See, no, thats the thing. If I queue as a heals and get a 3DPS group, sure, good heals/DPS=no downtime/insane clears. However, expecting a tank to tank a tactical is ridiculous. Most people don't appreciate the guy absorbing damage, and the 3 DPS don't give the tank a chance to rest, plus the general lack of a healer causes the tank's health to drop ridiculously fast, especially if the DPS take their sweet time. TL;DR: Heals=great, Tanks=Unnecessary and poor things at Tacts

*shrugs* Although there is definitely a possibility, I personally doubt that they'd wait till next year. Frankly, doing that would be shooting themselves in the foot when players have been griping about thin content this year. (And no, strongholds doesn't really count)

/signed 99% class stories are dead. This would be nice, especially if instances are rebalanced to 55. Redo everything with companion of my choice and the armor that was level-locked. Wouldn't pay anything outside of my sub however.

Was there a reason for his? But enough with the pointless bickering, perhaps I overreacted. It's just annoying whenever someone feels the need to personally attack anyone criticising or (negatively?) commenting on the game etc just because they don't see/realise/have experienced any problems.

Agreed. Or if I had a GS, then I can pull a sniper and vice versa. At the same time, if this tool is used, I think there should be a sign on all their forum posts, what character etc, so we know whether complaints about lack of content etc are valid. Keeps accountability, you know?

No no, I definitely agree that going the latter is being stupid.I do respect some of you posters, at least I think you believe in what you say. In the context of this article however, I feel ZH has given a viable, achievable suggestion if the dev's at EA are willing to fork more money and invest fully to make this game more. As has been noted before, the switch to F2P has generated huge income for this game, more than a sub model ever could (that's for another discussion though). The problem most of us have is that we feel, based only on our past and current knowledge (communication is something the dev's need to improve on defs) is that we're not seeing this money being funneled back into the game for reasons stated before and in many threads. I guess sometimes it can be easy to smudge the line between healthy criticism and full on well, you know, but most of us are also pretty passionate about the game and seeing it performing poorly (opinion) is saddening. Anyway, hope I don't sound condescending/patronising etc, just hoping to have a healthy discussion here.

I don't understand you white knights (actually, I'm not even sure you qualify) with how constructive criticism and improvements becomes some doomsday prophecy...anyway I digress. Point being: SWTOR could use better communication between dev's and players. WOW has had an expansion dated, named and priced for how long now? Swtor has "an expansion that is similar to Makeb" and GSH, the only major reveal since the beginning of the year. It is less than 2 months before the launch of housing (a side feature) and we still DON'T KNOW anything beyond the basics e.g. how legacy banks gonna work, ship pricing, placing of items etc..." Story players got 3 measly 20-minute tactical flashpoints i.e. no balancing, no challenge months ago. Our last new gameplay style addition was space arena PVP, released for subs last year. PVP players have only gotten 1 new map this year. Endgame players get months of same HM raiding and NM mode months AFTER, and even then DP/DF weren't even released in the same patch. In these same months, we have gotten, well... cartel packs, money sinks (NS Event), cartel packs and did I mention cartel packs? Can you as a player justify this as substantial legitimate CONTENT? Is the game dying, no, far from it, is it getting harder to justify $15/month when a new content expansion will charge subbers extra money to access?....yes, yes it is.

Your team kicked a tank? That's....new....on the bright side though, at least you didn't have to run with a group with at least 2 people who weren't right in the head.

My 2 cents: I used to be in one of the largest APAC raiding/social guilds on Harbinger. SM, HM, NM, you name it, we ran it. We had alt guilds, sister guilds, PVP guilds etc. Ran weekly night OPs with fresh players like me given a chance to join in for progression. Now, our "progression team" is the same 8 people running DP/DF only on Pub side. Our GM took a 5 month hiatus from lack of content and our guild is only half full with maybe 5 people on a good night. Our PVP guild died with the lone leader running solo ranked by himself. Our richest players donated their M$$ into the guild bank then quit. Even our FP groups quit after tacticals were all that they released. I myself swapped my tanks and heals to DPS due to no use outside competitive raiding/PVP which we can't do anymore. The content this year has been poor to say the least. They give us all this crappy money sinks like the NS event which few people have enough money to afford to complete and housing, which ultimately while nice (I was looming foeward to it originally) is supposed to substitute actual content like PVP maps, Ops or even bloody challenging FPs. I used to hope that class stories would come back but if they can't even keep standard MMO-group content coming on a regular basis, well good luck. Finally, where's my monthly sub money going to if all this content is supposed to come in the Makeb-like PAID expansion?

