After skimming through this thread, one thing jumps out at me, and DEVs, you REALLY need to take notice of this. Everyone complains about lack of balance. Almost everyone who complains is just whining because their character can't either A) do the cool thing the other class can, or B) just got his butt kicked by another player or NPC because it's smarter than him. 99% of the time, it's B. After being a DM in many, MANY systems over 25 years or so I can tell you one unalterable truth. The smarter player will ALWAYS win. He will always find a way to accomplish something with what he has available and he will always discover some way to do it that you, as the DEV or GM will never even consider. This is not, repeat NOT a game balance issue, it's a player balance issue. You can't fix player balance. Ever. We're all different. Some people are incapable of doing anything other than a frontal assault and getting creamed every time. Some of us, like myself, use the assassin like... well, and assassin. I do all my dailies with minimal casualties because of liberal use of stealth and moving smartly. I don't need to plow through a whole cave full of badies when I only need to sneak in, kill the boss in the back, and sneak out, or quicktravel out (honestly, I'd like to see some real XP and loot bonuses for doing exactly that, but I have no idea how you'd program it. Plus, someone will undoubtedly cry foul because I'm being rewarded for playing my character correctly). Most of the whining I've seen boils down to this. Players who don't want to learn how to play their characters correctly blaming it on the game, not themselves. Spend a little time learning to play a character correctly. Learn how to work with other players that compliment your abilities and you'll quickly realize EVERY character is overpowered, and that's OK. It's called balance.

Um yea, they are. George Lucas even said so. There are very specific reasons for the colors of the lightsabers in the movies. Watch the special features of the films and he talks about it.