Hey Opf, Ever since I read this post I was intrigued with Tibetan Candle. You wrote, it has the potential to do the most DPS of all specs and I believe you! However, it's true that it is incredibly difficult to play because your rotations in a stressful PvP environment must be perfect. Now, I played pyro 8/8/25 since around patch 1.1 and loved that playstyle. However, now after months it was getting dull of course and I tried something new, TC, and I LOVED it! It's the class which utilizes the most fire abilities (even flame sweep) and I just like them visually. So thanky you very much for this useful guide! But I seem to do incredibly bad though. I played a few ranked games and got frustrated and ragespecced to pyro again, noticing a dramatic increase in damage done... I think I just don't have the playstyle down at the moment. Are you playing TC in ranked warzones at the moment? Is it any good? If yes, please give nap, who is used to the easy pyro-playstyle some hints how he might get better with this spec! I'm not asking 1v1 advice of course, but how I'm best deployed in a team setting (namely ranked WZ's). As I see it, TC is so much more melee than pyro, that's why I seem to attract more focus fire, die a lot faster and not even have a chance to activate a second flame thrower burst. Mabye I'm also getting focused because I made a name of myself already for hard railshots. My gear isn't BiS yet, but I'm working on it. I have the PvE and PvP combat tech bonus (made the most sense to me).

Yes, it slows your movement speed.

Amazing recap! Ah I remember how the hype caught me, even I totally swore of MMO's forever and deemed swtor as ugly when I saw the first alpha screenshots. After that I have been hooked with this game for so long, I tried to resist to buy it during study exams, but I couldn't help it! It was one hell of a ride until now and I'm excited what the next 6 months will bring. Whether it's good or it's bad, I'm here for the long run!

Nice initiative, OP! 1. Kel'Dor 2. Togruta 3. Rodian

Please... it's PvE, you guys will eventually find out how to work that out seriously... I mean, it's vs. static NPC's with tons of tutorials out there etc. etc.

Lookie here! http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=196458

My main character, an Ubese bounty hunter! In "Story gear", while gearing up in PvE and RP gear! http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4941/screenshot2012031305165.th.jpg http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9282/screenshot2012050422272.th.jpg http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8261/screenshot2012032520212.th.jpg http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/9900/screenshot2012031306175.th.jpg

I want Kel'Dor and I want it now.

OK, overall it sounds really awesome, new WZ, new Ops? Very nice content and I'm a huge fan of this game but DAMN IT BIOWARE WHY ALL THE HYPE ABOUT THE SPECIES? They told us "Roster is gonna expand this year" **** I was so excited was expecting at least 1-2, even 3-4 new species, because the models are all in their freaking game but omg cathar? Didn't hit my interest at all... I'm gonna be so vocal about this. BRING ON KEL'DORS FFS. Also adding level cap and abilities and skills so early is a really bad idea imho... in 2 years this game will be in a horrible state like WoW is with all the inflation and unbalance and whatnot

How about activating those awesome socializing skills to gather up 7 other likeminded people to have fun with in ranked Warzones? Oh wait... do you mabye lack friends in RL also? I feel sorry for you, I really do.

