seriously. My job as gaurdian is to die for the republic. I sort of agree that going melee DPS is frustrating but as a tank gaurdian, there is nothing more amusing than distracting 4 or 5 players at an objective while I guard, taunt, shield, relic/defense buff, and AoE damage. Yes, I die a lot, but in the meantime, I get to hear the nice lady tell me that my team has planted a bomb on the other objective And if I am lucky to be teamed up with a healer and DPS who know how to stay at the edge of their range, none of the imps bother looking up or attempt to run '30m' to figure out why I am not dying and they are.....

Does Valour actually do anything? I get how it's generated and can see my 'level' but what in game value does it provide? How do you compare to others? Is there a winner board somewhere? Can it be used to affect game play?

thanks all. So given what people have found, how do the high end relics compare to the shard datacrons? Is there a list of relic crafting/drops stats somewhere? Just wondering how useful the shard datacrons are relative to anything else you would slot in there

ah..I assume not made twice because there are not enough specifically colored shards but you 'can' put two cubes in your relic slots but maybe just not the optimal ones right and then you are saying perhaps the second slot should be used for another type of relic for better effect?

so I understand how to collect shards and make datacron relics and have seen the list of stats from the combination of shards. A few questions 1) Is there a list of other relics somewhere? 2) What crew skill creates or finds relics or are these drops or just from vendors (only light/dark vendors?) 3) I rather like both the 'activation spells' and visual affects of the relics I obtained from the galactic trade network....but how do they compare ultimately to the value of the shard datacrons side by side ? Might get better stats from shard datacrons but they don't seem to have any added effects? Thanks! p.

1) How do you and when can you set flashpoints to hard level? 2) How do the rewards differ in hard? 3) At what level can you get operations quests? yes, I looked in the forums but really...this search interfaces sucks lol Any help appreciated!

can you provide more detail? Is there gear that will increase your stealth capabilities at lvl 20? At lvl 10 and curious how to improve my stealth discovery

and just to be clear...on PvP server, there are many quests that you will take that will put you in the same 'travel path' as opposing players. And BW, in its raw stupidity, did not implement two things worth having on a PvP server: 1) some actual value from it...you kill an opposing player in open PvP and you get nothing but a smile on your face 2) No level ranges. In Warhammer - an open PvP game, a higher level character could not attack anyone more than 10 levels lower 'unless they attacked first' (I vaguely remember getting a debuff even if you attacked someone 'gray' to you) Which eliminated significant amount of incredibly annoying lvl 50's sitting around your quest start point and griefing you Open PvP is very fun but be aware that it can be VERY annoying in certain circumstances

what is particularly annoying is that it will compare stats to your companion EVEN if they cannot wear the item :-(

who in their right mind thinks fixing the lvl 50 PvP issues should compromise the entire rest of the population??? BW was stupid not to create 10 lvl ranges with unique warzones - Warhammer got this down perfectly. Given that is not going to happen anytime soon, I've already found that the 1-49 is way more fun to play because even though bolster doesn't cut it because lvl 20's just don't have some of hte necessary skills yet to compete, it still is fun not dying 'as fast' against a level 40! On a side note, anyone able to find out what the user to lvl 50 + alts versus user with only below 50 ratio is?

thanks. Very helpful! I was thinking it was that I was getting damage by healing but that is more about me standing in those pretty red circles on the ground :-)

can someone tell me what 'pushback' is? It is described in the smuggler specialty skill 'reduce pushback' from heal activation.....

can someone tell me what they mean by 'reduce pushback' on healing powers activation on my sawbones smuggler specialty skill points?

where do you see this valour PvP ranking? Does the Valour level effect goods that can be obtained and/or points in PvP action?

can someone tell me what valour ranks do? Also, are any items from the social points 'useful' per say in the game? Wish I could search for these questions but that's another story....

a searchless forum is like an empty loot box

am I missing something completely or is there no search function in these community boards making them close to useless......honestly, I can't seem to find it lol

much appreciated!

if a friend and I end up starting on different worlds, is there a level we need to get to, or amount of money required to be able to join each other? How 'fast' can we end up getting together to play?