Sniper does a lot of damage, but I prefer my Operative over my Sniper. As static as the Sniper can be, the Operative is constantly moving. As you're a PvPer that's much more viable. ETA: You do get used to the cover part of it all, the game really rewards you for being in cover too. If you want pure DPS the Sniper is the obvious choice (at least in PvE, I don't know how well it stacks up in PvP). I just think the Operative is much more fun to play. Which is entirely subjective.

There are a few occasions in the SI quest line (and some planet main story quest lines), where you can be gracious and courteous, especially to higher ranking Sith. The response back is always similar: watch out for the quiet ones! I played my SI as cocky because she felt ridiculously over-whelmed. She was trying to hide her utter inexperience and fear. I also had her be particularly blood-thirsty because as a former slave suddenly given such power, she went a little... nuts. As she progressed through the story, she became more cautious and focused. She is also one of the few character I have that displays her story title, her ambition (and survival) is derived from this under-lying fear of feeling like an impostor. Which didn't go away for her even after Act 1.

I'm probably in the minority, but I like Treek. There is that one sentence though, that is three times as loud as everything else she says. That one grates even on me. If I could mute the ship droid, I'd be much happier. Utter rage inducing every time I step onto my beloved ship.

Yup! All training is free. I've pre-ordered (obviously). BW really came through as far as I'm concerned.

Just run DK/C and B/T Heroics with your main, it'll take about 20/40 mins and should keep you rolling for one alt. (If your main is 55 ofc)

I love the conquest crafting now for this reason. As a fairly new player this is has helped me enormously in the credit department.

When the conquests began, my highest level character wasn't yet 55. I wanted to contribute so I started crafting, I ended up being the second-most contributor for my guild without really trying. That's a bit broken. Having said that I can't be bothered with the crafting/gathering infinity and have pretty much stopped with the conquests; I was getting burned out. I wonder if people feel they HAVE to keep up this level of crazy so they don't let their guild down. I don't know what the solution is, but the conquest system doesn't really work very well.

I agree with you. I suspect that is what he was talking about.

I believe he was talking about the first or second week where you could run multiple FPs over and over again. If you used the group finder to do so, then you got something like 4000CP per FP. On a speed run through say SM Black Talon, that added up remarkably quickly. They did that patch mid-week to stop it (mostly because guilds were doing that Ilum sneaky thing). Wading into this debate, I'd like a separation of points depending on what your guild chose: So PvE guilds got more for running Ops/FP, PvP guilds got more for Warzones/GSF and Crafter/Trading guilds got more for War Supplies,etc. I don't know how that would work overall or how to balance it however.

There is a level 13 Vibroknife that can drop from the boss on the Dromund Kaas Heroic 4 Friends of Old. If you want a guaranteed non-loot table adaptive vibroknife however, the first one I found was at level 23 from the relevant fleet Planetary Commendation equipment vendor. (Probably the Nar Shaddaa).

Light Strength Datacron - On Balmorra, Imperial side, the quest [HEROIC 2+] The Republic's Last Gasp generally drops at least one (sometimes all three champion bosses drop one). Dark Strength Datacron - The Geonosian boss Nekra the Warlord on Tattooine drops one every time I kill him.

I'm rubbish at timed jumping (I've been mocked for it by guildies in other MMOs when on the way to xp grind location ), but I love Datacron hunting! I'm terrible at it; it takes me hours (and a lot of swearing) to get them. At the easier to get Datacrons, people come and go around me as I slowly make progress. When I pick up the Datacon, it's a great sense of achievement. Then I go and kill some stuff for a while to relax.

Yes, this. Sometimes there is a factionless response, but often you are asked to do something stupid (on both sides) for the faction gain. Some of the quests could do with tightening up.

My Sith Warrior is still very little, so I look forward to this.

This quest faction response was utterly ridiculous actually, I do agree. I didn't how the devs came about the light/dark choices.