Not necessarily true. If they were emitting light outside of a visible wavelength and blocking/absorbing all the visible light passing through the beam then they would appear to be black; with maybe some red, blue, green, etc, light bleeding around the edge where some visible wavelengths are being absorbed and others passing through. Now I grant you that is not at all likely but light-sabers are fairly far fetched weapons to begin with.

If the idea is to make story mod ops more accessible to the player base I'd like to see the lockouts changed (for story mode only). Ran DF through the group finder the other night, got through the first two bosses but the group fell apart on the third one due to some people not understanding the mechanics and so of course I cannot try again until the lockout expires. Ideally I think the (story mode) lockout should prevent you from receiving any rewards from a given boss kill more then once a week, but not prevent you from participating multiple time.

Dark Jaesa is by far my favorite companion, she is so delightfully psychotic!

For me its the Juggernaut tank. It has my favorite story and companions. I love how solid and powerful the animations and sound effects feel. Force Leap, Force Push --> Force Leap, and Intercede give it a dynamic and surprisingly mobile play-style. Also leaping into a large group of ranged enemies, hitting reflect, and watching the storm of incoming fire bounce back at them is the best thing ever.

I recently speced into lethality and agree that this a very noticeable issue. At the end of my rotation I'll almost always have 0.7 to 0.8 seconds left till cull comes off cooldown instead of the expected 1.5 seconds to cast snip or some other quick ability.

A few points that have been overlooked on the Guardian. Reflect is amazing. It is a wonderful tool to use at the start of a fight with most large groups to gain threat and reduce the damage you take. Also if you use your leaps and intercede you have really good mobility. I have leveled all three tank classes to 55 but the Juggernaut (aka the guardian) is the only one I play end game. It's not that the other two are bad in any way but personally I enjoy the Jugg/Guardian play-style so much more. Leaping around the map and throwing enemies attacks back at them never gets old. Having said that the stuns and knock-backs can be very frustrating as the Guardian/Jugg. You have the fewest tools to deal with them and are most dependent on being in melee range.

Thank you! Yes full annihilation (or as full as you can be at those levels). I tried Cad with carnage and rage as well and neither had the balance of damage and defense (self healing) that annihilation does.

I agree. It's like there is a faction of developers that secretly hates character customization and looks back fondly at WoW circa 2005 when every character dressed the same by the end of the game.

Yes PLEASE let us dye these. There is absolutely no good reason why we should not be able too.

With Quinn of course. Not endgame but not super over leveled either. Hope some of you enjoy. Mandalorian Raiders At level 30. Cademimu At level 33 except I leveled right before the end so the last boss was killed when I was level 34. Boarding Party At level 35, everything but the bonus boss.

This is NOT a very slight change. It makes it very hard for me to read items stats and it makes the game nearly unplayable for someone I know. Please either change it back or give us the option to disable this asap.

Wow, This is a huge bug that needs to be fixed ASAP!

I am extremely disappointed in the collections feature. It was presented as individual items, Revan's mask was specifically mentioned in interviews, and not as needed a whole set.

/signed. My post from another thread: This is not at all how the system was presented to us before now and I for one am extremely disappointed. I really do believe that everyone at Bioware works very hard and wants this to be a great game... but honestly you continually fall short of that goal. I cannot think of a less user friendly or less useful way you could have implemented the dye and collection systems. They are both worse than similar systems other MMOs have had for years. I suppose it is my fault for getting excited about 2.1 based on the previews given your track record. But frankly this is one subscriber who is very tired of constantly being let down.

This is not at all how the system was presented to us before now and I for one am extremely disappointed. I really do believe that everyone at Bioware works very hard and wants this to be a great game... but honestly you continually fall short of that goal. I cannot think of a less user friendly or less useful way you could have implemented the dye and collection systems. They are both worse than similar systems other MMOs have had for years. I suppose it is my fault for getting excited about 2.1 based on the previews given your track record. But frankly this is one subscriber who is very tired of constantly being let down.

Armstech, Synthweaving and Armormech all make augments. Which for my Sythweaver and my friends Armstech have been profitable, as in selling more then the mats alone would. Biochem makes reusable items which if you are running endgame stuff save a lot of credits over time. Also there is always a market for Stims and Medpacs which last time I looked was profitable. Cybertech may be in the same situation as Artifice, I don't have that crew skill at a high enough level to know.

Then why would you advice someone make and sell enhancements and hilts when they will make more money selling the mats directly? Why would you possibly think that losing money counts as a useful feature of artifice? As I said in my first post augments kits and reverse engineered drops from ops are, for now, the only way to make money with artifice (this may change with the dye system in 2.1). If for some reason you want to take $10 worth of mats artifice them up and sell the final product for $8 that is fine but don't pretend it is a good business strategy.

On my server it certainly is true. The purple 28 enchantments sell for 40-45k each. They require 2 Mytag Crystals which sell for 28k each. So you can sell the mats directly and make 56k or turn them into an enchantment and earn 45k if you are lucky. The value added from artifice is negative 13,000 to 18,000 credits. Even if you want them for yourself it is far smarter to sell the mats and buy them form other people off the GTN.

Bioware fix your bugs! Killed Dreadguard in TFB and got no loot, found out we could not continue the Op when we fought our way to Operator IX and the panels to get to him were not active.

Not very helpful but none the less true answer: dump artifice and train up a more useful skill. Slightly more helpful answer: make and sell MK-9 augment kits, run 55 ops and hope for a rare drop you can reverse engineer. While not totally useless Artifice is probably the worst off crew skill right now.

Do you know if its possible for the threat from Saber Reflect to miss? I ask because I though this was how it worked but I have repeatedly seen ranged mobs ignore me and shoot at my healer after I leap in and use saber reflect which is why I've gone to Saber Reflect+AoE Taunt.

AoE taunt + Saber Reflect works well for now in most situations. However because Deflect is prioritized above Reflect for some unfathomable reason it will scale negatively and become less useful the higher your defense rating goes.

That was a very disappointing post with a lot of information that was simply wrong. Alacrity is not good for the Juggernaut at all, I don't believe it is good for the Marauder either but I don't have enough experience with that AC to say for sure. It does not reduce the channel time of Ravage or increase rage generation except by allowing us to spam our weakest attack more often. Switching out any DPS stat for alacrity will result in a loss of damage (with the one exception of accuracy over the hit cap). Also while the Immortal tree is vastly improved it still has no answer to the vast amount of CC most of the trash mobs have in this game. It can be unbelievably frustrating to play now. He also fails to mention that Saber Reflect scales negatively for tanks; meaning it gets worse as your gear, specifically your defense rating, improves. I find this a mindbogglingly bad design choice that I hope is reversed soon.

In 2.0 I have noticed a couple of things that scale negatively (get worse) as as relevant stats improve. I assume these must be bugs because what design team in their right mind would put systems in place that punish players for doing content/using better gear. Here are the things I have found so far. If anyone knows of more please note them. 1) Archeology (and I believe Bioanalyst) gathering missions. When that crit they give Mats that are not of any use. 2) Saber Reflect. Prioritizes defense over reflection so well geared tanks are more likely to waste the cooldown when they use it. If for some reason it is intended that this ability be less beneficial to tanks this is not the way to go about it. No ability should get worse as your gear improves.

A credit sink that punishes you for running better missions and having higher affection. Which would normally be ridiculous but Reflect also scales negatively with some stats so that seems to be a theme with 2.0.