Hi, Yeah they are pretty close and I think I could easily get away with using it over getting the blues, but just think it is weird as to why they would not make it the same stats as the blue ones, specially as it is so close in stats, kind of the perk of being a bio-chem. And just to those who are going to say "Why should we pay and you...blah blah", as a bio-chem who only has 1 prof, I have to buy augments at 120k a pop, because I chose not to use that prof, so give me real rewards for the one I actually chose. I checked this tonight and you are correct. I only used the rakata one before hand. I would of had a moan back then if I had noticed too. All in all, if they make them the same stats as the blue, it does not cost anyone else any more, as if you can use the purple, your going to make your own blues anyway. Just seems daft to me. Cheers for the replies though both.

Hello all, I finally got round to getting my skills up to max level, to find that the blue stims are more powerful than the re-usable purple stim? What the hell? I would not expect the purple to be more powerful, but I would certainly expect it to have the same stats as the blue ones! Please can you tell us if this was a mistake? and will be corrected? Not like purple armour, weapons, mods etc are worse than the blue items for other crafters. Stacks

8P I have to admit, I never took it when I first startd out. I kind of though '1' Second, what is the point. But then I found out, as it is the biggest hitter, and the longest cast, it tends to get interrupted. With the 1 second off, I can get it out more often. I have been playing with the talent tree today. This is my normal build, as I like how it is good to use for PVP and PVE. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#700rcrbdMsRhRZbcZG.2 Althought, I think I may change it to be... http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#700rcrbdMsRGoZbcZG.2 Which I have moved from holed up, to Lay low. I always thought the reduction was while in cover and not just hunker down. Feel like two points I had there are a waste now, as I will generally run away from AOE which keeps popping my Cover screen and then in turn ballistic dampeners. I am sooooo tempted for the massive supprise burst damage to try out the following build though http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#700rcrbdMsRGoZbIZb.2 I will lose 1 % crit, which annoys me and 4% alacrity, but my Sabotage charge going off with an aimed shot is going to be some nice burst. Hmmm I will test it out over the weekend :>)

Hi, Very valid. I love playing PVP and mostly on my main which is me Slinger. I am a sharpshooter build :>) When I am being left alone, my dmg is very nice. When I am being attacked, I become very annoying, as I will start to use, Cover pulse, Leg shot, Dirty kick, Flash bang and the interrupt. If you can become very fast at switching between full out DPS, to pulling off your defensive and annoying moves, I am sure you will love it. I use a Naga Epic mouse with Logitech G13. Took me a while, but I can switch between offence and defence without taking my eyes off the screen or thinking about where me fingers should go. As per the last post though, with lower gear, you will struggle with Sharp shooter, as its based round Crit IMO, as the 30% increase talent at the top of the tree is for Crit not all round damage. So low crit will kill the build. Full war hero will sort you out and then elite is a bonus. find their healer, drop in a flourish shot, then take cover, throw a sticky bomb on them, then use instant charged burst from taking cover and follow up with an aimed shot (which is now 1 second faster cast after your charged burst), then an instant Trick shot. Normally I will be able to drop a Quick draw in at this point too. When the above rotation is used with a Distrtaction, watch the healer panic and most often be dead!

Hello all, I use this bad boy in me off hand. I was lucky enough to get the pistol from the cartel packs, which is random. It has an animation round it of a radar type thing, but the pistol itself is the same model as the needler. So I have one in both hands, one of which has the targeting system. I will try get a screen shot up laters. I am sure though even before I was lucky enough to get the cartel one, I had another one like the needler. Someone has put a massive list up of all the weps on the forum some place. May be worth a browse. I will go take a looksee now :>) Stackamus EDIT: Here is the thread. I can't view it at work, as they banned us from photobucket. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=186307 Found a google image of it too 'Black Nebula Heavy Blaster' http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/black-nebula-heavy-blaster.jpg

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Just had a read through and this sounds perfect for the type of guild I am looking for. I would be greatful if I could sign up and see how things go :>) I will be on tonight so will try find someone in game to drop a whisper to. Stacksamus

Sorry, post changed as I can not delete it. Good luck finding more peeps. Stacksamus

I hate it when your want to plant a bomb in Voidstar for example, and there is one member of the other team defending the door. So I CC the guy and happily start to plant the bomb which would be successful before his mates could get round to his help calls, only to find some clown on my team has rolled up and shot him out of CC, giving him the abiltiy to then stop me planting.

