I wasn't very clear; I meant what if Explosive Fuel reset the cool down for Hydraulic Overrides. PT / VG is the only class that can't be immune to damage like others have said, maybe if Hydraulic Overrides provided something defensive (outside of running away), or healed you 2% of your HP per second... which would have synergy with the other utilities. I've had a theory since 5.0 that Responsive Safeguards was created & intended as a PT/VG DCD, but someone clicked the wrong checkbox, and Mercenary was right next to Powertech

What if they removed the pvp adrenal / stim from other classes and make them VG / PT exclusive abilties. Medpack : Heals 35% HP Stim : +15% dmg reduc. for 15 sec. The Utilities need the work (also the pull / leap bugs). The Focus Stims / Explosive Fuel utilities should combo better (like making HiB / Rail Shot 30 m., reset the cooldown of Hold the Line / Hydraulic Overrides, provide more defenses) among other things.

Best thing about Yavin is the mixed faction. Maybe I'm wrong, but it feels like people are acting a bit nicer to each other because you end up playing with and against the same people a lot. Just make Huttball mixed as well and I think it would be good. Having a pool of faction vs faction & cross faction maps.

I still think Andronikus should have been and served the role that Tora played in kotfe. They already had Steve Blum in studio and his character would have played opposite of Koth equally, if not better than Tora. With the added bonus of being a returning romance companion.

" I'm CXP LVL 300 (Bought full 246 from GTN) " Don't you feel, that once you're at 246, that you're pretty much done with gearing for that character? I feel like if you're at ~242+ you're pretty much good2go.

Uprising on the train? Firefrost and Fractured are two of the easiest Uprisings to solo with companion imo.

I've enjoyed the Knights-expansions far more on my tech-user classes, than I have with my force-user classes.

they added new cartel coin achievements for reaching CR300 with each class plus one for getting all 8 to 300 180 CCs total

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thank you very much

Hey, could you walk me through how to do this? and/or comment on this thread? I'm really desperate for any fps boost and also don't want to seriously screw anything up for my game, if possible thanks you.

Is anything about the UI faster? When you say clunky do you mean it's slower now? (lag)

I wish the amount of initiative and hustle that went into making "Hot Pocket" trending enough to get it's name changed by BW, was instead focused on other things ... ... like the bugs with PT / VG's grapple / harpoon not working out of combat ... ... or the leap bug ... ... or literally anything useful.

Sports is a good analogy. Better I think, would be the league or division your team plays in. Your team name (character name, legacy name, wtv) is yours to make and customize, but the league your team plays in might have a goofy sounding name or acronym. And it's less about making someone else understand, and more about forcing you to hear it, maybe you'll realize it's not that big of a deal when you hear yourself explain it in layman. You said for yourself it doesn't really bother you that much, so for someone who does maybe.

It's fine if you don't like the name; have a laugh, some goofs, some gaffs, make it a meme.. but if the name of the server really affects you in any way more than that you need to sort your life out. Try explaining it out loud to someone outside the game and not sound ridiculous.

That does answer my question, thank you. Speaking of utilities; is there anything a player can do to help with the upcoming utility changes, specifically, there are a handful of utilities which don't work correctly or not exactly as the tool tips describe... ...is there a place we can post screens or videos or anything related to our experiences with utilities? With regard to this, will 5.6 also be addressing some bug fixes? If you have that information available.

Any update for when you'll start tackling utilities? Because it sort of looks like you've started.

Change the drop-down to Warzone you can't move it while under the 'Main UI' See where it said MAIN HUD, change it to Warzone

All I'm trying to point out is that the reason Mercs get mentioned a lot is because unlike other FOTM classes, Mercs are also very beginner friendly. People also almost always only mention 'Mercenaries' and not commandos, and that's cause of faction imbalance (which exist everywhere, no way to avoid it, one side is going to be better than the other no matter what game). So it's compounding FOTM + Easy class to play + faction imbalance = mercs are OP all over the forums. No FOTM has ever been unbeatable, that's not the issue, it's just when you have 2 teams of even skill, the team with the more mercenaries will likely win because above. If tomorrow Lightning Sorc became the best class in the game it would only be a problem at very high levels because the class requires a bit more finesse to pull off. Whereas mercernaries can still click their abilities and pose a decent threat at the lower skill levels. I still think mercenaries could be balanced without touching dps or removing anything. Just rearrange the utility table and that's it.

The skill threshold for mercenaries allows it so that beginners can access most of it's potential outright. Most/all of their offensive and defensive capabilities can be unleashed by clicking a button. As opposed to requiring tactics or foresight; a sorcerer can't just click Phase Walk and avoid damage, but a mercenary can click their damage abilities to deal damage and their defensive abilities to not take damage without much finesse.

If you only played one type of content, then it's very likely it's harder to gear now than before. If you play more than one type of content, I'd say it's likely way easier. I only really played PVP before 5.0 because my gear locked me out of other content. Now I have one set of gear per character with an implant that I swap in & out when I switch between content. Some of my classes, like tank or MM Sniper keep the same gear between all activities because their accuracy is 110% Also like you said, you get something for all activities. I used to only GSF on one character but now I do on all 8. I much prefer how things are now, but if I continued to only PVP exclusively, or didn't like gsf or pve or wtv I'd probably think it's way worse. So in the end it's just personal preference.

Do you have an infinite budget and infinite manpower? Why does this keep being asked when it clearly isn't realistic or exist in the realm of possibility? I knew back in 2012 this **** wasn't gonna happen but every other week it's "Can you go back to making 8 games plz!". No, what you're asking for doesn't exist anywhere in the industry. There is no way they are going to create and maintain the biggest story content ever conceived in a video game. It took them 5 years to craft and cram 8 kotors into one game. The game would have to surpass league of legends or overwatch or what ever is the current biggest giant on the planet to afford releasing RotHC x8, SoR x8, KotFE x8, KotET x8

are you getting Destruction and Furious Rage before you use your smash? If smash did 20k we'd be back to the same problem with stacking classes.

For the force classes I've tried to match each their color motifs with the color of the animations and effects for each class: Knight = Blue Consular = Yellow Warrior = Red Inquisitor = Purple

Hey you're right