It's really a shame that this hasnt been fixed yet, but a tiny workaround I use is; Find a moddable chest piece that doesn't use a hood and upgrade it forever. I am a Jedi guardian and there are no jedi knight robes without hoods so I had to resort to a medium armor robe. It looks decent enough, you get your headband back and you only lose a very tiny fraction of armor. Hope it helps, I wish they would fix it too.

Regarding graphics, they are that way for a reason. Stylized graphics stand the test of time, its why zelda:windwaker still looks good years from release and why WoW still looks ok despite being so many years old. All the while games with realistic graphics may look better in the now, but they will look like butt on down the road. Bioware is thinking in the long term and they dont want graphics to be a big factor years down the road in regards to subscriptions.

I'm glad if this change goes through, yes I want it to be easier. IMO getting pvp gear should be really easy to get so that people can gear up quick and we can have more balanced play. I don't like rolling people in crappy gear all day long. I play pvp for the challenge and competition.

Hello, I mainly pvp in swtor and while I enjoy being empire and am sort of pigeon-holed into it because all of my friends are empire, huttball can get a little tiresome sometimes. This is obviously because of population imbalance and it spills over into Ilum pvp as well. I would like to propose a suggestion drawing from another game, EQ2. In EQ2 if you didn't enjoy your faction you could betray them and join the opposing one. With the betrayal you would essentially change classes into the mirrored version, so an operative would become a scoundrel, a sorc a sage etc. I think that this could really work in swtor not only to alleviate the imbalance of factions but also I think it just fits in the universe. I've been on many quests where I am assisting someone that is defecting to our side or watching a jedi turn to the dark side. Overall I think it fits the lore well to be able to betray and would really help the game in a major way. I realize this probably wouldn't be easy to implement and probably never will but though I would throw it out there in case Bioware is reading. (wtb suggestion forum) Thanks for reading TLDR: let us switch factions Also sorry if this was suggested before.

*spoilers maybe* Romance with vette takes an extremely long time to get going, talking like 7k affection before it even starts.

Totally agree, especially when you are on the GTN browsing as its such a chore to get all of the filters going in the first place. On a minor note, would you mind move the damn 'reset' button away from the 'search' button, I rage so hard every time.

I've played a light side inquisitor and sith warrior. To me republic seems just as bad. Half the time my quests end in lightside option for peace and they are like nope you gotta die. Peace sure is a lie!

If they could just take it off the rails and let us leave the mission when its complete id be happy. Nothing like completing a mission with 3 minutes left, at that point i just open youtube and fly in circles until its over.

1. Twi'lek helmet/hood issue, cmon. 2. Orbital Stations, stop wasting my time. 3. elevators, elevators, elevators, 300 ft deep elevators in just about every building.

Agreeing and bumping this, sometimes it targets someone i cant even see within my vision. Just awful.

I got tired of all the trash fighting too then I just started running through it all. It usually isnt a problem, most of the time they bug out and cant even attack you because of line of sight issues and maybe I have to pop a medpac or defensive cooldown but it sure beats killing them all.

11. You get Alderaan Civil War

You buy bags for 200/200 warzone commendation/merc commendation. Inside the bag is centurion commendations which you can use to purchase gear as well as a chance to straight up get a champion gear peice. You buy merc commendations with warzone commendations for 10 mercs per 30 warzones. Therefore youd want to be 1000/1000 when you hit 50 so you can buy 5 bags right away. Also you can hold 1 bag in your bank. Since they are unique you cant buy more than 1 at a time. So with the 1 bag in bank and your 5 you get at 50 plus all the weekly/dailies that open up once you are 50 you are looking at 8-14 bags on the first day of being 50 depending on if you get the weekly done then.

This has probably been said before but if people are having a hard time as a fresh 50, well first off I hope you got 1000/1000 comms before 50 so you can get oodles of bags. Anyway just buying some level 49-50 purples off the gtn goes a long way to increase your effectiveness. So save those comms and credits.

This. Snipers are one of the best classes right now in the right hands imo. If the gunslinger is a perfect mirror I dont see why it wouldnt be the same for them.

I almost didnt make a smuggler just because of the goofy cape and hat, but it turned out to be my favorite class. I plan on hiding my helm and using an orange chest of my choosing filled with epic mods. I lose a small amount of stats for some style and Im ok with that.

i did this a few hours ago, i guess i got lucky. Used the wookie brought the sith down first and jedi kept fatty ccd the entire time was fighting the sith so it was easy. I am scrapper spec.

I was just wondering, why is it only guardians being singled out? Can sentinels do this as well, since they both share the Focus tree or does the guardian get something extra that the sentinel does not? Just curious.