Ooh Slafko's done! Can i give it a shot? "poped cz hm. healer made me move guard from him to mara even tho i purposely let him take aggro so i dont take dmg. they got angry for some reason about my shien form as a tank even tho i said more dps and kill faster=less damage. i died cos the stoopid noob healer couldnt heal properly. i dunno why he dint use the healing stations. they got angry abt me needding the mara gear for jaesa even tho i explained that she uses lightsaber=strength gear. as a tank i take charge so i told them abt my NIM clears but they made stoopid up abt achievements lol. got kicked again. noobs. gon run kdy." How was that?

Actually, an ok-geared tank can shrug off the damage as it doesn't really hurt. The circle of damage is really small. The guy mentioned that the tank turned the boss around 180. Completely unnecassary and annoying for DPSers like sins who need to be behind the boss and healers, as the tank's now out of range if they're on the bunker

Oh yeah, my ideas are for future content not any current content. Should have been a bit more clear sorry.

So the title basically explains what I'm talking about: Conversation Choices. Let me explain. 1. Currently, conversation options for a character are set based on the alignment for their faction i.e. Empire = Evil Scumbags, Republic = Goody-goody two shoes. This means that if I should play as a LS Sith or a DS Jedi, it's very rare to find convo options that actually let me say what I want to say. Also, this means that sometimes there is no difference between 2 of the 3 options available e.g. "Very Well","I'll do it.","I will destroy them and their families!" so what's the point? 2. For some reason, many times what the teaser text says can differ very differently to what my toon actually says. For example, when I play as a LS Sith, I've had to restart the convo due to the misleading text. Something as simple as "Very Well" became "I am Sith! I will destroy them! Muahahahaha!" (Slight exaggeration but point is there.) Although class stories are out of the picture for now, I notice that the inherent LS/DS carries on to faction content e.g. Makeb/Oricon. Very annoying. Solutions: 1. I feel that a simple way to resolve this issue is to make all conversation options play out like an alignment choice. In an alignment choice there are 3 options: LS/DS/Neutral. So, all future convo choices will be "Nice/Neutral/Evil". Make a strong distinction between the three options. I can be a nice Sith that gets invited to all of the parties, a neutral one or the guy that kicks the door down and raids the fridge. 2. A small QOL feature that could be implemented could be a little description of what happens by choosing that option. For example "Insults NPC","Thanks NPC" or the emotive that the character will use when saying it. "Angry","Generous" but you get the idea. Currently, the description is there when an action is taken after the choice, such as murdering the NPC, but it would be nice to see this being carried out. What do you think?

If you're a healer, why do you use Elara? Then why didn't you respec to DPS since you pulled your comp out? Just curious.

You are without a doubt the most patient tank in any FP I've ever heard of. Allow me to give you some times when it's good to kick a player. 1. When the Shien form jug DPS queues as a tank for a 55 HM 2. When said Jug Dpstank has only 25K Hp. 3.When upon closer inspection, he has some willpower because "I'm a Sith lol. Willpower = More FORCEZ!" 4.When the Jug Dpstank's response to you calling him out is "**** noob, I've cleared Nim DP 100 times with my guild. My main is the raid leader of "Top Harbinger's raiding guild" I know what I'm doing!" Should you decide not to kick, be prepared with: 1. Stealth abilities, so you and the real DPS can watch said tank die...and die...and die 2. Time, so you can watch his attempts to wipe the group fail miserably as the real Dps clean up his messes. Now, after all that, the real question is, when to kick? Well.... 1. After his attempts to ninja-loot fail as the DPS A and you counter-need. 2. After said jug Dpstank has probably about a 100K in repairs from his wipes. 3. Right before the final boss so you can pull out Treek who *gasp* taunts and holds aggro! Note: The above was a true story. But the fun doesn't stop there! Learn all about the 30 different methods of swearing in general chat, as well as the nightly events that your gaming has forced your mother into! Finally, learn about the dangers of sharing on the Internet as said Jug Dpstank is planning on "m********** you little f****** piece of c****!