I am a female gamer, and honestly, being called 'Sir' in the game doesn't phase me as I do think of it like a military term of respect regardless of gender. My pet peeve is my character being called 'Lord' over my head as I am playing - its a female character so how hard is it to program 'Lady' instead? That I would prefer over the changing of 'sir' in the game dialogue.

Female gamer, single, cute, happy with life, but gamed all my life and will continue to do so since I prefer to actively participate in my entertainment than just watch it. No special attention needed, just be a good group player, play hard, have fun and let the gender BS die and be taken on who you are, how you play and the fun you have and can share with others.

I played today after the patch and felt completely naked. My telekinetic throw was almost worthless against the electroshock, I died 5x more times and while my dps seems comparable, my actual lifespan and ability to interrupt other techniques feels nerfed. Yes, definitely played in a few WZ's where we were outmatched/outplayed but in a 1v1 I against a BH in over 45 seconds of fight I did less than 1% damage to his overall health. It actually may have been longer, but definitely something doesn't seem right after the patch.

I too have had all of those issues in PVP but also a few more that are also super frustrating: 1) When I hit Resilience to get out of a cast, I don't get any protect time before the next hit so in essence, the break of resilience becomes null and void. This actually also happens with ALL of my force breaking techniques so I find that I am 'stuck' in a melee that I can't get out of. 2) Assualt Cannon Blasters - I find that a) my armour/defense/sheild ratings barely affect the affects from the fire power and that b) once I am targeted, it doesn't matter if I am under a stairwell, or behind blocks, the firepower still hits me and there is NO WHERE for me to avoid it. As I don't have pull yet, I can't even target the offender who is too far away from any of my abilities (often on ledges, walls, up high) and seem to have no defense against them. 3) I am finding that many of my 'instant' abilities are not instant, especially when in direct combat with Sorcs/Assassins, my powers get trumped by their activation speeds almost 80% + of the time. I love this character, but after playing some alts on the other side, I see firsthand how many of their techniques activate and interrupt over 50% faster than mine. I know that there are SOME scheduled fixes currently on the Test Server, and supposedly were introduced with the last patch, but the 'mirrored' abilities are still skewed in favor of the imps.

Hi Everyone, So I have been searching the forums and also asked my guild for this information and I can't find it anywhere so I am hoping that you will be able to answer what are probably noob questions about shadow consular. I've noticed in PvP warzones that there are players that have over 500/600 force power even though some of them are ranked over 20+ lvls below me. I have looked at my gear, have 1200+ willpower stats, have a shield with +178 force power yet my characters force power stays at 100. Is this something that goes up with valor points? Is there a stat I don't know about increasing through gear that affects this? I have mostly PvP orange gear and have modded it to the best it can be for my lvl - 43. Any help with this would be great as I am finding that I can't seem to clear 90k points in a WZ ever and can't follow the Shadow's PvP attack guide yet since I haven't unlocked everything in the skill tree yet (and yes, I am shadow tanking on the tree per all of the recommended skill set ups that I have read from super successful consular PvP players) Help would be appreciated as I am also having difficulty finding some of the recommended PvP gear for consulars as well. Thanks, PN

ok, I will be honest that I didn't read every post on this thread, but then I tried to ignore the haters and whiners and hopefully this post won't be read that way. Here's my challenge with PvP gameplay presently (and honestly, I will be honest in saying I am new to this type of PvP gameplay so I probably do suck at it, but everyone has to learn somewhere) 1) the latency in many of my techniques compared to my Empire 'mirrors' are BRUTAL to say the least, losing .7 to 2 seconds on an ability per ability adds up to little damage, a whole lotta deaths and lots of frustration. 2) while levelling up quick is 'easy' its about time, and as always in games, those that are the highest ranked are those that have the most 'time' to play any game. This doesn't phase me as much as the disparity between the levels. Why don't I have the option to get gear as good or better than those at levels higher than me? I mod my gear like mad but the limitations on what I can move up to are challenging since I need the creds, the PvP tokens to get the gear (which can be hard if you aren't winning your PvP matches) and then even when I have them, I can only buy gear ranked to my current level. Ok...this is a way to 'level' the field, but looking at how the champion gear is so much superior, it seems like much is designed for those that hit the PvP play early, levelled up quickly and thus, are far 'SUPERIOR' to all of us noobs (normal players) out there. 3) Bioware's answer to many of my tickets, issues around the latency, about group play bugs, PvP bugs, general game bugs is kind of upsetting. With the customer support team why does it take over 4 days for a response to my ticket only to have ALL of them CLOSED with no resoultion - ever? And I know that I am not the only one, and honestly, I am not one of those 'ticket' everything kind of people - but so far, much of the 'support' in my experience as a customer has been fairly NON-EXISTENT. Lastly, They (Bioware) staggered the early game access, gave an unfair advantage off the top of the game to a few individuals, then now, comes the bracketing and PvP 'bonus' for those at the 'top' of the game too. Ok...so I guess my only option as being someone who was not part of the CHOSEN ONES is to fight harder, work longer and know that I will NEVER achieve a top rank in the PVP circuit no matter how 'Superior' I get at the game play since the current game limitations and imbalances have set me up to fail. While I know that there are ways around this issue, some of the 'bugs in PVP currently do make this impossible when playing REP. Hopefully, they will fix some of these issues, maybe take some of the SUPER WISE SUGGESTIONS made by many here on the forums and realize that PvP play is a critical part of the game and that these issues, do need to be addressed with more than a 'TICKET CLOSED' attitude that we have seen thus far. PEACE and yes, please feel free to kick my *** in PVP until this gets sorted PN

