why not just role play more extreme, i always turn off show alignment gains for both mouseover and always show, and all of my characters have been able to reach the light/dark V. My bounty hunter was always honorable and merciful, whereas my assassin was sadist with a bloodlust. the problem (purely in my opinion) is that when people claim to role-play, they're more role-playing the type of person they personally want to be, rather than coming up with a background for each role-playing character they create. In other words, make someone new, not a vision of yourself well you kinda do, when you max light side, you get then thing where you and your companion take half damage or something, and the dark side sacrifices half of their companions health to heal themselves or something, can't remember exactly what they do.

Well as mentioned, you have yet to do the imp stories, new planets and such you also should do your companions stories if you haven`t because those are fun and interesting too also crafting, the fp`s do have their own stories planet bonus series if you haven`t done those yet theres still a lot to do solo for you

SI: "How dare you torture someone without me" SI: "I find the best oath of loyalty is a man's firstborn son in shackles" i love how evil i am

"On Korriban ... we hold parties every time a student dies" not sure if thats 100% accurate

In case that wasn't clear (not sure how to word it well) I *think* i have noticed that the rewards for doing the same flashpoint multiple times without turning in the quest, then turning in the quest later and getting all the rewards of the total amount of completions I finished athiss on my alt a few times, but didn't turn it in because i was questing elsewhere. I completed it again but since i was already heading to the imperial fleet i decided to just exit the fp at its exit to turn in the quest. upon completion i received 4k exp and 300 ds points (rather than 100 for the one event in the fp) so ... does everything stack up or is it just social points and ds/ls points

there was a thread before (i think from last year actually) of someone asking if windows 8 was any good for gaming bottom line, it is, the whole thing is built off windows 7 so you get all the normal and old functionality anyways, i've been running windows 8 for a long time and been play tor on it as well, there was a slight performance increase overall (5-15 fps) and haven't had any issues (other than the normal bugs)

I`ve also been running windows 8 for quite some time now and everything works perfectly fine i partitioned off a small (~50GB) to install and check out windows 8 while running things off the big partition, but still have a windows 7 backup if things didn't work (and i can still boot into windows 7 today if i choose to). once i got all my drivers (intel processor, ati video card) up to date i tested a couple games and they all worked perfectly (as well as they did for windows 7). Really the only difference you'll notice is somethings are switched around a bit (as with any new version of windows) and the "metro" view might take some getting used to, but is 95% avoidable (you may need to go there to open/create a shortcut for a specific application) so ya, windows 8 works just fine with sw:tor and every other game that runs on windows 7 and if you're unsure i'd recommend learning (or hiring a professional) how to create and install windows on a new partition, and update all your drivers (super important step)

agreed. I've always been more drawn to the force users in any star wars games (even the table-top rpg [the one kotor was based off of]) and was never too fond of the jedi beliefs (to have balance, there can be only one?). so i always gravitated to being neutral or focusing on the dark side. i started with a sin in the beta, then a sorc on release (to level 50) and recently i tried bounty hunter -> merc and i absolutely love it, but i couldn't get much into my sniper yet, nor my warrior. so ya, i'd say the community is pretty balanced

also consider what kreia said i KotOR II in many ways force users are weak and dependent and non-force sensitives are superior (paraphrasing) a force user is very overly dependent on the force to aid them in battle (as an ally or a tool). find a way to circumnavigate their force (or strip it away entirely) and their nothing more than a mere man, or a woman. the non-force users can train themselves to block their thoughts and actions from a force user predicting them, now they don't have pre-cognitive reflexes. use sonic weapons to weaken their hearing, be physically unpredictable to catch them off guard and get a good shot it. block their escapes, don't give them a chance or rout to change the battle in their favour. blind them with flash grenades (only useful to force users who rely on their actual sight, rather than using the force to see) and of course lightsabers are weapons of pure energy (kotor II, iirc) and advanced armors can protect against this (as well as blaster bolts)

