Hey all, me and a friend want to play some republic now that we've spent a decent amount of time as Empire. However, the servers we have tried so far seem EXTREMELY desolate, with no activity in republic fleet chat for like 5 minutes, a very hard time finding grups for flashpoints, etc. If you know of a server that actually has a decent amount of people playing as republic on it, please do tell me, noone wants to play on an empty server.

I would be most grateful if you could share some things that are good to know for every sniper out there Cover seems a bit odd, I've heard that if you cast attacks with a casting time within like 0.5 seconds after taking cover, it more often than not bugs out and doesn't actually execute the attack despite casting it. Is this true, and should I just wait a moment with starting to shoot after taking cover? Thank you for your help.

My bounty hunter is gradually gaining more and more dark side points - so I'm "slightly dark side". Oh, and the light side option is NOT always breaking your contract, sometimes the dark side option is allowing yourself to get bribed to kill the one you worked for initially (non class quest), and sometimes the light side option is just as good as the dark side one ("dead or alive" means just that - you can bring him/her in alive), and also there are some places where killing your target is the light side option

Pyro post. How is Pyro survivability/mobility in PvP? Do you get kited easily? I've seen posts here saying it's the squishiest out of the three specs, and also that it's heat management is terrible (I guess it's heavily reliant on the rail shot procs). Also, is Thermal Detonator really that bad for PvE? And how is incendiary missile, is it a skill that makes you get happy when you hit 20 or just a "meh" attack? I understand that Pyro might have it's highs and lows, being so dependant on it's proccs, do you feel like it's possible to get royally ****ed by the RNG or is the procc chance high enough on the rail shot proc? Oh, and AoE: We all know how awesome DFA is, but it's on a 1min cd. What do you think of the rest of the PT/Pyro AoE? Flame sweep is appearantly terrible and generats a lot of heat, if I am to believe some posts here. Sorry for asking so many questions, I'll start leveling my PT Edit: Also, any worthless talents to stay the **** away from?

Hey all! I'm considering trying out powertech, and I'd like to know what you think about the class. A lot of the topics here are about shield tech, which seems fun, but I'm mainly interested in the DPS portion of the class since my friend plays a tank already. Basically I'm looking for a melee class that doesn't feel too squishy, and still packs a decent punch. I do fear that Pyrotech may be a little too random, but other than that it seems like a pretty fun spec. AP, I don't really know how it plays, though I'm not the biggest fan of flame thrower so I'm a bit hesitant when it comes to the spec. Please say which spec you're using, your level and if you're doing PvE or PvP (or both).