May I suggest some ideas for people of both sides to venture into Illum and hopefully engage in pvp-related activities that do not comprise of farming slow spawning armaments and kill-trading: 1. Introduce elite and non-elite mobs in the area that award small amounts of valor as well as possible pvp gear commendations. This would give people a real PVE reason to venture and try to farm valor and commendations for pvp gear while putting themselves at risk to attack. You can put the mobs on a short leash providing the player the opportunity to disengage their pve if a person gets ganked and focus fairly on the pvp combat. 1b. Perhaps with this idea, to prevent people from just waiting until a player is low in health to gank them, you can allow the valor awarded to scale with the starting health of the player...full kill = full valor. 2. If no better incentives are put in to get people to engage in pvp, then at least allow the armaments to spawn faster or in more locations to give everyone a faster chance at gathering them. Wasting an hour+ patrolling for armaments is just a silly timesink. just some thoughts....

..that would be Rage. But personally, I'm going Carnage to see how the speed/burst does. Each tree has interesting styles and I think it comes down to how you like playing your character.

Yes, there is good news. Check your orders and look for a message from them. See the message below: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=17001

This was posted to my account as of 5pm last night. Happy gaming...

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