I'll freely admit to enjoying doing stuff over-level, hell before x12 kicked in I liked goin back to DK just to do the heroics for comms. My main concern is all the kill based achievements - can you imagine how long something like the bormu kiling on Balmorra's gonna take at/near level? despite the gearing/abilities off set? In one foul swoop they've single handedly kicked completionists in the nuts because who in their right mind is going to create 40 alts just to square out kill achievements? My sanity is already questionable and I've only done 24....

Not entirely true as with the switch from main 4 stats to Mastery, the ability to wear anything that's adaptable should open the door to some very interesting fashion choices. I just hope the do a pass on old orange loot and make sure they're switched to adaptable as well - especially if they allow single faction wear to become cross faction now the Empire and Republic are effectively no more.

22 60's on my main server, 2 waiting to come across once the char limit increases, All of which I'm rather attached to - the free 60's gonna be a version of my main on the back up server in order to test out the new content. Sure as hell don't want to screw something up on the main server. With a bit of luck by the time I get him to 65/through the new stuff there'll be enough info on dulfy to navigate round any pitfalls on the main server.

Just as an FYI, once 4.0 hits I believe it goes up to 24 unlockable slots.

As present I've got 21 60's and a 55 on my main server and a 60 + 41 to move over once we can get 24 char slots. All AC's are covered with a couple of doubles to get all or most of the M/F LS/DS angles of the story covered. As far as managing them all is concerned I've created a spreadsheet on google docs that's got everything from where they're up to grind wise (some of the 60's haven't started SOR yet), gear grades, companion gear grades, crafting skills, comp affection, comms amounts and so on. So far just shy of 110 mil on my BH main with the rest on 2 mil a piece, all aiming to max comms by the time FE drops so I'm ready for re-gearing.

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Dat voice eh? Considering someone's already suggested HK for cyborgs, it can't be that unreasonable...

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I can happily see a few being dropped - Skadge, Qyzen, Zenith, Broon, hell If I get to go Ramsay Bolton on Quinn I'd be overjoyed on my DS Male Jug, the most important ones for me to get back are the love interests, Blizz and Gault. I just hope BW let us go dark on a couple of the LS based comps like we did with Jaesa. I don't know about anyone else but seeing the likes of Kira, Nadia and Ashara go full tilt sith would be awesome - wouldn't you go a bit dark if the person you were goin out with got turned into an ice-cube by some randoms?

Personally for me, it's a question of comms - depending on how many I have considering where I'm up to, on reaching 60 you want to be fairly close to cap by the end of ziost (if not capped with some banked in the form of schematics (guy next to the crew skills vendor - 60 comms a pop with a 2 hour timer) so you can get as much 190 gear as you can. so in essence do as much or as little as you need to to get to max with capped coms.

Just suffered from this one, it's gating about 8 other people on TOFN as I type, re-logging inside the room repeatedly til the monolith appeared did the trick, but had to kill him 3 times (with a coupla of log ins/outs) to get the button to work when electrocuting him.

Considering most of my chars have an "iel" suffix I'll be running variations round my head, problems is with 22 chars already I'll have to bounce a couple to another server to make sure I get the names I want until the character slot limit goes up in KotFE. Even then when I bring the other's home I need to pray that someone's not knicked their names...

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*checks numerous spread-sheets* All 22 chars to 60 - check All chars through Rishii, Yavin & Ziost - In progress All chars in min/maxed 190's - In Progress (I don't raid) Imp Main & Pub Main @ 10 Mil at least - Check All others to at least 500k - In Progress All Chars maxed Basics - In Progress All Chars maxed Elites - In Progress All Chars maxed Ulti - LOL! All Chars Maxed on Affection - In Progress All Treeks in 192 (cos I'm not doing all 40+ ) - In Progress 5 Stacks of each green G11 material for crafting - In Progress 3 Stacks of white mats - In Progress Banks Narrowed down on all Chars - not even close All CC stuff on GTN & sold - in Progress Jack Daniels stockpiled for when the above is finished - check Sanity - Irretrievable

