More Warzones is good, but if I were them I'd focus on overhauling Ilum or creating a more long-term solution for PvP.

The only way I could feasibly see this happening without all the tables getting flipped over is if they halved the commendations you get from this "casual" queue, or removed them altogether. The latter would be more preferable. In the end you'd still have the gear discrepancy, except this time it'd be the PvE'ers as well as the PvP'ers running around curbstomping everyone, then they'd have to rebalance everything after taking expertise out of the equation and it would be a huge, gigantic mess. So no, it probably will not happen. You can get as many classes to level 50 as you want but as the game gets bigger you'll eventually have to decide which of your 8.5 million characters you really want to play past that point.

It's a low level helmet, level ~50 chestpiece, level ~50 boots Hard to tell on the other pieces but that's what it looks like. I know the PvP and PvE smuggler gear at 50 are recolors of that chestpiece and boots, though I say low level helmet, probably around late 20's early 30's if I had to guess

I've been considering rolling a smuggler lately, just simply out of crude respect to the wonderful invention of the shotgun. That said, I'd like to have a class quest that keeps me interested all the way to 50 and ends with me feeling real cool about doing things with guns and people. The only class quest I have any real experience with at this point is the Bounty Hunter's, and I do thoroughly enjoy that, but the problem comes for me in the form of the class. That's a different thread though. Point is, I'm looking to reroll, and was wondering if anybody had good things to say about the Smuggler's story in general? Even a synopsis or summary would be fine, honestly. I don't mind major spoilers at all; it will have very little impact on my enjoyment of the story. (Yeah I know what you're probably thinking but it's always been like that in my case). So if anyone wants to go ahead and just drop a big huge summary, that's fine too.

I honestly can't think of one. Is there any way to fix this client-side or am I going to have to wait for an official update like so many other things?