Well, at least I can properly allocate my time now instead of hitting 'Refresh' on the server page in the hopes of playing today. Thanks.

Reiyn, As a first timer who you (and several others on Republic side, Harbinger) annihilated time and time again yesterday, I whole heartedly agree that it was not fun and had I something better to do, I may not have stuck around as long as I did. See this post: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=926658&page=30 (Flying under 'Loose Sausagewallet')

I played GSF for the first time ever yesterday. I am between projects at work so I went home early instead of twiddling my thumbs. Being bored, I figured I'd look into GSF since there was a CXP bonus for it and it seems to be on CXP bonus more than anything else. I did the tutorial which seemed simple enough but in my first 5-8 matches I had something like 200 damage and 10-15 deaths. It wasn't until I watched the GSF videos on youtube, specifically the GSF School ones, that I actually figured out the basics of tracking my target, using the throttle, shields, and weapons, and figured out how to use the class skills. By the end of the day, I was performing mid-tier (approximately 15-20k damage) with a somewhat decently geared strike fighter (blindly following the build guides online) and having fun with it. To answer your questions: It is steep. People don't realize this is a game unto itself. I did not. This is MMO PVP meets FPS meets Flight Sim and you can't just hop into something like that and expect to perform well. The resources are there though if you want to get better. To be honest, I have no idea. I initially poked around at other ships but figured that if I were going to contribute to my team at all, then I'd have to focus on one specific ship (in this case the Rycer or whatever SF). As a brand new player I have no idea which ship is better and why, other than bombers are hard to bring down even if I get a jump on them and gunships are the FPS snipers and you cant approach them directly. It would be nice to have legacy based ships but I really don't mind either way. It took me one day of slow queues to get my first ship somewhat decent (I assume) so I think the gear up issue is where it should be. As far as matchmaking, perhaps if you had a regs and ranked queues, you could allow the veterans better competition amongst each other and noobs time to learn without being one-shotted (population dependent of course (x-server?)). More often than not, I found myself getting annihilated by the same people over and over and over.

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Maybe you could stop bouncing from FOTM class to FOTM class? t. Op healer since 1.0

As an OP Healer in PvP and PvE, these changes couldn't come soon enough. Previously, when going into a ranked match, my teammates were disgruntled at the start because my mere choice of Operative Heals over sorc heals was a detriment to them. Hopefully that will no longer be the case.

Incorrect. Operatives were nerfed. Everyone rejoice.

Operative DPS is lackluster. Lethality is great for putting up fluff numbers in reg's but falls on its face in 4v4. Concealment has a few instances where it works in regs but underperforms in 4v4. The only saving grace is the glitched offheal for helping out a focused teammate when it's not you. Operative Heals are lackluster. They are ok in regs and can sometimes put up big numbers due to the aoe heals, but the burst heal is nonexistent (outside of the two minute window) and the two second casts are too easy to shutdown. Both of the other healers are superior in this instance, and burst healing, like burst DPS, is what PVP is about. The one big burst heal we have is glitched and tbh, if you're playing the class right and keeping your HoTs up, it doesn't work anyway. Currently the #1 Operative is ranked 24th across all classes. 24TH!. It's not even close. This class needs serious help. >inb4 lethality parses #1 in pve! >inb4 great 1v1 when opening out of stealth and tranquilizer debuff applied.

This is what I'm lol'ing about: the irony that Mercs think its 'their time', but in reality BW is f'ing you ULTRA hard. With the new patch, you cant just start another character at 65, level to 70 via wz's, and be in BiS gear like you could in the past. No, you have to grind out your class to tier 3 to get that BiS set gear, and by that time you will be nerfed. So not only will the bads getting carried by their ranged dps-tank be screwed, but you'll be in your next FOTM class with global command rank 1 getting farmed. So enjoy! As a side note, it's amazing the amount of people that are swearing they were loyal Mercs/Troopers.

seconded

I tested this as well. -if the target to be healed has no kolto stacks, it heals for 70% of their bar -if the target has a kolto stack, its an extremely disappointing heal I for one hope they keep it. It's been very helpful coming around the center of Voidstar to help a door defender and get him back up.

same issue

10% nerf for heals isn't enough. There's no reason you should have such a significant hps difference compared to mercs and ops, especially when you account for all the utility sorcs have - instant teleport between points in CW, VS, and AH, the ability to pull into end zones in the various huttballs, and the ability to deactivate any point with impunity.

Good thing the majority of mercs are terrible. Seriously, it employs re-re mechanics and caters to embiciles.

Firstly thanks for the great write up. It is much appreciated and really allows for freedom of maneuver come opening day. Secondly, do you have any idea how Warzones, ranked or regular, factor in to this?

Hey I had similar issues, primarily because Belsavis had been, for me at least, incredibly laggy this past weekend. Heres a step by step into how to beat it: 1.) When Kranus goes off on how hes going to kill you, run back like you're running out of the door, a good ways behind your allies. One of your allies is also a Champion so you dont need to worry about them getting wiped. 2.) Once you have no agro, go defuse the bombs. You'll probably see random xp pop up from your guys killing the Empire. Just don't get agro. 3.) ??? 4.) Profit!

I continue to experience this "scamper bug". As mentioned, it has been occuring with knockbacks or roots. /stuck just moves me and the only way to become free of it is to leave the warzone. It's occurred twice during ranked which was pretty infuriating. Bug reports have been sent also.

