I played from the beginning but left tight before Makeb dropped. I found the max level gearing then incomprehensible. Came back a couple years ago to find the gearing much improved and comparatively straight forward - farm Command crates, get better armor pieces, strip the mods and put them on your own gear, easy peasy. Twelve of 14 toons at 300 CXP when 6.0 drops. I took one toon thru KoET/KoFE and hated it (not so much the story but the changes it made to the structure of the game) and refuse to take any more thru, so I just been farming the dailies and heroics and content up to KoET to get geared up and then doing it over and over just because it a fun way to pass the time. Now I feel like devs flushed all the work I've put in since coming back down the toilet - set bonuses gone, accuracy down to ~106%, all these pieces with green arrows dropping that I can't figure out what to do with, etc.

If it's the one I'm thinking of - where you get the additional command bonus points for doing the all the dailies in an area, etc - it resets on Tuesdays (around 11 am GMT, I think, 5 am here in Pacific/west coast US). The weekly events start then, also. This corresponds with the normal maintenance that usually occurs on Tuesday morning once or twice a month.

I'm DPS and the comps are healers. My two sorcs both use 2V, my two sages use Tharan, mainly because the pub ship droid is so ugly.

I dunno, all the stories were pretty much of a piece to me but much of the fun they offer comes from not only the mechanics of the class but the companions you get. In that instance, gunslinger wins hands down for me, fun to play and you get Gus, the best and funniest companion in the game. I never get tired of hearing his catchphrases, where they can quickly wear thin with so many of the others. My second favorite to play is sorcerer but I'm using 2V-R8 on my newer one, for the blessed silence.

Well said. Play the classes you find the most fun in terms of the mechanics and the accompanying visuals (shooting lightning looks way cooler than throwing rocks, imo).

I thought Accuracy was a misnomer and it actually functions as Armor Penetration? That why you need that 10% boost to overcome boss' stronger AC.

I played it on a bounty hunter that I'd made right before I stopped playing, just when Makeb was coming down and the lvl cap was 55. This guy was at 16 iirc so he's the first I took to 70, then did Makeb ,Shadow, etc then did FE and ET. I didn't really mind the change in format from a 'game' to more of an interactive movie (though more like a TV series than spanned two seasons) as much as I did a) the loss of my favorite companion (Blizz) while leaving the ones I care least about and b) the absolutely absurd grandiosity with which the story concluded. a) is the reason I will likely not play through it again, at least not with my 2 now lvl-70 gunslingers; I refuse to countenance not having Gus at my side; likewise Doc on my knight. Grandiosity has always been a problem with the story lines, I feel. In the original campaigns, you're always confronting the greatest fiend, the worst villain, the most ruthless killer, blah blah blah and you single-handedly liberate/conquer this, that or the other planet. Dial it back a bit. Unfortunately, ET ramps this up to an absurd level as you end up becoming master of the entire universe, whether you want to or not. I kept telling everyone that I did not want to be the new supreme leader but in the end I had no choice, or the only choice I had was to be an evil galactic dictator or a benevolent 'commander'. This also begs the question, where do you go from here, story-wise? Where *can* you go from here? This brings up another issue I had, the lack of choice and it's concomitant, being forced to do stuff I had no interest in doing, from small stuff, like the walkers, to the really big stuff, like becoming supreme leader.

While I subscribed at launch, I've now moved on to another game and I just wanted to thank both BW for the fun game and all the players for the fun times I've shared. (My only regret is not having discovered the new game a couple of weeks sooner so that I could've canceled my sub before my c/c got dinged for another 3 months. ) Anyway, no bitterness or recriminations to express, just a big thank you for the fond memories I'll carry with me.

If I uninstall Origin will I still be able to play SWToR?

I transferred to The Secret World, about a month ago now.

Well, I haven't logged on in a month or so and will likely be canceling my sub so there's one spot freed up. Enjoy!

So ... Wildstar is visually unappealing to me; that's the reason I chose GW over WoW back when. Neverwinter looks interesting from the brief clip I saw; at least it's DnD-based but that proved something of a two-edged sword for DDO. How do you push past the limits of an established system to keep people interested? Signed up for the ESO beta, my chances are "above average" (despite hating Oblivion and skipping Skyrim? o.O ) Well, we'll see. TSW on sale at Amazon for $15. I'm downloading it now, 4 hours to go. Aargh! Will any of these prove more entertaining than SWToR?

I don't know. I'm thinking of maybe trying out TSW but, judging from a gaming forum I generally trust, it sounds like it might be too difficult. too complicated and with too much emphasis on crafting for my taste, especially as you still have to pay $30 initially to play. As crappy as SWTOR's f2p option is at least you *can* try the game out for free. I might take a look at those others you mentioned.

Have only played 3 so, in order of length of time played: 1. Guild Wars - 4 years 2. DDO - 2 years 3. SWToR - since launch, ~1 1/2 years GW, finally got bored after 4 years. DDO, was still having fun and was 2nd officer in a great guild but **SWToR DEVS MIGHT WANT TO TAKE NOTE** the devs pissed me off by going into my inventory (during one update) and changing the appearance of an item I had suffered thru some content I really hated to get. This was right before a new MMO (SWToR) launched that I was happy to jump ship for. Pretty happy overall with SWToR and not saying that as a threat but just to point out that paying customers do leave if you piss them off.

So, not only could Doc (or Tharan) and I dress exactly alike but we could look exactly alike too? That would be awesome! But how would people tell us apart then?