Hmm... so it's about fighting between players on what the best lighting would be to light a particular scene for a painting or video recording? I'm not sure I quite see what lighting has to do with anything. I personally play in the dark; I like the contrast.

While mostly solo leveling, would you guys recommend filling out the Deception tree first? I'm leaning towards that because I figure I can probably tank heroics at the lower levels even without points in Darkness. Or maybe I'll just fill out Deception to get Obfuscation (level 17) and then move over to Darkness.

Thanks, Zunzun -- it's good to know that I'm not crazy trying to hybridize those two trees. I hadn't considered the benefits of Darkswell, but it's definitely something worth considering. Hopefully the end result is a very "tanky" stealther. Moving faster while stealthing has so many soloing benefits, that I can't bear to live without it.

The direct answer to your question is no; the alignment has no bearing on legacy. As an added suggestion - wait until you get your legacy before rolling that alt. Once you get your legacy on one character, a percentage of your xp on ANY character adds to your legacy level. If you roll your alt now, you're missing out on that sweet free Legacy XP. Not quite sure what the XP is going to be worth, but being higher level on your Legacy can't hurt.

I know the commonly accepted hybrid is Darkness/Madness, but after having leveled an Infiltration Jedi Shadow, there is one talent in the Deception tree that I absolutely love to have for leveling/soloing -- Obfuscation. I'm primarily interested in a solo tanking build that can tank any of the heroics. I'd like to be able to do enough to damage to make leveling comfortable, but I'd really like to be able to solo any hard quests, and maybe even some heroic 2s with the right companion. Is there a viable hybrid build that can afford 8 points into Deception? I'm not looking at end-game content here, just an enjoyable leveling experience. This one is 10 points shy, but I'm looking at a base build of: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200rcr0krskZhG.1 With maybe an end state of something like: http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#200bcrskrskbsZhGZb.1 With the latter I was trying to focus on doing maximum damage while also having any tanking utility/survivability I'd need for heroics. Thanks for any advice.

Nar Shaddaa and Coruscant are my favorite questing zones so far! They remind me of Mass Effect. I hate Tatooine. There's endless expanses of wastelands that exist just to waste my time.

What bothers me most about this is that I feel like the designers barely even tried. Not only do we have only robes to choose from -- they basically all look identical! The possible variations are tragic. Just a little bit of research into the Star Wars universe would have easily turned up a lot of alternate Jedi outfits. Just looking at the Jedi that were killed by Order 66, you come up with Aayla Secura: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Aayla_Secura She is not wearing a robe. She's wear a halter and some pants. Like anyone who was actually fighting would... The armor choices are depressingly uninspired. In a game that works so hard on roleplaying, it's tragic to have such poor choices in attire. My Shadow is running around in the dancer's costume just so I don't have to look at the god awful robe choices. It's also pretty lame that the Jedi Grand Master in the game is a Consular and she gets to wear a much more interesting outfit. We could at least have one of those for the female Consulars.

I'm mostly in your boat, I just find the least stressful approach is to forget Flashpoints exist at all. My gametime is sometimes limited, and even 10 minutes is a lot to waste. Personally, I think it's a design flaw when players will choose to ignore massive amounts of the content because there is no convenient way to see it. But that design flaw is what it is, and I sorta just look at flashpoints like pvp now. I don't like what doing them requires, and thus they might as well not even be in the game.

It's horribly inconvenient. I don't want to spend my hour of gametime spamming general looking for a group. I want to spend my time playing, and if I can get a group at the same time I'd be happy to divert to a flashpoint. I know there are a lot of haters of the LFG tools, but they honestly make the game tons better for honest folk. It may also bring some pain, but overall it makes me much much more likely to do the flashpoints. As it stands, doing a flashpoint means that I have to login with the intention of doing nothing but that flashpoint. I have to park myself on the fleet and spam general (or watch general) until I get the group together. That can sometimes happen fast, and sometimes happen slow. But either way, the time looking was time I could have been progressing my character in some other way. People do PVP in this game more than they do flashpoints for that very reason. You can queue for PVP while doing other things. That's how it should work; I don't care what the WoW haters say. I was super disappointed when I queued up for my first PVP and then found I could not do the same for a flashpoint.

It has to be a bit more specific than just whether you can use it. A Jedi Guardian can technically use my light armor robe with willpower. It should band gear based on the class it was intended for. Swtor has gone to exceptionally great lengths to make sure that the intention of a piece of gear is very clean-cut.

They just need a "for my companion" roll option that is between need and greed. That would help a lot I think. Also, since they have gone to great lengths to make gear so incredibly pipelined, they might as well just disallow need rolling on gear that you can't use. As a Consular, I just shouldn't be able to roll on anything that isn't light armor with willpower. It would be easier to use such a system in this game than most others. If you did that + the roll for companion option, then looting in groups would become much much easier.

Bounty Hunters and Smugglers should get to choose a side outright (versus it being dictated by light/dark side decisions). Jedi and Sith should end up on whichever side their dark or light side warrant. Agents and Troopers should be locked to their side (they do work for them directly afterall).

I use the Nostromo and I love it. A lot of people use the thumbstick to move, but I don't. I use it as hotkeys. Forward is 1, Backward is 3, Down is 2, and Up is 4. Then I can press shift and push all those directions. So the thumbstick becomes 8 hotkeys, then there's all the ones on the keypad itself (4 of which I use for moving in the standard wasd way). I cannot recommend the Nostromo enough. It absolutely changed my enjoyment of gaming on my PC. I have also tried the Logitech G13, and in my opinion, the Nostromo is ergonomically superior.

Dual specs are not only necessary, but expected. Not adding what is basically an accepted feature of the modern MMO would be silly.

Okay, now I think you're just trolling. That is an inflammatory and absurd statement. I think that it is you that have no business playing the modern MMO. Clearly, it is not your cup of tea anymore.