Rooster. My legacy "last name" is Cogburn. Full name would be Rooster Cogburn. I'm sure anyone who's ever seen a John Wayne movie knows the name, and it was originally intended for a Smuggler character, but after playing both I was enjoying the BH storyline much more, so I kept the name for my BH.

Which is why it's the only class I haven't even attempted to touch yet, I haven't met one Consular who can say they've just loved the story, or even liked it. Unfortunately it seems the SW is suffering the same fate for me. It seems the general consensus is that the SW really picks up once Janessa Williams (I believe that's her name), joins the crew. Still...maybe I'm spoiled by the Bounty Hunter storyline. The BH story never stops trying to be exactly what it is (Except in a few dramatic moments), a light-hearted tale about honor and making a living. You've got this band of incredibly weird and eccentric crew members, your targets (For Bounty Hunting) all have their own unique personalities and stories, the antagonist for part 1 is a complete piece of trash person in every way (And never ceases making you hate him) and I don't know. I loved the BH story, and I surely haven't met somebody thus far who claims the BH story is boring in the slightest (The beginning of Act 3 IMO, is the only dragging bit). And the Inquisitor/Knight stories, while incredibly cliche and suspect, both provided enough action and entertainment in their respective evil/good ways to keep me hooked. Maybe I'm not finding the Warrior storyline any good because I played the Inquisitor first, and the two seem to be similar in a number of ways. I have a feeling unfortunately, the same thing would happen to me with the Consular because I played the Knight first.

While I think you're making quite a big deal out of something that's very minor, I have to agree. While it hasn't happened constantly, mostly because it just started today, the new CD effect for hotkey icons does bug me, I have unintentionally clicked a skill not realizing it had not cooled down yet. I hope they change it back to the greyed-out portraits of hotkeys during CD, it was much more identifiable.

That is surely disappointing. I must say the Inquisitor did a much better job at hooking me between the two Sith storylines. Inquis is a snarky little tripe of a character, you get this incredibly vile and arrogant pair of antagonists who churn your stomach every time they speak, and you get a big monster who eats people at your whims. Sith Warrior...much less interesting, no cool antagonist, your monster is replaced by a bratty alien kid, and I don't know...I'm really just not enjoying it. I'm actually not bored with my higher level characters, I've gotten my Bounty Hunter and Inquisitor to 40+, I just wanted to try something new when I heard about where the SW storyline might take off to. Unfortunately it seems I was mistaken, which really sucks to me. I guess it's never too late to re-roll as a Smuggler again, to be honest I was really loving that storyline, but I dreaded having to hide behind cover for my Slinger, so I quit around mid-20's, the same fate was shared with my Sniper, who was retired around 25 or so. I just wanted a good melee class to play, because unfortunately as most people know...the Jedi Knights seem to be a little broken, and not in a good way. And the Consular being the only class I haven't played, I HEAR has probably the most boring story among all eight classes, so I'll definitely save that one for a rainy day.

I know this is completely and utterly subjective in every way, but I just pushed my way off onto Dromund Kaas, and I am completely dislocated from the story. I know it may be unfair to judge the story while still in the prologue, but as of this character, I have now played every single class (Minus the Consular) up until at least the second planet and for some, til the near end, and the Warrior is just strikingly boring to me so far. I really want to like this class, I love how it plays, and I loved the potential of the storyline there. It seems people say there is a "redemption" Vader-esque way to go about the storyline should you continue to make lightsided decisions, and that sounds pretty damn cool to me. But so far it's just...ugh, not entertaining at all. I feel like I have no goal, like my story isn't going anywhere. When I played my Knight, my Bounty Hunter, my Inquisitor ect. I knew what I had to do, I knew where I had to go, and whatnot. Oddly enough, after playing 7/8 of the available classes, and a little more than half of the specs, I have to say that Maurader has the potential to be the most fun class for me, play-style wise, but the story is boring me to tears and I'm not sure I could continue through a 300 hour storyline and not pay attention to the story. So...any ideas? Does the SW story pick up? Become Vader-esque at some point with a redemption deal? Otherwise as much as I really enjoy the playstyle, I'm not sure I'll be able to continue it.

I know SWTOR's companions don't really follow a good/evil POV, they have different personalities and different things they like, dislike, agree or disagree with. But if you really think about it, you could probably classify that into a "Good/Evil" type of system. I generally like being good in games with moral choices, I do, but after four pure light-sided characters, I'm really itching to stir up some evil. It seems like however, even for some of the Sith classes, the companions are weenies. They don't like when you're a sociopath, some do, but most need reasons for your killings and misdeeds. Question I suppose I'm asking is, which class has the companions who just love to be evil? Kill? Extort? The good stuff, because it sure seems like even the "evil" ones consider things such as this to be weak and base instincts. It'd be nice to just run into someone evil once in awhile like the NPCs I meet in my story so often.

No, it gets better from there. Everyone has confirmed levels 29-mid 30's or so for whatever reason, pumps up the difficulty level like nobody's business. General consensus is to party with a friend and make the drag of these levels much easier. Once you get past this point, leveling will continue to get much easier again. Note;, this is not from personal experience, but pretty much everybody says this.

While I know it seems foolish to ask, I'm wondering where I should split. I've never enjoyed being a Tank in MMO's, and so I sought to try and create a DPS Guardian. From what I've seen myself (Note, I've only gotten to level 20) and what others have told me, such a build is not viable and I would be better off being a solid Def Tank. I enjoy playing DPS classes much more than Tanks, but I hear that Sentinels die when you sneeze on them, and all Sentinels usually say "People just don't know how to play the class right." Not sure with THAT means, but it isn't very reassuring. I just wanted a DPS class with steady survivability that uses a lightsaber. It seems that Guardian's, even when specced to DPS, never really attain the type of playstyle I'm hoping for. And Sentinels, while complete DPS, are made of tissue paper. I'm wondering if I should switch over to Sentinel anyway, because I'm not going to lie, I'm really not enjoying taking the brunt of an assault for my group, but besides that, not doing much damage myself. I suppose I don't have the mindset that Tanks should have, which is, not looking to receive instant gratification, but knowing that without your key element in the group, the paper-thin DPS players would die instantly. Are DPS Guardian's that trashy? And are Sentinel's really so squishy? Or are people just exaggerating. I don't know what to believe, so many conflicting opinions and advice.