Loving the GS! Most fun I've had screwing around in the game for months. Thank YOU! for the super secret space mission! I thought the same thing. It took a few matches to really get it down. I will say though once you get used to the controls it is super fun

Its made to be uniform with all the other regen animations.

This is true, but as of right now there is no problem with tank dps and threat in pve. Why change something that will have no effect on pve, and will drastically change pvp.

As a side note they will probably not increase the damage tanks are doing in the near future. They have been trying to balance pvp since launch. Having someone with the survivability of a tank and the damage of a dps in a warzone would not be beneficial. Especially with the fact that they are trying to revive pvp atm.

I have main tanked in this game since about 3 months after launch. (I always level dps first in a new game) I stopped queing for fp regularly after they took the KUS/LI weekly out. My reasons are similar to the ones already posted. People don't play well with others and usually the tank is blamed for it. Here are a few examples from the last couple of months: On my fully optimized sin tank. (full 72/78 w/ set bonus). I que for hm fp, Insta pop. Get in a group with some people. Most of the people that I have run fp with in and out of que want to get it done as fast as possible. So if everyone is full health, I will run through as fast as I can. We wipe cause a dps pulls an extra group. I say hey please don't do that again. Him and his guildy (the other dps) VTK me from the fp. The reason they stated was " doesn't know how to tank, won't wait so we can farm resources." If they had said, "Hey slow down we want to farm mats," I would have slowed down. I was blamed for the wipe and kicked without finishing the fp. Qued for HM Czerka on my Jugg (full 72's with set bonus). Get into a group with a under geared healer. We are fighting the Enhanced Dune claw. The boss was at the generator when he ravaged, but the healer couldn't keep up with the damage. We try 3 times. I say listen guys lets give it one more go, but if it doesn't work i'm out. I think 4 pulls on one boss in a fp is more than enough. The healer starts yelling at me telling me I am not using my Predation speed boost. Its my fault we are wiping. I inform him that I am not a marauder and have no speed boost. (Regardless the boss was destroying the generators with every ravage.) I ready check, we pull the boss, and guess what happens. The healer drops group, says tank sucks, and leaves us to die after we agro. If you had to deal with this **** close to every time you que, i bet you would stop queing too. I am currently successfully tanking hm DF and DP. I think I know what I am doing when it comes to a fp. I am sick of dps and healers not paying attention or not being geared, pointing the finger at the tank and then screwing the team up. As of right now the only time I que is when a full group of guildies needs a tank, or someone OFFERS to pay me 100k to run them through. I have never asked for payment, but I won't turn it down. lmao. /agree, but you should add a line about under geared healers always blaming the tank for their derp.

Just throwing it out there. I don't have an issue with this. Now that you have pointed it out, I recognize it. It is definitely not across my whole screen or game breaking. Is there any possibility that it is your video card / resolution settings? If your resolution settings are off or you have a crappy video card, I could see how it would be a lot bigger and more annoying that it would be for me.

I know some other games have it. It is usually a small percentage of all the credits you pick up from loot, and it goes directly into the guild bank. I know this would be extremely useful and something our guild would love. You could even make it optional something that could be toggled on and off if necessary. You could put it in the guild bank options section where the guild master or guild bank officer could get to it. Thanks. Vari

this is a tanking thread fyi

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There are lots of armor pieces that do not show your mid rift. My suggestion would be to get one of those.

Now if they just hadn't broke the preview window when they did it we would be all good.

The legacy character perk reads: Increases the amount of experience gained by defeating enemies in flashpoints. Unless I am way off that is per kill

It makes perfect sense. If you leave gf there is a cd. If you group kicks you there is a cool down. Now that being said, in your situation they shouldn't have qued in the first place. They should have waited for their friend and qued. So my guess is they didn't realize that you still get credit for the que with a full group. So I am sorry for your experience. But in my opinion the cd stays.

