Wasn't there supposed to be a CXP boost for both Flashpoints and Uprisings?

I can't believe people are still buying this old "Choices That Matter" thing. No, they don't. Did you forget already how all your player's choices were basically forgotten in the expansion? Hell, in KOTET Acina barely even remembered you've ever been to Kaas, even though as a Sith Inquisitor you were a Dark Council member. Also, killing someone and them staying dead is not a Choice That Matters if it literally has no consequences whatsoever in the plot later on. Anyway, unsubbed. Yeah, it was fun to have a Star Wars MMO, but I won't stay chained to it just because it's the only one out there.

Azula was deranged, yes, but before she lost it completely she could be cold and calculating; she was ruthless, but also efficient, and smart as hell. Meanwhile Vaylin is basically just crazy and powerful, and that's all we get from her character for now. I feel like the character is aspiring to be something like Azula to Arcann's reversed Zuko (she even has similar "my mommy thinks I'm a monster, and she left me, and I hate her" issues), but for now we just see her running around laughing madly and throwing objects, acting like someone just let her out of her cage. I hope that, at some point, they'll go a bit deeper than that with her, but seeing her first interaction with Senya (being basically "omg mom y u so stupid") doesn't give me much hope.

My Sorcerer using only her lightsaber during those fights is the only thing that makes it believable that she gets beaten every time.

I always felt like he didn't think for himself at all, he was more of a glorified bodyguard than an actual apprentice, especially for someone like the Inquisitor. And now he's telling me he's a Lord now, pffffffff. Those five years had to be really hard if someone actually went and made Xalek a Lord.

Yes! My thoughts exactly! Also, if you're playing Inquisitor it seems obvious they'd take their past into consideration. Inquisitor knows a thing or two about possession - they had problems with their ghosts, Zash possessed Khem Val, so they should know that if using Valk's powers is letting him take control for a moment, that's not a smart thing to do. If you're playing Inquisitor refusing him is not LS choice, it's just common sense.

What makes it even worse, you get rescued by droids and grunts even though in both fights with Arcann you were basically pummeling him into the ground, only to get interrupted by a cutscene. You feel you have the upper hand, and then a cutscene arrives that shows you that "lol no, you're not", and it just feels forced. The game constantly keeps telling you that your opponent is immensely strong, but when it comes to an actual fight you just don't feel it.

I guess it's a way to go, playing the long game and pretending to be a somewhat decent person, but I'd be nice to have an active agenda. I know it's still early into the expansion, but I hope they'll give you a chance to, for example, quietly strenghten the Sith Empire, while leaving Republic weakened, or something similar. It d like that there's an option for your character to plan to rule everything after Zakuul is defeated. The thing is, I didn't always agree with the way LS/DS choices were presented, because sometimes DS choices were made plain stupid or harmful for the Empire, but it was't that often. But right now when I choose DS I feel like I'm playing a basic RPG character with a chaotic-evil alignment, not a Sith Lord. And that might be my problem. I liked class story, because it was tailored for your character, no one else could do that. While KotFE pulls all classes into one story, and some of them simply don't fit into that role. I think the situation with Sidious was quite different, he was hidden in shadows, because that was the only way to do it. Meanwhile, Sith characters in TOR are a part of the Empire, surrounded by other powerful Sith Lords, and to be on top, yes, they have to cunning and deceitful, but they also have to powerful, and feared, and I guess at some point they just get used to it.

I feel like suddenly everyone is trying to appeal to my DS Inquisitor's non-existent conscience and make her feel guilty about one thing or another, and there's no option to explain that she's evil, she doesn't care, the end. It feels like the game is giving you not-so-subtle hints that your character should start thinking about their past and present behaviour, and that’s something I definitely did not miss. It's annoying and it makes the dialogues feel out of character. I mean, I know that "we're all in this together" now, and all that, but it feels a bit disconnecting from the Dark Side part of the playthrough, especially for the Sith characters who draw power from it.