Fights are starting to take too long, and Khem val is woefully undergeared. As I have been leveling as a tank all my gear is tank oriented with absortion mods. Once I finish Voss thinking of switching myself to dps and use Xalek to tank for me... should I just hand him all my gear and regear myself of should I keep my stuff on till I get replacements? Or would you make the switch at all. I don't like andronikus and ashara is underwhelming when dealing with packs of mobs so not sure which route to go. This is my highest character at level 42 right now so no HK or Treek... been using the healer up until now.

What does any other tank get that you don't pre 27... honestly I have jug, PT, and assassin tank all in there 30's and assassin was easiest to jump into and actually hold agro. No tank gets the tank stance, cell, charge till level 14. At level 14 the only difference is the armor mitigation. I see really no difference at all on tanking at low level... up until athiss you even get groups with all dps sometimes. The biggest benefit to going assassin for tank spec at that level is discharge... then you get the option knock mobs out of the fight before the fight starts... as long as they are not droids you really can control the fights and reduced the number of mobs the group faces at a time.

Arenas are fine.... if they have a completely separate queue. Period. End of story. I hate arenas and the fact that I queue for LFG and PVP queue and when PVP pops and its an arena I lost my place in lfg for nothing. I immediately exit the dang thing because its no fun. I play PVP more for faction warfare not for meaningless wargames and while the 8v8 pvp is still meaningless it at least feels a little more reasonable. God forbid I draw a comparison but at least on SWG you could fight for and claim cities and planets. In DAOC you claimed keeps and defended them, it felt more real, more like you mattered. Arenas are the complete opposite of that. I don't mind that the arenas exist. My major issue is they force them on the masses without a separate queue. I have been enjoying the game but this kills it for me to have to deal with stupid arenas with randoms. No I don't want to arena period so why would I try to form a team for it either. Just get it out of my PVP queue.

I leveled exclusively as a healer so far as I want to heal in instances (in that respect sorcerer is great) pve though with Khem it was just a total pain in the rear... strong or champ mobs take forever and you end up doing nothing but spamming dark infusionl at khem draining your force at some point till either khem dies or the mobs succumbs. I ended up changing classes several times trying to find one I like and keep coming back to Sorc. Last night I got level 30 and let me tell you what a world of difference it makes. You DPS all you want Khem all of the sudden doesnt take as much damage, innervate 1 channel will usually get him near full and with resurg and shield he survives much better. Several times during the process I would respec to lightning and just blow mobs up then dismiss resummon Khem and keep going... literally just melting packs then I get an instance itch and switch back to heals... With this experience in mind I would say you can level from level 10 up as heals but honestly I would dps spec to level 30, then go heals unless you are dead set going to pvp or instance as a healer. It just is such a nicer experience that way when you dont have to resort to spamming dark infusion.

how are you getting outfit like that at level 18? I went biochem with my vanguard, if that is the stuff armormech makes I am so taking that on my mando now

Ok crap is in the fan again release another wave of new servers.... so what if it doesnt fix server queues I mean the servers are there now ready to play so what if people wasted hours of their lives on a character they cant access... they can just reroll or suck up the queues. Just remain silent on the issue maybe in a few months we might offer xfers or something but not now... This is the largest mmo launch ever, people should expect queues when we only release servers once there is all ready a problem. And if they dont like it what are they going to do, go back to WOW *laughs to bank* ....seems fairly spot on to me

I am so sick of rerolling... I have done it 4 times now due to queues... get into game day 2 of EA make a char get to 14 next day 40 minute queues... reroll on a brand new server get a char to 13 next day 25 min queue.... had day off yesterday and got a trooper to level 21, 10 am this morning there is 12 more new servers and a 20 min queue to the server the trooper is on... This is such bullcrap, I am tired of rerolling, I am tired of queues... if you would have released all the servers at the get go they would be more evenly distributed instead of the willy nilly crap of ok all servers are now overfilled release more server and ppl either wait or reroll yet again.

cross server dungeon finder ruined wow, not a dungeon finder in general. Bad behavior was encouraged because there was no accountability across servers not because of the tool itself.... I support a dungeon finder but am against anything at all that includes cross server be it pvp queues, dungeon finders, anything.

I just got my vanguard to 22, prior to geting Elara I started not having trouble, but having to stop to heal up after ever single fight... all of them period end of discussion unless tightly clustered group of mobs and mortar was up... you have the lightning ability has a very narrow short cone so if they are spread misses quite a bit and also its channeled so you seem to lose time on it. Every single fight I would end with very low to no ammo and low health... in walks Elara and every fight ends high or full health with max regen still on ammo, First thing I did once I got Elara was take on a level 19 champion level mob with 20k hp and I ended that fight with 60% life and max regen level on ammo ... its amazing the difference she makes to your quality of life. I imagine you would have same issues on your powertech if you unclicked all of Mako's heals and just tried taking out a pack of mobs. I almost gave up but its fine now!

I guess this means nerf mercenaries too since they are same exact class.... just pitiful.

i did wow launch, I did rift launch, I did eq launch, I did daoc launch, I did swg launch, I did vanguard launch, city of heroes.... list goes on of the entire list of games the only ones I have ever complained about is this one with the stupid staggered bull crap, and vanguard because it was a completely buggy POS game that didnt deserve at that time to see the light of day. I expect queues when everyone is let in at once, not an issue... but with piecemealing everyone in they should know what servers people have picked and which ones are full to implement new servers before you have 30 min queues across almost every us east pve server... (just checked they just just now opened a new useast pve server) but that took long enough for them to do it. I expect more for staggering the access over 3 to 4 days. Its my damn right too complain about it. You dont have to agree with it but for the way access has been granted I dont expect a 30 min wait to get in the game when I log on.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=254 show me in the list a new server that says pve us east.... every server listed new says EU besides that with 10+ hours in a char not going to start over.

