How about my beard? Seems all the Smuggler gear that has goggles freakishly assaults my beard. I buy a sweet broad brimmed hat. Chops off the sides. Is higher level also more beard friendly?

Thank gawd. My girlfriend and I play about two or three times a week and we just do full clears on planets skipping none of the quests. We hit 46 and said "Hey we should do some Warzones." Then I was like... "I got this blank spot on my character sheet hon." The look she gave me...

Any one know of any relics that are not alignment specific? I got a Matrix Cube but turns out you can have only one. It just so turns out that the decisions I make for my Scoundrel (mostly heroic but can and will be bought and will cheat and steal to succeed) keep me hovering right around dark 1 despite having nearly 5,000 morality points. So I'm really hoping there's more relics that don't have restrictions. On a side note... is there a broad brimmed hat out there that doesn't trim any part of a characters beard?

It just really depends on the server you're playing on. Ajunta Pall for example if you solo queue as the Republic you'll notice frequently that your team has a bunch of guys that are sub level 20 and the Imperial team has a bunch of guys above level 40. I just chalk that up to more dedicated players on one side versus the other. Should even out once more folks on the Republic get to those higher levels. I haven't been in a single warzone that was a bunch of level 50's versus level 50's. So it's hard to call the problem balance.

I really did not like warzone healing at all until 31. The instacast heal plus refresh on targets below 30% health allows the class to really do it's thing. Before you have access to these abilities I would avoid healing in warzones. Also note after hitting 31 and getting the instacast heal I actually feel a touch over powered at times. It is possible to tank and lead around two players for upwards of a full minute with a combination of instaheal (emergency medpack) and debuff cleanse (triage).

That despite every reason to focus on some thing else they still added Star Fox and didn't even leave out barrel rolls!

Well 90% is a pretty extreme exaggeration. I will concede that there is some gear that requires you to be very deep in to the light or dark side. But it's just not as required as people believe. Consider that the matrix cubes are absolutely excellent relics that require not one bit of light or dark side faction. It just seems to me that Bioware has created a solution if you absolutely must have that light or dark side gear. You don't want to accept that viable and simple solution. Instead you feel automatically entitled to be free of working within the constraints of the game/system. To be clear. You can grind your light side dark side in any direction you want with out it ever adjusting a single decision you make in the game. There is no gimping. Just use the system. Grind a rep bar. Or do like many of the people have already suggested. Use equally good or better gear that can be obtained through different means.

That's not quite true. If their companion is incapacitated in some way (say tranquilizer or death) then your companion will assist you in defeating the other player. I'd know I snipe people like this all the time.

I really like what this game does a lot. But that ability delay is so frustrating. It just makes me want to eat my keyboard when some one dies and I had an instant cast heal for a full second but just couldn't get it off due to this bizarre delay.

It's really moot any ways. You can just re-enter low level dungeons and redo the choices to grind your light side or dark side to the direction you desire. Thus allowing you to make whatever story options you'd like. Or if you got the cash just pick up the Diplomacy crew skill- fixed fast.