First off, you're not going to be handicapped compared to players who got all of the datacrons. Secondly, you're not going to be excluded from groups because you didn't get all the datacrons. Lastly, it's 100% an optional side thing, something to do for fun if you want a challenge.

Oh god FFXI... "I need you to recover something for me." ...okay...? What? Where? From who? When?.... "Did you bring the thing I needed? No? Well get back out there!"

Yes, but people knew about it from beta. Unless there were some new colors added to retail release (which would be uncharacteristic of them), the colors would have all been datamined already.

Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Cyan, Magenta, White (not available yet), Black/Yellow, Black/Green, Black/Red. There you go.

The very first thing I noticed when I started playing retail SWTOR for the first time was... ...what the hell, they took out the hooded robe for Korriban commendations? *** BIOWARE! Wait, where is my match to chest option? GDI! What a great way to set the tone of the game. This is pretty infuriating. I can tolerate most bugs. Almost all of them (except Soa, damn you!), but the deliberate removing of content is unacceptable to me. I hate to play that "threatening to quit" card, really I do, but this is going to be one of the key factors to my inevitable departure. The other one is the disconnect bug. We should keep this thread on the front page until Maintenance begins.

World of Warcraft is the most successful "failure" I can think of.

There was a guide posted for that boss. We followed the guide exactly and still got locked out. Huzzah.

Too bad hyperbole makes your argument invalid, thus only owning yourself.

Cause there's totally this thing called a threat table that isn't being utilized correctly. Because your tank getting whisked away to another plane of existence (intended or not) causing the boss to mysteriously vanish is totally a working mechanic. Stop being an apologist. There has never ever been a boss fight where the boss despawning because of another boss mechanic is working as intended. YES, there is a way around that particular scenario, but it's still a bug.

According to some people this is a feature and not a bug.

I stopped listening after your raging hyperbole.

I can assure you the boss disappearing in the middle of the encounter because a tank got mindtrapped is most certainly not 100% intended. Yes maybe the intent was for the tank to get mindtrapped, but currently he will just reset if the tank does. It almost sounds like you're saying that those are features, not bugs. In that case Bioware should hire you for PR. Referring to pieced of the floor actually being missing. Like you walk into Soa's room and there are holes in the floor where floor pieces should be. When the platforming phase comes into play, those spots where there were holes in the floor missing platforms don't have platforms.

The only bug-fix I saw for Eternity Vault was the Gharj bug where you just randomly die running back after a wipe.

Here's a bunch of bugs my guild has encountered during Eternity Vault. After a wipe to Gharj, players will die when running back to the boss...or not running back, such as the mass death happening when we called a night the first time and everyone flew back to the Imperial Fleet only to die upon landing. This looks like it might be fixed in the next patch? During Ancient Pylons, we had both pylons solve row 3 at the same time and the pylons became bugged and would no longer move, making them unsolvable. We were forced to reset the Operation. During the Infernal Council, one of our Marauder's Berserk skill was triggering the 100% reduction debuff. It took 5 resets before we learned this was the culprit. During Soa...oh my during Soa... He deserves his own list. There's a bug where the cyclone target takes damage in the air during normal mode. Either that or there's a bug where the cyclone target takes no damage. We're not exactly sure which is the intended mechanic here as it happens about half the time one way or another. Sometimes after a wipe the platforms will not fully reset, so there will be platforms missing, thus making the dropping part of the bossfight impossible. If a target is in cyclone as the platforms part begins, it will drop the person to the bottom of the arena. They may or may not be alive when this happens. Again it's about 50/50. During the last phase of the boss, Mind Trap will often target the tank, causing Soa to despawn and forcing the players to Exit Area and start again. Sometimes Soa will die and be unlootable. A bit of a minor bug, there's one bugged power source that exists outside of the actual graphic and can't be killed.

Until recently once you hit 50 all you had to do was...Warzones. Hardmodes were broken until just recently. Operations were (and still are) a buggy mess. Ilum was a carebear trading fest, but now they are a (seconds per frame) slideshow of that time you visited Ilum for group PVP. Rolling an alt now will punish you later since the Legacy system is not even implemented. Crafted gear isn't as good as PVP/Raid gear.

All of the current Operations are on Ziost Mission Deck, yet the closest vendor where we can repair is on the other end of the Ziost Bridge. It would be convenient for people wiping a lot to learning Operations to have somewhere closer to repair.

Except for the stealth thing (can't help you with that) there's a buff you get when entering cutscenes that stops your buffs from ticking off. Pop all your defenses prior to talking to someone if you know it's going to be a fight and they'll still be there when the talking is done and the fighting starts.

I know the problem in which the OP is referring to and it's an easy fix. Here's the code they used: Run game with.out bugs. As you can clearly see, there is an extra decimal where there shouldn't be. As a one-time courtesy, I will provide the fixed code. Run game without bugs.

I think you meant to say "no excuses...".

I tried several times to like Guild Wars and just couldn't. I also don't like the fact that you could create a max level character without earning it.

yes but this OP links to the actual article, not an blog about an article.

Just wait for the Legacy System rewards to come out, I'm sure there will be lots of alts rolling then.

The problem with not getting daily/weekly credit seems to be if you are in group 2 in the ops. This affects both PVP (Warzone wins) and PVE (Boss kill credit) This is just speculation though.

I heard there was this awesome fleet thing where you can take a ship to and it has like EVERYTHING in it! I can't even imagine a whole fleet. I can't wait to see it. Sadly though, I've had a terrible time finding a group for the first quest.

Anyone remember in Age of Conan when female characters did less damage than male counterparts because the swing-speed was slower? Kind of like the Republic animations.