lol, you would think so. Keep up the great posts guys.

Glad to see the positive feedback about the game. I played since beta and unsubbed shortly after 1.2. But after taking the long break and getting back into the game I have really been enjoying this game a lot and 2.0 looks to be bringing a lot of great stuff to the game. I am really excited to keep playing.

Deff will set my charaters titles to that, great idea.

Welcome Back, Same here I just resubbed today with a couple friends of mine. I over hyped SWTOR like many did pre launch and was dissapointed with the game, which actually has a lot of good things going for it. But when you are expecting the NEXT BEST MMO EVER TO BE CREATED, its hard for anything to live up to that. I went over to GW2 then onto MoP and now Im back here. WoW always turns into too much of a job for me when I start raiding. I still play GW2 but will be doing OPS in SWTOR and other stuff. I have been having a blast since being back and look forward to the things to come.

In the most recent podcast they said that NM EC is going to come to swtor.

I was just thinking the same thing. Somebody always has to rain on the parade. Anyway to the OP, awesome to see your back and enjoying the game. The game has been a lot of fun for me since I took a break after a couple months.

What is the helm that is in the picture because I REALLY like it. If anyone knows where I can get it that would be awesome. It doesn't look like the one that is in the normal stalker set.

Yeah I have to agree that the drop rate for the work that goes into doing a HM flashpoint is ridiculous. Imo get champions gear through pvp and then go into OPS. Its so much faster and more reliable, at least you get bags on a regular basis. But here's the thing, not everyone like pvp so your stuck running normals and hard modes without any guarantee for an upgrade. But in an hour of pvp I will have champion bags for the day with commendations and usually an unassembled item. And 6 bags for the weekly which I can get in a few hours. The difference in gearing is really odd. The way I think it should be done is that you get a T2 pve bag like the pvp champion bag for completing one daily HM and 1 T2 bag from the final boss of the first HM you do each day. And the rest of the HM FPs that day should have 1 T1 bag from the last boss. That way everyone in the group is guaranteed the normal commendations you get plus 2 T2 Bags a day and after your first HM you have the T1 bags each run. I think this would speed up the process of gearing up. I am just suggesting this because gearing up in pvp seems exponentially faster then gearing through pve. I have been 50 for almost a week and have like 6 or 7 T2 pieces already. That shouldn't be the case if others have been putting the equivalent time in HM FPs and not getting any rewards for it.

I am a raider but not a HC one. I enjoyed my way all the way up to lvl 50 and didnt rush past all the quests. But I got Syth/Arch/UT all to 400 and it was pretty useless 1-50. The story with Synth is that you can get better gear elsewhere and easier. The level 20/40 pvp sets are modifiable and super easy to get. ~150 WZ commendations to get each piece, that's like 2 hours for warzones for your next 10 levels of gear. I kept holding onto the fact that synth would give me something useful other then bracers and wait pieces that are good, but hardly worth keeping over Biochem. So switched all my professions to level Biochem yesterday, even after the nerf bat is hitting biochem its still better than synth by a mile. Unless you are an RP'er and want to be able to craft different sets for looks which is great, there is really no driving reason to keep synth.

I have to disagree with your disagreement? lol I just dropped 400 Synth yesterday for Biochem. At max level synth doesn't offer anything that you cant get elsewhere. The rakata pieces are nice, but you can get equivalents from HM OPs. While leveling I found synth pretty much useless because the level 20/40 pvp sets are better and so easy to get. 500 WZ commendations will get you 4 pieces of the pvp set for your level and takes a handful of warzones to get. I never made myself anything while leveling for myself because I always had better from somewhere else and it was easier to get. The point of having a profession like Synthweaving is to craft gear that is worthwhile to have that for the most part you can get faster because you can craft it rather than trying to farm it somewhere else. But in this game the gear from synth just aren't that good. When I hit 49 I finally made myself a decent waist and bracers and.......thats about it. I kept sending out companions hoping to get good schematics but nothing ever came so I dropped 400 Synth 400 Archeology 400 UT for Biochem/Bioanalysis/Diplomacy. And its 100x more useful. Maybe I will go back to synth at some point if its ever made worth while to have but Biochem still being better after the nerf to it says something.

Im with you on this one. Give the mods to the respective crafting types of each armor so that it is actually worth picking up. I am 400 in synthweaving and its pretty useless after you replace a couple of pre 50 crap gear.

Really, from what I have been hearing Shadow tanks have been doing pretty good. Much better then the Guardian from what I hear. Since we have so much absorb it has been healing soak a lot of damage. Anyways, I have had no real issues so far.

Thats pretty much what my experience in tanking with this class. As a tank Im not thinking how many times am I whipping out my cool lightsaber, its about keeping mobs angry at me and not running around. I may go through a string of 5 force abilities to 1 saber attack or VV. So yeah I totally agree with the 50% estimate.

I like the name

I think the ship looks fine as it is. I want to rip C2's vocalizer out of his throat though, lol.

Picked the wrong AC my friend. You cant pick a ranged caster AC then come on the forums and complain that you don't melee enough and cant stack strength. Well you can, but you wont get any sympathy for it. Sages are fine, you however need to re-roll or learn to enjoy being a caster.