So I'm just coming back and am in the same situation gear wise. Should I not equip any of my partisan gear until I have a full set? What is the tipping point, if anyone knows?

Better yet, add entirely new PvP missions. For instance, kill 5 enemies on ilum or other 'behind enemy lines' PvP quests. They could do so much with what they have.

What's sad about this is that while googling for similar issues / fixes, I found a thread about this dating back to December 2011. This issue has apparently been reoccurring since pre-beta and has not been fixed. Absolutely shameful. And come to think of it, this is not the first issue I've had with space combat. Remember when the level 7 mods first hit and they cost an easy million to upgrade your ship? "It's ok, the daily BH comms are worth it in the end," I thought to myself. Then, it turns out the missions are bugged and you couldn't do any missions except for initially, for at least 2 months. I know space missions are not in the top 5 priorities, but ffs stop breaking existing code!

I'm pretty sure this still is not fixed. I can barely get through a level 36 mission in full level 7 gear ( and that is only if I use missiles on everything - which seem to work). Any word?

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After clicking on the link to this thread, everything was Frenchified. Coincidence? Je ne sais pas. Thanks for the invite!

Wall of Text refers to needlessly long text posts that are often found without line or paragraph breaks. Walls of text can be found in a wide range of online conversations from spam emails and webcomic dialogue to blog posts and comment sections.One of the earliest mentions of the phrase “wall of text” appeared in the title of a spam message posted on three unrelated newsgroups on November 21st, 1996 by a company named Valucard International. The post, “Wall of text with subtle picture,” was shared on alt.books.phil-k-dick[1], alt.sci.time-travel[2] and alt.ascii-art[3] with the summary “ascii art disguised as screenful of mumblejumble” and a keyword, “oh my god.”Etaoin Shridlu opened the book to where his thumbnail had randomly parted the pages and began reading from the center of the page but noticed something strange about the pattern of the rivulets of space around the words and soon had lost all comprehension of the literal meaning of the passage when a picture…clearly asserted itself in the apparently meticulously intricate typing which was simultaneously a long unpunctuated nonsensical run on sentence and yet a photograph perfectly halftoned into dots shaped as letters of the alphabet no doubt generated by a cybernetic system that creates fractal branched sentences which never end but instead sort of parenthesize and go for a ways and then change course usually by going into detail in a tangential sort of stackpush that never pops but instead keeps zooming in yet another level each line or so like an infinite inwards motion that doesn’t even need punctuation and takes the reader on a one-way trip forwards into progressively refined images much like the incredible shrinking man or Fantastic Voyage except that it just keeps on going so actually the effect is more like the colored oilslick breakdowns in 2001 and if you could get the wave action of the text into just the right peristaltic contractions in sync with the eye and mind of the audience it could get pretty awesome like nanotech cities living on the bark of redwood trees in undulating valleys of forests on nonspherical fiberspace membranes extruded by femtopicotek nested-space 3.2-dimensional manifolds “bigger at the small end of the scale” provided you have senses which don’t peter out when things get subtle thus allowing you to encode information in the very borderlines of its very existence thus relying on the viewer’s idiosyncrasies more than on his common-ness because things which are on the edge of not being there at all are going to probably excite a set of simultaneous responses which don’t triangulate or intersect or agree or synergize in an unambiguated crisp singleness and are also somewhat partial and even flickering or dynamic or changing rapidly with time which requires their mind(s) to choose from a bifurcating multiplexing divergence of (mildly) resonant rapidly-evolving attractors forming a ghostly community of evaporatory cooperative “temporary friends” sharing fleeting memories because a localized continuity of thought is maintained on more than one level Though the phrase may not have entered online usage until 1996, a similar concept has been used in the literary device known as stream-of-consciousness since the 18th and 19th centuries, when authors would write paragraphs that continue on for pages at a time.[4] This technique was used several times in James Joyce’s 1922 novel Ulysses[5], as highlighted in the final chapter “Penelope.” Also known as Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy[6], the chapter consists of eight sentences, one of which is 4,391 words long. This was the longest sentence in English literature until 2001, when a 13,955-words long sentence was published in Jonathan Coe’s novel The Rotters’ Club.[7]In 2002, walls of text was mentioned on UseIt.com’s list of that year’s Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes[8], which described this type of text as intimidating, boring and hard to read. On August 31st, 2005, the first definition for the phrase was added to Urban Dictionary[9] and two years later, it was added to Uncylopedia[10], which presents the entry in one lengthy paragraph instead of the normal article format. In 2010, it was added to the Online Slang Dictionary.[14]Bloggers also use the phrase to denote especially verbose posts on Tumblr[11] and LiveJournal[12], which yields more than 137,000 search results for “wall of text.” In April 2008, walloftext.net[13] was registered as a secondary domain name to someone’s personal blog, which was updated with wordy posts until February 2012. The phrase can also be used to refer to a negative trait that appears in webcomics, when artists would write in unnecessarily long dialogues that encroach on the comic’s art.[16] Subnormality[15] (shown below), a webcomic blog launched in 2007, is known for its lengthy dialogue scenes.Search volume for “wall of text” peaked in September 2008, coinciding with the creation of the TV Tropes[4] page for the phrase.

You're referring to the Bane Trilogy. Also in the Trilogy, Bane makes a point to allow a few unscrupulous types know, or at least think they know, of living Sith's existence. Those rumors eventually made it back to the Jedi.