I like to use a Razor Naga Epic along with a Logitech G13. I then alter my UI in game so I have the first four bars as 3 columns by 4 rows, which then matches the exact layout of the 12 buttons on the side of my mouse. I setup the G13 with all the buttons I need, but as my fingers sit, it is 'Shift key' under my pinky finger and 'Ctrl key' under that 'Shift Key' and 'Alt Key' under my thumb. This means without really moving my hand, I have instant access to 48 abilities. As I setup 2nd bar as Shift Modifier, 3rd bar as Alt modifier and 4th bar as Ctrl modifier. It took a while to get used to and learn things, but once you learn where all the bits are, it is game on. On my Sniper for example, I can hold shift and slide my thumb across the bottom row of keys on the mouse (0, -, = amd 9), which deploys all my defensive abilities instantly.

I do love the games where someone will leave and then we win with the new replacement. Hmmm who was the weak link then? ahhh yeah, the cry baby who left.

Just use a DOT. Shroud will break on the DOT tick.

I so call him Fish Face! I come from the dark side where my main was a sniper. The healing companion on the sniper is very good, so as such I was really gutted when I looked at the picture of Guss, as I really wanted a humanoid who talks English. I was not only suprised that he did speak English, but even more so at how funny he is. By far my fav companion and I love the fact he can use all my hand me downs!!!!! so his gear level is never far behind my own. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Join a friendly guild and do it with people you can chillax and kick back with :>)

Well, I have had a change of heart. After getting to lvl 40 with full lvl 40 PVP outfit, I was really dissapointed with the output dmg. I am comparing this to Mara, Merc, Sniper and Assasin which I did the same thing on all of them. I was so dissapointed I turned him into my healer and am now making a new Smuggler main. Just my opinion, but it did sadden me!

Hi, I have just come back after a break and have rolled a Sage. I was tempted to go Sentinal for huge DPS, but I figured I like the flex to go healer if I ever wanted and I like ranged chars more, just my style. I would love to be top of the DPS meter, but I know this proly wont happen and I feel it should not happen either. A Sentinal or Smuggler can only do DMG, its their role so I feel they should top out DPS. As a Sage I know I will be able to bring enough DPS to do the job but we also bring more, for instance, when a Sentinal dies mid fight, we have battle rez. So all DPS they do after this is because your in the group! We have a bubble to help reduce the dmg the tank takes during bursts of boss dmg that gives the healer an easier time or even if the healer is a a sage, they get a bit less force to use up. And where the group all needs a heal, you can pretty much heal yourself again to speed things up and save the healers force power. Our CC has no limits such as others can only do Droids etc. All in all, I want to be top of the DPS meter but I am not going to get upset that I am not, as we bring more than just DPS to the group. The group as a whole wins, then we win. Thats my point of view any hoo. Stacks

Hello, I am finding that I mount up and off all the time if I am trying to lvl a gathering proff. I thought it would be nice if you could buy and attach a harvesting addon to a speeder. This would allow the user to scan using the mount and not have to jump off all the time. What you think? Stacks

Have a hutt ball event. Turn Illum into one big hutt ball field!

