they are I guess the same .. the only thing i need or rather like having treek for is as a healer for my JKs till I get through Balmorra and as a tank for my healer merc (never did figure out when they get an actual tank as Taris was annoying without a tank) I still prefer Khem/bodarr once i get them for those classes (besides if Khem dies it is only payback for all the threats i have suffered from him)

someone forgot to feed the hamsters in the little wheel so "it no go" ???

I think Togruta was a post from someone and I have as yet to find an actual reference to anyone actually saying they were coming out at all (though I could be wrong).. there could be better instance speed if players like me could actually play (I am sadomasochistic since i like playing healers and tanks) BUT the lag leave me unwilling to do anything other than low end content since 3.0... and I usually sub and will run multiple FPS before logging out of group .. sigh sometimes I thing the peeps at Bioware are also sadomasochistic..

LordA isn't that basically Bowdarr in a lot of ways .. sure interesting idea BUT they never seemed to make one companion too much like another

it is so off now .. no real lag in my SH or ship .. nothing BUT in combat .. might have to give up the game for a few months BUT of course i did that when RotHC came out and just came back a month before the release of SoR .. once a player leaves to do something else you often won't get them back for a while if at all

though I agree in the movies it looked cool then again a light saber in the movies = instant death or lost limbs too.. some things just don't work in an MMO that you can do in an FPS or movie:cool:

Not saying you CAN'T do it ..but for me it is a bit unbalanced and always was when some classes get companions in a seriously different order.. I hate building DPS for PvP soling and then rebuilding tank for instances and without the bonuses you get later on to presence the leveling though possible is a lot harder. pre SoR I did have a tank BH and hard no problems with green heroics 2+ but haven't tested it since I came back as even my trooper is a pain as VG unless I go DPS.. sadly the game is NOW way easier with DPS BUT i never play DPS so I guess as far as it goes I am screwed

LoL you watch we will all be having to rename again .. when they did the original server merges I lost a bunch of names to myself and then ended up with a server with 22 characters or so because 2 of my near full servers were merged (i think it might have been 3 BUT i think a bunch of characters either found their was to another server or were just deleted because they couldn't fit) I hope no more server merges .. for some reason it zeroes my legacy and it is VERY annoying

you do know that it won't necessarily matter what kind of computer you buy .. nor how up to date .. you could still have a lot of lag .. I am running an AMD-FX)-8320 eight core processor 3.5 GHz 12GB hard mem and a nvidia GTX 660 with 2 gb of dedicated ram .. I get nothing but lag lag lag from swtor.. though the system requirements are way beyond the game when the game came out i was playing it on an older lap top with near requirements and the game ran better than it does now on this system.. Just saying

if you ever played a jedi knight or a bounty hunter merc speced heals you would know how fun both those classes are as you don't get a healer till you get to balmorra's end so what is that 7 or 8 worlds till you have a healer and as for when bounty hunters get a tank who knows I always give up (keep meaning to delete my 40th level BH and restart as a tank since BHs get their healer as the starting companion) sure it is possible I got my first JKG to 40th level and through to balmorra by taking biomed and crossing my fingers but when you look at other classes and the way they get their companions you notice a BIG difference to the leveling performance .. I have treek I could reequip to 40th level but not sure if I have the patience so I have just shelved some characters I will also say Treek does make it a bit too easy as a healer if she is used as tank since she self heals a it .. since i got treek I usually only use her but then again this isn't a big deal to me I can see the point that VERY few players use anything other than the 2 companions once unlocked since the power levels are a lot different.

great theory BUT the game was completely fine TILL the expansion hit then it went laggy again.. it was bad when RotHC came out .. left gave up I couldn't play for crap.. the month before SoR came out it was completely fine and I was finding NO lag or so little it didn't matter and was unnoticeable. the day the expansion came out I was off work for a few hours and nothing BUT lag .. it sort of stabilized through the week BUT still was terrible.. here we are after a patch that was supposed to help with this lag and the lag is worse than EVER before.

