If this is your very first toon ever (or even the first toon in either faction), I wouldn't suggest using 12xp, just because you'll be skipping a lot of side quests and what not that can be very fun to do (especially the planet-wide side quest on each planet). However, if its an alt or a second character or something it is totally fine to use 12x, you won't be missing a lot since you've already done it.

Best way to handle something like that happening (which is a fix that should be put in now) is that you can only queue as tank if you are actually specced as tank. Presumably if you are specced as tank you'll have put some thought into it. Obviously that won't help people who aren't geared/don't know how to tank, but that's currently an issue anyway. And the question really comes down to would you rather a 75% chance of a bad tank, or sitting in a queue for 1.5 hours and still have a 25% chance of a bad tank anyway.

The only thing I can think of making tanking more attractive is giving increased rewards to tanks. Maybe a small percentage bonus on loot rolls? Something like a 5% boost to whatever your roll is (and maybe something similar for healers as well). Obviously I doubt this will occur b/c dps will be very unhappy with it, but it would certainly encourage more people to tank (disclaimer, I have no dps, and 2 each of heals and tanks, so I'm probably pretty biased).

This one is one where I completely screwed up. Zoned into Blood Hunt HM (post-nerf, but still a little tough) as an operative healer and we go up to first boss. Die the first time (hit enrage timer), come back and beat him second time. Go through it, I keep noticing that healing is really tough (tougher than I expected) but no one dies for the rest of it. Finally, after we beat torch I notice that my HP is sitting at a smooth 38k and realize I never took my pvp gear off! So major props to the other people in the group who managed to survive an idiot operative who did it all in his pvp gear! (p.s. if you see someone under 40k in a HM, its ok to say something. I at least won't be upset).

I've clicked on everything around it, in various orders. Clicking the crate pops up with some message (can't remember what it is), but then again, nothing happens when I try to click the speeder after that.

It was HM. Next story, doing Korriban Incursion (HM), going to do bonus boss. Our two dps see that we have 28 kills, and instead of killing the 3 guys on the ramp right above the bonus boss, they figure we'll go to the very end of the quest, and then trek back. Oh, and one of the dps swore that the bonus boss is harder on the pub side

Doing legacy of the rakata with 2 guildmates and a pug. We move through most of it with no issues until we come to the final boss (Shield Squadron 1), and we struggle to get through it. The pug (a gunslinger) thinks that he can stay in cover and not die from all the aoe attacks that show up. Yet somehow, every fight I see his health bar (I'm a healer) drop to about 10%, followed by his body flying around the screen. We finally kick him (or he rage quits when we vote to kick him) and bring in another guildmate and finish the fight on the first try.

I tried that as well. No luck.

Is there a way to get credit (specifically the comms) for an operation if I didn't grab the weekly before I did it?

I am on the mission "On the House" at the spot "Find the Key's Purpose" and I can't click on the custom speeder (the one directly outside the cantina door to the right). The other speeders all say "the key does not fit this device" when I right click, but when I right click on the speeder, nothing happens. Weirdly, I was able to do this on my two other 60s already.

I almost want to ask what guild it is so I know to avoid...

You are understanding exactly what I'm asking, and shoot that's annoying. Not a huge deal but when I'm gathering 100s of things for conquest... well time to go to the suggestion forum I suppose.

Is there a way to set up the crew skills so it opens to the most recently used tab? For example, if I am sending out crew members to gather level 2 power crystals, can I set it so it opens up there, or will it always open up to the level 11 menu?

16-man Ravagers pug group, we are doing Master & Blaster. I'm tanking master, but we wipe on first try (blaster tank got disconnected right after we started and I didn't realize fast enough to save us). Anyway, after we wipe we go back and one of the sorcerer dps's joins us in Teamspeak, mumbles for a few minutes so that none of us can hear him, shouts "you're all adorable", and ragequits. Needless to say, we 15-manned the rest of the op with no issues whatsoever :-D.

Hey all, Maybe a stupid question here, but I am an Operative healer, and I just added augment slots to 7 of my gear pieces (all overkill 36 augments). However, after I was done I looked at the bonus healing and it rose from 1239.7 to 1240.1, which seems absurdly small. Am I right to think that, or will the augment boost show up elsewhere? (or, alternatively am I crazy and am misremembering what my original bonus healing was?) Thanks all!

It's pretty rare that I can't complete a HM FP with a pug, the only time that I fail on a regular basis is Blood Hunt. I think the really important thing is make sure people know the mechanics of the fights; they are very different from Story Mode, so tank and spank just doesn't cut it anymore.