When the game first launched there were restrictions on the red, blue and green color crystals as well as some gear drops (usually random green quality gears but sometimes you'd run into others) that were alignment-restricted. LS could use blue and green and DS could use the red but they removed most, if not all, of the restrictions on the gear as well as the color crystals. There are still the light and dark side vendors on the fleets but other than that, LS/DS is really up to the player. Dark side does come with corruption that can be toggled off if you don't like the effects on your character's appearance.

Oh right, I forgot about that little tidbit.

There are only three to choose from: Shadowlands and Jedi Convenant are on the East Coast and Harbinger (I think) for the West Coast. Shadowlands seems to be pretty active during prime time in my experience.

If you're level 55, and possibly 50, it may be possible to solo most of the content though the Flashpoints you have to do may be tricky. I was able to solo my way through False Emperor with my Operative to get the part there (tried to finish it off for the heck of it but Malgus was a bit too much) but Hard Mode Foundry proved to be impossible. Everything else, including the mission, is pretty easy to solo, especially if you're a stealth class or at least have access to crowd control abilities. Treek just involves buying the merc contract for either 1mil credits or cartel coins.

They're used to purchase Oriconian (which is similar to Dread Forged gear but without the set bonuses and different stats) gear from the vendors on the fleet. You get them from Hardmode Ops, 16m story mode Ops and weeklies.

1. Valor increases as you PvP, and you will get far more valor from doing warzones than you will just killing people out in the world. It's only important until you hit 40, at which point you can spend ranked warzone comms. After that, it's largely a bragging thing. (Also get titles every 10 valor levels) 2. You get them from completing Warzones, as well as from the PvP daily/weekly from the PvP terminal on the fleets. 3. Strength (assuming you are a sith warrior/jedi knight) increases your melee damage and crit chance if you are one of the two mentioned classes. (This includes their sub-classes) strength is largely useless to the other classes. 4. Endurance increases your health by 10 per 1 point of endurance (past the base endurance) and armor reduces weapon and elemental damage taken from attacks by x%.

Emerald seems like it'd be a good name for that hue.

Pulls are the bane of my existence. Usually when it happens to me, I just stand there and die as there's nothing I can do about it.

These are the things I could think of that would cause him to get so many mails when he starts a new character: 1. Collector's Edition/DDE items 2. Founder Title 3. Pre-order Bonus crystal 4. 1.2 Legacy Tauntaun pet 5. Party Jawa 6. Hero's Banner 7. Razer naga color crystal (unsure if this one comes in a mail or not) Any more than that, I haven't the foggiest. I personally get the first six on any character I make. As others have said, companions are buffed by the 'presence' stat. It improves their health, damage, and healing by a certain amount. Reaching level 50 (not finishing the story) with a human unlocks a bonus of 100 presence for the legacy (since humans can already be every class). Finishing a companion's quests also gives a +10 bonus for each companion fleshed out this way. So if you raise a human trooper (for example) to level 50 and finish all of your companion's quests, your next character will have a bonus of 150 presence.

Chiss can also be bounty hunters. But yes, Chiss make great Agents. Chiss in general make great everything.

I use SCORPIO on my Operative. It's a lot easier to actually Backstab when the mob isn't beating my face in. My Shadow used Qyzen while he was specced Infiltration. My Juggernaut when he was Immortal specced used Vette. Only my DPS toons use their healers, unless they're specced in a way that benefits someone else getting beat on, like my Operative.

•Added a new Level 50 "Advanced Gear" mission for each Class to the Daily Mission Terminal on the Imperial and Republic Fleets. What's scary is I was going to suggest something exactly like this for PvE. It's the same type of thing as the free Recruit gear for PvP, at least that's how I choose to interpret it.

Yes, but not in the way you'd level your character. It just passively gains XP when you normally would, even at level 50. Having certain legacy levels is crucial to use and/or gain access to some of the unlocks, like the various species unlocks. You don't have to 'grind' legacy levels and it would be quite silly to do so at any rate since legacy xp accumulates on all of your characters on that particular legacy.

They do have an office in Edmonton, I think. However, SWTOR is fully developed and maintained in-house in their Austin, TX office.

If you're talking about changing an NPC or an enviroment piece, yeah that's bad. However, WoW added Transmogrification last expansion that allowed players to change what their gear looked like. There are restrictions (for example, a piece of plate can't be changed to look like a piece of cloth gear and you can't turn a 1h sword into a 2h mace) but it's been pretty well received.

I hear ya. My second part is directed more towards those who are more openly hostile about other colors existing besides red,blue and green and even on who can use them. My dislike of certain colors comes solely from an aesthetic standpoint. Pink/purple is just hideous, lol. (Orange/yellow isn't much better.)

Man I hated getting those things when I first started playing but when I got back into it, Ornithopters were awesome to use with a Quest for the Holy Relic and a Glint Hawk come Scars of Mirrodin block.

I support the toggle option, purely because I support choice. Anything that gives players' a choice to how to make their game experience more enjoyable is a-ok with me. (With exception being to things that would fundamentally break the game.) However, I disagree with attempting to use 'G'-Canon as justification for what can and cannot be in anything that takes place in the EU, such as this game. If it were up to the 'purists' (not saying you are one, mind you) blasters would only fire red bolts, Sith would only ever be dark-side aligned and use red sabers, jedi would only ever be light side aligned and use use blue/green sabers, and many of the species currently available in-game wouldn't exist because they didn't appear in the movie trilogies (Chiss, miraluka, and pureblood sith are just a few that spring to mind). Though, in my opinion, a purist playing this game is point blank a hypocrite.

If you're having any thoughts of doing any PvP on the side, I highly recommend going up the Pyrotech tree.

And it seems someone missed the stickied yellow topic in the PTS forums about them considering doing something exactly like this.

Such a flawed argument. 'Casual' and 'hardcore' are not indicators of skill, there are indicators of time investment. There can be great 'casual' and great 'hardcore' players. There are also bad 'casual' and bad 'hardcore' players. Stop using 'casual' as a synonym for bad because it's not true.

Two stuns? Baseline I have Debilitate which is a hard stun and doesn't break on damage and Flashbang, which is a Mez and does break on damage. Where is the second stun coming from? As concealment, I do get access to Jarring Strike which is a 1.5 sec knockdown but that lasts just as long as the GCD so it doesn't count.

The problem with making things too difficult is the time invested versus the amount of people that get to see the work. Sunwell is considered by many to be one of the best raids WoW ever had...according to the ~10% of the population that saw it. If I was a game programmer, encounter designer, or hell even an artist, I would want as many people as possible to see the hard work I put into making something like a particular piece of content. Would make one feel appreciated to know that instead of say 5% of a game's population got to see the work I and my team made, 95% of them did.

The only issue I have with pink/purple is that they're just two ugly colors to be paired together. While they work individually, together they're just...yeech. Don't see an issue with a client-side toggle. It doesn't affect anyone other than the individual doing the toggling, the question then remains on how they would actually program something. Oh, and two more things: 1. I don't like it when people use a collective 'we' when referring to wants and opinions and 2. Any discussion about what is 'canon' is inherently flawed since we are on a forum for a game that takes place outside the scope of the movies, thereby making any attempt to say something like color isn't canon just because it wasn't like that in the movies irrelevant.

They removed the cash token. It's only the gear option now.