Leveling a Madness Sorcerer at the moment, level 25. Never played end game or pvp with him. My main is a Sentinel and I have a Vanguard 50 as well. I have to say that Sorcerer leveling till now has been very fun for me! I really enjoy the class. Not sure if it is because i am more experienced or not, but I level up much easier and smooth than what I did with my Sentinel. Edit: at least until now...

You are confused, because you can get up to level 50 for free, doesnt make the game entirely FTP... unless you like to level up alts all the time, which is not what mmo players really looking for. FTP is there to make you subscribe or buy cartel items.

Its amazing how some people can judge whats wrong and whats not when they have no clue on computers. I have a Sony Vaio VPCF13S1E. CPU i7 Q740, 6GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M, and Windows 7 64bit Home. Not gaming pc but nevertheless... I have a huge problem with FPS spikes. I installed the game on a fresh windows installation with all the updates downloaded, latest drivers etc ( <--- referring to the uber computer guys again...) and it was impossible even to move my char in game. So i installed this DirectX 9 fix and things got better. All in all I tried every single fix out there and nothing + game booster. It didnt matter if i had high settings or super low with 1280x720 resolution. The FPS spikes where reaching 1 fps! After the 1.5 update the very low settings gave me 60 fps on 1680x1050 while before i was around 30. The big difference is that now I can play the game because the FPS spikes drop to 15-20 frames per second. So now I wonder if people with SLI and gaming pcs that I saw on forums complaining, get lag spikes from 110 to 30 fps because they have cpu issues or old installation. Why dont you go take a walk in the park and leave the forums free?

So just go out of the ship to the planet and then go in again and try the quest. It worked for me.

I have exactly the same problem.