Im pretty sure you have to do your class quests to get your companions as they join you as part of the story line.

This constant mob grind is wearing me down but its part of the game and I can live with it, I can chose not to do all the extra bonus kill 10 rat quests. Having to constantly kill groups of mobs non stop so I can travel is way too much. It slows the game down tremendously and just plain tedious. Please make changes to the game so we can travel along the road ways without having to constantly stop and kill mobs. Your game forces us to travel certain paths to get to a specific place and we cant get there without having to kill upteen million mobs every time. This has to be one of the most frustrating games Ive played in a long time, it has so many good things about it and so many things that are the worst in any mmo Ive played If you feel you need more of a time sink to the game just lesson the amount of experience you get per quest. I dont know how many quests Im ignoring because Im leveling too fast. Id much rather do those quests then have to get my exp by non stop killing mobs. Hell just not having to kill all those mobs while I travel might allow me to do a few more quests on each planet.

Well I tried the zone out trick and it didnt work, so this really is borked.

Im starting to think underworld is broken. I just started the skill and wanted to level fast so I did 1-60 by doing all companion gifts using 2 companions. Did gifts as they where faster. Not one was I unable to get a gift mission. Once I hit the next tier I started doing metals and had to switch back to gifts more often then not as there wasn't any metals available. This cant be working as intended, can it? I know people say you can zone and get a new random list but this takes 3-5 minutes each time I do it. What a waste of time

Ive been working on my Cyber along with underworld trading. A lot of time I find there are no missions to get the metals I need. Is there some way to get new missions listed with missions for metals? So far Ive been doing missions I dont need, in the process wasting a lot of credits. Oh and on an unrelated note, Ive seen posts asking for a vote to get them stickied, how do I do this?

Great idea, come on guys, add your vote to this. Only way to get their attention.

I wish you could, this is one of my beefs as well. I love questing, they put a lot of work into some nice quests and then made it so we cant do them unless we want to outlevel it,

I spent a lot of money on her to get her gear up so I can have a healer. So far I feel its been a waste of time and credits. Even with everything updated with new items, and the latest blue mods she cant heal worth ****. Too often she will stand there and shoot at the mobs even after I un-selected her shooting abilities. She is in Med Watch as well. At level 29 dps spec I have 5500 hp's and take damage fairly fast when Im up against 3+ mobs. Her heals when she uses them arent even close to being up for the job. Med scan 5 second cool down only heals for up to 385, Field dress should be on me constantly for 96 every 3 seconds, Kolta jolt... who knows it doesnt say but has a 12 second cool down. These numbers just dont seem to add up to much. My own heals are a lot more and I remember having trouble some time keeping Aric alive. they where 611 and 853, a lot higher numbers. Is there something I might be doing wrong or is she just really that gimped?

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Hi everyone, after playing this game for a month I thought Id give it a review. Hopefully to help other people make a buying decision on this game. Im not new to mmos, Ive been playing them non stop since UO first came out, was in the Beta for EQ ( back then this was not something they let 1000's of people join )as well as a few others. So while my writing skills may be lacking my experience isnt. In general I liked the idea of the game and the basics of it. Pros: Im afraid this will be a short list as while there where many things I liked about the game, because of the implementation or bugs, I will only be listing the ones that worked. The basic stories behind the classes was interesting, I tried 3 different classes and got them all to around lvl 30. The voice over acting for these stories was well done and I found that they made the quest chains interesting. The equipment and the way the mods where set up was very well done, it took me most of my month to finally figure it out but once I did I thought it was a good system. Before the trolls start telling me Im stupid for taking so long to figure it out, Im sure it took them as long or longer, but admitting this will take away their excuse for being trolls. The reason it took so long was the lack of information. Not everyone has the time or inclination to do web searches and browse threw all the unnecessary writing people do on their blogs. The crafting that I tried out ( got to around 200 out of 400 in 3 crafting skills and 5 harvesting ) was again rather well done once I figured out the system. It could have been better if they had made it all a tier type system instead of some tier and others a tree branching. it made it very confusing till I found a very good write up here in this forum. The combat in the game was fun, it was very easy at first and got harder around lvl 30. I enjoyed this system and Im sure as the game progresses BW will eventually balance out the classes. Instances in the game had good stories to go along with them, I only learned a few of them as I never got a group that would slow down and let me follow the story. I had to go back into the lower lvl ones once I out leveled them to learn the stories. Well done BW. Cons: ok Im afraid this list is going to be long. Before I go into this I will state again I did enjoy the game in general but the cons made it too frustrating to play IMO. The biggest con for this game was the TOTAL lack of information that BW put out. The documentation was basic at its best and didnt explain how anything really worked. Since then I have found a few web pages that help out and also some very good write ups by other players have been posted. I cannot stress enough how much of the fun was taken out of this game for me by this lack. Im basically a crafter at heart and enjoy playing these games to craft for others. To craft you need materials to craft with. The mats to craft with are hard to come by, plain and simple. Yes you can buy them at the auction, but because they are rare, they are very expensive. The way the crafting system is set up with random discoveries for recipes you need a ton of mats. Ive spent hours trying to gather mats and gotten very little. Ive sat at nodes to see how long they take to respawn and every one I sat at took 5 minutes. I play these games so I can craft for others, this is my social outlet in these types of games. With this system, its only possible to do this once you have a hord of cash and dont mind losing money on the deal. With this crafting system it takes a long time to make something. This is at the lower levels, as you gain in crafting skill it takes longer and longer to make something. This next point for some might be a pro but for me it wasnt. I actually did no crafting at all. I sent one of my companions to do it for me. If BW wants to see how to do a crafting system for people who enjoy crafting they should have a look at EQ2 or Vangaurd. The complete randomness of learning new recipes was a big turn off for me. Some I learned right away, others took me hours to learn and 100's of mats. I ran into a big problem in the game, the root cause was you level too fast. This created a situation where I was out leveling the quests you needed to do to get the commendations required to get new equipment . You can buy new equipment as you level if you want, I tried that with my first character but then when you get to 25 and need 48000 credit to buy your first mount, your out of luck. So my second character I tried not spending my credits, I had enough to buy my mount at 25 but the game was a lot harder as most of my equipment was way to low. Also as your leveling too fast, by the time you can buy equipment with the commendations you get, the upgrades available are too low for you. There are more then enough quests to do to keep you busy, lots of instances to run but they give too much exp and too little cash for the amount you need to buy equipment. The auction has to be the worse Ive ever run into. The basic function of just typing in the name of the item you want is not even available. To find an item if you know the name of, you have to make a choice from 2 different menus, do a search then type in the name of what you want ( partial name works ) and click another button to get it to redo the search. To top it all off its bugged. If you dont know the name of the item you want this system helps you narrow it down a bit but the part of the search feature doesnt work so you have to look at a lot of items you dont want. Once they get that fixed it will be an ok system for finding items you dont know the name of. Ok because its still to cumbersome. While Im not finished yet, I can feel my fingers starting to twitch. Time to go kill some more Imperial scum.

