No it is the same for me, I was being semi-serious there.

You'll weep when you realize how many mobs you can just stealth past that you had to kill on your Sniper... and Soloing H4s when they are orange quests because you can pop out of stealth, click the objective and then re-stealth.

Yeah, to work it would have to have minimums like you could only freeze it for no less than a week and no more than 4 weeks or something... But I would concur long time MMO Player, never heard of such an option. It is kind of counter-intuitive to the entire business model of a subscription.

Maybe you are sticking your fingers in the knife holes from debilitate and manually ripping their guys out?

Really? You can't find some shoes? About the only things you lose out on as a neutral character is Relics while leveling.

Executes are different abilities, not every class has them and they aren't designed like Eviscerate. I believe that Snipers have an execute ability no? Take Down or something? That isn't what Eviscerate/Headshot is.

This has been gone over before, it is a PVE ability only, intended to make trash mobs faster. Every class has one. For Jedi Consular's it is a kick called Tumult. Even though it sounds like an Imperial Agent class feature, it is a generic PVE only thing that everyone gets in some form or another.

Any chance of resetting the quest? The few bugged quests I had that seemed to work.

As far as your spoiler goes, he didn't actually do that at all. In fact, in my story line, he did the exact OPPOSITE of that. Unless you mean at some future stage that I haven't seen yet but it appears to me from reading spoilers that

Basically your problem, so to speak, is trying to read common sense into the game stats Aim is for Bounty Hunters/Troopers and Cunning is for Agents/Smugglers. It is hard coded that Cunning provides far and away better effects for us, despite the common sense connection between firing a rifle and Aim. When it comes to the 4 Main Stats, you pretty much only ever want your class' stat on gear. If you want to collect the Aim Datacrons for a tiny amount of boost, go for it

I can only speak for the Operative, which gets an AOE Mez (10m range) with Flashbang, and the standard Stun (Melee range with Knife) via Debilitate. It gets a one minute CC with Sleep Dart (10m range) but that requires you to be in Stealth and that the target is not in Combat so it is a lot more limited than say the Consular Force Lift. It can be talented to debuff the mob after they wake, but that has some negative consequences as well. Sleep dart doesn't work on droids. Agents also get Slice Droid, a 30m range 1 minute CC for Droids only that can be used in combat. It appears that Snipers get all the same minus the Sleep Dart, but they get a few Root effects that Operatives don't (Cover Pulse and Leg Shot). Assuming that is correct, the Operative can cc two mobs at once, assuming one is a Droid and one is alive, while the Sniper has more control effects, they can only cc Droids.

In EQ1 we were also content to sit at a zone entry and spam LFG until some group had an opening. WoW is indeed to blame in that it provided an environment that you could actually solo in for everyone not just a few classes. Early WoW had lots of group content as well, and during its lifecycle has removed more and more of that in favor of characters getting to max level solo in virtually no time with zero effort. I'd lie if I said I do not have a lot of nostalgia for how EQ1 did things, but at the same time, could I go back and do that again? I am doubtful.

Biggest technical hurdle I see to server transfers is the unique Legacy name problem. If you already have a Legacy name on both servers, which sticks? What if that name is already taken on the server? How much Legacy XP do you keep? The amount on the server transferred from? to? higher? lower?

I also had Ora live. It is a light side option in the dialog trees. Basically you convince her that Kaliyo's actions made her stronger, and to let it go. Also, I allowed the Gambler to live as well. A light-side choice convinced him to let her go. I killed the Wookiee, but I suspect that he too could have been convinced to drop it, but I was gunning for maximum Kaliyo affection. Unfortunately, since the storyline is pre-written and voiced, it would not be realistic for them to have duplicated everything up to that point, just because some people might have chosen to swap one for the other. I suspect, without any evidence, that in future expansions we might get some kind of Companion Exchange option, but can't guarantee it. The basis of my assumption is they will want to add some new companions (homosexual romances, etc.) but also not have us end up with like 12 people living on our ship

People actually cast Kolto Infusion? Not a troll, serious question Oh, I guess DPS spec might...

It appears the first companion you get has more story action than the others.

Pretty much as described, you change accent when pretending to be Republic, or at least non-Imperial. Red Blade on Hutta, infiltrating the resistance on Balmorra, etc.

Fair enough... but still... So a "Wizard" (Because EU more or less paints Sith as wizards) made a magic amulet that changed people into Rakghouls... but not everyone, so he also made a Plague... and then his magic talisman, essentially a Lich's phylacetry, goes hither and yon, possess some Jedi or other blah blah blah.... Your mileage may vary, but that is more like a bad D&D session to me than what I think of as Star Wars.

Yeah, except that it is kind of a Star Wars "thing" to have single environment plants. Virtually every planet in the original trilogy is like that and it stuck. Desert planet, Ice Planet, Cloud City, Swamp Planet, Forest Moon, etc.

Because it is an MMO. Any significant choice that people made (like to not recruit a companion) you would have raging tears and rants on the forums on how they were forever gimped because Bioware allowed them to make a choice that they weren't aware of the consequences of. If you had a choice of A or B, and picked A because everyone said A was better, then in six months Bioware puts in a patch that makes B "better" by the estimation of the masses, everyone who picked A will be gnashing their teeth and wailing. MMOs have to cater to the least common denominator.

Actually going back to the original poster's point, I do think that some of the stuff in the game is gratuitous. Like, say Hoth. I know, it is an iconic planet from Empire Strikes Back, but the way it is used kind of surprises me. I figured the Rebels used it in Empire because well, no one goes there. But now we find that it was a highly trafficked world seeing a lot of action! :-p Same for Tatooine. In the original Star Wars it was a complete backwater. Now we found out that Darth Vader was actually born there... Which of course makes it the perfect spot for Obi-Want to hide Luke Skywalker? Without even changing his name? Thank God, Vader or the Emperor never checked the phone book :-p

I do not believe that familiarity with the Star Wars IP is an issue. However, I am a fan of the movies. I was completely unaware until this game just how god-awful and horrendous the "expanded universe" material is! Now I actually understand why Lucas thought the prequels would be well received... Because the crap in the EU is of sub-Twilight quality. I actually wonder if Bioware was aware of how bad it was before they bought it and got stuck with stuff like Taris and the Space-Worgen, I mean Rakghouls. And don't even get me started on Revan :-p Sorry Revan fans, but characters like that are very unappealing to me.

But since that is like a complete re-design of the class, I don't see it happening, barring some new split class tree option in an ex-pac.

Yeah Courting gifts are kind of weird. Most Companions will only take them once courtship begins, but ironically, Kaliyo never wants them, near as I could tell.

Two things. First, everyone gets a "job" title in the beginning, be it Padawan, Apprentice, Agent, etc. Second, while I suppose they could give you Red Blade or some other old "cover" as a title, I never liked the idea. When everyone has a unique title it isn't unique :-p The fact that every Jedi Consular is the ONE AND ONLY LIVING BAR'SENTHOR is kind of well... stupid