Lay out the terms at the beginning of the FP and if the losers don't follow, screw em. If the healer or tank wants to be more conservative and not zerg rush, suck it up, dps, or roll a healer and "do your job" of tolerating the bads CC-breaking stupidity.

Yep, new project animation is just terrible. Why does the damage and the animation have to synch? Just make the damage instant and keep the old animation, problem solved.

1.3 won't save my sub. Canceled yesterday. I've just lost all faith in BW as a developer. 1. The server population issue...poor decision making. 2. The lack of standard MMO features (LFG tool)...poor decision making. 3. Mass server merges without adding in some kind of identifier to allow preservation of names...poor decision making (although this one I forgive because they screwed around until the game was about to collapse and had to rush out a fix). 4. Releasing the new LFG tool as same server, thus neutering its effectiveness....poor decision making / laziness. And finally, I'm sorry but if you can't release classes with abilities balanced to within 50% of the power, you fail as a developer. I left WoW because I got tired of the balance treadmill where everyone waited for their turn to be king of the hill and taste the sweet OPness before the crushing nerf bat swatted you back to the shadows. Everyone keeps saying that the nerf/buff cycle is a required part of the MMO genre. It's a cop-out for incompetence. Shoot for a distribution and leave it alone. And these are just my SWTOR issues. Hopefully the real BW can escape from whatever basement the body-snatching pods running the show have stashed them in.

And yet the graphics are not even close to the cutting edge. As for needing an epic fail occasionally to wake up the AAA developers...there were PLENTY of epic MMO failures to draw lessons from. SWTOR has no excuse for it's failings other than refusing to draw lessons from it's competitors and some gross incompetence. Having said that and having played several other F2P MMO's (briefly), no, SWTOR is not near the bottom of the pile. It's firmly in the middle though, which is a shame, because the ingredients for a top dog MMO were there. Classic failure to execute.

There are classes in SWTOR that are still fun and balanced? What the heck Devs? You've been sleeping on the job! Get the nerf bats ASAP! Seriously though, the endless nerf cycle is what killed WoW for me. I fully expect re-balancing to happen as a result of major content additions (xpacs) that add new abilities or to balance out a new set of gear. However, when there's been nothing new added for 6 months, they should be able to stabilize class balance for the most part. Classes will never be 100% balanced and I'd much rather live with the fact that all classes are within 5% or so of each other and mostly static than the FotM crap MMO's churn out constantly.

Less hyperbole. Things like "They practically faceroll the keyboard and win, hell half can auto attack and kill you outright." make you sound like a whiny, cry-baby, moron and kills any credibility your post might have. If you can't post a well though out and reasoned argument for why a particular class is overpowered without resorting to "whaa whaaa.....hyperbole....outright lie....31/31/31 spec....whaa whaa" then the class is probably fine and you are likely just a horrible player.

It was a real issue that's been universally acknowledged. The "whining," as you call it, has been successful in bringing a positive change that will help keep the game you enjoy going. So....pot, meet kettle.

At least they're taking action, even if it shines the spotlight on a series of incredibly dumb decisions that have knee-capped the game. I mean, they could just continue to ignore the problem and hope it goes away. Of course, it would eventually go away when the only active server left was Fatman.

Agree OP, low pop servers are a symptom, not the cause. However, some drop off was inevitable. IMO the real problem was that BW's server tech blows and they couldn't stack enough people in servers to keep an enjoyable experience after the initial surge wore off. The drop in players made a lot of content unplayable, which created a snow-ball effect. I think most of the problems you list are legit, but not enough to cause the massive decline we've seen on most servers. BW...buy some better servers or find out how to get 10,000 plus players on a server! Or stop being lame and implement cross-server LFG and PVP.

My server is dead, same server LFG tool will be of marginal benefit. Way to half-*** it again BW. Unless 1.3 includes both LFG tool AND free server mergers/transfers, it will be pointless for most servers. Cross server is the way to go. Some say it doesn't discourage poor behavior, but you can kick anyone and have a replacement quickly. Right now it doesn't matter how badly someone acts because you're so desperate to find people for your group you have to put up with the BS. There's no logical argument against cross server.

Agreed. I'd love to play an alien that's actually....alien.

No big deal. Switching advanced classes would actually keep me playing longer since I'd get to try more content (the other AC). I'm not going to reroll a character and suffer through the same story twice. Not going to happen. Guess BW doesn't need my money.

