The answer to this question "They may not know how to code them"

When Rated WZs come out the Premade Vs Pug problem will be a lot less common.

Edited because apparently the posts I'm referring to have been removed.

So a player should be punished for his choice of class? Because in order to validate this decision BW would have to remove ALL movement-increase, gap closers, gap openers, pretty much any ability that allows you to control where you or your opponent moves to (pull, charge, grapple, rescue, jet boost, overload, etc) otherwise this would be completely unbalanced. Even if they removed all those things, classes are still being punished for making a choice in which class they wanted to play. Not only that, but at this point you might as well make every class the same. Give them all the same abilities, gear, level, rank, name, color, race, gender, whatever. MMOs that give players ability differences only to later take them away in the name of "fairness" are MMOs that fail.

Don't forget having to /clubdance everytime you score.

You said it right here bro.

Who am I? 21 year old unarmed Security Guard still tryin to figure out a way to get back in college. What class did I pick? Mercenary. Assassin-alt Why? Healing. I played a Resto Shaman for 7 years, and Merc is the closest thing to that so I figured I would start with something familiar. Assassin, I like Sith a lot (Darth Bane/Zannah fan, and now a proud owner of the Book of Sith ) and the assassin playstyle looked like a lot of fun.

Being at 62 valor means one of two things (both in some cases): 1) You played a lot of PvP 2) You were part of the Ilum valor farming crew. Neither of these things make you good, so the 62 valor thing is nothing but pointless epeen. As for your class, if you are choosing to walk the ball instead of using mobility abilities granted to you then you are bad and made worse by using the "I'm valor rank 62" epeen booster.

Operative for Republic is the Smuggler Scoundrel, the advanced class that's not a Gunslinger. As for healing, you might want to read the sticky labeled "Healing Niches" it gives a fairly well done description of each healers' pros and cons. I'm not sure if it is in Empire or Republic terminology so just incase: Scoundrel=Operative Commando=Mercenary Sage=Sorcerer

I was just thinking "No N64 Rogue Squadron love?"

To answer your question about the Jedi, yes they have been fractured several times. The most numerous or famous of these events are called the Great Schisms. I think there are 4 Great Schisms, but I might be wrong on that. As for space travel, space faring species have been in existence in the Star Wars universe for an extremely long time. You may have heard references to the Infinite Empire, the Rakata were the first or among the first space faring sentient beings. That being said, there are several planets that haven't been discovered yet that are in the Star Wars movies. Such as Endor, the homeworld of the Ewoks. Technologically, just because ships have the same style doesn't mean they are less advanced than the movies. The ships in the movies had far more advanced Hyperdrives and shields than the ones in this game do. A prime example of technological advancement would be our forms of troop transport. Right now we have this big bug looking think, I think it is called an AT-TE, but I might be wrong. In the movies we have the AT-AT, which holds 40 troops (depending on interior configuration), 5 speeder bikes, and a couple of AT-STs (depending on interior configuration). The AT-AT also has very good weaponry and armoring by itself. As for why the Empire is around, the Empire has been around since after the First Great Schism when the Exiles found the planet of Korriban and became rulers of the Sith Species on Korriban and Ziost. All Palpatine really did was follow the teachings of the Sith before him (Namely Darth Bane) and the grand plan finally came to fruition in his era. Palpatine was not the first Emperor, and he certainly isn't the last.

I leveled as Arsenal/Mako. At 50 I swtiched to Bodyguard and I do my Dailies with Skadge or Torian, depending on the mobs.

I fail to see why long PvP battles are a bad thing. Most of us like large scale, drawn out, challenging conflicts. We are not all in it for the "valor", "commendations", or "phat lewtz".

says the guy who wants a longer range on the only 6s interrupt and a shorter cd on grapple. I notice you have been avoiding all suggestions of implementing "body collision" so that auto-facing can be taken out. You scared to run circles instead of walk in a straight line bro? You mad? You jelly?

No love for Iktotchi?

I'm curious how the holocom system would even function. Considering an all Voice game, and all of the Voiced comments are scripted, this seems impossible because the users have free will of what they say. For example, say I wanted to say "How are you doing?" the Devs would have to know that I wanted to say this and have it voice acted. True, there are a lot of common things that could be pre-programmed for us to say, especially considering an RP environment. However, what if one were to RP a lunatic and he wanted to say "blarg-honk", I doubt the Devs would have such a thing Voice Acted. If it was text-based, what's the reason for the holocall? Holocalls are visual and audible. for text communication you would just use the Mailbox or as I like to call it "Magical Email Receiver".

Yea, that's my bad, I hit Submit before you edited your post but it for some reason included your edit in the quote I used, weird lol.

I believe he is Gunnery, seeing as Assault is far more mobile than Gunnery or Combat Medic.

Those abilities are all available to Mercs...the stun is universal to all BH.

You can hybrid into the Healing tree and make your casts uninterruptable for the 12 sec (15 if in pvp gear) duration of your Energy Shield. You can also talent whatever your version of Rocket Punch is to have a small knockback. It is very small, so it is really only useful if you maneuver your opponent to a ledge, but it becomes very useful once you can do this at will.

RuQu, I'm curious, did you factor in the fact that we can drop two Kolto Missiles by the time the 10 second duration is up on the Sorc Revivification ability?

One word for you my friend, and if you don't know what it is look it up: Rancor

Haha! Quoted for great justice! On topic: SW game needs more Ewoks and Gungans, tyvm! trololol

Anyone else feel that the numbers 4567890 are severely underepresented in this thread as opposed to 123?

I do not think healers need a flat nerf (a.k.a, a nerf that effects both pve and pvp) but I will agree that trauma could be upped to 40-45%. Contrary to the guy a couple of posts above me, it regularly takes 3-4 dps focusing me to kill me. This and I am only in half Champ gear, the rest is pve gear and daily-modded orange gear I haven't replaced yet.