Yep you said this staggered start was going to prevent queues yet here we are not even everyone in with 10 to 50 min queues on most of the east coast servers. I am so glad that you guys staggered the early access to prevent the queues and lag in the game and give us an excellent game experience out of the box. I mean its not like today while everyone was at work I lagged like crap in a pvp match or doing some pve, and there was no way that I got dropped to desktop 3 times, oh wait yes that happened didnt it. I said it before I will say it again, staggered EGA is a failure, I would have much rather had the queues for a few days while you opened up sufficient servers to handle the load. I am glad that I have 30 minutes now to type in this post while I wait on my characters to pop up to play since staggered start fixed the queues. Why are there no new servers opening up to handle the new players coming into the game tonight?

i actually got invite in last wave I am assuming with 8-30 preorder code date but this is still worst launch idea ever... Still going to play but 2 strikes against EA/bioware with the reversal on the grace period, and now the EA fiasco.. Now to get home from work and see if I can find a server that my names are available on...

All invite waves have now been sent. We'll be sending more invites tomorrow, starting from 8AM CST (6AM PST / 9AM EST / 2PM GMT / 3PM CET). http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=16391

still not with an 8/30 date so guessing 25th or so is cutoff?

they are monitoring server status as the trigger for sending out invite waves... wave went out 40 mins ago and no change at all to server stats everything is still ligh and about 5 standard across the board..... does that mean to you well everyone is at work so dont send next wave till 5 pacific so we see how the servers are actually doing when ppl get home? 40 mins and no server change at all... send the next wave!

really where are the billboards going down the roads, or the ads on tv or even ads anywhere at all for the game... I found out about it in 09 by accident but until this month I didnt check the web page regularly... I actually preorderd like January 15thish because I knew I would get the game at my local gamestop, no perks mentioned or anything like that. I only checked the site like once a month to see what updates were going on (pre nda info was pretty scarce and I am not one to just post on forums when I have no clue or speculate on stuff) August 20th is when I actually found out about the EGA and how they were doing it so went back and got my code. They managed to get 5 or 6 days of orders in today... that was it and then had the audacity to say that those days amounted to more than other games total populations when we can see that the servers are low to mid population across the board. They closed out all invites at 1:30 and even if all the servers pops went to light they are not going to invite anyone else till 8am... WHAT ARE THEY SMOKING... they have people sitting at the office right now that could be sending out additional waves because obviously from what people are saying the game can handle more people right now but instead they just get us more and more pissed off and tell us thats just how it is and we should like it. I know this is a QQ but what else can I do? My main gripe is they stopped at 1:30 and from the few casts I have seen servers have been pretty empty all along. I would have rather them have not said anything about when waves were sent at all than to be told at 1:30 you have no chance today or overnight tonight even. And I would still take lag queues and disconnects over this 1 to 6 day long queue to even play at all.

Pre going back on the whole grace period was A+ job well done, after going back on grace period down to a C+ After saying ok its 1:30 CST lets call it a day rest of you tough luck maybe we might finish july pre orders tomorrow if we get them in in the 6 hours we seem to work a day... (6amcst to 1 pm cst) D- and falling fast.

how is standard or medium in any way considered stress? my absolute main gripe about this is ok its 1:30 we invited more people in today than many other mmos have period we will see you tomorrow and few servers are even heavy... most standard to light and you invited in in 1 day more than other mmo's total population? I call major BS on that line of crap. according to dev tracker they have people there in shifts for entire next 30 days 24/7 and no one is authorized to flip a switch to send out another wave? Are the servers really going to completely implode when 5 more go from light to standard?

http://www.swtor.com/blog/welcome-star-wars-old-republic again to reiterate no matter how many times you say it isnt so.... BIOWARE claims today was launch day This is a big day for us; we are launching Star Wars™: The Old Republic™, BioWare’s largest and most ambitious project to date, and we’re very proud that you’ve been able to join us. It’s an honor to be able to share this game with you.... only issue is they are sharing it with like 100k to 300kppl out of almost 2mil preorders.

which would have been the case either way with instancing zones when they fill... lag might have been there but overcrowding and mobs respawning would not have been an issue.

I did rift EA, hell I started day 1 on every mmo in past 10 years and I much preferred the lag, queues, and unstability over waiting for an email that never comes... then you top it off by stopping all invites at 1pm... *** before I read that I at least had some hope to get in tonight instead of sitting around the house bored because I didnt renew any subs in past 2 months waiting on this game. You lose out on selecting char names, now legacy names, racing against others to get things done. you just lose out period. The bad thing is now I am alienated before I get to even play... I loved game during beta and vocally supported it... now with these decisions I just struggle to feel even good about it... trying to decide whether I should just cancel my game order completely now. and before you say should have pre ordered on first day... I went into local GS and preordered in january when I picked up dcuo, I didnt read swtor website ever day so didnt know about early access code until august. Staggered launch sucks... every thing you have said about launch sucks so far... no grace period (gf getting me box for xmas so dont get to play 20 through to 25th), and not being able to even watch a queue tick down to be able to actually play... PS launch day is the day they fire up the servers and allow chars you keep till they shut the game down, not some arbitrary day down the road.

nope those might be your characters names however I will be using the same ones I have used in every MMO since UO thank you very much.... they are my damn names that I have used for near to 20 years and they are part of my overall persona.

what pisses me off is with the staggered start you dont get equal opp to pick your names for your chars... I actually pre ordered in January at a local gamestop when I was picking up my DCUO box... problem is I didnt check swtor website from june until august so didnt know there was a code to go back and get till august 30th. THat really sucks... I pre ordered way ahead of a lot of people but because I dont check swtor when not even close to launch yet I get screwed.