FINALLY someone with brains and guts enough to post the most wise thread in the PvP subforum. This is the reason, why all the crying and number-comparing is useless information. This game currently is strongly based on Teambalance. A healer, who plays a support class or mercenary/commando, who obviously play damage support just aren't supposed to beat a 1v1 class in 1v1. So is the marauder/powertech/whatever unbeatable just because of his class? No he isnt. You can still beat him when you have a higher skill then him. If not, well unlucky you, either your team didn't support you good enough or that defeat was meant to happen on paper. If aformentioned classes aren't able to beat a support role, what role do they play during a match then? Also Warzones aren't flat maps. It has objects to loose line of sight and to kite. You can hide and have an advantage on an upper position. You can grab the damage/defense buff and if you're smart you can grab the heal buff as well. Also you aren't contributing to Warzone sucess just with damage, tanking or healing numbers. You need to time the exact moment to ninja that turret. You need to decide, which of the dps is worth keeping alive. You need to know who to tank and when to switch your guard. You need to know who you should kill first. You need to know, who would be at a disadvantage, when slowed down. You need to know who to CC. There's just this unimaginable number of variables and priorities you need to decide on. That's why determining the worth of a singular advanced class, nay even a singular spec is pretty damn difficult. And that's why saying "but if skill and gear level are equal we will, based on numerical calculations, loose to that class ( Q_Q" is the most ignorant thing to say. And damn it, if you suck so much with your class, then fine, roll with another one, you think is so super easy to play and just shut up and have fun. Just please leave the professionals at BioWare do their work, they'll be knowing what they are doing, unlike all of the gamers, who can only scream their subjective opinion on the forums. Do you seriously think BioWare planned on nerfing classes so hard, that they are unplayable just to take the piss out of you? Please... In my opinion, this game has one of the most awesome balance there is, that's why it has kept my fun for so long. But you know, whatever, this thread will be shouted down by stupid players anyways eventually. Most of the self-acclaimed PvP experts here just suggest ridicolous stuff. I mean, how can you seriously want "perfect" balance? For that, every AC needs to be a clone of itself. Wow, imagine how exciting PvP will be then and how many people staying to play it.

OMG I think I'm gonna get sick now... I thought most of those reports were rare cases or lack of knowledge of other classes but just a quick search on google lead me to a site where gazillions of hacks are being offered (and somtimes sold for money?!) where users would mock how easy it is to speedhack or go through voidstar doors undetected... This is a big hit for me regarding BW's credibility. If they don't sort this out for rankes WZ the PvP aspect of this game has certainly no future :[

Disagree. I find there are some really cool helmets that can be found throughout all armor types and class variants, republic and imperial. Yes, some of them I also find very ugly, but MY OPINION is highly subjective and I find an alternative everytime. This comes from a total helmet-nut with a strange obsession to veil the character's face ALL the time.

IT'S FAKE. First. BioWare Officials said so and deemed Kiro's post as fraud, and if they would be wrong they would be in DEEP LEGAL TROUBLE. Those crazy Americanos are really specialists in sueing around, so I doubt a big company would want to make such mistakes lightly. Second. Only 2 players posted on this forums, however the Ops group in the screenshots indicate at least 16 others (and where are the republic posters?). Third. No Screenshot of the actual GM with the "GM-Skin", even if Kiro mentioned that he appeared in virtual person.

I think more lay-offs are in order!

Alderaan Elysium. Alderaan which reminds me of my home country and that ancient feel makes it awesome! Also Coruscant Senate plaza. I was pretty awe-strucked when I first slow-walked into the senate building and the music kicked in. My first epic swtor moment!

I have. Combination of a cool guild, cozy server community, PvP, PvE, RP and alting around gives me enough cotent until 2013

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! As a Biodrone this is as constructive a comment it can get. **** IT, WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?! I BLAME YOU, HATING-PART OF THE COMMUNITY. Seriously, what ever happen to the "we can maintain this game with 300k subscribers"? I swear, if this MMO sees a backstab from EA and resulting death, I will never ever buy a freaking EA game again.

Seriously, I can't hear my lightsabers hum at all? Unsheath/sheath and fighting slashes still generate sound but that iconic "on standby"-sound is completely gone. What the hell? Is it possible that it bugs out when I put the master volume on 25%? (to listen to teamspeak and such) It's really annoying because I'm sure that the humming was there before the recent 1.2.4 patch. Also I don't think it's THAT annoying. If it freaks you out, just sheath your weapon when you're chilling on the fleet.

Never saw this move, sounds pretty clever to me! So in that situation when your AoE is depleted and you don't know anything else, than well, they by all means deserved that bomb planted succesfully. Just remember to save one AoE ability the next time... (or you know, just use abiliites like Heat Missile of the BH, but I guess every "pro" has trashed it from their ability bar, because they deemed it wothless, haha) Also funny thing. You think people posting in the forums all day complaining about minor stuff and whining around do have an active and happy social life? Think about it.

