic for restoring cells. Until then just practise staying at max recharge rate and use more hammershot. I myself use the word rotation but it's actually a priority order. I'm not sure what level you're at but at 50 I use the following order for tanking: Stockstrike > Pulse Cannon > High Impact Bolt > Ion Pulse > Hammershot With Energy Blast used on CD. Optimally I'd time Reserve Powercell with Pulse Cannon but in reality that's just kept on CD too. Battle Focus I use when I have Stockstrike and Pulsecannon both ready to fire. If Recharge Cells is not ready I make sure to stay at max cell recharge rate. Some people drop Pulse Cannon and use Sticky Grenade instead. The Pulse Cannon version is less affected by armour, has very slightly better energy management and benefits more from our spec but the Sticky Grenade version is more mobile and doesn't interfere with our ability to interrupt mobs.

The thing on the shoulder is definitely a pauldron. I think Cassus is hoping for something that looks more like this.

17 People would be considered a crowd on my fleet. They've already said they're planning merges. Ofc they're never going to use the word merges but what do you call it when multiple server populations are transferred onto a single server?

A major convenience with the vanguard is that his companions use the same gear as him and are therefore really easy to kit out.

http://tor-fashion.com/ might give you some leads. There are quite a few trooper chest armours with the kama. The pauldron you describe is not available although the shoulder guard of the TH-15 series (and others) can provide a similar aesthetic. The only set with both kama and asymmetrical shoulderguards would be the pvp warhero set afaik.

Your vanguard is level 12. Reroll if you don't like the looks you chose at creation. Carry on if they're fine. I'm sure you'll relearn the three button rotation quickly enough.

PVE skill.