I think there should be digital stocks on fleet and we should be able to throw blumfruit at exploiters.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Playing a healer in pvp in this game is horrible until you hit level 30 or so, then it's not so bad, it's actually fun. When you get rescue, you start finding huttball fun. Then you hit level 50 and as a new 50, it's horrible all over again as you find yourself marked, ganked, etc by people w/much better gear than you. Grinding for gear in pvp is 10X as awful as 10-30 and you just get ROFLstomped. It's awesome to know you're marked and get zerged, too. You get f'd on medals, folks rarely guard you, and you will never, once, win an MVP award. You also basically need to re-spec as a PVP build (a seer PVE endgame build, like a true tank Guardian build, is horrible in PVP) rather than a pure seer spec fairly regularly, so if you're a seer, at some point you have to pick between PVP and PVE or get eaten alive by spec costs, which is fairly ridiculous. The Guardian tank tree faces a similar problem. It's useless in PVP and essential to PVE.

Exploit Line of Sight, use a ranged DPS or ranged Tank. Don't use Nadia. I was Seer specced. Brutal battle. Last boss is soooo much worse, though.

She's easy, just has a lot of HP. I was a lvl appropriate Sage seer, sent out Qyzen. Tank and spank. Manage force. Healing trance + free noble sacrifice. Takes a solid 10-15 minutes though. The guy after her is utterly brutal. There's no way to solo that at that level and if you try to use LOS, he disappears.

^This Also AOE THREAT GENERATION. OP, play a vanguard. They have a half dozen AOE threatmoves. JG has one w/a 60s CD. Also, a lot of people played tanky builds w/out realizing that tank builds actually wind up being squishier because of the bizarre waythe game treats damage.

Spam interrupts (e.g. mindsnap) and stuns (force stun). He's difficult if you're seer specced. Bring a friend, pref a DPS if you're the same level. You can down him in less than 20 seconds that way, esp w/ a gunslinger. There's a few bosses like this in the consular questline. The endgame boss is absolutely brutal, btw if you're pure seer-specced. I wiped with help on him. There's a boss before him that everyone who played died a few times on. LOS, need I say more. You may want to level w/a hybrid build. This is coming from someone who played a seer to 50. The JK is the same way (except worse IMO). FP's and Ops presume a pure tank, but levelling one in PVP and PVE is horrible.

Guardian is only useful in 1-1 boss tanking (extremely useful, I might add) and pvp (as a hybrid, though arguably not a tank, it's nasty). Fwiw, commandos and gunslingers are notorious for pulling aggro. Commandos can handle themselves, gunslingers are ragdolls. AOE threat generation is utterly horrible. Vanguards are much better. Level a guardian in pvp (Vig tree or hybrid). It's more fun. PVE is painful, IMO. Re-spec later if you want to tank.

It's a game issue. I have a gaming PC, and it does that.

Security Key Vendor. If you don't have a security key w/an MMO, you're a bit daft. It was $3.99, I think?

^This

LOL, I thought I was crazy when I saw more imps than us in the occasional WZ.

Agree completely. I have no idea why this is. I mean, I know why healers don't play (50 sage seer). The game f's you on medals (seriously, my vanguard will get a half dozen for guarding someone and facerolling my attacks), no one guards you (even if you ask nicely, half the time there aren't even any tanks) and no one listens when you yell for a LOS. True (non-hybrid) tanks are also pretty horrible to play in pvp.

I agree, something needs to be done. Not necessarily to make points easier to get, but to make it so that you get social points for things other than Esseles/Black Talon runs Maybe cross character like legacy or something too. Or points for time grouped. You can literally go through entire FP's with a group of 4 and get like 2 SPs. You have to run Black Talon/Esseles repeatedly to get this, there's just no other way.

typical ninja logic My depiction of a typical ninja smuggler *Ninja wins roll. /party HEALER- You're a ninja. That gear's 5 levels below you, BOP, and not even your class. Your companion can't even use it /party Ninja - It's for my alt /party HEALER - It's BOP, party member tank needed that /party Ninja Ninja - ijus rmv mods /party TANK - It's bound, I needed that for THIS toon /party Ninja Vendor. You hve NEEDROLL higher LOLOL. I'm quit. *Ninja has logged off Party is left w/healer off-DPSing

Social Contract. Read Locke, Rousseau, or Rawls. You're missing something here. We're talking about social norms here, btw. There's a reason we do these things. Sure, the system alllows you to need roll, in that you're physically capable of pressing the button. It is not recommended though in terms of fostering group happiness if you needroll everything, then promptly vendor their orange BOPs in front of them at the end of the FP, which is what you probably do. You're also CAPABLE of grabbing a knife out of the drawer and stabbing someone. Doesn't mean you SHOULD.

This. But I think the early levels are much better than the later ones. It starts to get a bit grind-y when you hit 35. I would've liked more, shorter FPs too or some FPs that auto-level you like PVP so you could play with some guildees.

Then join a social guild, bro. What server? TBF, it says "You pay for everything" in the fine print. Only Austin area guilds will go. I think they're just using this as an excuse to say "We listen to the fans" before they release the guild upgrades they were going to do anyway. I like the game, I just know how middle management works.

It is PR. They're not even bothering to fly in "leading guilds" or something. There's just going to be some Austin Area guilds. Maybe you'll get a free cup of coffee.

LOL, save some money and do it over skype, otherwise call it "Austin Area Guild Q&A". GUILD BANK GUILD TAB/CALENDAR Increased incenties to help others besides Social Points or better Social Points stuff. I've run Esseles about 600 times. Give us Social Points for helping lowbies at other campaigns. I think the Mando one gave me 2.

TBF, sometimes you're stuck w/ninjas and don't won't to kick during an FP because you can't 3 man it and the server is dead. You just have to start need-rolling everything, too. It's disgusting but it works. It gets hilarious when the ninja complains that you're ninja'ing him. And this is why you join guilds, people. Ever notice an unguilded high level (35+) player - he's probably a ninja or antisocial. I think the game should only allow BOP stuff to be rolled on by classes who can wear/use it, but that's me. It annoys me to no end when someone ninjas BOP stuff they can't even wear. I think Mac's right too. Beyond about lvl 25 (where you may encounter people on their 2nd FP after Esseles) you do not have to explain the loot rules. You need roll on things you need for your class yourself. Esseles, I do for Social Points, so I'll often explains the rules to non-alts lowbies. I pass on everything when I do SP runs.

At the beginning Alderaan is really tough. CC lots. Xp gets kind of grind-y. No class-specific (seer) help, I think that's covered but remember to do dailies, heroics, and space missions, though. I'm like this close to a 33 ding on my seer, I know what you mean.

TBF, it would be nice to occasionally use the LS as more than a WP/P stat boost. I don't even have a keybind for any LS abilities. I don't think I used the saber since level 15 or 16 It's not a big deal, but it'd be neat.

They're ghost towns. I had a guy come over from another server to play with myself and some friends on Juyo. I forget the exact numbers, but on Coruscant, prime-time numbers on his "Standard" server were the amount of people on at 2AM on ours (Juyo, which is generally heavy-full). I mean, you can have a tighter knit community if that's your thing, but you also have to deal with fewer people for FP and heroics or people that are not the exact right level or spec.

WoW doesn't have a story. It's very well-made for what it is but if you don't have a group to play with from low levels, it's very awkward to jump in since half the people are maxed out already. Personally, the only other MMO I've really gotten into besides this was City of Heroes. I played WoW a bit, like I said well-made, but not my cup of tea. I liked the Star Trek Online too (great community), but I don't really know anyone on it. Couple of IRL friends on SWTOR makes it easier.