First up check your mission log.. either delete any grey quests or go and attempt them (especially if there are basic comms offered in the rewards), if you're getting your proverbial handed to you while doing these, ya need to read below and get your gear up to speed. Then work through the greens and so on. Lvl 56 Jugg? straight to the supplies section of fleet and fill some orange grade armour with the Rishii mods, that should see you through to 60 (especially if you re-run lvl 55 weeklies/dailies if the later bits of Yavin give you trouble, from there though you've got 3 real choices considering FE's inbound. 1. Check your coms and see what you can get from the basics vendor and/or check your creds and buy the 186 mods off the GTN then do Ziost until you've got enough holograms for a full set of 190's and keep workin Ziost to min max them. (Mainly the best Soloist option) 2. Get as far as you can with 1. but also keep re-running the weeklies/dailies on Oricon, CZ198, Makeb, Rishii, Yavin, and Bounty Weekl to get your Elite coms up - the aim here is to hit FE with capped coms of as many kinds as possible. The reason being they'll probably com-shift again when the level cap goes up (192's become the lvl 60 Basic wear/ Elites become 198 etc). (Basically prep work for the next gear change but not going into group content) 3. Lastly, 1+2 and jump in a guild as other's have said, when not raiding, 2'll probably put you in good stead for FE.

The Trooper ending was where I first realised she wasn't all sweetness and light, granted I saw the merit in her thinking but it still felt like a kick in the teeth for all the work Havoc had done... but Ziost really took the cake, I've just got my first pub through it and received the "Strategic Withdrawals" email... I could just imagine my smuggler saying "Seriously lady? the hell is wrong with you?"

With even the faint hint that we might loose companions, I'm not going to be running the FE content until it's at least a week old and there's a pile of threads (and the glorious Dulfy) telling me what's occurring, who I loose for good, who I can get back and who/how I can switch Comps on. If I have a burning need to change my mind, I'll run it on the fresh 60 that isn't going to be on my home server. I must be nuts having 22 60's and actually looking forward to seeing what changes they've made to the 1-60 grind by running the 2 upcoming char slots the old way. That said, the fresh 60'll probably be a Gunnery Trooper as the other 60 I've got on that other server's an Arsenal Merc.

I confess that... 1. I'm an unashamed Altoholic, 22 60's on one server with a pile of lvl 15's and a lvl 37 on another. 2. I've got head-cannon for all of those 60's, not written anything out for them yet but it's just a matter of time. 3. I over-level and over-gear everything - all but one character was 60 and in 186's before touching Rishii, and even the odd one out was 58 before he got there. 4. I've already started stockpiling for basic/elite/ultimate comms, credits and mats ready for Fallen Empire. 5. I don't honestly mind chars or comps in skimpy outfits, done right some of them can look half decent. 6. *coff* some of my female comps and chars look half decent... more so in some cases *coff* 7. I spend a ridiculous amount of time making sure each char and their companions are outfitted properly both in terms of gear rating and appropriate (to headcannon) looking orange shells. 8. I'm torn between the BH story line and the Agents. Purely because I spent so much time as a BH in SWG. 9. I have a tendency to name alts with an "iel" suffix but wouldn't dream of changing the older (pre-suffix decision) characters to match. 10. I play this game far too much

This is what concerns me as well, if for example I wanted to keep (godsforbid) Skadge on a particular character, I'd need time to grind up his affection before FE hits, whether that's grindin creds for the comp gifts or grinding the gift missions. Either way the more advanced notice we get on this the better.

So much this!!!!! All the wonderful opportunities for screenies and videos with our finely crafted companion outfits, all perfectly coloured how we want... and the bloody cutscene bug just turns it into a mess :mad:

I'm another one who's been gated by the heroics, tried shouting in fleet, on the planet where the quests take place.. it's infuriating! it's worse than trying to get a group to do the aurora cannon in section X. I'm all for adding it to the group finder. Alternatively could it be worth starting a thread on the server forums (and praying the general populace reads them) stating who's got the quest and who's willing to help on it.

Aye, I forgot about Ord Mantell, I'm a fan of arriving at taxi point and having all the local quests there waiting to be picked up and I've found that pub side the heroics at least don't tend to be near the taxi point until Tatooine, which if fine for grinding on a 50+, it't just annoying if you're lower than 30.

I hadn't thought of that side of it yet. Looks like I'll be spending from now til October grinding out comms on 22 toons :/ I don't know whether the upgrading of the gear has made my day or the thought of that much grinding's just peed all over it Just hope they will put in place a system for transferring basic/elite/ultimate comms similar to what they're doin with WZ comms.

After an afternoon running FA on a couple of toons, I've decided the one thing I really really want out of this expansion? a fix for dyed companion gear in cutscenes. I've put a lot of effort into getting each companion looking how I want and every single cutscene that work is just mocked

Just done a mock up of who I'd have where given free choice and colour coded it to role, not one char out of 22 has a full set of Mdps, Mtank, Rdps, Rtank and Healer... Hell the Sith and Jedi (as you quite rightly said) are all mdps or mtanks). If the free for all is how this is happening, sales of Treek and HK (for those who haven't already got them) will go through the roof considering they're not part of the 5