Thought about it, and honestly I don't have any 55's other than my PT, which isn't fun to PvP with anymore. So I voted with my wallet until they fix it. See you guys around. Guess I'll go actually play a game for fun.

Listened to the whole thing and I agree. I leveled my PT to 55 and started pvping, and I felt completely useless and unable to kill anything. I just want to be able to do single target damage like I used to. If I wanted to do aoe dots I'd have specced AP.

It wouldn't surprise me if the OP got grouped with a bunch of people in tionese, or worse *shudder*...

The number of people saying 55 hard modes are too hard is astounding to me. PUG's are not the problem. I've tanked the majority of HM 55's in the gear I was able to buy within two days of hitting level 55, in all PUG's, and I didn't have ANY tank gear before then. If it's too hard, read up on the mechanics and make sure everyone knows what to do. If that fails on the third or fourth wipe, quit and save yourself the repair costs. It's that simple (Although I've never had to resort to it because the groups were decent). If anything, hard mode flashpoints should eventually get a nightmare difficulty, because basic/classic gear from the new vendors is enough to faceroll ALL of them. And give us a real payout to match the harder difficulty so complaint threads about not getting enough loot for an EASY flashpoint could be ended.

This. There is really no good way to screen players queuing as tank or heals. On a side note, I recently started being a real tank and am loving the all-day insta-queues!

Well, seeing as I have yet to hit a server queue since they made them bigger, I have no problems with having more people around. It's an MMO, the more the merrier.

Actually, it blacks over your screen and you just zoom through makeb REALLY fast. It didn't black out for me one time, so I watched the speeder slowly take off, and then go a million miles an hour to my destination. Somewhat entertaining actually.

I'm definitely in support of this as part of their 'quality of life' improvements coming soon. I use my powertech to tank in PvE and dps in PvP. It would be nice to have a dual spec to switch over whenever I want. Especially if they could preserve the setup of my hotbars and user interface for each when I switch over. I don't want to have to move around all my abilities to change to dps, I just want to switch my gear.

It's not so much a problem with game balancing as it is with animating for every possible weapon a character could use. Although it would be at least interesting to have a melee bounty hunter with vibroswords for the sake of just being a melee bounty hunter. (I don't see it happening)

No way, this one had less clarification and was posted second.

Afraid you'll throw your lightsaber into the tv?

/signed

There's actually some new synthweaving orange sets in the 2.0 patch if you're interested. Go to this page and open up the synthweaving tab and scroll down until you see them. Not totally classic looking but they're still quite nice imo! http://dulfy.net/2013/02/24/swtor-patch-2-0-new-crafting-materials-and-schematics/

I fully support the idea of animal mounts, but when 2.0 comes out I'd also like another speed tier! Like maybe a speeder that's actually capable of high speeds.

/signed, especially for more large good looking speeders in the game!

My absolute FAVORITE finisher is hitting an enemy with thermal detonator and then immediately following with a railshot so that my deadly laser beam makes a huge explosion on impact and they die still sizzling.

Huh, I always thought it was a carbine...

But if you roll a commando, just keep in mind that you are the bottom of the food chain in PvP, so you'll probably end up doing more FP's and raids.

Well, I wouldn't call it a hybrid because that would imply we would never need to be melee if we didn't want to. The 30m abilities served more as another gap closer since we can't leap. But back on topic, to everyone who likes the one pistol look, don't you at least want the armor to look significantly larger/more advanced than other classes since we're so reliant on it?

Actually every class that uses a two handed weapon has some kind of shield/focus/generator in their offhand slot, just like us... And no, there wouldn't need to be any retooling, since the trooper's blaster rifle is already made with the exact same stats as the pistol.

Even if I agreed with your logic (which I don't entirely, but I'm not going to drag this out anymore), the point is that I just want bounty hunters to look as fearsome as possible, and the blaster pistol really takes away from that image. If anything, (assuming we don't get rifles) they could at least give is a really powerful looking over sized blaster from the cartel or something, and then maybe some particle effects on the rest of the armor to go with it (like maybe the lights change or the flame gauntlet partially ignites when we draw our weapon). Not all BH's in the SW universe were supposed to be iron man, but if that's what we're stuck with, give us some pretty lights too.

http://www.noxxic.com/swtor/pve/bounty-hunter/powertech/shield-tech

Think logically? Trooper vanguards fight exactly the same as we do but with rifles. There is no more logic we need to have to see that weapon choice in this game is not based on functionality. But I guess I can let that one slide since you may not have played a vanguard. Please though, know what you're talking about before posting how illogical everyone else's opinions are.

I do agree with your logic there, but I don't see why it would hurt to let us choose our guns for those that want to. I mean, yeah we don't use them much, but we're not the only ones that don't actually use our weapons. Look at sorcs and operatives! Thanks for the reply though, as this did need to be stated, and thanks to everyone else for the positive feedback as well.

I love this class. Combat, story, everything except one thing. The one pistol is killing me. When I draw my weapon I want to feel like I'm showing off something awesome. But the one blaster is just kind of lame. We can't even get a carbine or an smg-like repeater or SOMETHING? I have yet to see a blaster pistol in game that makes me say 'wow'. They originally made the one weapon decision so we could identify an advanced class, but now we have class symbols for that. There is no reason that any ranged class can't use dual pistols or a rifle or sniper or even a heavy cannon. Think of all the work that goes into making a cannon weapon that only ONE advanced class can use. I'm sure when people played the kotor series they didn't always use a certain weapon for a certain class. I even changed weapon types a few times. Even if they made our offhand an over sized high-tech gauntlet thing that you could switch out would be cool and you wouldn't have to invest labor into animations for using all the weapons. That's my QQ. Post opinions or flame me all you want.