The shells have always had zero stats. Everything is tied to the mods. The only change from back when you quit is that the set bonus follows the mod now instead of staying on the shell so you can have orange gear with a set bonus. The nice thing about your situation is that there is a ton of stuff you haven't done because it didn't exist yet. Once you are caught up, though, that will be that except for the one chapter a month trickle. Unless the devs announce something else to staunch the flow, that is...

What would the point of trying to explain it to you be when someone with a laser pointer will just lead you into another room while we are trying to do it?

I did but did not make it very far. The "click to target" thing got to me. Running up to a mob and pressing an attack key did nothing. To be fair, it is something that could probably be solved with settings or familiarity. It is well-polished and I could definitely lose myself in it if I get hooked. Might pick it up again if I get bored of Wildstar.

I watched a lot of his videos during the first year and he is so right. You are also right in that they are making the same mistakes again regarding story versus elder game content only, this time, story is time-gated. Players are mad because there, frankly, isn't anything to do after the grind other than do it again on an alt. Yawn.

inb4 play naked with no comp using only auto-attack to "make your own challenge."

Agreed. I hate seeing SCORPIO with a rifle.

Completely forgot about Rift. Played it at launch, even got a couple of those "Facepull has found the first [insert blue/purple item here] on the server!" messages. I lost interest at 50 when you could play with two fingers if you had the proper macros. Might check it out again. Hope my Templar is still there. I've gone over to Wildstar and I'm having a lot of fun there. I'm digging the art style, the humor and the '50s sci-fi drive-in movie cinematics on some of the missions. Plus, I've actually died a couple of times while leveling! The horror!

Remember that when you try Googling a build and only come up with gold selling sites.

Someone wants to go full-tilt Kylo on a console... I do, too. +1

Well, they ruined the boss fights, too. When I leveled my Guardian post-4.0, my influence 4-5 Teeseven soloed the emperor at the end of the story. The fight was over in less than 30 seconds. I'm having a similar experience on my Commando but at least I know that the game is in snooze-mode this time.

One of the coolest (IMO) pistols dropped there, too. A moment of silence for the Hammer Precision Holdout. BW screwed the pooch on removing the orange drops from flashpoints. That along with removing the orange gear comm vendors from the planets are the choices that annoy me the most so far.

208 hilts and barrels drop in the H2+ Star Fortress instances from the Paladins.

So you want every planet to be Wintergrasp/Tol Barad then gate new PvE content behind PvP? What could go wrong? A single instance of something like this would be neat but every planet? I just want the things we used to have added back in. MP content, unique stories where our characters' choices actually change stuff (LS/DS choices, romance, consequences and rewards like the old titles) and less interactive fiction/more game where you might actually die so there's a feeling of satisfaction for overcoming the antagonist. If I wanted to watch a movie, I'd load up a Blu-Ray, not SWTOR.

I honestly believe this is at the core of their new business model. They are actually basing it on player churn instead of maintaining a steady player base. An interesting experiment, to be sure.

You have obviously not played through a class story since 4.0 dropped. It's sad how faceroll it is. Level synch does nothing to change that.

Its days as an MMORPG are already numbered due to design decisions making it into a completely single player experience. If that new project has any depth to it at all, SWTOR will die within weeks of its release, if it still exists at all.

This. I would even argue that the story loses a lot of it's meaning due to the climactic encounters being far too easy.

Those ops and fps are repeatable, farmable content that you can enjoy in the company of other people unlike the solo story content that ends exactly the same way no matter what toon you use or how you play through it. I am hoping the solo (i'm sensing a trend here) arena thing is fun. I will be here until then to check it out. If it fails, I'll return when chapter 16 drops. Maybe.

I was about to agree until I saw you said "slot" instead of "shot." My trooper would have left him on Balmorra if Garza would have let her.

If you are not following @KyloR3n on Twitter, you fail at Star Wars. Warning: there may be spoilers there. And lols. Lots of lols.

He was referring to the excuses our kids make when they break something or spill milk on the couch. Feel free to rant on about random crap, though. It's quite entertaining.

Plaguehorn? One of the Pub heroic quicktravels placed me roughly 30 yards behind him, staring him squarely in the rump. There wasn't another soul near me.

At least WoW got in the spirit and celebrated the return of Star Wars to the big screen. I think it's pretty neat.

Yeah, they're both busy with their actual job of cleaning the bathrooms.

Haha. That's awesome.