this in many many ways

still waiting on this issue .. got back hour an hour ago and figured i would mess with the game before trying to have a nap in case I have to go back in again and I am getting ok FPS but terrible lag.. 2 to 3 seconds stopped connectivity every 10 seconds.. I had NO lag prior to SoR coming out and last week it was bad but I thought that the patch this week was supposed to help and yet it made it worse.

sitting in the office waiting on a reload to go back to work (8 hours off duty back at another 10 hours of work this is MY schedule .. 10 on 8 off 10 on till the work is done) .. Yet I don't have an issue with the leveling.. I don't have time for playing at all when I am working as I am lucky to get enough sleep an YET I have no issue with the leveling in this game.. Though I don't want to see people leave because of the "slow" (still laugh at this) leveling in swtor I have to ask HOW long would you last once you get to max level.. when this game came out people were whining in 3 weeks not enough content because they had leveled too fast in effect and this was without 12x xp.. it is past time people figured out that max level is nothing different that leveling except you don't have any actual "growth" in a character beyond reequipping with better gear.. I also noticed you failed to comment about MY 80 hour work weeks after you cried about YOUR 40 hour work weeks.. (this is too the OP).. there are a lot of MMOs i have played and bottom line since WoW vast majority fail with a fast leveling performance set up as player quickly get bored .. grinding solo is also boring of course SO maybe you need to slow down and group for fun.. EQ HAD one of the slowest leveling when I used to play it AND yet it was way more fun .. on my day or 2 off cycle I would be grinding kills in groups and WE would be talking about everything and anything keeping it interesting.. Speed grinding to max gear or level ISN'T an MMO but a FPS style game ... if it is game time that makes a casual player then I am a super casual player as I just don't have the real time hours to mess around and yet I would like leveling spaced out more so as not to get to the max level hum drums too fast.. the 12x xp was a bonus and to get people through a few levels fast BUT yet again a failure like their big XP war zones and flash points were at the beginning as you get people just spamming them to get to max level then crying "not enough to do" .. when my generation finally retires I pity NA and this group who think 40 hours a week and 45 min drive is a long week I can tell you:rolleyes:

me too .. and annoying as hell as I never asked for anything and NEVER felt the need to purchase anything like this .. not lazy enough to do so..

even this won't help .. I have played several games with a 10 - 20 level range for this and still you get a lot of spam.. thing IS if players stopped buying stuff from them IT would get better .. sadly I doubt Bioware is is willing to take a hard line and ban players caught purchasing from there spammers.. another option is to close the global channels and you need to pay for every message but this too doesn't stop them.. close the channels altogether then you local channels are insane for the same thing.. maybe the best bet is to sent in the marines to break the fingers of all these idiots

I work TOO .,, I work a 80+ hour work week driving truck... I play for about 4 to 8 hours 1 day a week.. hummm.. ??

The lag is worse tonight than ever before and I thought this was something being looked into?? doing a speedtest to austin I have ping 65 ms, DL of 15.66mbps, and UL of 2.17 mbps at this time.. the ping is a little high but not note worthy as I have played games a lot worse my system 660 stx video card .. 12 G hard mem .. a 8 core 350ghz processor .. and my software is all up to date there is no way the game should be playing like EQ when our top speeds were 56k and pentium 90s with constant lag stoppages .. as I said i thought you said this was being looked into .. this happened when hutt cartel came out and I like a fool bought it.. came back last month and here is the lag again after the patches start coming out .. I think your issues MIGHT be Bit Raider but I am not going to spend the hours reinstalling to find out if I can use an alternative .. I don't nee added software what i need it your end to figure out what it is .. I DON'T install 3rd party software on my computer unless it is a linux system as windows is way to problematic to fix issues since it is a closed system.. as I said I am only annoyed because last i read you were trying to "fix" this BUT it has gotten worse..

