So I just recently finished the expansion with my inquisitor (Darth Imperius, LS Sorcerer), and I have some things I liked about the expansion (and dislikes I guess too, but I'll keep things constructive). 1) Fun storytelling approach! I enjoyed the idea of "chapters" and a lot of the sequences are really fun. In particular, my favorite scenes involve any time Valkorion is chatting with me in my head (and the carbonite dream was awesome and creepy - great design). Every time I had to choose whether or not to take his power really made me reconsider my character's values and made me really invested in seeing what happened. I ended up taking his power to save Lana, but denying his power against Arcann. That ended with me getting full out Qui-Gon'd and elicited some choice swears from me (the lightsaber combat cutscenes are cool, even if I did have to lose a fight via cutscene). 2) As an Inquisitor though, and resident ghostbusting champion of the empire, I felt that I should have more power against Valkorion and other opposing force users. I'm getting ragdoll'd all day by force pushes and I can barely muster some weak force use. I get that I'm facing powerful people, but I'm no nerf-herder! I'm one of the most powerful force users in the galaxy, with trapped force ghosts in my head and almost every one of my in-game skills involves shooting kriffin' lightning out of my fingertips. I want to play like Palpatine and that involves shooting lightning while screaming "UNILIMITED POWAHHH". I get that animating fight scenes is hard and there are lots of classes, but gimme some lightning. 3) The villains are really fun. I realize that they are essentially the villains from Avatar (Vaylin is so obviously Azula - crazy prodigy? Brother is moody and brooding and hates his father?), but everyone loves Avatar and that's okay. Now that I think of it, I'm kind of like the avatar against the fire nation too (everything changed when the fire nation attacked, I go into stasis for 5 years, I get literally unfrozen and now I need me to save the galaxy, etc). 4) The supporting cast of companions is huge! I care about most of the companions, namely the main ones you get to interact with in the story, but do we need so many that we barely even meet? I like using companions from the other classes too, I hope the rest get unlocked soon (although some of their unlock quests are really difficult -- looking at you Qyzen). 5) The star fortress missions as our filler at the end were kinda fun. It's not great for group play as I ended up soloing anyways, but it was awesome to end up in the detention block after wiping and have to fight my way out. That's legit. tl;dr: expac is fun! I like the story a lot, but the emperor is a ghost in the mind of the best ghostbuster in the galaxy? Also no more losing in cutscenes. If I'm going to lose, just make the enemy unkillable and get stronger and stronger. It's bad gaming to end a fight at 100% and your enemy at 0% and then you get wrecked in the cutscene.

Hooray for the dev tracker feed exploding with posts this morning. Hope that means a lot of the restructuring meetings are done and we're back on track to getting feedback from the devs and hearing more "soons" (I don't mind soons, it means it's being worked on)! If any of the community team is reading this, can you tell us more about what your plans are for posting to the forums? I always like looking at the dev tracker page and seeing what's up each day, even if it's just fluff. Keep up the good work!

I personally prefer the sorcerer. I've played a LS sorc as my main and have recently started a LS shadow. The sorc story has some really cool stuff and some really cool choices which I won't spoil. The sage/shadow story is pretty good so far (still in act 1) but seems a bit more cookie-cutter jedi/dark jedi. It's really a personal preference kinda thing as sorc/sage is very well mirrored (although lightning beats rock in terms of visuals), the sorc has a personal rise to power story and the sage has a global saving the galaxy story. Hopefully this helps!

You should generally try and max your main stats out as much as possible. It generally goes main stat->surge+crit up to diminishing returns->alacrity to 10%->then power which scales well (expertise is VERY important if you go pvp) My lvl 50 (valor 71, half lvl 58 gear and half 61 gear) sorcerer that I pvp with and run fp's has (buffed) Will 1484 End 1522 Expertise 1023 Crit 36.1% Power 317 Alacrity 9.86% Surge 72.68% I went 9/32/0 with my sorc which isn't the norm, but it lets me heal in crucial situations and do a lot of AOE damage. Hybrid builds aren't too great IMO right now, the optimal builds go at least 31 in one and part of another to complement it. Madness is a very popular sorc build and doesn't need as much alacrity. When you're crafting, will+crit chance is good. If you're dps pretty much any stat will be good for you except accuracy or tanking stats naturally. Hopefully this helps answer your question.

And? This will happen 3.5% of the time if you do 15 RE's at 20%. That's just probability. Doesn't mean it's broken. Do a couple hundred RE's over your characters' leveling and you'll see that 20% of your RE's will work just as intended.