In my opinion, nerfing the Shadow KC would have been done best by doing the healing nerf, and reducing their damage output. In PvE, no one cares about their tanks damage, as long as they can hold aggro. If shadow tanks in PvE can't hold aggro because of the damage nerf, all they need to do is raise the threat generated while in Combat stance a bit. The problem with KC spec Shadows in PvP is they constantly have the highest damage, healing, and protection numbers in every warzone, all at once (and all that healing was only benefiting them, not their team !) Nerf heir healing, and their damage, and the PvE community is largely unaffected, while in PvP they become balanced.

Unfortunately, the story was much worse for many servers... My server, Vulkar Highway, at peak hours would have barely double-digits on the fleet Rep side, and maybe 30 Imp side... and each planet would be completely abandoned aside from the ones with Lvl50 Daily missions, and even then, you would never see more than 4 people on those planets... I also know that VH was not anywhere near the worst. It's really quite sad how bad the situation had to get before BW decided to start migrations.

Whoa ! What is the name of the chest piece in the picture posted by KargosofUldum ?!

From what I read earlier, this is common, and the workaround is to create a NEW character in the one remaining available slot, go through all the cinematics and spawn into the world, then log out of that character, and delete it. Then you will be able to transfer the last character in.

Virtualized doesn't always mean "running on a virtual OS." Read the entire post and you will see that I was referring to consolidating databases from being a single database on a single server, to many databases on a single server. I spoke nothing of running several virtual OSes on the single machine, because that would be very inefficient, especially for memory management, and I/O queueing. GW2 still has no launch date. The most that is out there is a rumour of June 28th (more than "a few days") put out by the (historically) least reliable source, the retail outlets, who benefit from a close release date, as it means more pre-orders. Don't believe the rumours of a release date of a major title until the manufacturer says so, and/or they are already doing their "Pre-Release/Early Access Weekend." This is EPSECIALLY true of manufacturers like Blizzard, and NCSoft, who will delay their products multiple times to ensure a smooth release, of a quality game. Both have a reputation for thoroughly testing their products before release, and putting off the release until they feel the game is ready.

Actually, for a look behind the curtain: Leaving all of the old servers up, and closed for new character creation is very easy. In the computing world, you no longer have to have a physical machine taking up space in a rack, power, money, etc. in order to host each and every service. Nowadays the majority of stuff is virtualized. All of these old servers are simply a database, sitting on a database server. It takes nothing to consolidate 30 'dead' servers to a single physical server. As far as the player on that dead server is concerned, they are the only one on their server... when in actuality, there are 30 different servers running on that box. They could leave all of the old dead servers running without costing them anything more than a few minutes more a day doing server maintenance on "one more database."

To everyone who is saying "I am thinking about un-subbing"... go ahead and do it. I am not being the "hard nosed a**hole" here, I am being dead serious. You can go to the subscription page, and unsub right now, and you will not be suddenly kicked out of the game. You will still be able to play until the time you have paid for runs out. If you decide NOT to unsub, all you have to do is click a button to re-activate the automatic payments, and you won't miss a day of game time. What unsubbing NOW will give you, is a nice comment box that goes to BioWare, that tells them WHY you are unsubbing, and they absolutely read each and every one of those comments. If you REALLY want to tell BW that what they are doing is crappy, THAT is the place that it is MOST likely to get noticed ! Speak with your wallets, not with a faceless forum post.

Thank you for reminding me to cancel, so they don't bill me again on the 18th.

My question is: What is it that BW needs to monitor ? If servers get overpopulated ? Who cares ? Here, let's say, for example, you transferred too many servers to Fatman, and Pot5 is left with too few... no problem, transfer all of the remaining servers to Pot5, then next week you can open a free, OPTIONAL transfer from Fatman to Pot5. The people who are set up on Fatman will stay, and the ones who haven't set down roots, and are annoyed by the queue times to log in, will move to Pot5, effectively balancing the populations. I don't need a brainstorming session amongst the developers to come up with a plan like this, it isn't rocket surgery. There is NOTHING that warrants a delay in moving ALL of the remaining PvP servers to Pot5. NOTHING.