Please NEVER.. you don't start as your class as such you choose your class at level 10 .. this has been a whinefest since the game opened .. you are playing a consular and then get to 10th level choose to go ranged/healer .. oh wait don't like that now change to melee DPS/tank.. so if in wow context you start as a priest then change to a warrior of something.. THIS is more than just a dumb idea.. if by 11th level you don't like a class you delete a reroll it doesn't take that long and I sure doesn't take long to level up.. IF they ever do put it in it will just be a sign that money incoming to the game is more important than game balancing

I couldn't figure out how to say it nicely so figured I would repost this one.. THE GAME IS FAST ALREADY.. IF you sub you level quickly with bonus xp items and all the missions .. stop being lazy do the bonus stuff do the bonus areas , do heroics and do the FPS and you will be beyond the level of the area in no time.. the extra xp didn't help me at all as I just ended up spending extra time in heroics farming for Comms to gear up anyway.. I for one HOPE they never bring it back EVER .. you don't need it .. I don't think it is so much the entitlement so much as they didn't really EARN anything and NOW found the game has nothing much at max level to do .. bottom line NO MMO at this time has all that much to do at max levels other than raid farming that gets VERY OLD VERY FAST.. it is too bad we can't roll back the clock to EQ 1 before scars of velious and show you what "difficult" leveling is and YES a lot of casuals played that game.. fast leveling really has made an absolute mess of MMOs

new engine = new game.. always the case .. I agree at times it seems the engine might be buggy and hard to work with (by the time it takes the programmers to make fixes it seems this way sometimes) they won't strip the game down and rebuild with new engine without making a whole new game.. I believe they only have a 10 year license for star wars logo as well so if you do the math that means they might not get much return on such a huge redevelopment to the game:o log in enjoy the game .. post comments to assist in repairs when necessary and enjoy the game as it is

they can't write and AI at this time as Skynet is listening

disrupt is not that great an option if facing multiple mobs since the CD is so big.. have only noticed it on champions so far but one did a charged up attack which I interrupted then proceeded to charge it up again immediately afterwards which i used my 2nd interrupt on.. 2nd to 4th rounds it was the same only I was eating large charged up damage on the 2nd hits as the CD was up on my 2nd interrupt,, even with 2 players we would have eaten a lot of damage all because the CDs were lengthened and because I believe the CDs on older mobs not increased at all and some were buggy I do agree with ensuring you face the mobs.. if they are hitting you from behind they DO more damage it seems but this isn't the whole issue .. I prefer to hit spawns with 2 elites/golds and a strong/silver over 2 strong and 1 elite since the damage I take is far higher and can at times burst and kill me against the 2 strong mobs.. something is off a bit but not sure where it starts

TYVM for keeping us informed .. ty for letting us know your are indeed listening to us .. I for one prefer that to know you are listening and vetoing than the idea that you aren't listening at all keep up the good work

to some degree you are wrong .. I gear in full orange for both my character and my companion.. with full blue mods replaced every 3 to 4 levels .. Some of the strong mobs hit incredibly hard ( in 2 man heroics I prefer 2 elite/gold mobs and a strong/silver over 2 strong and and elite.. the fight takes longer as the elite has more health but for some reason the strong HIT way harder).. the only other matter of course is the stupid lag that also causes issues of course that I really wish they would address as it occurs every time there it a big patch and lasts for upwards of a month.. I notice without lag the strong mobs are less apt to spike the huge damage they were doing as I think part of it is lag and the way the game is interacting over a laggy connection. Though toning down the mobs WILL help fixing intermittent lag spikes might help more (then maybe we can keep the strong mobs as a reasonable power level) .. I know I get 15g DL and 2 G upload to austin and dallas .. my ping is high at 50-60 but the overall line is a b+ as per the test BUT this game when connected has been laggy as hell ever since the patch and reminds me of playing EQ1 back with 28k and 56k modems .. also IF you are using the extra buffs allowed by legacy and completions I suggest you remove them and start over to find the issue .. IF unwilling to do so then you have no right to complain.. the buffs make the game overly easy and the game needs to be balanced and tweaked towards the players without the buffs