There is a whole NEW option for tutorials... Supposedly there is a popup chat box that I never saw on multiple toons and had never needed until this toon... Hit Escape to bring up the 'menu', above 'Quit Game' there is a 'Disable Tutorial' option just for the expansions. How wonderfully separated the engine is... /sigh.

The game did it's common 'drop to desktop without warning' and reset all of my preferences... again... but I just went through them... slowly... In User Interface->General->tutorial and show tutorial alerts are both off.

They ARE off. That's was my point... And it doesn't happen on other toons...

I hit Play, go through the cuteness, most of the abilities are missing. I open the Abilities window to restore them, they are not there. I tried changing spec to heals or lightning, only the specialty abilities for that specific spec show up. I abandon the quest and return to fleet, the abilities show back up.

Mature; I've been an original subscriber since closed beta 2009. There are no content guilds left (no content left). Per EA, 'We want to make a single-player RP experience'.. why they need to do this in an MMO is beyond me. There's just nothing left to do. As for the damage: THAT is even worse, no DOT spread then. I'd rather have to be in melee range... And Guardians/Jugs can still spread their dots 8M... so... Crybabies about our spread are what caused this... Or you run lightning like EA thinks you need to for DPS... I'll pass. I really don't care about self-healing abilities, take those out make everything direct DPS just like the other, but give us a choice and stop the nerfs. EA doesn't know how to balance a game. They take a GIANT swing one way, that didn't work, take a GIANT swing another way, etc. Really sad.

So, I hear that they plan to make FiB and the sith equivalent a 5M limit... So the only useful DPS then would be lightning which I just can't stand to play. I do not mind taking away the dot-healing away what-so-ever. Be my guest. But one of our big and important nukes now requiring us to be melee range?!? Seriously? And we can't touch sentinel or commando DPS right now either, but let's go ahead and Nerf us some more... Glad I unsubbed. So tired of this FOTM garbage and Sage hate.

Well, not actually, because EA doesn't see any real 'need' for cross-server queuing for anything. So you're only Queuing with whatever server you are on, hence the mass-exodus from otherwise depopulated servers. If they did indeed have cross-server queuing like other games today, it would be far less of an issue.

As a completionist, giving it up and starting over isn't an option... If you look at the active logins trackers, the server is 59.2% as populated as the most active server (Harbinger) (1.68 vs 1.00, assuming that's millions but I dare them to prove it). Bastion is even lower at 0.99... The PVP servers are all dead cause there is no PVP. But even if we give in and spend tons of money to take all of our toons, we lose the guild investments we put forth. Being one of the last Rep guilds that's still 8/10 on the new HM content and having IMP groups that are 10/10. We stay, they move us, or we, as SO many others already, leave for something else. It's not just a few people they are losing, it's literally thousands that left due to this issue and these reasons. Some people are content to do like you recommend and good for them. Many of us aren't. And a LOT of the guys that already left WERE the people who would drop a few hundred real dollars on the cartel market junk. I'm the rarer exception of the completionist that wont' give into the pay to complete ideals. So they lose a subscription from me but they lost literally thousands per month already for letting this go on and on from others who already left and potentially more others who have stuck it out. And people wounder why EA is the worst company in the world... over and over and over again.

Except this method ignores multiple things. Anything guild related - ships, unlocks, etc. and the hundreds of millions that went along with that Anything on the other toons: Mounts, Titles, Schematics learned (being a master crafter, I have tons) No way I could even take the critical bits in just one character for all my toons. Not to mention the re-farming of left-sides we would still have to perform. Unlocking places would take longer then leveling. Just to get to Ziost without a calldown, you have to have completed everything and even Rishi and Yavin. Not to mention it is just feeding EA more $ if we do spend to move when they should get off their backsides and merge already. Take the PVP servers and put them both into the PVE servers. There is no world PVP anyhow, there is ganking for the really really bored and annoying but that's bout it. Most of this server already left for PVE servers FOR the PVP anyhow (ranked doesn't pop here, ever). And not to mention the valor grind again... no thanks, they'll merge or I'll quit. I enjoy the game and have since release, but if they are going to keep ignoring it and so many people are just jumping ship for the same reason and they can't get a clue, the game deserves to die. This is what EA does to all games and why I cried when they bought Bioware. There are plenty of other games to play out there and so many coming. I refuse to feed them $ with cartel coins so... I'm not their target audience anyhow. They want people who spend hundreds of $ on cartel garbage each month. Not end-game completion-ists. I was on the original server Heddar Soong (I know that spelling is wrong) and stayed on it when Reps and Imps had to join forces just to kill a world boss it was so dead. Then we went to the Fatman... Then here... Lost names all along the way. But still It's just not worth it waiting so long... I'd probably lose names again but it just won't happen anyhow so it's a moot point.

When you have 22 geared end-game toons, that would be insanely expensive. A lot of our guild has that. I have 14. Then all to have it happen all over again on the new server... Unsubbing is far cheaper. So that's 39600 coins for the full load of toons, or 8 of the 5500 packs to get the job done. $320... To do my 14 would be 5 packs at $200. Not to mention the time, effort and credits we've put into the guild ship which would all be null and void...

I came in here to report exactly this... We have TWO Willpower + Accuracy + Crit implants... Exactly the same: Dread Master Stalker's MK-V Package Dread Master Force-Master's MK-V Package 223 Endurance 204 Willpower 102 Accuracy Rating 141 Critical Rating They are IDENTICAL. I do believe one of them should be Power instead of Crit. Tired of being treated this way, other games look more and more attractive even though I've stuck it out since Beta.

20:30 server prime time and queues are still 30minutes +... PotF... They really need cross-server queues. GSF isn't worth queuing for anymore here unless you're doing nothing else and not directly waiting for a queue. When you do get a queue, it's a stomping one way or the other. Never a challenging battle anymore...

Ya, talking about colors, not mechanics... I'm min-maxed full 78(180) set pieces... been here done this... Yup

The small red circles are now light-purple and almost impossible to see. Especially for something that almost one-shots ya. This change was unnecessary and stupid. Plus we have colorblind people who actually died, sat there and can't see it. They barely see the movement and that's with a nice computer. This needs to change back! (or to something else more discernible). Unacceptable, especially without a colorblind mode!!!

Well ya, in this case, that is the bug with this particular issue. But it is still a bug where they patch something and it breaks something else. The standing joke every Tuesday now is 'What will not work today?'. Not what did they change... Or, they think they fixed something and they made it worse. Instead of an 'oops, let us fix that', they just ignore it. It a lack of any real 'CARE' for the game that is what is driving away the other players.