Its getting a bit depressing for me on Master D. Yes population has improved and its nice to see returning players. Rep fleet is going off, gone from 30 on fleet in prime time to 52 last night... Can we please get server merges to one APAC server ASAP.

I too have noticed that I dont see Holiday while the mez is being channeled since 1.4. I presume this is a bug, I loved seeing Holiday dancing and distracting a mob, please please fix this asap.

Firstly, let me say what a great game it is. Things I would like to see 1/ UI improvements. Especially the ability to Filter and Resize buffs and debuffs and even move them. Incredibly important to me as a healer, but also very useful on dps characters. Note that I dont want third party mods, simple changes to the UI will do it. 2/ Better maps for the game. I find the maps in this game sometimes confusing with especially the artificial segregations in the maps a major culprit. The map (s) in GW2 where excellent. 3/ More story please. I play this game because it lives up to its advertising as a Story based MMO. The stories thus far are fantastic, please keep up the focus on Story, and more of it, lots more

OMG Laughed sooo hard.... "But the lightning...looked so cool..." LMAO

Chippy Calm down dude... Yeah I know man, if this was Imperial Fleet, someone would have been force choked against a bulkhead by now, a planet destroyed and a whole legion of slaves hurled into a Sun. We on Republic side know exactly what is going on, your not being ignored dude...its the wheels of bureaucracy and such. Department 1 is talking to department 2, department 3 is waiting for a document from department 4, which of course is mostly on Holiday from all the stress. Department 5 who are just new to the job have broken the internal email system by downloading P R O N... What you need is a real Republic solution.. (it worked for us before) Cunningly tempt Darth Malgus to Bioware headquarters, letting him think he was being a rascally sneaky viscious Sith and HAVE HIM DESTROY THE BUREAUCRACY FOR YOU.. On a serious note Good work Chippy and to Bioware Faster Solutions please we need a merger NOW.

Weakening Blast granting a TA is an excellent solution, as is giving a TA proc from poison dmg ..both would work. I prefer your solution of Weakening blast though..more control on when it happens. Also you would still have Shiv, so 2 ways to proc a TA, one of which has a 10m range. Further more I would like to see some mechanic to prevent cleasing of dots in PVP. eg: when weakening Blast is in effect, our DoTs are immune to cleansing.. I would also like to see Lethal Purpose return slightly more energy. The spec is almost there, but here is an intersting contrast take all of the ideas listed above The TA proc from Weakening blast (your idea) Weakening Blasts effect also preventing DOT cleansing more energy from Lethal Purpose now that sounds OP right?? Now think of Smash Juggs/Mara's... Lethality spec Operatives could take substantial buffs and still be no where near OP. Admittedly Smash spec is completely broken but you get my point I would love to see some QOL improvements and outright buffs to this spec. Not enough Lethality operatives in Operations and I never see them in pvp..

Some useful info, not complete but at least its a start. http://www.noxxic.com/swtor/pvp/smuggler/scoundrel/scrapper

Anni mara's self heals where fine, dmg was fine.. just the 45 sec vanish and the 5 (now 4) sec invulnerability needed a tweak. Self/Group heals no need for a nerf, sad to see them go actually.

1/ Vast majority of players on Master D would be happy to play on a PVE server if it meant we had a decent pop. Many many posters have mentioned this. 2/ There is a very good and close community on Master D. Tiny? yes..but its there nevertheless. You are talking about some people going to a west coast pvp server and some going to Dalborra (ie giving the players the option) this would split the community, hence my term dissipation... Makes perfect sense..

No, an option for US or Ocenaic transfers would just dilute the player base further, we need a consolidation not a dissipation. In regards to cross server, I do not want that at all except for Ranked Warzones. one of the things that is great about this game is the server communities, something that WOW killed to the great detriment of that game. I know many many pvpers on Master D specifically because I have fought with and against them many times. In cross server pvp its an endless stream of randoms. Keep the community feel, keep the pvp and LFG server only just make sure the server has the critical mass of players to make it viable. Ranked pvp should open up to Cross server eventually as its a competition.

