I want to add my 2 cents here. I ran around for hours on Tython trying to figure out what it was I missed. I killed everything I could find, ran into every room, redid every heroic just thinking that maybe somehow those things were hidden away like that, and today I decided to search the internet to find out what I missed and I see this thread. Bioware, you need to understand, it is NOT acceptable to ignore key features of a game that need to be fixed in order to introduce more content. Part of the reason so many left is because so much of the game is still broken. Please FIX it ASAP.

Ran this my first time as a tank and had the same thing happen 2 times in a row. All 4 went off. Group disbanded and I walked away thinking I wasn't doing something right. I tried looking up what I could on the boss and apparently I wasn't doing anything wrong, the FP is not working as intended.

There was an old game called Alternate Reality: The City back in the 80's you should try OP. If you died, you had to start over. You couldn't even back up your character disk without cheating. It was all random encounters out of the blue (you never could see anything coming, it just appeared in front of you) and they could be anything from a beggar to a dragon. Yeah dragons wandering around in the middle of a town. Now, add to all this that you had to constantly eat and drink or you would die, that sometimes you ate looted food and got poisoned, all the while barely sc****** together enough money to get a room in an inn and make it into the next day. The closest comparison I could make would probably be Nethack, and by the way that's another game that's probably right where you want to be if you like starting over, some people have spent 20 years playing that game and not fully mastered it.

I just want to know what Bioware was thinking making Consulars look more like Death Knights in that armor. *Rolls Eyes*

You have in your sig toons on both sides of the civil war. Did you not know you can mail credits/items to your alts in the other factions? That's how I was supporting my rebels.

I have to agree with OP, put it back the way it was, please. If rebels don't have an equivalent then give them one. This is no different than people running Scarlet Monastery in World of Warcraft for fast money. Sometimes you simply can't find a group so you can't progress reliably with level 50 FPs (at least on my server it's impossible). Let us have our speeders in Flashpoints not just so we can farm credits when we get bored to buy better gear, but because some people prefer to do speed runs for social points and affection gain as well. If you look at the prices gold farmers are spamming your mailbox with, things haven't changed since speeders were taken out of there, prices are the same. It doesn't matter to bots that FPs take longer to complete. It does matter to the real player who's only trying to advance their toons.

Vector is actually a pretty interesting story arc, you'll see later on when he does something unexpected. What makes him interesting to me is my female agent isn't just talking to some guy but to an entire race of beings (including other humans and aliens that agreed to be 'joined' with the hive mind) that span the galaxy and perhaps even further than that. Weird but interesting concept.

This is going to BREAK ops, you will not be able to one vs one anybody with this nerf, sages especially, I mean come on, one hidden strike combo won't even pop their shield as it is now. And the whole business about constantly having to use acid blade because it falls off every 20 seconds is just plain bad. That ability needs to stay on like a regular buff does, for an hour. This patch is going to ruin Ops for anyone who plays concealment spec.

Here's my 2 cents. It's giant corporations snatching up smaller companies and trying to streamline their budgets instead of focusing on creativity. Same stuff happened to my company, got bought out, then they hired 4 managers to do one guys job and then fired the old one and like half the people under him. It's corporate incompetence and the focus on the bottom line for stockholders, after stockholders are in the picture, the customer is only the second group of people whose opinion matters.

I sort of pity you having a wife that didn't understand better than that, but let me tell you about a former co-worker of mine, his wife was so addicted to another MMO, I'll call it CoW just for laughs, that she spent all her time on there instead of with him, it got to the point where if they were going to be physically intimate, she would be playing the game bent over while he, you know. Yeah it can get that bad. She left him for the best tank on her server and moved into some guys parents basement. All that while he was working a job to make $500 a day and then had to deal with liver cancer, and she left him just like that for another game player, it happens. Incidentally my friend got treated and is in remission, he got his job for $500 a day, and she calls asking if she can come home, and he promptly tells her to stay the heck away.

This is a petition of sorts, my main has Armstech at 400, and I want to see Scatterguns and Vibroknives fixed so they can be reverse engineered and we can get better recipes. In fact no class of crafting should have a green recipe they can't improve upon, I'm asking Bioware to make this a priority and fix it so we don't waste our time REing for nothing, you wouldn't even know in some cases without reading the forums. FIX IT BIOWARE! please /sign if you agree.

Shorten the length of our 'vanish' ability cooldown, and make it drop all the dots. I spend more time running around waiting on dots to drop off than I do actually doing damage. WoW figured this out, now it's time for SW:TOR to implement it. We simply don't do enough damage without hidden strike when you have jedis hitting you multiple times for 4500 within a second and all you can get is less than half that without hidden strike up and only hitting once every 1.5 seconds or so. totally unfair. Furthermore you need to nerf those rock throwing, shielded, heal myself while I do damage type jedis to high heaven . They are one of the main reasons PvP has a huge class imbalance at the moment.

I'm going to counter this with my own argument. BUFF HEALERS. wth I mean, some classes get 3 or 4 stuns/interrupts and healers like Operatives only get 1 move to counter that? After that we're screwed. They need to either give us more stunbreakers, or nerf the people that have multiple stuns to balance the playing field out.

You can actually grab the huttball and run it to the endzone when the warsone is over sometimes. Totally pointless yes, but I've seen people do it.

Don't worry, Bioware will fix it. The next patch they'll figure it makes sense to have ALL drops be RNG, so any random level 50 mob could drop Rakata, Columni or 50 PvP BM gear, just no guarantee it'll be something you can use. It'll probly still be bound to you though. Then when people start throwing fits about that, every mob in the game will drop tokens and comms instead of loot, makes sense.