That was my fear, I feel like taking gear out of the game is bad design, but because of it seems I know have a lot of grandfathered armor sets, weapons etc that are no longer available.

That's the battlemind which his different from the Harbynger http://torf.mmo-fashion.com/stygian-harbingers-lightsaber/ It's listed under the planetary commendation vendor which has been long gone for a while.

So I'm a founder, but approximately in late 2013 or early 2014 I stopped playing the game. I decided to come back and play through the sith warrior story once more, because it's the one class and story I enjoyed the most. I made my way to Dromund Kass, where my favorite lightsaber used to be sold, only to see the vendor is gone and the lightsaber Im looking for is nowhere to be found. The lightsaber is The Stygian Harbinger's Lightsaber. Which I love because it's not humongous like the other lightsabers which to me just look bad. Is this even in the game anymore?

Do you need to launch swtor unleashed every time you launch the game? or just the first time when you make changes?

Spoken like someone who obviously does not have the hardware to support Dx11. Just look at how the grphics for upcoming MMO's look, take a look at FFIV a realm reborn, or Bless, hell look at guild wars 2 even. This game will look like crap in a few years, if something is not done by Bioware, the game is already dying as it is, give the ones who can run Dx11 at max settings and high resolution textures the option to do it. Everyone else cen stay with the crappy Dx9 if they choose to.

I wasn't aware there was other kinds of thanksgiving.

I think guild wars 2 is an example of what the graphics in this game should have been, I still don't understand why bioware went with this cartoony graphics. The game is going to look old very soon, specially with the new games and new engines coming out. hopefully they have plans for graphical improvement in the future, more than shiny plants.

I've been wondeing this myself, I would love to be able to replay my class story.

We definitely need more robes in the game my main is a Sith Warrior, while I do have that robed look it is kinda disappointing that we cannot use full robes like the classing Jedi/Sith in the movies.

I've never had an issue like this in a game, and why should we get over it? I paid vor a CE and I pay a monthly fee to get this game maintained and fix. So ****, if you don't care that's fine don't comment on this thread, some of us do care about the quality of the product.

I just came back to the game after a few months and I'm noticing this as well.

I havent seen a single sorcerer/sage I cant walk all over, with my revenge/immortal hybrid build, running with vindicator gear. I play in Help of Graush and usually sorcerers/sages except for their healing expect are easy prey. If they are healer spec, It takes me a while to kill them, but they dont deal any dps back. So I don't understand where this whole nerf sorc/sages is coming from.

I havent seen a single sorcerer/sage I cant walk all over, with my revenge/immortal hybrid build, running with vindicator gear. I play in Help of Graush and usually sorcerers/sages except for their healing expect are easy prey. If they are healer spec, It takes me a while to kill them, but they dont deal any dps back. So I don't understand where this whole nerf sorc/sages is coming from.

I may have misunderstood but you did it wrong, by the time you hit 50, you can get full Centurion gear. Unlike you I hit 50 on December 19th, I was 60 valor and had full battlemaster gear by late January before the lv 50 bracket. Expertise is fine the way it is, you just need to get your centurion gear as early as possible. Working hard to get battlemaster means getting owned by if you don't any pvp gear at all. I was walking over people with battle master gear, when I just had my centurion. I've also seen pretty even fights with peopel champ and BM gear. I just started playing wiht my Assassin, lv 50 just 22 valor but full centurion gear, and Im still getting 1st, 2nd and 3rd places on WZ. With about 320 expertise give or take, I may not be top of the charts in DPS but Im still getting my 10, 25 kills medal, Im averaging 7 medals in WZ getting up to 10 in civil war.

You get 40 commendations on top of what you would regularly get. Right now if you pla a match and your team wins you will get about 40-50 commendations even if you get no medals whatsoever. I average 8 medals, and get about 100 commandations, but I rather get 90 without have to work my *** off.

So no official word? I was hoping for a emergency patch tonight to fix ilum....

Who says expertise is getting removed?