I used kaliyo basically until scorpio, I hate downtime so I would just blast everyone to death then dismiss kaliyo/scorp and resummon to full hp. I used doc for a short time in my 40's but at the time I was lethality specd for pvp, which I don't like for general questing so I wanted kaliyo to make the battles faster. Now that I'm maxed with decent gear I had given all my replaced purples to the Doc and use him exclusively for any solo or duo pve content I might be doing. On a side note if I was to use my favorite companion it would probably be SCORPIO. I found our companions pretty blah for the most part. Not really pleasing in the personality dept. or to the eye. Just my opinion.

I didn't have time to read the whole thread but I thought I'd leave my 2 cents on the topic as a whole. I consider myself an above average pvper. My sniper is level 50, marskman specd, valor rank 34. I have 4 peices of champ armor and the rest is filled with gtn purples and a crafted weapon. I am 90% of the time top dmg for my team and if not, I am in second. My burst potential is great. When I crit my initial setups its usually around 8-9k dmg which i can then finish off with a takedown. In 1v1 I find myself average, not overpowered not underpowered. I usually have trouble with mercs/commandos and sorcs if they are smart enough to los and heal. Melees are usually pretty much a guaranteed win for me. I pop ballistic shield, entrench, shield probe and drop an orbital strike ontop of myself. If they keep attacking me they die if they back off and wait around for orbital strike to end they die. They can only run away. When fighting alongside a team snipers are an amazing asset. I find people simply ignore me because people are assuming snipers/gunslingers are worthless, which lets me take down their healers and squishies one by one. If they actually start paying attention to me yeah I will probably die, I cannot survive 4 reps on me at once unless i have many teammates with me. I would imagine that If I actually had full battlemaster I would be even more successful, probably pulling ahead of those mercs and sorcs and being able to 1v1 them effectively as well as taking down squishies in just a few shots. All in all I think the sniper is a very balanced class right now. One that with proper usage and skill can become way above average which I think all classes should aspire to. I wouldn't want to see many buffs or nerfs either way, because if we were buffed people would start to realize how good we actually are and we'd end up being nerfed more than we began at. Also I don't know if this was mentioned but I see alot of people complaining about cover being buggy or not working. I had problems with this for the longest time until I realized it was my hotkeys getting in the way of cover going off. I have around 24 keys bound right now some of which are shift+1-5. I was holding shift to fire series of shots off as soon as I hit cover, but holding shift and hitting my cover key was making it not go off, as I have it bound to mb5. So it was registering as shift+mb5. Just thought Id add that if anyone was experiencing any bugginess. Since then I have had zero problems with cover. just my $0.02

Hello, I'm a decent sniper. I usually end warzones in top 2 dmg and I do my job well. That being said all I do is solo queue warzones with an occasional friend tagging along. This isn't a whine about premades, as when I queue solo I know full well going into the game that I could come up against a premade. My team may be destroyed and I accept that because thats just how pugging goes. I just think something could be done about the farmfest when in the 1 sided games. I've been on both sides of this particular coin and it isn't fun either way in my opinion. It is obviously not fun getting farmed for 8 minutes while the other team throws the ball at you to get defense points. It's also not fun when your team so outmatches the other that there is simply no challenge to be had. If I am in a farm game on the winning side I usually try and wrest the ball away and finish it out and if I cant i sit in mid because there is no fun or challenge in destroying people who clearly arent organized or geared. I don't really see alot of people complaining about this so maybe it is just me or I'm venting but I had a suggestion. Make 6 cap wins in huttball generate more valor and comms based on how much time is left. I think this would encourage the steamroll teams to just finish the game quickly for more reward than farming while also ending the game quickly for the losing side, making it more enjoyable overall. This was all I could think of to remedy this problem, and it doesn't seem like something that would be implemented anyway but hey thought I'd put my 2 cents in.

I just thought i would post from the other end of the spectrum. I have an older system, around 2-3 years old. q8400 gts250 3.25gb of ram because im still on 32 bit winxp Running on medium to high settings with shadows off. The game runs very satisfactory to me, 50-60 fps constant when I'm out questing and the same goes for warzones as well. my fps drops to 15ish on the imperial fleet but I think thats because I'm on a heavy server and theres always hundreds of people in there standing around. If my old system can run this without problems and people with monster machines cant then the problem is without a doubt on their end.

4gb of ram should be just fine, doesnt hurt to have more but it wouldnt be causing your problems with the blue screen or sound. I have 4 gb myself and run the game near 60fps on medium to highish settings, with drops to 30-40 only in heavily populated areas. I would definitely update your sound drivers as that seems to be causing your major problems.

I saw someone named Hot ****, do they not have a filter for legacy names or what?

This has recently become a problem for me, I am a sniper I don't have any healing or tank trees but all 3 of my trees play drastically different. I am just trying to test out the different playstyles and im being punished for it. My last respec was 80,000 credits, all Im trying to do is learn the ins and outs of my character so I can be a better sniper, why would you make that hard?