By far the best solution would be for us to be able to use whatever we wanted, 2 sabers, single saber, or double-saber. Make the choice not class dependent. However, BW wants every class to be instantly recognizable. See two sabers? You know it's a Sent/Mara. See someone straight out of a (bad) Paris fashion show? It's a Consular. Then you look for the saber to determine AC.

A vengeance specced jug who's in dps stance is NOT a tank. They don't have an appreciable increase in survivability and certainly aren't "very hard to kill." The short answer is, jug dps isn't as high as other dps classes because BW screwed up. The long answer is, it's going to get a lot better as soon as you get Impale in the 30's somewhere.

How would you know if Operatives are OP? There's only about 3 that PvP on my server. 3 nerfs wasn't enough for you, lol.

This x1000. Why am I paying for huge amounts of content that I can't experience because finding groups is either impossible or just stupidly boring? This would be an issue no matter what thanks to BW's genius LFG system, but couple that with the low server pops and getting groups for FP's and heroics slips from "hard" to "impossible." I'm lucky if I manage to do a single Heroic 4 on any particular planet while leveling now and I've run a grand total of 4 FP's in this game. That's not 4 different FP's...that's 4 total. BW's busy trying to create content to satisfy the level 50's, but those are short term fixes. The casual base needs the leveling experience fixed so we can take advantage of the content. Just release server merges and a REAL lfg tool already. And make the LFG tool x-server so that it's actually functional rather. We don't need more fail, there's plenty to be had already.

For the majority of players, MMO's are about getting to experience the content. This often requires grouping. The "community" argument is moronic on it's face. Having a x-server LFG tool in no way precludes you from forming a guild. A premade with known players will always be better than a PUG with a bunch of random people. The idea that there is some thriving community that is imperiled by being able to group for FP's with players from other servers is just laughable. "Oh no! We have to preserver the endless general chat spam on fleets! What will we do without our community?"

Yeah, BW's decision to not ship with a LFG tool (and no, the check box is not a tool, whoever came up with that idea needs to be slapped in the face) was completely full of fail. I'm still trying to decide if releasing a same server only LFG tool will be more or less fail. I'm leaning towards more since it will do absolutely nothing for the majority of servers that are dead and it's like running a marathon and getting to withing 30 yards of the finish line and saying "eh, this is good enough." Plus there's the whole thing about EVERY argument against a x-server LFG tool being complete crap without an ounce of logic behind it. But then again, I'm sure that's why BW finds it so attractive.

I try and do heroics, but I'm not going to sit and spam chat LFG for hours. Since BW thoughtfully shipped without server transfers and with the lamest LFG system ever, I'm screwed 75% of the time. I'm lucky if I can get one heroic done per planet unless I can solo them (heroic 2+). A lot of people have probably just given up in frustration.

LS BH is just crappy at his job. A lot of the LS decisions involve turning down bounties or letting them go and lying to your employer about it (from what I've seen so far). Lame in the extreme. I've played every single character in the game to at least level 20, and I've played SI and SW to 50....and I gotta say, all of the LS choices remind me of SpaceBalls. "Evil will always win because Good....is dumb."

1. Go full vengeance 2. Gear Quinn at the GTM 3. Profit Seriously OP, your spec is probably doing significantly less damage than it could be. Obviously you can play however you'd like, but as full Vengeance spec using Quinn the last two boss fights were an absolute joke. There's no point in using a tank as a Jug. If you're dps, either use another dps or healer. If you're a tank, use a dps companion.

The legacy items being "as advertized" doesn't make them any less lame.

So it's good IF you you have a full rage bar, IF your attacker is using basic attacks on you, and IF you didn't have any real shot at killing them anyway and are just waiting on a heal or someone to rescue you (because it destroys your dps). Thanks BW for this awesome ability!

I still see the occasional scoundrel running around in stealth so I expect the nerfs to continue.

Dude on a high horse....get off it. If the guy is PvPing as he levels and has questions, he has every right to ask them here. Unfortunately I don't have any definitive answers for you OP. My understanding is that Scoundrel burst was nerfed but I don't think they touched our survivability. You're likely just seeing some higher dps from other classes. For example, SW's got a nice buff to Ravage and it hits like a truck now.