Bolstering will increase your health, damage, etc to enable you to compete. It does not however give you the talent points that higher levels will have gained or trainable abilities.

Best thing you can do in PvP to increase your damage, get your keybinds sorted out and learn how to strafe. Willpower is the stat you want as a Consular, anyone saying strength is trolling (or they do not know how the stats in ToR work). As a tank you have useful tools, as well as being able to (well should) put out reasonable damage. You are probably not going to top damage in Warfronts but 100k+ is easily achievable. Use guard on a healer (or a huttball carrier) to redirect some damage to you, taunt means that players who don't attack you when you taunt them do less damage to other players.

Bioware should have locked the FULL servers on launch day, by saying "We won't lock them because a friend might have someone on Bloowdorth, Tomb, etc," they are basically saying go ahead roll on a FULL server..." They would have only need to keep them locked for 1 or 2 days so the majority of the new population went onto other servers.

Yes it shows the total number of people regardless of Shard. I have seen 6 on Defender, and there certainly aren't 6 people on my ship! Unless I have stowaways. Character transfers need to be opened up now, if this system wasn't in place and I can't see why not (as it is a cash cow, just ask Blizzard), then Bioware need their heads examined and to get on it asap.

Yes this thread is not 300 pages plus, it is 550 pages plus+ get with the program!

Ah Bladefist, how we miss thee...

But Bioware were running some servers for the last 7 days "kid", so you "think" they should have been more prepared, especially with the huge number of pre-orders.

Oh, if only Bioware were locking servers.... If only...

1439 people in the queue on Bloodworthy and we haven't even hit 5pm GMT yet when most people get off of work...

Really just come out, what have I been playing and in queues for the past 7 days to play then?

Yeah Taris has an issue with freezing when opening the map, or getting/completing missions. Annoying, but doesn't happen elsewhere... Wouldn't reboot your pc over it and face queueing again.

Stephen Reid Rockjaw Stephen Reid We're also monitoring queues very closely and adjusting things as appropriate - but if you're new, pick a low-pop server. They'll fill up! 2 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

That is a LESS THAN symbol meaning LESS THAN 10 minutes.

1442 is a 4 hour wait. No less.

This! Or locked the FULL servers when you brought the new ones up. I can totally see why people would not pick a low population server if given a choice! Forcing them is the only way to ensure proper distribution.

No, only if you quit from the main character screen will you get put back into the queue. Swapping characters is fine. Oh unless you dc of course...

Because they can. Because they are afraid of low pop servers due to the effects this has on server economy, warzone queue times, etc. If the servers were locked when they got to FULL, the population would be better distributed so they wouldn't need to worry about low pop servers.

As Bioware is showing, server capping does not work. Server locking is the only way to stop new accounts rolling on a FULL server. FULL servers should have been locked for at least launch day.

With sharding, I have not seen more than 200 on a planet so far. Spread around the relevant areas, overcrowding on the servers isn't anywhere close to a problem.

You are the one who said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. How would a locked server (being shown as FULL) have thousands of open slots?

So why don't they lock the full servers, I guarantee more people would be happy with that then would be sad.

Nowhere did I hear Trion, Blizzard or anyone else talking about the number of things they are doing to ensure their players have the best possible launch. Limited release zones around the World. Early Game Access Entry based on preorder dates Sharding And now because of the queue times on the server, their player friendly launch has failed utterly.

Mind you the caps are definitely being raised, the queue for Bloodworthy was over 700 at 12.15, now just over 150 at 1.15pm...

That is not a reasonable answer, some people have already re-rolled onto a different server and are now already experiencing the same problem. How many times are we expected to do the first few planets? How long until these light population servers are full, before Bioware opens more, then what, reroll again?

They could be managing it manually, and bumping the caps by a few hundred every couple of hours, seems a labo(u)r intensive way of doing things. I agree with closing the servers for new accounts, just for a few days to let the population stabalize. Better to upset 10% that want to join pre-existing guilds for a few days, then the entire server population for the same amount of time.