I agree with this guy. I prefer Khem and only have him in greens with a few blues. I got Ashara and immediately was disappointed. In the room where you have to work your way out of–I kept pulling aggro from her. It was annoying. I found I had to heal myself more than I had to heal Khem in a similar situation. I put a bubble on Khem and AoE the mobs down. Rinse repeat. It's great being able to solo champions and heroics. I want to try Xalek but haven't yet.

Maybe–HOPEFULLY–they add it back after they put the matching fix back in. There was a post about them taking it out until they worked on some bugs (matching sets for better visuals).

I disagree with the OP. I don't think they need to add rewards or any more incentive for World PVP. As _DaGreat wrote: This is exactly why I play on a PVP server in SWTOR and in WoW back in the day. You basically get nothing in World PVP in WoW. The experience gain is worthless compared to battlegrounds. My buddies would get a group together and go kill the opposing faction for fun not for the rewards. If we wanted rewards we'd do arena and/or battlegrounds. I don't consider Wintergrasp or Tol Barad world PVP. You have to queue up for these or you get kicked out of the zone. I'm down for "bigger" battlegrounds like these but don't think world PVP rewards is necessary. World PVP is "just for fun" and for the urgency to always watch your back in fear of getting ganked. Rewards should be left in the more controlled environments.

I was disappointed as well. Mainly complaints are with the HoloCam and Training Droid. I thought the Training Droid would hover by my side like the description says, more or less like a pet. And while it didn't say–I was hoping it would be a "portable" class trainer. That would be cool while leveling up... I wish the HoloCam allowed the ability to take third person screenshots as well. I realize you can do this by hitting "Print Screen" but it would be nice to possibly have a free cam to get that perfect third person shot. The free cam would match the distance of the zoom out feature. One can dream... Luckily I'm loving the game and that is what really counts in the end.

Great informative information. Thanks for taking the time to prepare this for the masses. This was exactly what I was looking for.

I haven't tried the official release of SWTOR because I'm not in yet, however Battlefield 3 uses Origin and runs just fine. You just have to load Origin as the "Non-Steam" game and not BF3 itself. Maybe this will work with SWTOR as well... Please note: I tried a similar method for the SWTOR Beta. It would work and show the game I'm playing as "Star Wars..." but as soon as the launcher appeared it would break out of Steam.