The difference between a slicer and non-slicer is night and day. I have slicing and upon hitting level 25 could afford speeder training for myself and my GF. She does not have slicing and is constantly broke due to keeping her crew skills up.

I never stop slicing.

No. @OP I agree with you. Also not to derail but more lightsabres please, so I can have the hilt model I want with an augment slot.

Because stuns.

Try DPS'ing when you don't need to heal and you can get medals for both.

Huttball with pre-mades on both sides is the most intense and fun PvP available in SWTOR. In beta my best PvP match had a group from my guild on each side. Here's the thing about obstacles: both teams can abuse them. You should pass the ball to avoid them, or leap over them. You should have your team run interference to remove enemy players who want to knock you off the platforms, or pass the ball to your own warrior to leap back up, or pass the ball to someone who is still up there. Yep, random elements are terrible. The air vent needs to be made predictable/controllable or just removed entirely. I want to slap my face on my desk when I'm pursuing the ball carrier and he gets placed perfectly in the direction he wants to go while I end up in the center of the map.

If he snuck up to the Sith and shot him in the back with a shotgun, sure.

As cool as Darth Vader is and as strong as he is in the force, he lacks knowledge. As Anakin Skywalker he was trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi who had only just himself become a Knight when taking Anakin as his first padawan. Anakin was never recognized as a Jedi Master before turning to the dark side. Anakin's experiance as a padawan and knight mainly center on the clone wars; killing lots of inept droids and fighting only two Sith. When Anakin turned to the dark side, Darth Sidious didn't teach him anything. As Darth Vader he was defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi and crippled. Darth Sidious rescued him and set him up in a partial cyborg body and continued to not teach him anything* but rather just treated him like an errand boy sending him around to assassinate stray Jedi who avoided the purge. Darth Vader never gained any real knowledge of the dark side besides "ANGER = STRONG, RAWR!!!". Lastly, I'm relatively sure Sidious ensured that Vader's suit was vulnerable to Force Lightning since a few seconds of lightning broke Vader's respirator. We'd probably have to ignore this in any "vs" argument just to level the playing field though. * Sidious had no incentive to teach Vader anything about the dark side because he never intended for Vader to become the master, rather Sidious would resurrect himself using the Force and clone bodies and become immortal. Vader was a throw-away apprentice as we see when Sidious trys to recruit Luke.

I'm a Juggernaut and almost always top in medals due to objectives and protection. But, because of the stupid way people vote, I vote for the person who contributed the least out of spite.

There were only about 5,000 posts in beta about this problem. There are lot of ways to buy something you can't use or didn't intend to buy... Item requirements are misrepresented in tooltip (it has happened). Lag. (did I buy it? ... wait... wait... OK I guess not *click* oh now I have two.) Trying to preview. Derped and made a mistake. So yes I'm 100% behind both a confirmation dialogue and a refund option.

Knights & Warriors have serious problems with their class quests, everyone else should be able to faceroll them. < 50 Juggernaut, Operative and Sorceror in beta.

< 50 Juggernaut in beta Works fine. In fact I tanked heroic flashpoint bosses after the real tank got gibbed so take from that what you will.

Take turns or make three new friends.

What's with all the apologists here? Players should not be required to ditch their progress and migrate away - potentially from the server to which BioWare assigned their guild - because of BioWare's technical limitations. I'm staying logged in from the minute I wake up in the morning, which I'm sure is not helping anything but damned if I'm going to wait in queues if I can avoid them.

Don't listen to the armchair tech support. They're not necessarily wrong but that doesn't make them right either. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653 Run & see which performance graph is maxed out.

It's true and personally verified, ALL mission skills have been made much less of a money sink and slicing in particular is profitable. I have slicing and treasure hunting and I'm finding that by sending companions only on lockbox missions... Treasure Hunting mostly breaks even with a small profit or loss on each mission. Slicing is guaranteed to bring back more credits than the mission cost. This is great for players because previously it severely gimped you financially to level up a mission skill, sadly I forsee it being nerfed for the sake of the economy / credit sellers.

Do you have official data from BioWare to support you faction imbalance claims?

Well, straight away you could try sticking with your team and not engaging in 1v1 battles (this is good advice for warzones in general). Your bolstered DPS is going to do alot more to win the match by turning decisive group fights at nodes than fighting any single player in the middle of nowhere. Besides that, would you rather sometimes have a hard time fighting a higher level sorceror or simply not get in a warzone at all?

This thread is full of misinformation about Bolster. Bolster works really well. Everyone gets roughly equivalent health, around 12,000. Everyone's damage is brought up to about the same level, in fact low level players deal more raw damage to compensate for their lack of talents & abilities. The scariest enemy in warzones is a level 10 Sniper. The Bolster system is pure win, the game tries its best to match you with players around your own level but it still lets everyone get a match in a reasonable time, even outliers who are very high or low in comparison to the general population.

Grats on early access.

Power Generators exist for classes who can't use shields in their off-hand, they just give stats. Shield Generators do everything Power Generators do (including having offensive stats) and also allow shield procs. Shield chance is: 0% base + 20% tanking stance + shield rating. Shield absorb is: 20% base + absorb rating.

From your post I can tell you WILL get hacked without a security key.

Eve peaked at 360,000 players and 63,170 simultaneous users. SWTOR has 1,750,000 pre-orders. Never mind what happens between Dec 20 and Christmas day. You do the math.

Maybe if they didn't front load all the waves while people are at work. I got my invite at 6AM and won't play until 4PM, the servers are going to get slammed tonight.

Thanks to the staggered launch I'll disregard world first anything. Grats in advance on your head start, whoever.