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Keith, Can you confirm if the 200% Valor boost will also be returning with the event? It was active during the previous event that had the downtown.

Thanks for the detailed reply! Now whenever the queues get more popular and start popping again, I might just have to go back in there.

Okay, but I would still like a GSF bolster system. Whether they made it faster to upgrade now... there still isnt an answer as to which upgrade to go with first. Do I want better weapons or shields, or whatever? I'm assuming they want us to just guess and trial and error it? (I dont know the names of the stuff, since I deleted my one GSF toon, that did like 20 matches when it first came out to re-roll the class for Dark vs Light last year lol.) In ground PVP, expertise used to boost multiple things as you earned more PVP gear (DPS, healing, damage reduction), so the bolster system took care of that before, giving people a decent amount of expertise (unless they were over geared PVE people...). I guess I want the bolster system in place mainly just so that I dont need to think about upgrading my ship stats, if I choose to not focus on those details. I know GSF is a "learn to play", and I guess I'll agree with others saying that we need a PVE learning environment where we can practice shooting at ships, not on a rail. May I ask what is the best average all around ship to play? I used to just upgrade my gun ship when I played 3 years ago.

Sounds like you are agreeing with Option 2. It certainly makes sense and it sounds easy enough for them to do. As it stands right now, in order to avoid the cost of extraction, there is a work around solution. You can pull one of the black-purple (sub rewards? PVP rewards? I dont remember ATM where they came from.) crystals from collections and just over-write the cartel one in your legacy weapon and then send that over to your legacy storage without an error message.

I had thought about posting this in there as a reply, but I thought it might get lost in the already on-going discussion points. I felt a new topic would help show off voting results. However, it seems I guess I made the wrong choice. I'm sorry.

That will be sad though. I cant imagine ever wanting to have that same color crystal on more than 2 characters. For example sharing the same lightsabers between a sentinel and marauder is enough. I would want my sage/sorc to have a different color unlocked.

I can confirm that it is possible to join a guild during the conquest week, on a day after Tuesday, but before Sunday, and still get the cheevo for conquering the planet. That happened during the Iokath conquest event. However, that toon had 0 conquest points when doing so.

I have ripped the entire soundtrack (in original .ogg format) and would post the links here if BW said it was allowed. It is wonderful to be able to play any track that you want, whenever you want.

I have two main reasons why I dont like to queue for GSF: 1. There is no bolster system in place. There should be a bolster system much like you created for ground PVP. You were willing to take away our expertise gear, but you chose to let people keep their fully upgraded GSF ships. Now, I realize that sometimes my deaths do come from poor playing skills, but a more level playing around certainly would make it better. 2. Slow queue pops. Please create 4 v 4 death matches to queues can pop when less people are in queue, much like ground PVP. Maybe add a way for us to see how many players are in queue currently and if its a waste of time to try at the current moment.

Hi Keith, Eric, and everyone else, I am very surprised by this new change to the way Cartel color crystals work. Actually, I would say that I am shocked by the sudden change after several years of it being okay and not a problem. I am totally okay with this happening to cartel tunings, since they are new still and you are still experimenting with them I suppose. But cartel market color crystals have been around for years now, so changing them all of a sudden without any warning prior to the patch notes is a bit greedy I would say. I am asking that you please change your minds and choose one of the following solutions below: (1) This is the easiest option that will keep the most people happy I think. Keep things the way they are for Tunings, but revert the changes for Color Crystals back to the way things were before the patch. This (Color Crystals only) was previously announced on the forums as being okay. (2) This is another easy option, if you really do insist on changing the way cartel color crystals work in the game. Remove the credit extraction cost of color crystals. If you are forcing me to pull out my cartel color crystals to make my weapons become usable legacy weapons again, I should not have to pay credits to make it happen. Just have them get destroyed like a dye or something. I'll retrieve them out of collections when the legacy weapon returns to that character to get my color back. (3) This is an alternate to option 2. Make it so that whenever we drag a legacy weapon to our legacy storage or a new mail message, the cartel color crystal (and tuning if you want) is destroyed upon entry. You could give us a pop up warning box if we have one attached. Maybe a nice checkbox to never ask us again for those of us who hate that sort of thing. Then its free and ready for the next character that wants to use it legally and they can insert a new crystal once they remove it. (4) This is the coolest way you could deal with the change. Give us weapon designer slots just like our armor designer slots. Then each character would use their own unique weapon look and we wont care what color is in the actual legacy weapon. We could stamp the color crystal to that weapon much like a dye in the armor designer. I'd love to hear everyone's vote and opinion, especially the devs. Dev question: You mentioned in patch 5.4 that you will fix it for people who paid for account unlocks. What about people who have that color crystal unlocked on two toons. Will they be able to share it then without having to remove the mod?

I will vote for 240. I am pretty sure bolster in 4.x was very similar. The max PVP gear was 208 and it bolstered lower gear up to around 200ish. I also found it interesting how it punished PVE people in their 220s/224s. I do both PVE and PVP, so I'm not as deeply effected by the slow gearing system. I have a 246/248 gear set for two different advanced classes. I even have alternate MHs and OHs for them to wear when they go into PVP, so they have less accuracy (as it used to be with PVP gear). I then pass down my extra 246 mods/enhancements to alts. Not the preferred way to gear up alts if I want to PVP with them... but it works to a point. When they make UC legacy, I'll be more happy. However, I'd rather see Expertise return to gear in some form or another instead. It was much easier to gear up alts. I'm not really sure why you removed it from the game and yet let all of the GSF superstars keep their super upgraded ships. I have no motivation to queue for GSF since it has no bolster at all. So, maybe you could add bolster to GSF while you are thinking about for ground PVP.