The thing is I really love this game thus far, despite its many issues and bugs that need to be worked out. I am probably going to be 50 in the next day or so and seeing how easy it is to get gear is really disappointing and concerning. In MMO's raid content is where the hardest encounters and and require coordination and skill. Being so they should also give the best rewards. But making them completely obsolete because you can gain them faster and sometimes better items elsewhere is really frustrating. I like to work with a team and learn a boss fight and put in the hours to get a boss kill. Im not even a Hardcore raider, The longest raid schedule I have been on is 3 nights a week for 3 hours. But thinking that other people don't have to group with a raid and can just solo q themselves in pvp and get the same gear I am raiding with others to get is crazy. And why so many drops per boss? It makes farming a boss completely nonexistent and in my eyes that shortens the lifespan of expansions because players are getting so many drops in one attempt. Im sorry if people want BiS or Tier gear to be accessible to everyone, but that shouldn't be the case. BiS PvE gear should go to those that put in the raid time and BiS PvP gear should be for those that put in the time for that. Making everyone have access to almost everything makes it so that everyone is average and nobody is special regardless if you put in 1 hr a day or 8 hours raiding. Im okay with even making Tier 1 gear available to everyone via dailies or pvp or whatever, but no more then that. This way casual players can have gear that can be used to do OPS and get better gear if they don't want to grind heroics and the like. It just doesn't seem fair to me that people can get the same gear or equivalent gear from not doing the same or as difficult content. If you don't do the hardest content, then why should you expect to get the best gear? Oh and one last thing I agree with is make drops UNIQUE, everything looks the same other then the colors you have. Nothing looks special. It would be sick to get SOA's EPIC WHATEVER and people see you have that. It is like they designed this so that nobody has to feel bad about themselves because all the rewards are the same for everyone and can be gotten out of the vending machine. /rant. Its funny I actually havnt really been bothered by all the other things in this game, until I read this thread. Sorry for wall of text.

Yeah, chat bubbles should be a default type of thing. It really is disappointing not having them in the game. But I am sure they will be in time. RP is probably most affected by this. <3's to those guys.

I understand what the OP was saying. However I feel that much of the people that want WOW with lightsabers will be disappointed, at least at the start. Because its not all going to be here RIGHT NOW and some things from WoW may not be implemented at all. LFD, addons, macros and combat logs will be here soon enough. They are more or less required by a lot of the fan base, espeically those coming from WoW. But I don't want this game to be WoW, even though I love that game and played it for a few years, this game has a different feel and I like that, so do many others. There are a lot of things that WoW made that will be great additions to this game in the future but just don't expect them to be done today, this week, or this month. These things take time.

That item is just as useful to you as it is the shadow. I read a few threads for Sage stats and from what I read Power is rated over Alacrity. Yes they are both useful, but the argument that you shouldn't roll on a Willpower+Power item because you need Willpower+Alacrity is rubbish. Next time keep the item and kindly remind them its just as big and useful of an upgrade to you as it is the other Shadow. If they still have a problem, find a new group. Edit: I didnt notice the Accuracy on the item. That would make it more of a dps item then it is for Healing, even if its an upgrade for you. The Shadow would have priority over the item if it was my group.

Here is my take on this, I am probably in the minority here but...The PvP gear the way it is currently set up is something you work for, like in PvE gear. You start out doing Heroics in crap gear and doing terrible dps and taking tons of damage but you work through it and eventually you gear up and things become easier and you progress through content. PvP gear is no different, when 50's brackets are introduced the "old" 50's that have their gear will have an advantage over those without it because they have been doing this longer and have earned their gear. Fresh 50's haven't put in the time on those characters and need to earn their gear to be on the same level. So at first the matches may be harder to win and you may do less damage but in time you will get your gear as well and be rewarded for your efforts and dedication to playing PvP. That's just my mentality on it. I don't think you should be able to hit 50 and almost right away be on par with 50's that have been there for weeks or months earning their commendations and gear. And for me the fun of an MMO is gearing up and seeing your character improve. And one last point, just because the "older" 50's have better gear and an advantage in that regard, doesn't make them unbeatable. I have won plenty of matches against teams with 4 or more 50's and a bunch of scrubs on my team because we used teamwork and didn't get into battles we knew we couldn't win. The WZs are objective based so its better than them being team deathmatch, then I could see the big unfair advantage. Anyway, that's just my feelings on the subject.

Can't implement this NOW. There aren't enough 50's across all the servers to make this work the way everyone wants it to. If you put it in now, que times for the level 50's would be incredibly long. And then there would be a thread on the forums on how bad BW is for implementing this too early. Wait for the 50's population to grow in the next couple of weeks or so and then this would be good to put in then, not right now.

Yuuzhan Vong are not around during this time period so I dont see that as a realistic possibility. Mandalorians would make the most sense I think for this time period.

I agree as well that the "Need" option only appear to those who can actually wear the armor themselves. Greed should always go for companions imo. But people are jerks and like to ninja loot.

Made me lol. From my experience it changes from more from class to class then it does with gender to gender.