I'd like a better interface for some things personally. A legacy toolbar would be nice, for example. I make due, but it's tight trying to fit 6 legacy combat abilities (and this will only grow the more alts I level). Like if I were to pop my heroic moment-- have a bar pop up that has all the abilities on it. And the ability to macro some basic things would be nice (no I don't want like.. Rift Mega Macros here). Just the ability to tie in relics/stims to abilities or something. But other than that.. clutter is your own fault. You don't need absolutely everything on your bars. Take sprint, quick travel, fleet pass, etc off your bars and use the abilities menu.

The game is awesome right now. My only complaint is PvE class balance needs to be more of a focus next patch (Maras do a good 30-45% more dps than Operatives. I get the pure>hybrid thing, but come on man.. 5-10% should be the goal). There are a few minor annoyances (like the priority transports from legacy all sharing a cooldown.. kinda negating the point), but on the whole this game is really taking form as a well-rounded MMO. If they keep going in this forward direction I'll be a very content consumer.

I think there needs to be a gear check for some places. The fact that you have the same chance of getting LI and RR is a little ridiculous. Normal LI should be with the T1 HMs, imo. And tanks should be wearing tank gear and in a tank spec. Those are my only beefs.

As someone with an operative-- lolnothanks

Currently we have 2 weeklies-- Rakgoul and the general 3 FPs. We have 2 tiers of FPs that you can queue for-- T2 is LI and T1 is everything but LI. Now, I know Kaon isn't nearly as hard as LI to justify being classified as T2, but we're having a logistics issue here with the weeklies. For example, I've been sitting at 2/3 for my normal weekly and what has popped twice in a row now? Kaon. I get no credit for doing this. If you bump Kaon up to T2 than people that want to do the Rakghoul weekly can focus on that and people that want to do the general weekly can focus on the other.

I vote Gunslinger or Vanguard Gunslingers are slow going until about 30+ and then they really pick up as far as mechanics go. Definitely a late bloomer class. The story is decent, but I guess you are right in that it's not hugely important in the grand scheme. The dialog and the companions are all actually pretty hilarious though. I have 4 50s and this is easily my favorite set of companions. Vanguards are one of my favorite classes. They're absolutely solid at both DPS and tanking. Very few class flaws mechanically. The story sucks (according to my friend) and the companions aren't all that hot, but I've honestly found that this bothers me less and less the more characters I have. I'll always be more connected to my first because of the novelty of it and I took more time. Neither one are considered underpowered or FoTM atm, which makes you stand out a little more. If you go the Commando route you lose a bit of that edge.

What is "fine"? Where are your parses?

I was pretty excited to give tanking another go as a Guard, due to the new guardian slash AoE potential, but then I actually used it... It takes like 20 seconds of setup to get the 5 stacks of sunder up, at which point most everything that would be considered AoE is already dead. So we still pretty much just have our two old AoE abilities to rely on and the extremely situational use of Guardian slash. And with that.. back to Vanguard tanking.

It's not 10%. It's closer to 30-45%. And it's not fail to compare like to like. They have no different utility so we should be considered equals. It's not like we're expected to heal more (as dps) than they are. I would even argue Sorcs bubbles makes them better at this utility than we are. Quit making excuses for class discrepancies. There is no need for operatives to be gimped compared to other heal/dps hybrids. We're not asking for Mara level dps here.

See: Mercs and Sorcs. Argument failed.

The big, nasty, gaping hole with the "but you can heal..." logic... Mercs and Sorcs do amazing DPS. /checkmate.

Dailies really don't take all that long to do. Each set takes maybe 20 minutes excluding time finding someone to help with the 2-mans.

If you do the normal dailies for a week you'll have like 1.5 million credits and enough daily comms to buy an epic hilt/blaster plus all the armorings you need. If you do the 2man heroics every day you'll get the mods/enhancements. Use the credits you get to buy augmented moddable armor/weapon of your choosing. Buy the renown belt/bracers from the legacy vendor on Dromund Kaas/Coruscant (normally cheaper than the GTN alternatives) Buy a couple blue/purple quality level 49 augments. Buy implants/an earpiece at your discretion. You can get rakata for a couple hundred thousand or you can go with something like a 49 purple with an augment slot for a tenth of the price. Up to you. Buy a 41 stat crystal (blue/red are generally pretty cheap--40-50kish) --Fill aforementioned up with all the armorings/mods/enhancements/augments/crystal Buy the power champion relic from the PvP vendor Farm up your matrix shard relic relevant to your class. Voila. You're now pretty geared for pretty minimal effort and shouldn't feel any shame in doing EV/KP at this point.

I completely agree with this. It's kind of amateur hour that they can't come up with a workable idea for the tionese-rakata set bonuses problem. They could implement an armoring that you trade in the piece for that would hold the set bonus, IE you give the vendor your rakata chest and they give you a rakata chest armoring that carries the set bonus that you could put in the piece of your choosing. It's pretty sad that they haven't done this.

Grats on throwing corrosive grenades everywhere, brobeans. Now show us a raid parse where DPS actually matters.

So it looks like maybe female characters with pistols out are the ones having the issue, since rifles don't seem to cause any problems on my Op, and the OP is also a BH (pistol).

This happens to me all the time on my gunslinger, but none of my other characters it seems. Not sure why. Gunslinger is a BT1 female human Op is a BT1 female chiss Guard is a BT2 male miraluka Assassin is a BT2 male human Can't say it's a female bug, because my Op doesn't do it. No idea what the core problem is. edit: Although it does seem to mostly occur when she's running with her guns out.

I actually kinda like that we don't see what's going on behind the curtains. Makes it a little more immersive.

He'll probably be a DPS. All the droids are tanks already. HK has to be different.

Doc looks amazing-- Come on. 70s p orn 'stache and all.

What, pray tell, are concealment operatives supposed to cast when they are knocked back? Spam overload shot, which does rather insignificant damage for the energy cost--which will inevitably screw up your rotation once you get back to the target unless you have energy probe up? Lethality doesn't need a gap closer. Concealment does. And lethality needs a way less complicated rotation/better energy management. Both specs need a significant damage increase. This class has issues that need addressed all across the board.

I'm not much of a class-warfare kind of guy, but I'm inclined to agree with the OP. We were told dps classes would always be within 5% of each other. Some classes are struggling to maintain 1200 dps right now when Maras are breezing to 1700 (averages here.. I know your neighbor's dog's mailman can do 2100). Call my math skills fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure that is no where near 5%. And I'm all for Maras/Snipers being top dps. Just for the love of god shorten the gap a little bit.

I enjoy my vigilance spec'd guardian the most. I get to be a dps jedi without being one of a bajillion sentinels. It's awesome.

If you are asking why aren't they more aerodynamic.. there is no drag in space. And honestly the Corvette (Jedi) is very streamlined. It's a wedge shape like a drag racer. The Smuggler one reminds me of a spaceship version of a Winnebago. It's not supposed to look pretty. It's a freighter. And its obviously a throwback to the Millennium Falcon/Ebon Hawk. The BH one is a throwback to Jengo/Boba. The only weird one, imo, is the trooper one.

Why is it every MMO always has this crowd? This game needs a more centralized story for both factions to focus on. Not a third neutral faction.