It's funny that only a couple of posters here believe that BH is a hard class. But I suppose that while for most players it is an easy class to play, maybe for others, like the OP, it is a hard class to play. We should be giving them kudos for challenging themselves!

Bioware scaled the classes so that you have a curve frome easiest to hardest. In essence you rolled one of the easiest classes to play, one that requires the least amount of player interaction. In short, you get to spam 1-3 skills all day every day. You play a severely dumbed down class for the lesser skilled MMO player. You aren't owning anyone. And I do have BH Merc. I respecced because I simply couldn't play Arsenal and spam one skill incessantly. So I went Pyro.

I have a 50 Marauder as well, be prepared to have little to no utility, regardless of gear. No knockback, no viable stun, no way to prevent yourself from being chain stunned... those are the main issues. While Marauder is an amazing class, due to having only 3 warzones that are setup the way they are, a Marauders usefulness is really limited. Good luck.

Combat Logs are far more important then same-gender relationships. I seriously hope BW recognizes this, bu tthey probably wont. I mean why put a useful tool in the game when you can just add more useless flirt options.

Far to many one skill spammer classes in this game. I swear, half the classes are easy mode.

How about NO Anyone can take Biochem, so how is it overpowered? So again, how about NO.

TL;DR below. So after doing a little research it seems that, as the game stands now, in order to be more effective in PvP I will need a mix of PvE and PvP gear to get the stats I need to be competitive. I’ve spent the last 5 or so days doing my PvP dailies and Ilum camping to get centurion gear with a few pieces of champion gear mixed in, but feel I am not as effective as others of my class who have a mix of PvE and PvP gear. I am an Anni Marauder, and this is not a case of L2P or not understanding my class. I am by no means an expert at my class, but I understand how it works and what roles I play in PvP. I do not expect to “faceroll” every class, nor do I expect to win every fight. But for a full set of PvP gear to actually make me less effective then I was in full PvE leveling gear? I do realize the centurion set is the entry level Tier 1 PvP set, so I was not expecting miracles. However, before I completed the centurion set I was at 98% accuracy, 28% crit, 68% surge, but 0 Expertise. Upon completing the centurion set (and a respec) I am now at 100% accuracy, 21% crit and 61% surge. So even though I am at 499 Expertise, it does not make up what I lost in crit and surge on old gear. Basically my damage has gone down, and my survivability has only slightly increased (mostly due to improved endurance, not expertise). So, in order for me to bolster up my stats, I am under the impression that I need to run PvE dailies to get some Columi/Rakata gear to fix my now skewed stats. Meaning that I need to invest hours of time in a part of the game I find completely uninteresting; PvE. I need to start raiding PvE instances and running the same dailies over and over to collect the Daily Comms. I am not sure how this makes sense; PvE to be more effective at PvP? Now, I have read/heard that they are making it so you can completely re-mod your gear in 1.2. Does that mean that I can buy PvP pieces that have mods I prefer with my WZ/Merc Comms so that I can tweak my stats? Or will this need to grind PvE gear so that I can balance out my stats still be necessary by getting the mods that the dailies give? TL;DR: Will 1.2 allow us to pilfer mods from PvP gear to customize our stats, or will PvE dailies/Daily Comms still be only way to customize stats?

And your arrogant remark is worth even less. Just saying. P.S. Grow up.

SLI won't help load times. In fact I am not even sure it works in this game yet, haven't seen any final release drivers that support SLI in TOR. There are beta drivers that require work arounds and still may not work. I for one do not use beta drivers since often times they cause more issues then they solve. My load time are very quick, I am almost always the first one zoned into a WZ/FP/OP and I am using 2x 1TB HDD in Raid 0. You don't really need SSD to improve load times in TOR, so if that's all you bought your SSD for, I would say waste of money. Sorry.

Play a Marauder. No knockback. Limited CC and stuns. I agree some classes depend far too heavily on CC and KB's, but they also cater to the less skilled player base, which ultimately are easy to kill.

Not that I endorse Kill Trading, or take part in it, because I do not. However, if Bioware is allowing it, then who are you to grief players doing it? Let them play how they want, it's their perogative and their 15$. If they want to kill trade and get gear the easy way, then let them. It's not hurting you, you already admit you are full BM and have no need to go to Ilum, so why are you being a jerk and griefing people? Because they don't play like you? Get over it. It's Biowares job to police their own game, not yours. Griefers are griefers, so stop trying to justify it.

This is why I sub monthly, I may pay a little more, but if I want to quit playing a game I don't feel forced to stay or end up wasting money. Welcome back though!

I didn't like Jaesa, too squishy. Vette is great, but you will be healing up between every fight. I used Quinn from 20-50. You will have less downtime with his healing, so leveling goes a bit quicker with him.

What is with this "WE" demand crap? I don't want cross-server PvP nor does this game need it. Do not presume that you can speak for me. Queue times are fine on my server. Really not our problem your server is low pop. Maybe re-roll or hope for server transfers? Cross Server PvP is terrible and will further segregate the community, such as it is.

"Casuals" as you refer to them make up the MAJORITY of the population. Why wouldn't they strive to make the bulk of the player base happy? Hate to break it to you, but if you consider yourself "hardcore", then you are in the minority. Sorry, but them's are the breaks, kiddo. Majority rules. And keep calling them "nerfs" when it's obvious surge was fixed due to being totally imbalanced.