Hopefully they plan to give our characters their CXP and rewards for last week. I'm still waiting for an update as well.

I agree with you 100%. I really wish this was how the story went. None of my Smuggler's wish to be a commander. My Bounty Hunters just want to enjoy the thrill of the hunt and get paid. I also find it bogus that Vit/Valk would be interested in the life of my Troopers or Agents. That is why I havent played through the "Knights of..." story line with them. One Jedi and one Sith are enough, it seems. Correction... my Sniper did play through KOTFE and KOTET, but only for the Dark vs Light achievements and because he gets back 4 of his companions officially.

Do we need to create a ticket? For each character? I only logged into one of them so far... Should we avoid logging in on any other completed character? I have two more that completed personal conquest in a guild that was on the Top 10.

I just wanted to throw my opinion in with everyone elses. Bolster should have been lowered to 240, at the lowest. With bolster being as high as it was before, I didnt really care about when I got gear on a character that wanted to PVP. Now, I dont want to have to look for an operation team for my PVP toons to get gear. I'm under the impression that gearing via the PVP components system will take ages. So, if you could please refund us our old WZ comms back (before we spent them all when you told us they'd be worth 50 credits lol), and then covert those to PVP components at maybe a 2:1 conversion rate, we might enjoy your comparison of bolster going back to its 4.0 like state. If you cant do that, then just make components earned at a rate the same rate wz comms were earned back in the day of 4.0 or 3.0. And have the gear cost as it used to.

I too was wondering where the Grade 10 slicing lockbox missions are. They did not say that they would be removed in the Patch Notes, correct? They were a great way to get purple missions.... Please confirm if this is a bug or intended change.

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I don't log into the forums that often, but this was one of those times it was important to do so. I would also like to share my anger over this decision. Why did you not just archive these achievements like EV/KP NiM? Or why did you not just rename them to "Dark vs Light 2016"? Then you can create new achievements for a 'new' event... The rewards were cool sure... but I went all the way to 100% complete for the achievements. I feel like quoting Rasmus Blys in CZ-198... "You think you can take all of this away..." or whatever he says before we fight him.

Yes, I have a question: Will you let us move WZ comms again so the credits dont go to waste? On my main PVP toon, she has about 80,000 wz comms. That would give her more than 2 mil in credits. About 1 or 2 weeks ago, you took away the ability to move WZ comms around. You did not state there was a limit then. I would have spread the WZ comms out to a different chracter had I known you were going to screw us over. Thanks.

I'll agree to a point and just say that I think they should remove the new flashpoints from the 15-49 level range and only keep that for 1.0 flashpoints. Every flashpoint made after that (Kaon through Rishi) can become 50-65 tacticals.

I used to have the same problem with the new launcher. It would take 5 to 10 seconds before the play button would light up. Once I switched over to the new security key, I am now back to the play button lighting up right away again. The old key was 8 numbers long, while the new key is only 6 numbers, just as an FYI.

Hello, I play on this server (JC) and I was wondering if there are any large and/or active guilds that have plans to conquer Ilum, Hoth and CZ-198. Those are the last 3 that I need. Due to the LvD event, I am creating new characters and would happily PVP with them to earn conquest points. I'm also fine with doing any PVE things as well as time permits in order to conquest. I have played since Sept 2012, but I was always in smaller guild. It was only recently that I had opportunities to join larger guilds to help get a few more planets conquered. I figured I would post this here to see if the opportunity arises. Thanks for reading.

Any chance of giving any free server character slots? I have used all of mine creating the 16 unique toons over the past 3-4 years. With this event we need to create more toons... effectively giving us (long time "Legendary" players) 24 total toons at a minimum. Surprisingly, a few people that I know might be trying to go for the 1st tier LvD rewards, so I might want to as well.... Basically we are being punished for playing this game for as long as we have. "Sorry, you created too many toons. Delete them and start again or buy new slots." While a newer player who only created 8 toons or less, could easily create 8 new toons and do the event for free. Our subscriber rewards give us 500 CC per month, but character slots are "on sale" for 450 CC. I assume this event ends after the Gree event in October? That is not enough time for our CC rewards to earn us enough to buy all of the slots. So, we still cant do the event for "free". I'd vote for two free slots at least and/or a deeper discount on a Character Slot. Thanks for reading.

I'd like to just voice my opinion even though I dont think it will matter... I'd really like for this event to have the option of being done on toons already created. Let me re-do the class stories on the toons that I like and already have. These toons are dressed the way I like, with the colors and armor that I purchased, with the gear that I earned, which level syncs down to any planet I must now go do. I've always wanted the option to re-do a class story on a toon, especially one of my mains. Now is the time to make that a valid possibility! Please. I'd be fine with killing 50 mobs here, 50 mobs there again. As long as you let us use the toons that we already use and love. They are the reason I stay subbed to this game. If I want new characters... I'd play a new game. I'm also willing to compromise. I can see us creating one new toon for each faction going to level 50 or something for the building of light and dark side points. Otherwise, I think the new toon being required for everything is crazy. Thanks for reading.