I don't see where you are grabbing the 2k shield from, cause on my Jugg I've hit a sorcere with my 2 main skilsl that hit for about 4-4.5k damage and they dont take the bubble off. But I don't think sorcerers and sages are OP at least not the dps version, the healers are the ones I can't kill, they can't kill me but I can't kill them either. They just bubble up and heal through the damage.

/signed illum is broken, I got 109 kills total but after taht it stopped counting, entirely.

The Rakata gear is pve and it's basically the same thing, except with a few more stat points.

This is not necessarily true, yes armor rating might be a bit higher. But an Assassin can increase shield chance with skills by 15% on top of the 15% already given by the tanking stance. Also dark charge offers a heal, every 1.5 seconds which in my mind is a lot better than the extra 4% in armor rating that the juggernaut gets. Also harnessed darkness which heals you for 10-12% of your total HP and can be used every 15-25 seconds. The lv 50 skill the assassin gets it's a 2 minute cooldown that increases the healing done by 300% and heals you instantly for 10% of your hp, which is almost as good as using channel the force the 20 minute conpanion cooldown. While the jugg gets a crappy 20% cover ability and 2 3 minute cooldowns. The assassin relies on on 4 cooldowns, one which increases shild chance by 15% has a 12 second cooldown 8 charges and lasts 20 seconds. Another one which reduced all incoming damage by 50% and has a 2 minute cooldown, another which reduces all force and tech damage by 100% and has a 45 second cooldown and the one I mentioned above which increases healing done by dark chage by 300% with a 2 minute cooldown. Assassin also get's a hate generating AOE ability, with a 7 second cooldown, you got saber charge and lacerate with no cooldown and spammable for 3 AOE total. On top of it you also get your regular taunt and AOE Taunt and you also have ranged attacks not to mention force pull which help pull mobs to you, when they are attacking the healer or dps, or to pu them all together for your AOE. Youre a ranged and melee hybrid and also do a lot more dps than the Juggernaut does, which also helps keep aggro. Also 2 CC's a hold, force slow and a DOT. All of this make the assassin a better tank, and it's why I am so frustrated that I wasted valuable time getting a juggernaut to 50, just to have to reroll.

Yeah exept try tanking, the hard flashpoints or operations wiht a jugg where everything is elite and see how it goes. You will get constant group wipes for your innability to keep the aggro of all the mobs. There is a reason why when groups get together for directive 7, they specifically say they want a Assassin or Bounty Hunter tank. Instead of trying to make up excuses for the Juggernaut, roll an assassin get to 50 and see the improvement for yourself. Exactly... This says it all, thouhg not entirely true, some groups like the Assassin to be main tank. Depending on the instance you are running and the situation.

Your situation, is pretty much not valid when an assassin or mercenary could tank all those mobs at the same time. The juggernaut is broken and needs a lof of fixing, the more you try to convince yourself nothing is wrong, the longer it will take to bioware to do some serious fixes to the class. I got my Jugg to 50 immortal, it was gimped it sucked. I made an assassin darkness I'm 50 now and it's OPed compared to the Juggernaut.

I hit 50 on my juggernaut (immortal) on sunday night, and I can tell yout he class needs a major overhaul. I don't have a problem with key bindings or rage. My problem is half my skills and the most damaging ones are useless. Since they require the target to be incapacitated they do not work on Elites, or Champions, they also do not work in pvp, even if the target can be incapacitated or slowed. You basically have 2 saber throws, 1 that generates rage and has crap damage and another one that does a descent amount of damage, but can only be used on mobs below 20% hp... If you pvp you are left with a handful of skills you can use, and if you just PVE you get stuck with having to do crap dps vs elites and champions. The class needs a full overhaul on reduced cooldowns, and changed conditions for usage of skills.

I hit 50 as a juggernaut sunday night, and I have to agree it's terrible and unbalanced. If it wasn't bioware would not have admitted to it and say theyw ill do a pass on it soon. You have abilities you can't use on elites or in pvp, since your most damaging abilities require the enemy to be incapacitated or below 20% hp. Tell me how this is not broken? I don't think you have played the class enough if you really think it does not need to be fixed.