What exactly do you mean by sandbox elements? Are you entirely sure you know what you want? I think the "WoW formula" works because it gives everyone a specific goal to work towards. Want to raid, here's bosses. Want to PVP, here's players. I dont' see how an open do whatever you want world would bring people in. EVE is very sandboxy, letting you go wherever and do whatever, but is it fun? I can't say it is, there's no real objective, no carrot on a stick for me to chase other than to try and figure out how to make money for better ships, that's all there is.

Well, BioWare did say that 1.3 would have a much shorter development time than 1.2. 1.2 took 3 months, and summer starts 2 months after 1.2 has been out. Now I realize that even if they release it 1 day sooner than 1.2 was out, it's still faster, but the community isn't going to see it that way, I really think it will have to be out by the start of June to be well received, or players will be upset, and I'm sure some will still quit on principle. I really hope it's out by mid June, especially since I don't intend to come back if 1.3 isn't live before my sub runs out. I realize they need to develop stuff, but they need to keep players happy as well. I wish they would have just dropped legacy to work on other more important features like character copies, server transfers, LFG tools, and other quality of life before worrying about RP aspects of the game. I'm also concerned about how the development process will be after this. Without Legacy and other tools to develop, will content come out every month, ever 3 months like it is now? Will content patches actually be full and have plenty for us to do. Will operations have more than 4 bosses? What about new warzones? New Gear? New set bonuses? These are all things I'm concerned about, and would really like BioWare to share their ideas on more regularly and openly. That's my biggest complaint with their development of this, everything is so hush hush when it's an important topic, they don't talk about it. Tell us about your future plans, give us details, some of us want that.

Honestly, what they should be doing is when they have a build they're testing, they need to release it to the PTS immediately so that players can actually test it. The PTS should NEVER shut down as BioWare should constantly be putting beta builds of patches out so we can test them all the time. They really need to get character copies done, and keep beta builds of patches on them.

I wouldn't call Legacy fluff. It's clear that bioware intended, and still intends, for this game to be played by alt-o-holics, and not by 'hardcore' raiders and pvpers. They pointed out at the guild summit that we spend way too much time playing the game as it is, so if we're not finding enough to do, it's kind of our own fault. I'll keep my sub up mostly because I'm payed up until the day before my daughter is born, so we'll see what happens.

Regarding legacy gear, I was wondering if there are any plans to implement 'heirlooms', ie gear that will scale with your level and provide a fair XP boost (somewhere between 20 and 50%)?

It's not an operation, why do people keep calling stuff by the wrong names? I correct kids all day long when they spam "LFG normal ops lvl 25+" No you idiot, it's a flashpoint, get it right.

Why do people not realize that the current loot system is not aware of group composition. WHY DO YOU KEEP POSTING THIS. WE ARE ALL AWARE THAT YOU WILL GET DROPS THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE! IT'S DESIGNED LIKE THIS!

Lol. I play carnage, and just save my interrupt, pop obfuscate, and force scream crit them into the ground.

Seriously it warns you ahead of time. If you hate your name that bad just get people to report you for an offensive legacy name, I did it for my buddy and they let him change his because it "was offending people" just had every member of the guild report him on every toon.

Just leave the planet early.

There's a republic side? Honestly, from playing both sides it seems like BioWare really doesn't care about Republic. All of the empire stories are better, the planets are better, and republic side honestly feels like they had their interns working on it.

^This. My friends list is only comprised of healers, and competent dps, even if they are intolerable human beings. I'd much rather play with jerks who can play the game than carebears who can't figure out that they should be attacking the tank's target.

Yeah not sure what you're complaining about here. Sorcs are the one class I have the easiest time facerolling in warzones. Ops and BHs? No, they actually cause trouble for me.

I was under the impression that trauma probe heals for 300-350 for 10 stacks, meaning over the duration it heals for 3k-3.5k, and is essentially on a 30 second cooldown seeing as how a stack can only be used every 3 seconds... assuming a stack is used every 3 seconds the effect will be used up within 30 seconds. Actually I misread your post. Still I don't see how an ability that costs 2 ammo that you'll use once every 30 seconds is too high of a cost.

It's simple, make sure you use rail shot immediately after rocket punch. Then you can't rocket punch for 9 more seconds and know the ICD is up before RP is off cooldown.