The man doesn't want to choose mercenary in addition to commando though. Who in their right mind would WANT to make their second combat style their mirror instead of just switching their first to that mirror instead? I for example would have loved to switch my operative to a scoundrel so that my agent could finally use a pistol, but play the same. Instead I have to spend both my combat styles on what is effectively the exact same class, while newer players can pick any they want.

Bumping. Is this all but confirmed now that the PTS has had it's final phase?

It's hard to tell right now, and kind of depends on what you want to do. Of the 2 combat styles you can choose for a class, is one of them already available to that class? if so, youcan start a character now. If not, say for example, you want to make a sniper/gunslinger on the trooper story, you should probably wait. That mostly comes down to whether existing characters get to both select a secondary combat style, AND switch their original, which atm, nobody knows. Announcements have implied that you'd be able to, but currently you cannot do that on PTS, and we're running out of time until launch.

How absolutely backwards does this game's engine/code base have to be for this to not be possible? They've already added the functionality for switching combat styles and giving each character a second one What could possibly be standing in the way of getting this same system to function on existing characters?

Except that, currently on PTS, a *tech* class copied over from live cannot change their primary combat style at all. Mirror or no. This has nothing to do with the feature of being able to switch to a mirror class based on alignment that force users get. Such as system has never been on the table for tech classes afaik. This has everything to do with the heavily implied notion that existing characters would be able to select both a second combat style, and replace their primary one that, prior to 7.0, was restricted to class story. ATM, we can't do that.

I think it is safe to say that most, if not all of us expected to be able to switch BOTH of the combat styles of our existing tech characters, considering that is what the announcements said almost verbatim. Until we know for sure whether this is intended, a bug, or just not yet properly implemented on the PTS I'm probably going to go out of my way to keep this thread bumped

I can't see why switching an older toon's initial style isn't possible, since switching combat styles is one of the major hooks of this update.

When swtor launched I didn't play it for the first year or so because I was so disappointed with the choices for playable aliens. SWG, which came out 8 years before it had playable Ithorians, Trandoshans, Bothans, Wookiees and more, but the new modern mmo that swg's servers got unplugged for had, what? blue human, green human, red human, and human with prosthetics? pathetic. I'd shelve out cc for even one of these. But I'll never not be pissed that a decade later I still cannot recreate my Trandoshan jedi.

Yeah, welcome to the garbage CS rollercoaster. It never ends and you cannot get off. I really feel for you, but your drop is gone. CS will not respond to you, and if they do it'll be the algorithm picking up on the most repeated word in your ticket and giving you the appropriate copy/paste response. Said response will not help you and will say that you did not experience a known bug because there are none, and that if you did, it was your own fault and should've known better. Welcome to the club.

This strikes me as a, "we said you'd be able to do it, but we've since discovered that we don't know how to make that happen."

I can't get onto the test server to see for myself atm. Do these replace tacticals, as well as armor sets?

I ... jfc! at the very least the toons I have that lost their romances can still use those companions, that is absolutely unacceptable treatment. I've been playing MMOs actively for some 20 years now and this is probably the worst excuse for customer service I've ever seen. To compare, GW2's CS has gladly replaced items for me when I've accidentally bound or destroyed them, something I would have never expected most CS to be willing to do, yet they've done it for me multiple times. Swtor's cs, by comparison, feels like they'd rather spit in your face than have a reason stop sitting on their hands.

Yeah, I mirror this experience. I just came back to the game after 6 years of not playing. I quit shortly after KotFE ended, for obvious reasons, and now that I came back I found that on several characters that were going through the story, their romances had been wiped. Sent a ticket in saying that despite having initiated romances before and not missing any flirt options or whatnot, some of my characters had their romances erased due to a bug that has apparently been known about and gone unfixed for the past six years. Wanted to see if support could manually set some story flags, or anything of the sort. What I got back was downright insulting. Support told me that, and I quote, "The game is working as intended and there are absolutely no issues with companion romance", and that "it completely relies on the decisions you make" As well, they insisted that they couldn't fix the flags because it might "break the story". Excuse me? were they trying to gaslight me that this bug does not exist? are they saying that it is my fault that the flags got reset because I took a break? This game's customer service is an absolute *********** joke. Even their reason for not helping fix the issue doesn't hold up, since I've learned that they one even introduced an NPC droid that you could interact with that actually fixed romance flags if you encountered this kind of bug before! Talk about spitting in my face, for having the gall to bother trying their game again six years after I quit. You've more patience than me though, as after receiving that response I stopped trying.