Also not sure how they calculate it, but it sure doesnt have anything to do with the actual cost of making items. Ive had items Ive posted, and the cost it sets is lower then the cost of getting the item from underworld gathering (if I got it the first time).

Ive been reading this post and I have to say without any attempt to be mean to you but are you a troll, a jerk or just an ******e. You keep telling the OP how wonderful you are at playing the class but not once given any positive criticism or advice, just a vague idea of what you do. If your really playing the class and arent having any problems, tell the OP how to do it.

Ive been reading this post and I have to say without any attempt to be mean to you but are you a troll, a jerk or just an ******e. You keep telling the OP how wonderful you are at playing the class but not once given any positive criticism or advice, just a vague idea of what you do. If your really playing the class and arent having any problems, tell the OP how to do it.

Rant on: This game needs way better docs, Ive played a lot of MMO's in my time but this is the worst for instructions : Rant off Ok, Im playing a Jedi knight and trying to upgrade my equipment as I go along with the Artificing skill. Ive noticed that I can get the same skills by making different items but using more mats on one then the other. An example is Blue and Yellow critical crystal. They both give the exact same stats, except the blue is forbidden to dark side, but the blue costs a lot more mats. The only reason I can think of for this is that the colors make a difference that isnt shown on the tooltip. Another thing I find very confusing is the tooltip for my lightsabers dont add up to whats inside it. Can someone explain how this works for me please?

Hi, Im a new player/crafter and I chose arctificing as my crafting skill. So far Ive been running around the first couple of areas of Coruscant and have found very few nodes to harvest. Is there some place I can go to find treasure hunting and archeology nodes that is safe for a lvl 13/14 player?

I did find out how to change the font size in the chat windows. Each chat window has a tab with the name of that window. Right click this tab and you will get a few options including changing the font size.

I cant believe how fast this post is growing. Im reading it and the number of pages grows faster then I can read. Count me in fonts are WAY TO HARD to read!!!!

Ive been playing a few days now and have some questions I cant find answers for. First off while doing quests you sometimes get quest messages that pop up and disappear very fast. Mostly before I can read them. Is there any way to delay the messages from either disappearing altogether or delay them from going to the next one. How do you go about finding a good guild. I havent found any tools yet for looking for one. Is the only way to find one joining the first you see yelling for new members and hoping its a good bunch of people? Is the broker broken? I tried using it to find some armor and when I set it to me nothing came up, but if I set it to all, a few pages came up including items I could use. Im sure theres lots more questions but I want to get back to the fun

Ive been a healer in many games starting with EQ1. In that time I developed a motto: If the tank dies, its the healers fault. If the healer dies, its the tanks fault. If the dps dies, its the dps's fault.

Hi everyone, just started playing yesterday, great game so far. Love the story line quests. Well anyways I made a Republic trooper and Im wondering, if I go souly down the medic tree will I still be able to solo well?

Ive just gotten my first toon to level 10 on the republic side. Ive ready to ship off the planet but never found the chest. Any ideas where I can get it?