?! Tab-target is fine. If you're a really skilled gamer, you will occasionally click on your targets to have maximum precision, but I guess you all want to tune the skilllevel of this game to such a low niveau, that your cat could participate in PvP and rock at it... And don't even try to argue here, most self-proclaimed MMO-"pros" would suck at really competetive games such as RTS or FPS like Starcraft or Counterstrike.

I'd pay 100$ to just unlock this species and would subscribe for another 12 months. I'd say "screw you Empire" on my server and would make my Jedi Guardian my main character for like infinity. This I promise. Nay, let's form this to an actual contract with which I sign with clicking on the post-button. My favourite SW-species. I wished since Jedi Academy that I could play Kel'Dor again... I could see that BW would introduce them someday as there are plenty of Kel'Dorian NPC's in the game already which look really awesome already. I just hope they'll make it into the upcoming expanded races update this year =)

Does noone see some potential for Outlaw's Den? It was only during the rak-plague event that I noticed that Outlaw's Den has actually chests spawning around with WZ comms! During this week I made it a little habit to farm the whole area to get all chests before joining up the ops group waiting to kill Urtagh. I think these chests are a very good idea to make Outlaw's Den interesting. However, it seems that most of the people on my server (The Progenitor) at least didn't know about those chests or couldn't be arsed because of the loading times which were too long for them. I think, making the rewards in looting these chests could make that FFA area much more interesting. Say, up the WZ comms to 50 and a certain % for 25 Ranked commendations or something. It is general knowledge (), that PvPers are very greedy when coming down to rewards, medals etc. As an addition to lure in PvE players, mabye install one or two World Bosses in that area? (I heard some fights over Urtagh were pretty impressive and fun) If it get's viable to fight over these chests, more people will visit that area and mabye even make Outlaw's Den the "chilling point" inbetween WZ queues. Which brings me to my next idea. Why not install a little lounge hutt with music, where one can escape the FFA for a moment just to wait for the queue without being killed. I see no problem of a non-fighting area there, because people who are after those chests still need to go in the open and fight over them. I personally would love to see a change in environment. Jumping around the fleet will get boring at a point. Of course, organised groups and guilds will soon want to take over that area, but I say this will be hugely interesting, when rivalled guilds (not just imps vs reps) try to dominate Outlaw's Den to have the right to loot those chests! Outlaw's Den could very well be an impromptu substitution for the former Ilum World PvP. Also, in rather empty servers or in late night, when there are no PvP matches going on, Outlaw's Den could be an alternative source for the commendations grind! I don't see why this could be a bad idea, as long as the chestrewards are not that exagerrated, that it would render instanced warzones obsolete. I mean, if someone is dedicated enough to stay up all night to have that area alone for looting, why not give him that? Also, when a guild or group of people are organised and skilled enough to reign over that area, why shouldn't they earn those commendations? Well, anyways this idea just struck me when I was nascaring alone in Outlaw's Den again. In my opinion, it has some hidden potential, noone seems to see yet. Any thoughts on this? What this needs are mostly suggestions, which would make that whole area less-griefable or unfair etc. Havn't done all the thinking about balancing and what not yet.

@OP: Easy to answer. This so-called "top" guild left alltogether because that is what they as a community do. They are hardcore-oriented and will consume more MMO materiel than a dev team as big as EA or Activision Blizzard can deliver in one game. So after they burned through the initial hardcore contents, they will move on to the next big game. It is because of this reason they won't ever go back to WoW (mabye only for new released content) or SWTOR ever again. They don't care about the game or the setting, they are defining "fun" as to be worldfirst in beating some virtual content, which is in my opinion not a very social hobby, but you know, I don't care. My other take is this: Millenium, another hardcore raiding guild beat them in worldfirst with the Hardcore Explosive Contact Bosses and they left out of pure shame!

*standing ovation*