i keep running into body type 4 smugglers (i'm one as well, actually). what's the deal? I guess it's sorta awesome for this ginormous dude to pop out of stealth with a shotgun to deliver a blast to the head.

zomg thank you. this really annoyed me.

i agree the light/dark dichotomy is a bit much for a smuggler. im no fan of the republic, but i dislike the empire more. still, i prefer to stay out of politics altogether. i'm a bit selfish, totally sarcastic (i annoy corso a lot) and flirt every chance i get. i don't kill innocents if i can avoid it, but if you cross me watch out. the light/dark choices and supposed need to choose is annoying though. For example, I really should have just killed someone for something because that felt more true, but i was like, i really should stick to light... (even though i've done a fair number of dark things). sometimes the moral choice is clear but when it's something of a grey area, i'd like to choose what's best for me. smuggler life.

yeah excellent question and good point. would be great to have a short section about how things might be different in general for normal leveling/pvp than longer drawn-out fights.

i like that it's different than the blaster, but it sounds too much like the shotgun IMO.

and besides, the back blast is really more a side blast--you don't have to be perfectly right behind them, they just can't be aggro'd on you. back blast is awesome. i love when someone else is tanking, waiting til the mob's health is low, casually strolling up and then delivering my boomstick to the back of the poor mob's head, putting him down.

hrmm yeah, that could be a big boost if that's the case. ok, think i'll go full in the 9%, then maybe 1 point in the heal and 1 in dirty escape. need to respec.

i've been more light than dark so i guess i should keep going that way. i wanted to be more dark but it just sort of turned out that i am too nice. my toon has honor, stands up for the little guy, but doesn't like d-bags and doesn't like being betrayed .

Hi all, wanted some quick advice for a scrapper (currently lvl 17). I'll be going up to 31 in scrapper tree, but trying to figure out how to distribute my other points. I guess my question is, how important is the +9% to cunning in the sawbones? I kind of want exploratory surgery (sawbones) and dirty escape (dirty fighting) for more utility and survivability and cc. But if the cunning stat is really important, thinking of doing just 1 point in exploratory surgery and 1 in dirty escape. What do you guys think?