100 % pvp transferred and 50% PVE done. Do you not think that maybe if you took the complete population that PVE’ers it could outnumber PVP’ers 2:1 or maybe 3:1 or maybe …… well you get the idea. PVE will always have more numbers, hence more servers. So 100% of PVP could easily be 20% the total amount of PVE. Also, if there are 6 PVP servers and BW can see that all of them could merge to 1 server without any problems, then why would they hold off the transfers? The reason it’s taking time for PVE’ers is because they need to give people the time to transfer over, so they can see the point they need to pick another destination server. No point keep adding servers to The Red Eclipse for example only to find that half the people didn’t initiate their transfers till the next week, which then makes the server go over the top and people have to Queue up again. Offer transfers……Sit back and see how many people move over…..Add some servers….see who transfers and learn the typical trend of people who do or do not move over etc. I can already see a post from someone saying they were on a server doing 10+ pvp matches per day, now they are in a ghost town because they didn’t want to transfer. So if they had planned to stay but have now started to see how dead it is and will now transfer, that is more people who are going to move over. BW needs to see these moves to judge numbers. I am sure if they said “You have a 48 hour window to move, then we close off that destination so we can nail down numbers” you would all be moaning that you were busy on them days and have been split from your guild or friends. They are leaving them transfers open, so it’s a bit of a black box as to what % is going to move. How do people not see this? Or is it just more fun to come in here and QQ like a 6 year old who got told to eat her veg before going to play outside. Again, thank you BioWare. Much happier your taking your time and ignoring the impatient clowns to ensure its done in the most accurate way possible, to minimise any fallout after its all completed.

I thank you Bioware for doing this. As someone who works in the software industry, I fully understand the work loads and pressure behind these things. For those who are moaning! working extra hours for ANY staff is optional and under EU law can not be forced. You can say "You should be working extra hours" in which fair play to them, they have stated this is the case. But if your boss turned round to you and said "We need you to work extra hours this week to get the work done" and you had a new SWTOR patch you had been looking forward to for ages, woudl you really do the Over time? No? so why expect Bioware staff to do the same? I un-subbed due to the secrecy behind everythning, but seeing the level of people who QQ, I can now fully understand why you do it. You can never be right, there is always moaners who think they deserve things now and what they wanted. Life is not like that, so grow up and learn. Every issue so far with the game is being addressed. Yes some things are going to take time. The game needs to mature. For it to be so good at this point "Which you must agree with, else why would you waste time moaning and not playing somehting else? is a great achievement! I look forward to the Hidden Beks transfer, but happy to wait our turn. I know its coming at some point in the near future. Ty Bio, Re-subbing today ! Stacks

I cant wait for Dual Spec! Allows hubrid classes to actually be hybrid in raids I.E. DPS/Heal But most of all, I can play 1 char to RAID and PVP, which is the biggest diff for me. I have to use my main for PVE only at the moment, or pay stupid respect prices. Its also nice to be able to switch between an AOE build and Single Target builds.

Hello, Yeah sorry, I meant for the ticket credits to be the pot for winning it. It is extremely hard to match 6 numbers, so the jack pot would no doubt take a fair while to hit. If this would sway the economy too much, then maybe could make it that if you win, you get a set amount of credits (like the Irish lotto) or a small amount of credits and a token for some Columni or Battlemaster gear? Stacks

Lots and Lots of people would like to have dual spec. Lots of reasons people don't too. How about a "Split Personality" By this I am thinking something along the lines of.... I think both classes need to be lvl 50 before you can join them, and completed main story lines. They could transfer between class on the fly when not in combat! Only thing that would change round when you change personality would be the gear and class abilities. Gear will need to be got via normal methods for BOTH personalities. All other items remain the same as playing 1 char. Pros - Can stay on your main personality who is well geared to get gear for your other personality so less wasted tokens when you no longer need them - Change in raid if Melee heavy or Ranged heavy when needed. - 1 load of Valor rank needed to unlock both item sets - 1 Char could Heal, DPS and Tank on the fly (When you have all the gear!) - Keep your main char name on 2 both personalities Cons - 1 set of daily's for 2 chars so less credit gain - 1 set of professions over 2 lots of professions - Must be same RACE - 1 one set of bag and cargo space Sure there are loads more Pros and Cons, really out there idea, so lets all build on it. Say when you like, don't like, why it will or wont work. Please just keep it constructive and helpful :>) Stacksy

Hmm thinking more about it, maybe you could assign Class Leaders who look after the templates for that guild along with the Guild Master?

Ahh I see where the miss communication is here now. I am not asking for templates from SWTOR, but empty templates that the Guild Master can create for that guild. Fully customizable by the GM, then anyone in that guild could go and apply the template. I agree that anyone raiding should really understand the basics of a class, but for those who are learning and new to MMO's can take a template and then advice to that player can be given easily as you know exactly what build the guild template is. I am sure as time goes on people will no doubt make their own build, but as a starting point. Stacksy