I have the same problem. I wrote an ingame ticket, and got the following answer: "Greetings Lanilya, I am Protocol Droid L6-D7 and I have received your transmission. Thank you for contacting us regarding your mission 'Ilum Under Siege'. Your report has been forwarded to the relevant department, who will investigate further. We regret we will be unable to provide you with further updates on this issue, but recommend checking future patch notes for any up to date information. We would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused, and to thank you again for the valuable feedback you have provided. Please do not hesitate to report any other issues you may encounter while playing. Galactic Support is our specialty! Sincerely, Protocol Droid L6-D7, aka Aubryan" I guess it's a bug and will be patched.

Two examples were given in that article: Oden gave an example "You create a Jedi Knight, you level him up to level 40 and then you decide you want to try out the Smuggler. Because you've already got the Legacy open, you've got some Legacy levels, you've got some Legacy points... you can actually buy some perks for your Smuggler character, so he might, for example, be able to buy a speeder bike at a much earlier level than your first character, allowing you to travel through the world faster." The way your character earns XP can even be altered, "[The Smuggler] might be able to customize how he gets experience points, so he gets more experience points from playing the PvP game. You're able to essentially focus on the activities that you want to focus on in your next playthrough," Ohlen concluded. Lani

I don't need to change my name, yet I agree with the OP. Allow the change please. Lani

There is a storyline point for smugglers, when some custom officers catches you right before you leave the planet in that area. So I guess more storylines have their episodes there (I have only played smuggler so far). Lani Spoiler

Don't forget the underworld trading yields only 1 recipe (if lucky) for each run. So yes, it gives recipes for 3 professions, but at 1/3 rate for each! I don't think any nerf is logical. Lani

Well, EQ has the Alternate Ability skill system which allowed the people to progress even after reaching the max level. Which allowed you to keep strengthening your character for raids... Lani

Well, some lessons to learn: - Do not do maintenance during daytimes, you can split the server park in 2 (EU and US servers) if you really want to. - EU players won't mind if they get their patch 16 hours later, if that allows them to play during the day. . Never make a patchday during a holiday. - Have a rollback plan. If during a patch one hour before the deadline something is wrong, do a rollback and patch another day. It's better than having a patch be delayed until the peak hours (19:30 is considered peak hour, holiday or not). - Improve communication - people want to know what went wrong with their favorite game. A simple "No ETA yet" is unsufficient. Especially since it was announced that the next information would come out at 13 CST (20:00 CET) and the servers came up half an hour earlier. I personally noticed it 13 minutes later only, and there was already a 10min queue, which increased to 40mins while I was waiting. Lani

As a healer, Corso is a very good companion until you finish Act 1 storyline around lvl 30-34. You will start being weak as a healer on Alderaan, but that won't last long. Your 4th companion will be a DPS companion, and things get muczh easier with that companion. (That's my experience at least). Skillwise - put every point in your sawbone tree until you reach Kolto clould. There are a few skills not worth to take, but you can identify them easily. Don't underestimate the power of diagnostic scan, it's pretty nice to use. Lani p.s. don't let the lightspring quest in Tatooine discourage you, it's way overscaled in difficulty, many people made a lot of tries to get it through. I personaly finished in on 3rd try. It's not because you are weak, the quest is very hard. You shouldn't have problems on Tatooine.