Defense is practically useless against high end PvE content, since it only affects "white" damage. And Vanguards have much higher shield and absorb. Indeed. And now we're essentially equivalent to a Medium Armored DPS that can taunt. And how often do you hear people wanting Sentinels to tank?

Stop posting this. Here's the Shadow class description from the official website: Tactical Role(s): Melee Damage, Melee Tank You severely misunderstand what the devs are saying. They're saying they intend our damage mitigation to be slightly less than other tanks, but for our healing to make up for it. The problem is that it doesn't. Not even close. It didn't even before the change, and it absolutely doesn't now.

Yup, totally in line! - Significantly lower armor than all other tanks - Significantly lower damage reduction than all other tanks - A healing ability that's now hilariously gimped, and which doesn't really matter anyway when a crit one/two shots you because you're essentially tanking as a Sage. And I'm not unsubbing because of a nerf. I'm unsubbing specifically because I'm not going to be able to find parties any longer.

What in the hell are you talking about? Reread the post. They massively nerfed Shadows. Massively. To the point where they are no longer viable as main tanks in PvE. They received both a huge healing nerf and a huge armor nerf. They were not improved in any way, and they absolutely are the weakest tank class now. There is no logical reason any group would want a Shadow tank now, and I'm probably going to unsub because of it. I have no interest in rerolling or respeccing to DPS.

Pretty sure I'm gonna unsub over this, assuming it makes it off the PTS. Not really interested in PvP, and I have no idea why any group in their right mind would ever want a Shadow tank at this point. Additionally, I'm not really addicted enough to get another character geared at level 50.

Me as well. 67/67 as well as the +10 datacron, and nothing. No title, no recognition. Nada. How depressing. Come on, Bioware. You couldn't have thrown me a "Jedi Archivist" title?

That's what happens when the factions are at a roughly 2:1 ratio. If it gets worse than that, however, it just turns into a catastrophe. The imps overrun the base and spawn camp. Also, it only works when there are a ton of people. In the morning, Republic is just hopeless. 10 imperials and 5 reps means you're just going there so the imps can farm you.

It's either that or a faction cap. Take your pick.

I agree. My character is a goody-two-shoes, and even she chose to bomb the fleet. We're in a friggin' war, for Force's sake.

There are several lightsabers with Blue Crystals installed that don't require alignment, though -- one of my guildmates dual wields blue and red sabers, and he's Light IV. I have yet to hear of a saber with a red crystal that didn't exclude Light characters. Since alignment follows faction for most people (though definitely not all), it is another example, to me, of Imperial characters having way more pleasing appearance options than Republic.

The hilarious thing is that 350,000 is a fantastic number, and if you click through to the analyst source, it's actually using the massive success of TOR to show that the MMO market is going to continue to grow.

You realize you can get PvP bags from Ilum, right?

Please remember that WoW had essentially no PvP other than ganking when introduced. While I'm a fan of organized PvP, there's nothing in the definition of MMORPG that says it has to be focused more on PvP than PvE.

That level 30 was ridiculous. The bolster system works well until level 50, when you can pile on +Expertise gear. Especially in Huttball, where proper tactics are far more important than how much damage you can do. Honestly, a 10-49 and 50 bracket system would be just perfect.

You realize most people aren't level 50, right? In any case, I'd like to see some proof backing up the OP's statement that trading objectives is against the ToS. That's essentially saying that whenever I pass an Imp and don't kill him in a PvP area, I'm liable to be banned.