I'm on Belsavis now, started it at 40, now 41. I'm Vig speced, tried focus seemed a bit clunky for my tastes, was using doc but he was acting weird like if I so much as FLed over a blade of grass he would get confused and refuse to heal me. yes he's in healing stance, yes I turned off all his offensive skills. I started using Scourge and his Hungering Forstm..err light saber. I had much better results and it's someone I can continue with my dark Jedi way with out them belly aching. The only problems I'm having is when there's 2 silver or an elite with adds oh and how I fougt my way all the way tot he end of the republic under ground prison and well..lets just say I forgot to repair since I got here making the last fight next to impossible so I had to port out and repair..now I have to fight my way all the way back through

Do they? http://i.imgur.com/VyW8a.jpg I'm wearing a pretty dark robe there and I'm on the republic.

I didn't run into this problem on my JK till Belvassomthingorother. I got there at lvl 38 and a half. I grinded mobs on Hoth to 39 while there in chat someone mentioned the bonus series on Alderaan..how I was supposed to know about this otherwise escapes me. According to the story bits of the bonus quest some "goon" was supposed to come and get me..didn't happen. That got me to 40 I go to Beavis and the mobs are 2 - 3 lvls higher. I only skipped 2+ 4 and FPs cause well.. It's easy to say you should do them but when, say like hoth, where there are 12 people there all at various stages of hot, some did the heroics some don't want to be bothered grouping most of them are also jedi knights it's easier said then done. I did try to find a group for a few FP but after over an hour of spamming I gave up.

you know whats better then his blathering, when the very random music plays some "Exciting action music" cause going from planet to space doc to ship for the 500th time is super exciting and then c2 starts blathering and they BOTH drown out the first part of your holocron story bit.

pretty much THIS

I got to lvl 37 just in the tanking tree around the planet where the Zerg are attacking and you get doc...Balmoraa? It got so boring, nothing like leveling a tank in that OTHER mmo..don't understand why the DPS AC gets a "ret aura/holy shield" and not the tank..but anyway.. I specced Vig last night and love it. Def needs to be buffed AND stream lined, I didn't find myself too squishy as Vig but it depended on the the mobs I fought but I rarely was overwhelmed. I'll trade durability for faster killing seeing how dense and tightly packed some of the areas are with mobs. As tanking spec it felt like chore just to go from point a to point b, now i can kill groups at a decent pace where I don't start to fall asleep at the keyboard. Another thing...on my server, not only does it suck being Repub and there being 14 people on hoth but of those people most of them are guardians and most of the guardians are tanks. It feels like in TOR leg as a tank is like leg as a hunter in WoW

I'd like to know too. I got to hoth and saw the population was a whole 16 people, I was going to reroll anyway since Tanks in tor are like hunters in WoW.

meters are good tools, so is a hammer, but if you put a hammer in the hands of a hyper active attention starved chimp no good can come of it.

a good post except one thing.. Archeology as a good point for WoW? really? REALLY? After one content patch even blizz gave up on this now very dead profession.

one thing I was noticing is sometimes the animation doesn't play at all but the CD will go off, it's like our "kick" where the mob will be interrupted BUT no kick animation was shown. I also noticed the animation going off but the talented buff wasn't being applied

I'm enjoying the main story..well the parts that make sense and the second act of the JK story is kinda boring. Whats really killing me are the side quests and how un streamlined and vague the questing is. I've never back tracked so much since playing resident evil 1 on top of the density of mobs and the quick respawn rates it's a exhausting chore just doing a quick "go push that button and come back" quest. By the time I hit, that dwarf planet Quesh (sp?) I was convinced not only have I killed the entire imperial army 50 times over but if it wasn't for me I don't think any one in the entire known SWTOR universe was competent enough to wipe their own *** without my help. One of the best lines from the jedi story "can't anyone do anything around here on their own?" Cause it's true. there's a difference between being a hero and a errand boy. Honestly the little crap they pull between travel time, huge maps with back tracking densely populated with mobs to artificially extend the games play time is one of the biggest downers for me.

the irony in this thread is brain shattering.

After Coruscant I pretty much don't expect to do them, I made the mistake, and really it was obviously silly me. When given the choice to go to EITHER Taris or Coruscant 2.0 - Nr Shadarr. I figured I could do both or skip one so I went to NS only to be told I HAD TO do the now out leveled Taris so I didn't even bother with them on Taris. On Tat I couldn't even find a group for the 2+ and unfortunately every time a 4 man was forming I was either on the other end of the planet or in a story area. Since I'm apparently one of those crazies who would rather be doing something rather sitting in one area spamming "LFG/LFM...." I just don't even bother.