I was planning on doing the same lol Oh well, their corner-cutting is dollars out the window

Yea some of the unique skills for all companions are still here, just some got removed, who knows they may even add in back in as long as it's balanced gameplay. The new changes would be more welcome if a lot wasn't removed like the OP mentioned. Still there's some new great features that will help people adjust in the long run, just sucks about the losses and we'll all move on lol.

Son, if you take anything online or by word of mouth in this day and age "serious" that's all based on your intelligence or lack there of....

This.......Gotta love when people on the Dev team or what the hell ever decide to say, "Hey, lets take all this **** that players like and cool animations, rare Cartel items and just scrap it from our next update since Pvpers and end-game raiders think it's unimportant or useless". The changes like they did to HK and Treek's unique abilities for example was just flat out stupid. They never ask the gamers what they should remove they just do it....yea sure they own the game and all that blah blah, but without paying customers your product gets trashed and forgotten when you piss off the people paying the bills. Until BioFail fixes the mess they made by removing stuff like this a lot of people are pissed off and complaining about.....I see a few subs getting canceled before the day is over. However, this so called "expansion" isn't a complete "FUBAR", I liked several changes made in the game and the new story is great so far, but the asinine removable of stuff like resuables in Biochems getting removed from my inventory, etc has left a bad outlook for SWTOR, imo.

Hell I'd love Jet charge on my Arsenal Merc lol, unload on em from ranged then when my target is near death, jump to em and finish em off with Rocket Punch, especially when those morons in pvp take off running to hide and heal when they'll almost dead lol. Sadly it won't happen because most people cry about balance or "this skill is useless just because I don't use it in my rotation" blah blah...

After playing my Commando a week ago and finally finishing his story...I couldn't agree with you all more lol it looks lame and ridiculous for sure but since they would have to go back and re-do all the cutscenes, you can forget it ever getting any attention. As for the new ones, well yup budget = quality I guess. Never cared for the balance issue of class-specific weapon proficiency either...like, "oh hey man your a bounty hunter...your hands can't grip that sniper rifle or assualt cannon, so here take a pistol or two." But hey no other game achieved balance by allowing any class to use any ranged weapon....right? right??? lol

I agree that they really "drove" these class specs right into the ground, not only are they now annoying to play but boring as hell, fire a few shots or punch/stab and that's it.... all started getting boring for me on my Operative and Scrapper once they removed the "knockdown" effects and with the loss of Orbital Strike/Flyby....yea this class is dead to me for sure. After reading the responses as to why all the changes they made is utter crap and lame excuses just like when we lost those "usable while stunned only" skills on all classes back in the day...just because some people may not have used it doesn't mean it should've been removed.

Oh sure now if they would only fix the dàmn bugged HM stuck with 20 min CD and 60 sec duration that's been complained about and reported for months. Seems Bioware likes to entirely remove shít from the game instead of "fixing" it lol.

I guess we all should be pissed and butt hurt over the idea of "ripping off" someone's idea for "toilets" or "toasters" while we're at it? Disney and Snow White should sue Blizzard for ripping off dwarves? lol um and ffs....World of Whatever was not the first MMO with these features, kiddies sorry mommy and daddy lied to ya.

I was enjoying the new changes overall until I logged on my Imperial Agent, this ruined the fun for my agent, was bad enough when they took away the hilarious knockdown effect that was for Hidden Strike back in the day and now Operatives lost OS....really? *** was the point and their reason from what I read is complete B.S. Now whenever I ambush from stealth and a bunch of adds join the fight I got no AoE, save for the grenade or the frontal cone attack of Carbine Blast which I never used that much. I use to call in a strike quickly stealth and ambush an elite while the OS took out the mobs around it...once my sub runs out I'll be sure to never activate this class again and just stick to the ones they didn't fubar, thanks Bioware.

You can visit Oricon at 55 and do the story missions for some free 55 gear and use your Basic comms there at the vendors while your at it.

