I'm liking the Trooper a bit more than the BH aside from the Trooper animation problems that are currently in place. Hopefully they will fix that in time. Other than that, equipment is what does it for me. During the climb to 50, I'd have to give Trooper the win. Trooper armor looks like it belongs to someone who should be in battle, unlike the BH, who might look more at home on a bee farm in certain sets. Come endgame, I think a lot of the BH gear looks absolutely ridiculous. Trooper wins again. The BH Tionese/Columi/Rakata is just... no. I do like some of the BH PvP sets though. The 40 set in particular looks fantastic while the 50 sets are hit and miss for me, while I think the Trooper versions of the above look great across the board. That said, I'm eagerly awaiting the patch that allows us to remove armoring from end game gear so that we can swap to some of the better looking gear. I feel as if the best looking BH gear is the gear that isn't end-game quality, and this patch would probably close a bit of the appearance gap for me. With weapons I'm a little torn. While I do prefer a rifle to a single pistol and a BFG to dual pistols, you just can't beat all the cool tools and gadgets the BH has in/on his suit. I'll call this one a tie. In the end I'm leaning pretty heavily toward my Trooper alt, however, Blizz is win incarnate and nothing Trooper has will ever be enough to top him.