If Ops CC gets toned down to be more on par with everyone else does that mean Ops will get knockbacks/pulls to be on par with everyone else in that department?

Concealment specced Op whining will be a thing of the past once people are geared enough to not be burst down as fast and to make healing more effective. Then people will whine about Ops healing being OP and how OP Ops are with their OP hots. I don't think people are going to like being flashbanged by a healer rolling hots only to have them runaway and restealth assuming they can't just cloaking screen. I'm playing concealment atm because its incredibly fun, but I also plan on respeccing for healing once burst damage isn't as effective.

I'm an *** in real life so I play light side characters for a change of pace.

I had to do a bit of research to back up what I thought existed in the game and it does. It wasn't a feature from launch but if you look up "Ascended Courage" you will find that it is a buff that increases the stats of characters who are in the first 7 levels of a bracket.

In Alderaan I'll give MVP to someone if they partner up with me to defend a node. Whether both of us are stealthed or the other guy sits out as bait and I jump whoever jumps them, they are usually the ones who made my warzone experience more enjoyable.

I agree with the OP. The information would be quite useful to have especially where race/class combos are involved.

I can't remember. I did a google search for info on the legacy system, but I can't remember where I read it.

I thought I heard a rumor somewhere that one of the benefits of the legacy system might be new race/class combos and as a result I've been avoiding alts more than I would otherwise. I don't want to get a Human Trooper alt up to 50 only to have them release the details of the Legacy systems and realize I had a high enough Legacy level to make a Twilek Trooper for instance. If I sound like I'm whining that is not my intention. I'd just like to be able to make a more well informed decision about the future of my alts.

Rift has brackets and from what I saw it looked like a bolstering system as well to some degree as I was able to play at the beginning of a bracket but not dominate completely at the top end of the bracket.

Retiring before I'm 30 sounds very fun to me.

I vote 1 for yes. Its six in the morning and I have 5 hours until servers come back up and 1 hour until Subway opens for breakfast. I'm bored.

Hopefully the brackets will be pretty broad. I think a 10-49 bracket and a 50 bracket would be pretty reasonable.

How many slave revolts do you put down by the time your level 20?

WAAAAAAHHH! The other faction is more geared than me! WAAAAH!!! Get geared up, get organized, and win some games.

It probably comes from the oversaturation of good guys in a lot of RPGs especially in the NES/SNES/PS1 era. I wouldn't think it would be as relevant now with it being pretty common for MMOs(WoW, CoH, WAR, SW:tOR) to have "good guys" vs "bad guys"(or in the case of Rift religious guys vs science guys) or for a lot of computer RPGs to have a sliding scale of morality. I've played enough D&D with immature d-bags who just want to act like idiots to have a disdain for playing the bad guys myself.

I play Empire because my gf and my irl friends decided to go Imperial. I personally am not a big fan of the Sith or BH story lines from what I've seen so far and while I do like the Agent storyline/class I think the Smuggler has superior aesthetics and animations. I can barely stand most of the dialogue. 90% of the NPCs you talk to are either pretentious egotistical dark robe wearing d-bags or nazis. After having to put up with fracking Darth Zhorrid I was hoping that the Double Agent story line would actually let me swap factions with my Agent.

I have zero dark side points yet, but I will earn some just to make sure she dies a painful death.

I don't think Advanced Classes should be able to be changed but I wouldn't object to dual speccing. Its not just unique to WoW(Rift has multi-speccing as well). I like being able to switch between specs and try out new things instead of having to undergo respec costs every time.

Empire doesn't get to see Alderaan/whatever the other one is all that often. I personally dislike Huttball as a level 21 Operative with stealth and no knockbacks whatsoever. I would kill to get the other warzones more often.

ANyone still waiting on getting in should probably do any windows updates or upgrade any necessary components. I got my invite today and started my game and holy crap am I not used to MMOs actually running slowly. Now I have to wait for windows updates.

Hopefully they at least put in an in game event for Life Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Wars_Holiday_Special

However, I'm going Empire because my girlfriend is 100% sold on Bounty Hunter along with all my friends going Empire as well. I'll definitely have Republic alts.

I was pretty much 99% set on Smuggler after seeing the first few seconds of the progression video and the ability of the aesthetics to capture the nostalgia of the original trilogy for me. This isn't saying that this is the case for everyone. I don't think people outright admit that their view is shaped by it but I believe it is influenced by it. People raised on the original trilogy are familiar with Han shooting first(or the whole Deathstar/Contractor issue raised by Clerks in Return of the Jedi) and that the Republic wasn't just the squeaky clean good guys. People raised on the prequels are probably more prone to have a more black/white view of the Republic/Sith.

It takes either a bloated ego or a very unhealthy amount of paranoia to believe that people who spent so much time and energy to reach level 50 early will immediately turn around and wait for you to start playing in order to gank you.

PVP server enthusiast realizes that sometimes you get ganked by higher level players while leveling up on PvP servers. News at 11.