This guy resume my feelings at perfection. What I really look forward is some sort of pvp balance not based upon gear but upon skill. The ideal for me would be a pvp enviroment where everyone is using the same gear stats, so there's no unbalance from time invested for newer or casual players and you can be competitive right from the start if you are skilled enough. PVP points and ranks would be used to adquire new pvp gear with same stats but different looks and also non-combat related status items like Titles, Speeders, Companions, Pets, "Rank related cool moves/dances" for example. What I really wish in any MMO is a PvP Structure like Guildwars but a really world wide open where I can spend the time I'm not pvping doing some other stuff with friends like killing world bosses, exploring around, raids to enemy cities, crafting stuff, etc, etc

I've played quite a few mmos by now and the only type that weren't for me were the koreans ones. I couldn't bare with the grinding of AION for example. Maybe Swtor is way too similar to wow and that's the reason why I feel bored when grinding for exactly the same purple items instead of spending time with my friends doing raid challenges, killing world bosses or having some real pvp fun if it were balanced as Guildwars for example.

I feel like there's nothing I can do in this game except leveling different characters. Once I reached lvl 50 my characters are struck against invencible players (double my health points) in pvp and to be competitive I findd myself playing lots of no-fun warzones and a nonsense Ilum grinding at 10 fps (even though I got a really good pc) Also there are way too many pvp tiers just from the begining so you find yourself not knowing what gear is best for your class. And the difference between a Centurion Gear and a Battlemaster is so big that even if you farm for Centurion/Champion you're still 5k hp below a Battlemaster one. That's a really big difference in your health pool and therefore an unbalancing aspect you can't cope with except by spending a high amount of farming time. Would had been better to have only 2 tiers. Of course if I could enjoy the farming process I wouldn't quit at all, I understand you can't have the best gear just by logging, and I understand that you have to work for it but I NEED to enjoy the farming process because in the end I play to have some fun, and I think that's the main reason why people just quit, boring mechanics. The pve side is good but once again it's not a matter of skill but of invested time to clear way too much trash before you can get some challenge boss fight. So much trash is really boring and people get tired of it soon so you can't find groups even on a Heavy Populated server like mine. I love other aspects of the game, like PvP before level 50 (pretty balanced) and also specially Orange Gear that I can keep and upgrade to look different to everyone else, but after you reach 50 I have the feeling that I have to waste too much time before I can really enjoy PvP or PvE as intented. I've tried both Republic and Imperial sides and leveled different characters, all of them fun to play with untill you reach 50.

Hello guys, I leveled an imperial Bounty Hunter 'till lvl50 while wearing this chest piece I got in Black Talon Flashpoint --> http://www.torhead.com/item/f0DMo5I/black-talon-hunters-body-armor Now I made the same exact character but on the republic side and would love to level him with the same chest piece as it is an identity part for me. Is there any way the Republic can access this flashpoint? I can't find any and probably it isn't possible at all... if so do you know the repubilc counter-part for this piece? The Eseless Orange Chest Piece looks like crap on my fatty guy :S