Please VOTE HERE to have the SEARCH FUNCTION REINSTATED IN THE FORUMS: So like many others I am particularly challenged by the fact that the search option in the forums is gone. How do we find the critical game information we need? How do we find information about guilds that are recruiting? How do I follow my own posts? I have so many game questions, that given the knowledge base of the players on this forum, that not being able to search through the thousands of threads is honestly, limiting my game play experience and it has just started. I am creating this post as I know that I am not the only player with these frustrations, and hope that with a simple voting thread that perhaps the developers/moderators of the forum might recognize how imperative and integral the search function on the forums is, hopefully stimulating this much needed change sooner than later. cheers, PN

OMG!!! I think my yelling paid off!!! You ROCK TY for the link

And I did pay for next day shipping, and ordered in August Really, the only thing I can do is laugh about it and then figure out plans B-Z in attempting to create a seamless gaming experience.

According to Amazon.com, and I am quoting here: The release date they have on file for this game in the USA is December the 20th. LOL...maybe someone from EA games could give them a call and share the REAL release date so that all of us players actually get our registration code by then

And Lastly, Given this ridiculousness, I will see if I can get my hands on an CE game in person on the 20th, if that is the case, then when my product 'arrives' from Amazon, i will 'refuse to accept the package and have it returned to sender' and then have my $$ refunded from them for such poor management with the distributor and distribution of this product. pn

Look, Here is my challenge with the whole situation. I ordered my CE from Amazon.com and because EA has set the RELEASE date at December 20th, 2012 they cannot ship anything UNTIL the release date IN THE USA ONLY. Yet, divisions of Amazon.com around the world, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, will have the product shipped as early as 5 days BEFORE the official release date. I wrote to Amazon.com and just had an over 1 hour LIVE CHAT with a supervisor over there who COULDN'T answer the question of WHY ANOTHER AMAZON CUSTOMER, WHO ORDERED A PRODUCT LATER THAN I DID, WILL RECEIVE HIS PRODUCT BEFORE THE RELEASE DATE? sorry for the caps..but that was my primary question and honestly, they FAILED at being able to provide any resolution to the situation given I requested to have my actual registration code EMAILED to me in the same way my pre-registration code was emailed to me on the 20th, the actual release date. They have told me this is not possible. The challenge with the whole issue is the release stagger discrepancy between North America and Europe and none of the European sites will allow me to buy and ship the product to Canada either, so effectively creating a disparity in game access, unfairly, against many North American residents. So when my pre-registration code expires on the 20th, I get to 'fall behind' as we are doing now, with the 'staggered' early game access and then fall further behind just by having the wonderful misfortune of living in NA. How does that cultivate a positive game experience? How is that good business? Its not, and as a customer, a gamer, someone who was so excited about starting a game on a 'fair and even' playing field, its disheartening to say the least. Whatever, it IS A GAME, but its a MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION GAME, meaning, I get to CHOOSE whether or not I will WANT to contribute to an entity that feels that this process of 'staggered game access' and expiring pre-registration codes on the SAME DATE that the PRODUCT IS AVAILABLE FOR RELEASE IN NA, where it is physically almost impossible to have the product code to create a seamless game experience, is GOOD BUSINESS. The game is awesome, but if the business of it follows this train down the road, I am sure that I won't be the only hard pressed individual re-thinking my monthly game 'renewal'. Perhaps, we could focus on requesting an extension of the pre-registation codes so that the disparity between those who are international, versus a more local population aren't so discriminated against given the difference in the release dates of the product. peace. PN