Didn't they say they weren't going to be working on chapter so much because of the holidays? If that is the case, they only had like 1 1/2 months of solid work on it. I'll judge them more harshly on the next chapter if it takes longer than a month for the next chapter to come out.

Yeah, the class ship feels quite empty now with only Treek and HK-55 there.

It's the same for me. I feel those three are all about equal but are better than the others in different ways.

Influence-wise, I think the inquisitor is more powerful in that regard since he just controls a large part of the empire followed by the sith warrior. Next after that would be the consular since he can't affect the republic as much as the sith can the empire. Strength-wise, I think the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior are pretty much neck and neck. After that would be the consular and inquisitor but it would be close to the jedi knight and the sith warrior. I'd rank the Consular higher than the inquisitor without the ghosts but with the ghosts I think the inquisitor would be higher.

No you don't actually. You just have to have it nearly maxed out on most of them if I recall.

My Sith Warrior will for sure. He's not a patriot for the empire and is more of a hedonist/violent psychopath (he and jaesa are soul mates. lol) so he'll be willing to go along with his master longer for much fun and stuff. Every other character I have will probably say no.

Not only that but if you do get knocked off your speeder you'll probably be able to handle the group that dismounted you. The only way I can see that not happening is if you intentionally aggroed a bunch of strong/elite mob groups that were close to each other.

That was exactly how I felt about it as well. It also made the characters feel more fake to me since everyone was a playersexual and was more for sex than anything else. I don't mind if Vaylin is a gay, straight, or bisexual as long as they don't follow the same path in DA2 and make every new Love Interest bisexual/playersexual. That's if Vaylin will be a companion and romanceable. If anything, she strikes me as being a bit similar to Jaesa.

Why did you revive a topic that was 4 months old?

Can't it be both? they want the lowbie content to be more challenging than it is currently, which is none at all, but want to still show that your levels still mean something.

It depends on my class and the gear I'm wearing. For my trooper and soldier type companions, I keep their helmets on (since I have them all wearing similar trooper armor and all). My Bounty Hunter also keeps his helmet on as do the bounty hunteresque companions as well. For everyone else, I keep the helmet slot hidden except on my sith assassin because he is wearing the Revanite Vindicator set and that just doesn't look nearly as ****** with the helmet off in my opinion.

Exactly what I'm thinking. Practically everything in the area is going to be green to you at the most so they are going to be a minimal threat. That means they aren't going to jump you from all the way across the map unless you intentionally aggro every group. Hell, when I'm leveling alts with the 12x experience, things are green to me most of the time anyways so it's pretty easy to avoid them. Those that I can't avoid only take like 15 seconds to kill.

And there are plenty of downsides to optional level sync as well. Either way both things have their upsides and downsides. I think bioware just did the more cheaper/easier option in addition to wanting all content to be viable for your regardless if you out leveled it or not.

That's probably why they are focusing on story content on this expansion is my guess. They see most people are focused on that instead of PVP and raiding.

I'm assuming no one was romanced with the free level 60 in the classic story is my guess so you can choose to romance a new crew member in the expansion without any consequences. I'm guessing if you want to do anything like cause a catfight (if that can happen) or choose light side choices for empire, then you'll need to level up a character yourself.

Customizing builds on companions? What was there to customize? You don't select their skills and you generally just needed to gear them up in the role you used them for. Were you gearing up your tanking companions in dps gear for some reason that ensured they died much faster? You act as if there was a choice in gearing up your companions but there really isn't much of one unless you want to weaken your companion from what he/she should be at in the role you are using them for. It's the same with my jedi guardian as well but since he is also a tank, bringing a dps companion is a viable option actually. Though it'll be nice to switch Kira to healing for the tougher fights if need be.

It looks good and I like it but I personally prefer that they only change the launcher if it's actually going to be different than the old one in ways other than aesthetics

I imagine all the ones shared by both sides will count. At least I hope so. I think you'll need to get the faction specific ones for sure like I did. I'm testing that out by getting all the datacrons on my republic character (just need fleet) and just the faction specific ones on my imperial ones. The achievements say I have them all now asides from fleet(well the ones you can find on achievements).

If they are smart they'll ensure that the amount of mastery you get in the expansion will be close to what you get with your main stat now on live.

Actually, I think the worst ones is the Rishi Datacrons since it is entirely up to RNG for the first part. The fleet +10 datacron is also a pain in the butt in addition to the Belsavis Matrix shard datacron. The ones where you have to wait isn't too bad. Just annoying that it takes up too much time. I'm glad that the datacrons are going to be legacy wide though. While fun the first time through for the most part, it's tedious to do it again for alts.

You forgot that crafting mat nodes will be scaled to whatever level your crafting is at when you harvest it so you won't need to do Coruscant or Dromund Kaas again for crafting mat if you don't want to. As for the OP's post, I only read a small portion of it before I gave up. It was way too long and meandering. If the OP is trying to look smart, then making a super long post with bad punctuation (more paragraphs needed) does not help.

I really doubt that. They didn't say anything about the core missions scaling towards your level so you might only be able to get so high from that alone and even if they did the heroic missions are only going to be a weekly thing instead of a daily thing. If you can't get max level with the 12x experience right now by chapter 1 then it's not going to be that way now I think. I'm thinking you might just end up to level 40 at the most.

I'm just wondering how it'll handle the datacrons for the legacy. Like are they tied to the legacy exploration achievements? Or do you actually got to have each one on each side? If they are tied to the legacy exploration achievements then that actually lessens how many you actually have to get since a lot of the datacrons are shared by both sides. As it stands, right now I got almost all the datacons on my jedi knight guardian (just need the few ones you need one person or a group for and the empire exclusive ones) so if it's handled by achievements then it'll be really easy for me to finish it up other than doing the fleet datacons.

I think the best way to solve the problem to an extent is to put a requirement on it so that you have to level up at least 1 character to level 60 to be able to buy new level 60s.