There are days when this just isn't fun. When on my Rep character I win 8 out of 10 matches, doesn't matter if Domination or TDM, on the other side I hardly win one match per day. And just now I had a deathmatch where our side had one (1) pilot with more than two ships while the other side had only two duos. We lost 3 to 50. Our best pilot had one kill and 6000 damage. I really try to like the Starfighter addon, but if this doesn't change until my sub for this month expires I'll take my money elsewhere.

Thanks for the quick answers.

After a long break I resubbed a week ago and besides levelling a Smuggler I continue to play my (rather fresh) 50 Sorc. Now there is alot of new stuff in the game and some things are not that clear to me: 1. What is Campaign gear? 2. There are vendors on DK that sell Legacy gear? Or some Legacy kits (not sure what exactly). What is that? The vendor guys stand next to the ramp to the Marketplace, coming from the central plaza. 3. All the different levels of gear is rather confusing for me. Tionese, Rakata, Black Hole, ... On what do I spend my daily comms? I just do Illum, Belsavis and Black Hole dailies and get better mods for my orange gear pieces? 4. Do I spend my comms now or do I wait for 2.0, level my char and worry about spending comms at level 55? 5. How hard are Hardmode Flashpoints? I haven't done a FP for over a year and not since level 30, in the lvl50 PvE starter gear would I be undergeared for those? I do not really hav much time for Flashpoints, but I read that I need one Hardmode FP to finish the Droid companion quest line, so I guess I need to do that one. Thanks for any help.

Hi! I am returning to the game after a quite a long break, and was wondering if there is a website where I can preview all the orange gear that is in the game. I would like to check out what armour/weapon is availabe, what it looks like any where I can get it. The cartel coin sets don't look that good to me. Thanks for any help.

What secondary stats should I look for on gear for Ashara? I am a healing Sorc myself and find using a DPS companion over a tank means grinding my daily creds go alot faster. So should I go for crit+surge or power?

I cannot really recommend anything but I levelled as a healer and it was a very good and fast experience. The first points however should go into +100 Force Power and Cheaper Force power talents, plus the more effective Barrier, only then you go up the healing talent tree. As soon as you get Andronikus you can put Khem away, he is useless, you will tank everything yourself and with the shield up you take very little damage. I mainly used 4 abilities for combat, keys 1 to 4 1 - Barrier 2 - Lightning Strike 3 - Force Lightning 4 - Shock Can get boring but you kill stuff fast. Later you just shield up, run into the mobs and use your AoE. Healers have been in high demand while I was levelling so I could do most of the heroic misions too, and the H2 were usually quite easy to solo when you turn off all the AoE abilites of your companion and use Whirlwind on any spare elites.

All the tank companions are pretty useless, as a healing sorc I only use Ashara with good gear. For everything but elite mobs I shield myself up, run in and use LS until everything is dead. Ashara takes care of the strong mobs. A shield or an Innervate on Ashara ist needed sometimes. On elites I just use my dots on the enemy and keep Ashara healed up, she does very good DPS and as healer I have unlimited force anyway, this also works on certain champion mobs (not all though).

I find him completely useless, as a healing sorc I only have Ashara out, I don't notice much difference in damage taken but man she has a punch. Elites go down way faster that way and all in all I have to spend less force than when I would have used Xalek.

You will be spending more time sending your crew on missions than playing the game. I have 5 chars around level 20 now to cover all crew skills, plus my main and companion who I try to support with new mods, enhancements, hilts, etc... By the time I get all the mats needed to make myself 3 hilts, 8 mods/enhancements/armouring (only blue quality) I already outlevelled the parts I was trying to craft. Missions take an hour or more, and then it's not even sure you get that gemstone you wanted. Or, like this morning, I didn't get single Artifact Fragment mission for my level. If you really have a ton of credits, just buy the stuff on the GTN (or the mats).

What exactly makes you hardcore when you play a video game?

If no one dies and the run is somewhat smooth I have no problem with other people's playstyle. If the smartarse DPS is getting people killed I tell him some basics and if he doesn't listen I quit the group silently. No need for drama.

Social points are for social people, social does not mean grinding out a quest for 10 minutes then do your own thing again.

If your PSU blew out it could have damaged everything in the process. There is really no way to tell without changing parts one by one.

On a german server Lordhelmchen... will be pretty surprised when they discover the Lord title for their sith. Also I seem to have half of the Ultramarines Chapter on my server.

This game is everything I was expecting so I am enjoying every minute of it.

In addition to the long lasting CC people should also use their 4 second stuns and interrupts. Good thing there is no recount so nobody can brag about their DPS while having completely forgotten to use his full arsenal of abilities.

I tank with 8 keybinds, and never had any problems. Also if you are too slow to click an extra ability during the global cooldown maybe you should improve your reaction time or drink less during raids.

Typical PEBKAC problem, combined with an error 40 if you need 26 different abilities to kill a silver mob.

I'd love to see a video of you soloing H4 Blood and Sand on Tatooine or any other heroic that puts you up against 4 elite mobs.

I hope not, or what other games lets you switch from a Mage to a Warlock or from a Paladin to a Warrior?

Very well written review and it reflects my opinion on the game for the most part. However I have a different approach to crafting. I made 6 different characters on my server to pick up all the crafting crew skills, now I use my main to feed money to my alts so they can craft items for each other for levelling. Whenever I have my Assassin tank reach a new level (or two) I already have a hilt, mods, armouring, crystals, armour waiting in his mailbox. This is just my way of playing the game however. I am also NOT in favor of a LFD tool, instead improve the LFG tool. I hate to say it but the tool that WoW implemented in WotLK was quite good. You could state what dungeons you wanted to run, what role you can fill and if you could lead the run. Then people can browse the tool and invite people. What needs to be added to TOR then is a shuttle option that brings you to the instance entrance. Like a summoning stone in early WoW. Also the flashpoint shuttles on the planets need to be advertised, in my experience not many people know about them, it's really a fast way to travel, however useless if you don't have a galaxy wide LFG channel to form groups. Or maybe modify the Emergency Fleet Pass so you can access Flashpoints faster and easier.

Where is the usefulness of Advanced Tech - 2% healing for 2 talent points is a waste in my opinion. I rather take Combat Shield and suffer no pushback at all as well as become immune to interrupts. Not sure what I do with that one point that is left then, maybe put it in Heavy Trooper.

People won't learn regardless of how much talk there is about this issue on the forums. But as there is no cross server LFG tool I think the problem will go away very fast. If all the ninjas will get /ignored they just have to adapt. Also what occured to me yesterday while doing a couple of heroic missions, alot of players are quite young. Some very strange whispers, players not knowing what crowd control is, loot rules, focus fire, marking targets. With just a little education and clear loot rules many problems can be solved very easily.

I don't think so, but when you get more companions you can craft more stuff at once. Or have one crafting, one gathering and the 3rd on a mission. And the 4th will be still with you while you quest. You can also be logged out and the mission timer is still running.

Maybe I am missing something but I craft my Artifice stuff by pressing N and sending my minions to work. No table or station required.