Correct. But wrong. Maybe ..just maybe I want to heal?? Shocking I know but there it is... Wait maybe with Cartel Coins I can change what I prefer to do in game.. awesome Idea .. Bioware could make a fortune.. Oh and lets not forget about gear optimisation. I dont currently have a 2nd set of fully Augmented War Hero gear with Elite War Hero weapons and off hand for my dps spec...spose I should just get to grinding one up Amirite? Also free respecs have only happened sinvce F2P hit, like 2 days ago...we where discussing events over the last week or so. /endrant

31 on Rep fleet Saturday night. About 41 on Rep fleet last night with 41 on Tython. no data for Ord Mantel. As i mentioned on your thread Chippy, The Harbinger has had 3 instances on Tython since F2P hit. Thats about 600 people just on one starter planet. While Master Dar'Nala's Rep fleet has a massive 66% increase in players...that is from 30 to 50.. See the difference? Harbinger 600 on TYTHON Master D 50 on fleet and thats a 66% increase from a couple of days ago.... Regarding Gav Daragon booming over the weekend.. Define booming.. 66% increase perhaps... yeah thats booming by that rationale Master D is booming...going off man...like totally crazy.. I appreciate Stevoo's points, but to be viable we and by we I mean Republic would need 150 on fleet at prime time. We could have that, we just need to merge all the APAC servers NOW, 50 reps from Master D, 80-100 from Dalborra 30-50 from Gav Daragon = 160- 200 on Rep fleet. Now thats a viable server we could all be happier with. That would also give the Imps around 400.. Merge now please.. Just one more point. Congrats to Bioware for a 66% increase in player numbers if we can extrapolate from the Master D fleet numbers across the entire game.. No sarcasm at all that would be fantastic for the game. But that does not change the fact we need to merge the APAC servers..

Populations have gone up for sure. 41 on tython last night for Master Dar'Nala, and Im seeing some returning players, so thats a good thing. Rep fleet was about 40-50, with 1 lvl 50 warzone running most of the night, if you missed the cut you had a 15 min wait. But thats not three instances full of people on Tython.. and players where coming back to empty guilds. We could easily combine all the Oceaninc servers into one even with the returning players and have a great server, or we can have three fair to OK servers. A server merge would give us a fantastic playing population, the population has been so low for so long it needs to reach a critical mass to survive. Would you after coming back to the game you stopped playing six months ago start paying a sub when fleet has 51 people on it and your guild is empty? Merge now please.

My wife and I played this together, we both loved it, very very creepy and nice puzzles to complete. More please

Not looking at all good for Master Dar'Nala population wise. Only 2 days into F2P yeah ok, but I was looking for a doubling of fleet to be satisified at the effect of F2P on this server. Now thats not as stupid as it sounds.. hoping for a doubling from 31 on Rep fleet in prime time to 62 is actually kind of pathetic. There was 31 on last night Saturday night Prime time which sadly has been pretty regular, compare that to Seriously?! Saturday night after F2P launched, 31 on Rep fleet! There was a lvl 50 healer complaining they had been in the LFG for an hour... with no pop. Im now looking for a server merge, ASAP. Before mid December. F2P can not fix the APAC server pop issue, its gotten to bad.

One of my favourites. So much so I have played it twice through and look forward to doing it again sometime in the future. Admittedly its not a story for everyone. But if you like Politics, Diplomacy and knowledge rather than smashing your way to victory, its a winner. 8/10 for me. (Didnt like the ending so much).

It's funny how things turn out. Many Rep PVP healers have stopped queing, because at one stage we had up to 4 healers in match. I can remember about three in the last week like that. NKBE left a match the other day in frustration, and I could well understand it. I felt bad and then went to my Shadow to give the other healers a chance. Healing when there is 4 of you, 2 tanks and 2 dps is terribly frustrating. But of course you log onto your dps alt...and no healers... go figure ..

