If SWTOR is only left with players like this, it is absolutely done for.

You instantly lose all credibility when you suggest that healers have dominated PVP since 1.2. Pre 1.2, yes, but 1.2 itself hurt healers a great deal. Since then, and certainly before 1.6, healers were nowhere near the dominant force in PVP. That said, it was balanced then with a few issues, and it is still balanced now.

/signed. Couldn't agree more.

This seems really poor design, given the value and rarity difference between the items contained within some sets. It is especially annoying with the Revan's set, was this a design choice, laziness or a mistake?

That is literally the best reply to a thread I've ever seen.

Overt smasher defending smash. Maybe the OP is poorly articulated in some of his claims, but the spec is certainly still above others. And FYI, Guardian smash - Leap, Combat Focus, Smash. To play it better than that you need multiple buttons, to play it OK and viably, i.e. to be dangerous you need only three.

You really are bad at that class. Hard casting Crushing Darkness in Infil. Brilliant.

This is just another hit against my confidence in Bioware. This is a problem. Everyone I know is experiencing this. It is since 2.0 only. On PTS it was a huge issue, and it was complained about in numerous threads, with the faint hope that it would be fixed in live. Right now it is happening all day, everyday. There has to be something your metrics aren't telling you.

Do you realise that it was an issue reported numerous times on PTS? Do you realise that too? Or is PTS very much just to rule out the gamebreaking, with everything else on the "we'll sort it later on" list? Including Bolster? Such a bad joke.

I have 7 crafters at level 50 with all companions and affection points. I honestly believe Slicing is bugged. Diplomacy is criti crafting as normal, and out of the 150 + Slicing missions I've done, I've had one purple mat. Either this is intended or there is a bug in which the criti result (the one that give a recipe in addition to the blue) is also meant to give a purple, but in its current form is broken. A Dev response to clarify would be great.

You're pre 50 talking about level 50 game class balance. Good lord.

Melee Jugg/Mara that got beat 1v1 because he couldn't jump. Nothing to see here.

The comments here stipulate the difference between the helmet and non-helmet versions of the voice. What the OP was suggesting, and what the Dev went hand-in-hand to suggest, was the possibility of their being a unique sound for the mask, akin to the sound created in the original KOTOR storyline of Darth Malak. If I'm wrong in my reading of that, then of course my point is null. But having just reread it, that is exactly how it comes across to me.

What? How have you missed what is my only point? That reply lacked any trace of honesty or straight forwardness. It was simply "Oh we could've done that, but we chose not to because you haven't actually lost your voice boxes. So we did it for immersion, not because we lack the development resource". Whereas it should have gone along the lines of "We're not in a position to modify the entire game's voice content for the sake of one IRL cash sold cosmetic items, but hopefully one day in the future it is something we can consider"

It's about having honest and straight forward communication, something that EA is seldom capable of. It's about giving the community realistic expectations of the game's current development potential and future. It's about not misleading the community to promote the idea of unyielding success, health and growth.

People were a lot more optimistic back then.

What I dislike about this is that you seem to suggest that it would have ever been a possibility for the Development team. They can scarcely draw out content, and you're checking up with them to see if they modified every piece of existing voice acting script for the sake of a single cosmetic piece. I hope that trip was part of your coffee run or toilet break, or something.

Etiquette, accepted standards, respect to the other, the thin hope that a human being would not be completely selfish. There are a few reasons why people would expect you not to do this.

Who is the 'we' ?

I get all of that, but in comparison to previous issues, this one isn't very much touched upon on these forums. Ergo, it is only through drawing attention to it, and therein revealing the problems it could pose to the game's health in general ('I could get all my 16 toons to 50), that it will grow to be an issue for them. For me, the realistic expectation to level one character to 50 VIA this method isn't an issue, and since I have 6 previous 50s, it is acceptable. However, if it has been streamlined elsewhere to the point that someone can raise that many toons THAT fast, then I suppose it is an issue.

I'm confused. Why constantly draw attention to this? You are making it an issue. If you wish for this to stay, I'd stop making these utterly pointless threads that serve no purpose except to point out that some people find PVE grinding boring...... EDIT : I've actually just finished reading your thread, in hope that it was sarcasm. I'm caught between the confusion of knowing whether you are serving as an ironic troll, defending the 'problem' whilst exposing its distinct and huge advantages. Why, after supposedly defending this, would you gloat about how you could easily get all 16 toons to 50? Do you think this is something Bioware wishes? For many individuals to bypass story/planet content that still serves as the core of this game's content?.

They need to fix balance to improve the rest. However, they have been unable to do that yet again. Post 2.0 will demonstrate the same bias against certain classes that pre 2.0 does. They need to sort out all the DPS classes now and abandon the idea that the ability is DPS and off heal is somehow greater than the ability to DPS and taunt (looks at Pyro and Smash)

Signed. It's ridiculous to have it implemented in the first place. As a compromise, allow it at the very start to adjust composition. Not half way through or when attackers become defenders.

Shadows, and specifically shadow tanks, deserve this and much more. For too long these hybrid builds have been the option to EZ play PVP, with too much objective utility and the utterly ridiculous reality of a tank being able to stealth.

What are you on about? Shadow tanks were nowhere near broken enough. A tank that can stealth also needed the ability to teleport, how is that not obvious to you? And the 15% heal from Battle Readiness, they definitely needed that. Definitely.