Not to worry, I'm sure whenever the people who handle this issue gets done playing golf, comes back from a trail hike in Peru or finishes visiting their cousin in France after Christmas, will look into the situation at Bioware...lol no serisously this has stopped me from leveling my alts that are 55+ as well, just because most no-lifers that grind creds and dailies every frigging day for past 3 years have millions to waste, doesn't mean EVERYONE does.

That and you can visit Manaan and jump over the street's wall perimeter to insta-death with no splash...lol Reminds me of Grand Theft Auto 3 back in...oh yea 2001...hmmm, but hey who needs swimming when we got space ships we can't fly!

What did you expect for a game update that is only priced at $20? Most games charge more than that for a stupid in-game toy/upgrade/pet or mount.

Yea this needs fixed fast, the cost of training is already ridiculous enough leveling up but this new issue is a joke. I hope they fix this asap because my training for my level 50-60 characters is on hold until they do...not everyone that plays has time to grind dailies all day just to pay for new skills, especially when the new dailies are like what? 5-7k payouts? and my level 38-50 alt's training is like 13k-25K or more per skill rank up, lol no thanks.

Noob Gamer Education....

Looks like she finally "defected" back to the Empire...lol Sorry no clue what could cause this, maybe need to try a support ticket.

Check the vendor on Fleet Station next to the Security Key Vendor for your free Revan Statue. (oops late post yea what the guy above me said lol)

LoL.....good luck with that, I'm sure someone that gets your "contact notice" will get a good laugh out of it.

If your not enjoying game with friends or soloing into a grindfest of boredom then well, that's a personal issue you may need to seek guidance for....that being said, there's plenty of other games you may wanna try like "World of Whatever", "Call of Booty" and "Failage", or was it Archeage...hell I dunno anyway good luck finding a new game and May the Force of someone's boot to your àss Be With You

Recently re-subbed and noticed this too, I love to see some new hair styles and tattoos for all races for sure, and I hope they add in more companion customizations because some of the current ones range from bland to horrible looking imo or just let us choose to adjust their look via the Change Appearance kiosk lol. Also we need more colors for dyes instead the current gothic or pastel colors...and yes I am one of those who like to look good while kicking àss.

Regardless of the reason they was removed or why people thought they was useless skills, I used these abilities like Shoulderslam on my BH very often on trash mobs, they had cool animations and added flavor to my combat, now once again someone felt like being a *** and decided to remove something from the game that was fine....nothing new there happens in every MMO. I could care less of the tech or statistics B.S. behind the reason they got trashed, imo they only keep adding to the growing reasons why people choose not to login anymore lol.

Anyone who enjoyed SWG's space content & pvp would agree that SWTOR could make this future expansion possible. A few years ago a friend of mine talked me into trying out the space mining and combat in SWG and I hated it at first, but once I built my own custom ship and did some pvp and missions, I was "hooked". I spent weeks mining asteroids and getting the schematics rewarded to build my BH a Black Sun Vigo Gunship after reaching Ace Pilot rank, it was amazing and even more fun with friends controlling the multi gun turrets while I flew it with a engineer and co-pilot. A lot of people complained of control issues, but a pc game controller solved that once you got use to it.

I have to say it's one of my favorite planets to play on, I took my time and explored everything through the darkness on the Empire side and through the shadows and sun light of the Republic's version of Taris. The music was perfect as well as the ambient sounds. Like others have mentioned, if you remember Taris from KoToR then you can really relate to the story and revisiting now in SWTOR. As for getting around Taris, I had no problems or issues. People complained about walls and debris in the way...lol it's a ruined planet covered in destroyed cityscape terrain so yea it wasn't meant to be easily navigated like a new paved parking lot....

Yea, there is a lot of players who won't get much out of such a short event because they dealt with work and other real life issues, and those of us who would've liked more time for getting pets/gear from the event on alts are out of luck more or less as well, it would be great if they extended past the 24th or made all the dailies unlock on the last day.