Awesome event, I had a great time 22 republic players and about the same Imperials. So approx 40 lvl 50 people for the event, great turnout. 2 capture the flag style events, though brief, provided some laughs. Bounty hunt event across the sorching sands of the Dune sea, kind of cool, till I got ganked by 6 Imps.. The Assault on the Czeka factory with both sides having a crack at attack and defence was my favourite of the group events. Cant believe some Rep players fell for the old knock em down the elevator shaft trick, good positioning by the Imp players I thought. Gear showed though when Reps where on the defence, nice work people and nice try by the Imp Assasins, they penetrated our def pretty well, and I think I took a scratch to the leg..need to gear up pvp wise fella's Our special events of the night where the following Luc (his Rep toon) vs Myronreducto (?) Sent vs Mara Victory to Luc Terrytate vs Crysalis GS vs Sniper Victory to Crysalis (OMG Terry W T F ??) Juria vs Stevoo Shadow vs Assassin Victory to Juria (was close but then Juria brought it home well) Some 4v4 was briefly begun but we decided to call it a night. Winners of the cash prizes Shygirl won for the Reps ? for the Imps Im summary, it was a trial night both to see how many we could get, but also what worked and what didnt work for the types of battles. Interestingly some people liked the Capture the flag style, others the Bounty hunt or myself the Assault/Defend the Czerka factory, it seems there was something for everyone. The mumble channel was pretty fun as well almost the highlight for me. 40 plus people watching the duels of some our best players felt pretty awesome I might add. There also seemed some good interest in 4 man Arena style matches, something to think about perhaps? My only regret of the night was that the listed prize of a Blue Black Crit Crystal was withdrawn at the last minute. This was my suggestion as I thought it was an overly generous gift by that GM. I regret that this happened and I take full responsibility for it. If you feel this is unfair or in any way that you lost out, feel free to contact me in game and I will personally refund your entrance fee. All up a great night. Your input as to what you liked or didn't like on the night is appreciated as well as any suggestions you might have for the next event, please add your comments below. Shoutouts Stevoo and the crew from Nightmare Council, thanks for coming and especially thank you for the use of your mumble server, it made things much easier. And generally to everyone who turned up thanks for a great time

Just to be clear, the above post, is one of encouragement and well wishes.. On another note I love my wife very much she is awesome beautiful and kind and if I write this kind of thing ever again it will be about her because thats the way it should be and wont get me in near as much trouble Did I mention how beautiful and kind she is? Let me also say this Im never writing freaking poetry at 2am ever again ever again.

To keep the secret yes indeed but who amoung us does not water seeds that seek a light to guide their lovers sweet kisses and delight I pray thee mourn not the loss of one for two become one then third is met but not yet not yet From these seeds noblest love can grow when splash'd by waters silver'd blessings and shimmers of warmest glow join me now in wishes best where sprinkl'd soflty guide lovers breast to heavens arms commend thee

Because I was unable to find a suitable site for a Cantina brawl, I have created a new event and to make it easy to co-ordinate I created a new thread please SIgn up here http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=5384687#post5384687 The more the merrier, and this event is meant to get the community together and keep the server having fun. Your effort and attendance is appreciated. Hope to see you there.

World PVP event. When: Monday 12th November 2012 What time: 8pm server time Where: Tatooine pvp zone Entrance fee: 20k credits each. Why an entrance fee? We will be collecting an entrance fee so that at the end of the event we can provide a prize to the best Imp and Rep player. Hoping for 20 players at least from each faction which would be a 400k prize pool for each wiinner. How is the winner chosen? Each faction will chose its winner by group vote. Other prizes will be available on the night. Currently Ewokalypse NOW has put up a Purple Black Crit crystal as a prize, a similar offering from the Imp side would be appreciated. How these epic prizes are to be won has yet to be decided. (will update with further details before the event) Style of Combat: Version of capture the flag, with 2 special events and a Grand Melee to finnish. Option for a few Arena events if people are interested. Please note we will be attempting to balance the teams, so 20 v 20 or ?? v ??, if we have more than we can balance then the people sitting out will get rotated into the team for later battles. The rules. 1/ Do not target any Referee (marked with Blue shields) 2/ Wait till the battle is called to begin. 3/ Lowbies are welcome to watch but will be killed if they interfere. 4/ 20k credits entrance fee per toon. 5/ No battle Rez. SIlber will be Referee for Republic side ?? will be Referee for Imperial side We will need to have large vent/TS channels for each faction and each referee should have access to both channels. Please sign up below if you and or you guild are interested.

Sorry for delay in getting this organised. Tried to find a suitable Cantina to fight in, but the Nar Shadaa one I was thinking of is unavaiable to Imperial players. I will continue to look for suitable and interesting locations. In the meantime lets just get something done in the Tat pvp area, I have some sneaky ideas but will try to confirm the best days to do this to get the max number of people involved. Update coming soon

WOW? Not again for me my friend Edit: Deleted off topic rant about populations.

A video for your viewing pleasure. Class balance is not perfect in SWOTR, but damn that 8 year old game still stuffs it up...and badly. Gives a little bit of perspective