So I read the entire 12 pages of this thread and have compiled a few points I would like to bring up. Quotes from Esperanz: 1. 2 days is a ridiculously short time to let someone join the general community. 2. I do not feel threatened and nor do any of the guildies I ask this question to this evening. But it sounds like the issue is you don't' want to pay for a sub and would like the F2P model to be something good enough that you could enjoy this game and drop your sub. 3. I think the F2P restrictions are fine, and companion customization's were so small when this game launched its not much different from what subs were given in the beginning. No color match, no adaptive gear, no hide head slot. Companions wore all the unmatched ugly random colored gear. So no problem there. If you can't see their head under the helmet the customization's are useless anyway. 4,5. I disagree. Based on Market Research, (not just swtor) The amount of money American's spent on MMO's in 2012 was 2.9 bn. From the research 50% was spent on subscription based games and 50% was spent on F2P games. in 2009 only 39% was spent on F2P games. It is projected that in 2015 60% of the total pie will be spent on F2P games. So yes F2P is taking a big piece of the pie, but for now no one is going to give up on the other 40% of the money being spent. They want as much of it as they can get. So as long as the game has enough active subscriptions to make a profit there is no reason to give up that piece of the pie. 6. What is a "True F2P Model?" That doesn't make any sense, if any part of a game is free to play it is a free 2 play model in my opinion. Nyarra: 1. There is a level of loyalty that is required for all business's to be successful. So if you think people are responding like they are EA is may be because they have a loyalty to this game and therefore the company. And we should absolutely care if EA makes money. If this game is no longer profitable they will drop it like a bad hat. Welcome to business 101. 2. My server is full, this game is playable without a sub lots of people are doing it. Grayseven: Based on the numbers Grayseven its not about the price of the sub it is about the generation of player. Wow has the 20 free levels model how are their sub numbers doing? mmjarec: 1. This is true not everyone can afford ENTERTAINMENT. At one point I was so broke that an outing for me and my son was going to the local grocery store and talking about colors and textures. I can promise you that anyone that can't buy food should not and is probably not joining a debate on the sub vs. f2p model of current MMO's. 2. There are always multiple instances of the starter planets on my server. I would not define those as dead. Killance: I don't know where you are getting your information, from what I have read that is just not true. MMO Research 1 This site has the best research I could find. After and extensive search of the web. It was this site that everyone was quoting. The only other information I could find was opinions on unreliable sites I refuse to re post. F2P is part of gaming now. That is shown in the numbers. I think Swtor's F2P model is fine. I would like to see more subscriber rewards every now and then, but looking at the numbers it is pretty clear that EA is trying to take some of the 50% spent on F2P and put it on the other side of that line. Subscriptions are a more steady form of income and easier to map. But look at Wow Their subscription base is dropping like crazy right now. They are scrambling to figure out how to bring the numbers back up. The thing to remember is that in this age of gaming nothing is forever. There is always going to be a new MMO releasing. There will always be companies fighting for a piece of that 2.9 bn dollar pie. So every player ultimately has to decide what they want in a game and in a community and weed through the bs to find it. Just like very company has to decide what goals they have long term and short term. Then figure out the best way to implement those. I have played Rift, Tera, Secret World, GW2, FF14 (for the short time it has been playable) and of course SWTOR. I didn't like the Rift at all. The combat style in Tera was not for me. GW2 had no long term content I could get into. I can only grind for vanity for so long before I throw in the towel. The Secret World was to dark for my preference. And FF14 has the worst MMO community I have experienced yet. So here I am in SWTOR. Happy to be here and super Excited about the new content releasing. I decided it was worth it, and the F2P model in this game is made to give you a taste not the whole pie.

I've done it multiple times. Usually if there is an event or WB in the area, we already have a group together. Run in kill everything and hope some random flagged opponent shows up to get pwnd. It doesn't take long, and there is no satisfaction being on a non-pvp server.

I would love a legacy bank. and easy fix for not sending bound items would be that you could only put unbound items or BOL items into the bank, along with mats, credits, and other assorted items.

agent story on tat This is an npc from the agent story line, she comes into play on Tattoine. I really like her chest piece, it would be a great addition to the adaptive gear. Thankyou.

IMHO F2P should have to buy the expansion to get access to ROHC. If they don't buy it they can play to 50 and play all the lvl 50 content like they can now. No More. /The End

I tried it as well, and was offered a refund. I had to wait on hold for a long *** time but I was offered my money back.

Yes you can get a refund, and Yes you have to sit on hold for 3 hours to get it. The first CS rep you talk to will not be able to help you and you will be transferred to a special CS rep that handles all thing money related. They can refund your pre-order.

My Husband is postulating on whether your SO is an EA employee, because that relation would not be classified as "professional"

We are having a healthy debate about the Quality of Life in this game and its future. I thought that was what the forums were for. You have basically told me to move on to another game, are you encouraging people to un-sub instead of actually caring about where the game goes and what its future looks like? I want this game to be successful. I want to be able to keep playing and get my social MMO fix here at SWTOR. That is why I am speaking my mind. /The End

You do realize that the Dread Guard mods are craft able, anyone can buy them, and the mount is not guaranteed. There is nothing that a team can show off unless you pointless grind for a mount that doesn't even give you any extra speed lol.

Just to clarify for you, the new flashpoints are coming in the expansion and they are not NEW, its the same flashpoints that we have been playing since launch with a new difficulty mode. And before you say something about the ops, it is one instance with craft able end game gear and no significant reward or bragging rights for doing anything past Hard Mode.