Ok, so what now ? Still no new transfers.

So, have we forgotten about Vulkar Highway ? Still no transfer available, and you had already started transfers this time yesterday... so I am assuming none today ? I have to say, being one of the last servers to transfer is a major disadvantage compared to all the priviledged who have already gotten transferred, because this puts me last in line to get my name, which I pre-reserved when the game came out, and last in line to get my legacy name. Not to mention the fact that it is two less days that I get to play the game since I am still on a ghost-town of a server. The LEAST they could do is tell us what server we will be going to so we can set up characters to reserve our names ! Seriously. If my names are not available, there is no way I will continue playing this game, despite the fact that I really enjoy it. I have been using the same names in online games for over 15 years. For BioWare to suddenly take that away one day is deplorable. P.S. To those who will inevitably say "No one would ever steal the name Haezze" I purposely did NOT post as my regular character name, because I did not want someone to steal it, in an attempt to be funny.

Can't remove the cape from the game. If they did, you would see the Jedi is only wearing chaps, with nothing covering his rear end, and that would increase the ESRB rating of the game.

I guess I wasn't over-the-top enough to make the sarcasm clear. My apologies.

Not to mention, A gunslinger/Sniper could be an effective ranged tank, or off-tank, due to the cover system. Don't deny people the chance to do what they want with their character.

I think they should just give us all stealth, and super high burst damage abilities that stun every enemy for 80 yards, for 30 seconds, and heal all friends to full. Make it instant-cast with no cooldown, and cost nothing. Thank you BioWare, I know you will do the right thing and give us this ability.

Agreed. Take it this way... I am currently in East Africa, where a 1Mb DSL line costs about $300USD/month (and I am not exaggerating) , and I am playing on US servers. When the service is performing terribly, my lag meter will show 3-bars, and sometimes drop to a single bar, or even a red X. I have seen times when it would even show 138000ms latency. When I tested the line, and found a bad piece of phone line in the distribution panel about 2 blocks from my house, I replaced the jumper wire with some old Cat6 I had laying around, and now I get a constant 4-bars (which is less than 300ms) at all times, even while I have torrents downloading in the background. If I can get that good of a connection to US servers from East Africa, then any lag you have would have to be due to your connection, not BioWare's.

Most swords are not capable of removing an appendage without a LOT of force applied. A lightsaber, however, will cut an arm or leg off if you dropped it onto said appendage. I guarantee at some point you hit your own arm or leg with your sword while using it. If not, than you aren't really swinging it at all, at least not in any way that would be effective. Even Jedi, with their superior sensory abilities due to the force, start off with a training blade as a padawan, to avoid this exact issue. Could you imagine someone who ISN'T attuned to the force doing it ?

I dunno, as a Scoundrel I have been able to solo all but the bosses in most 2-man Heroics and flashpoints of equal level. If I had a second companion, I am absolutely sure I could solo the bosses as well.

Agreed. I love PvP, and I only play on PvP servers, but don't force carebears to join in the fray. It only leads to crying.

I support this idea if, and only if, they also add an animation in game where the player who doesn't know how to use a lightsaber cuts their own arm off the first time they swing it.

This already exists in the game... You level a Trooper to 50, then say in Public chat "Trooper sucks, I am going Bounty Hunter"... then you click the "Logoff" button, and use the "Create new character" screen to create a Bounty Hunter. Once in-game, say in Public chat "I was a level 50 trooper, but I wanted to be a Bounty hunter... so now I am a Bounty Hunter !"

So, I guess I still don't follow. You say you enjoy playing an agent, and that you like the Agent story better, and the agent abilities are more your playstyle... so why is an agent not good enough ? Why spend all that time creating a new class, new storyline, new gear, etc. so that you can play a class that already exists ?

You are correct with one thing... It would be the worst case, if they were to implement it.

Please learn how to type, how to spell check, and and how to grammar check your posts before posting them.

Agreed, and also, the fact the camera snaps to the "behind your character" position every time you move. I would like to see a checkbox in Preferences to disable this, as I need the ability to look around while I am running. I want to be able to put the camera where I want it, and leave it there.