My info is probably old and dated but ... darkness = tank deception = strongest pvp dps madness = best pve dps

i still enjoy the mmo "rotation" i seem to have set myself into (play wow for a while, go to rift, then go to gw 2, then switch to TOR, repeat) and the only thing that seems to be lacking is the world size TL;DR at the bottom (i ramble) i'll compare to wow in rift, its start in this area (only ONE starting zone per FACTION) then go here, then go here, then go here, then go here, then here, max level do dungeons its pretty much the same in tor, with two starting zones (planets) for each faction, but after that its dromund kaas, balmorra, nar shadda, tatooine, etc in wow, its a starting zone for each race (13 races/starting zone now, 8 races at launch, 6 starting zones at launch [only two more than tor]) but then there is a much less linear progression after that. ex. you start in deathknell as undead, then you're lead to tirisfall glades, but you can jump over to kalimdor (another continent) and jump into durotar or mulgore (both eventually lead to the same area though). it starts with quite a few options, and around level 20-25 you start to get onto the more linear path for whichever continent you are on, however there is almost always two optional progression paths (interchangeable) on each continent, for an approximate total of 4 linear ways to level 1-60. And thats just questing (many more dungeons to progress through to try to keep it from getting too stale [it still does though]). so when you compare the world size of TOR to WoW, WoW has a much larger and expanded world to go through how you see fit, whereas TOR you get your shared class planet (warrior + inquisitor, BH + Agent) and then its the same planet after the next, with no alternate routs to experience more areas of the game. they could even advance the story based on where you went, ex. at 18 when you finish dromund kaas as an inq you could have two planets (lets use balmorra and nar shadda, the already existing options) suggested to you, and when you arrive on either one (lets say they're both meant to be lvl 18-22 progression) zash comes up on your holo and says that she located one of the holocrons on whichever planet you're on. finish your class quests then off to the other two options for planets and repeat. this isn't much of a solution, but it would at least one other leveling path to take. TL;DR (because i ramble about nothing forever) WoW has a much larger and expanded world with multiple quest progression options, whereas TOR has one linear path (sandbox vs rollercoaster)

was gonna say that too there have been many "jedi-killers" and "sith-killers" that weren't force sensitive, just really good at their job when you make a bounty hunter, you're not some random bounty hunter out of a millon, you're like THE bounty hunter (thats why your class story exists for you) and agents are traind specifically to be able to track, hunt, avoid, and take out jedi and rogue sith, again, you're not just imperial agent #446890, you're (one of) the best there is and ... like ... tech implants ... neural dampeners ... stuff

I've never had that problem i've learned to just use the "exit zone" feature to avoid this crash, would like it to be fixed though I've never seen your third issue so, no comment on it They don't ... It's been said many times before, there are separate teams working on the bugs, the content, the market, the balancing etc. just because some bug isn't fixed immediately doesn't mean they aren't working on it. They work on it, but if a game breaking bug pops up they need to focus on that. If you PVP'd in wow (if you've even played wow) then you'll know about the exploit in warsong gulch where you can grab the flag and get to a spot unreachable by other players, and that has been there since i started playing in 2008 (earlier, but thats when i started playing) on top of all their other bugs that have been around for years that keep being pushed down due to more game breaking bugs. Aside from this post right?

As the title reads, i just came back from a long break and have actually been leveling a sniper for a while, but decided to dust off my old 50 sorc TL;DR at bottom i wanted to try healing but couldn't because i server was dead and no one was doing heroics (gave up after searching for an hour and a half on multiple occasions). I healed i think 1 full flash point and a group quest or two, and a bit of pvp back then, and i know things have changed a lot since then (i think so anyways, was like in february last year, shortly before the FP finder tool came out) so the question i pose you is, how should i approach healing. and i mean everything, what to use in what situations, best method of healing (use raid frames and click whoever needs a heal and assign heals to 1-5+ was my old strategy) what talents i should consider (usually straightforward though), what are my strengths weaknesses as a sorc healer, what fp should i start with. TL;DR I've never healed a group situation as a sorc, what do i do

tell me again how many years passed before wow implemented dual spec?