More people doing warzones is good.

Hmm the main problem for me seems to be premades. When you can spend 3-4 hours playing only against the same republic premade all night it really kills the fun from the game.

Well it is the third downtime during Australian peak times in the last 7 days (patch, fix for patch, second fix for patch). How about sharing the love to some other timezones or giving all APAC customers 2 free days subscription for stuffing them around.

Check here http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=690428

First of all, Holy Wall of Text Batman. Secondly, it sounds like you play too much. My advice take a bit of a break and recharge your batteries and come back for the Starfighter expansion in a couple of months.

If we didn't get a reset of ranking for the Ilum fiasco then we won't get one for this.

There used to be guides out there, very hard to find them now. Perhaps you could link some? The other one people keep linking (the sticky thread) is out of date and doesn't even have a full spec posted (only 38 points spent).

The problem I had was not so much killing the tentacle etc, but it was that he killed my tank companion too quickly, faster than I was able to heal him.

I believe it works out cheaper to buy the account wide inventory unlocks (around 150K each) than unlock all the inventory slots on two characters.

They are reusable. If you want the higher damage ones keep on making them, but if you don't want to spend any more credits on grenades use the reusable one.

I'm not, I cancelled my account until they sort this out.

The only force sensitive Wookie I know of is Lowbacca who was first introduced in the Young Jedi Knights books. I may be missing something but I can't recall any others in any of the books or comics.

The only solutions to the premade problem is to remove premades from non-ranked warzones. It's an easy solution, it could be coded in an afternoon but they haven't done it. Therefore they don't want to do it, so we are stuck with premades. Live with it.

You can get planetary comms from PvP vendor. 40 per 1, so you can spend your excess warzone comms on planetary comms.

Hmm the servers seems to be groaning under the weight of people playing today. I'm not sure where these lost subs are.

Well on my server there is only one premade that is actually any good. The rest are terrible. They might all be from the same guild, they might be using voice chat... doesn't mean they are any good.

Ran slicing missions for the past 2 days. Friday I got 3 crits, total of 8 thermal regulators. Yesterday I got 1 crits, total of 4 thermal regulators. I'm getting roughly 100 blue mats for every 2 thermal regulators, very low crit rate indeed.

Does the new species have any in game advantage over other races? No? Then it's a cosmetic difference at best. There is nothing wrong with selling cosmetic changes in the cartel store. Now I won't buy it... but if it was a playable wookie race... well I might throw down some cash for that.

The only time you will find it difficult to kill a healer is if that healer is backed up by another 2 good healers and a tanks who are actually using guard and taunt to reduce damage. Of course then you aren't fighting just the healer you are fighting a whole team and might actually need to think rather than mindlessly smash stuff.

A 200 credit profit on that particular box, but overall I would be losing credits just doing slicing for lockboxes. Please note I'm not complaining about the credit return from slicing. I made a profit of 570,000 credits yesterday from slicing and I've only just got home and logged on and I'm already up 200K just in thermal regulators from a crit mission. All I am saying is that if you just run missions for lockboxes you will lose money over time. Yes I have seen the posts claiming that you used to make a net profit, I disagree because you aren't factoring in the labour of your pets who could be doing something far more valuable.

The amount of 1400 listed in the OP is probably not accurate, I just got 3407 credits returned from a 3200 credit mission and there has always been a loss overall from lockbox missions, with the profit coming from the sale of the missions on the GTN (a quite considerable profit at that). As for the profit on the tech parts. Thermal regulators are currently selling for about 50K each, and I got them from 3 missions yesterday only (one missions was an unlocked one with guaranteed reward). So probably 400K worth of regulators from a full day of running missions. The blue tech parts are about 1K each. So not worth as much. So most of my profit from slicing still comes from selling the missions.

I don't oppose bolster as an idea but I would prefer to remove all PvP gear and give a balanced level of stats across the board so everyone enters PvP on equal footing so the only balancing factor becomes player skill, not how long someone can grind PvP to get gear. The way bolster is working at the moment those is broken, especially in low level PvP (11234K crit from a sniper attack as an example).

A lot of well geared dps are getting big crits on occasions, but that's against players with 30K life pools and healers who can do 1500+ hps and 9K+ crit heals.

It could be your server and time of the day you are looking for a group. Late last night I was trying to get a group with the seed on Ilum and had no luck at all. Came back this morning and got a 3 dps + me group which cleared it ok. Then I went to Nar Shadda and it took about half an hour, including asking 3-4 times in general to get a 2xhealer + 2xdps group which made it through both Dark Design and the Shroud's Last Stand. Looking for a tank for those though... now that's difficult because there is just none to be found (I'm sure once my tank reaches those heroic there will be no healers around then). But sentinels can fill in for tanks in a pinch.

Nice story, but you left out the part where you healed while standing on your head juggling chainsaws with your feet.