This thread makes me miss my neighborhood & house on Tatooine in SWG.

I couldn't agree more. If I have 2-3 hours to play I don't want to feel like I need to do a bunch of quests first to get tokens for gear. I'd much rather just run a HM Flashpoint and hope to get some gear drops. But apparently the daily tokens seem to be more important.

Up until looking at this I thought all Flashpoints had Hard Modes. I'm glad I chose to run them all while leveling up.

The first thing developers ask when you are having any sort of issue with the game is to disable any 3rd party addons. With all the current issues it would be a horrible idea to allow 3rd party addons at this time, and only make it more complex to iron out the bugs/glitches.

With the amount of instancing in this game you'd think Ilum would have something set up to limit the amount of players inside, and create a new instance if there is enough players waiting in queue. It's been done in other games...

I was thinking the same thing watching the video. It really sucks though for the Republic players who venture into Ilum for the first time and end up getting permanently stuck there.

Well played. lol

I have a 6870 and have the exact same issues regardless of graphic settings. I use GPU-Z to monitor GPU load and noticed when in the imperial fleet my GPU usage is around 0% which means the CPU can't keep up with the tasks it has to process causing a bottleneck. Take a read at this thread, some people were very helpful in explaining things. http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=153310

I always roll greed for companion gear. Reason being is everyone else in the group has multiple companions too, so odds are every piece of gear is "needed" by someone. Only "need" roll on gear you want to use on your actual character. If you are specifically running the flashpoint to gear your companion, then I would state that from the very start so the group can decide if they are OK with it or not.

Vote: 4 - No. Obviously not enough is broken to cause you to leave, otherwise you already would have. Just get a job and pay the sub. Yes this game has a lot of bugs/glitches but anyone who has played any other MMORPG will know Bioware really hasn't done that bad at all. Please do not compare this to FFXIV ever again. FFXIV was completely broken in every way and shouldn't even have been released which is why they were forced to go F2P for a while.

Thanks Koogan. Very nice.

I'm at 310 Artifice and this is wrong up to that level.

Forcing AA is not a bad idea at all. However I do agree if you are having any graphic/performance issues, the first test would be to disable AA.

I'm pure Dark and was thinking about switching to Light just for the saber color. The only option seems to be running flash points and Black Talon is probably the fastest option. I'm personally not going to do it, not worth the grind. If I was you, I'd make a decision and grind out to either side and leave it at that. If you aren't finished leveling to 50, I'd just continue your journey and stick with the same choice moving forward.

I had the same problem.