So when do we get this update? Cuz this is a bonus mission and I can't abandon it.

I have a bonus quest from a phase I can't even get into any more, so I can't abandon it, and I can't complete it.

I'm having trouble looking for a new saber to buy. I assume there's some sort of base stats for a light saber? But I don't know how to find them. I've put some nice mods in mine and it's a great weapon, but I'd like to know if I bought another, put the mods out of my current one in it, if it would be better than my current weapon, or exactly the same? Because the mods in mine are better than the ones that come in the other sabers I look at, mine naturally has better stats... I'm so confused...

My buddy and I were digging through the preferences looking for that, and couldn't find anything. We were pretty bummed. We got spoiled from years of playing WoW and now we miss the little things we took for granted.

Just curious, what do you get out of having your companion like you a lot? My friend and I kept noticing our companion's likes for us going up and down during conversations, and we had no idea what the point of it was.

If you're willing to play on the Sith side, you can roll and Inquisitor, then take the Assassin branch when it's available. There's some force use for ranged when you want, you get a companion that can tank if you want, in many ways it compares to WoW's rogue class, you can go into sneak mode and stealth around and do good DPS. The other neat option is to take the defense talent tree and become a tank in light armor, you gain a ton of dodge and parry to make up for the lack in armor. It's a really fun class to play, and you get a double bladed lightsaber.

The mobo he linked to is an HP. There's no way the BIOS would allow overclocking. You might be able to get a software utility that can do it, but those don't usually work quite so well.

I would think so. My main computer for gaming is an older Inspiron 530 with a Core 2 Duo 2.33 and a Radeon 4650 (which is still head and shoulders above that 5450), and 4GB of RAM, and I play games like the recent Assassins Creed, Skyrim, and Dead Island with settings that make it look just as nice as on an Xbox 360 or PS3. I have to run SWTOR on fairly low settings but it holds up pretty well. Those Core i5's are nice CPU's so you should be good for a while.

Firstly, I can't say if your rig would be solid for a while without knowing which CPU you have as there were a few options for that model. If you have the Core i3 version, I wouldn't call it solid. If it's the i5, it'd fairly decent. PCIe 16x 2.0 is pretty old, and most likely what you have. Then they came out with 2.1 shortly after, and this month, ATI is releasing the 7970, which is 3.0. Since you're not going to buy a video card of that magnitude, I wouldn't even worry about it. 2.1 is supposed to contain some of the features of 3.0 but run at the same speed as 2.0, and they're all backwards compatible. A 2.0 card will run in a 3.0 slot, and a 3.0 card will run in a 2.0 slot, just at the speed of the slower of the two. The point of the new 3.0 technology is just that it will have a faster transfer rate with a new data transfer scheme that reduces overhead. As far as the multi vs single graphics card setups, the 2.0 vs 2.1 vs 3.0 thing has really nothing to do with it. ATI makes some cards for crossfire, NVidia makes some cards for SLI. It's a feature you can take or leave. What it comes down to is, you can put in one, or as many as you can fit, of a particular card in your machine and link them together (I think I saw a mobo out there that could hold six a while ago). The machine's graphics capabilities will be limited only by which card you have, and how many. One card is good, two is double good, and so on. I can tell you that one of my friends has a $300-ish NVidia card, and he has to play Arkham City on medium settings to get a good frame rate. Some game manufacturers are nice enough to plan their game's graphics to be able to utilize multiple cards, so that the investments of hardcore gamers are not in vain.

There's a pretty obvious price drop after the first couple cards. You can see where you're paying the price for cutting edge, and where you're getting a good card for a good price, and the 6850 seems to be it. We got the Sapphire model which came with it's own overclocking utility. I spent a night adjusting settings and running 3DMark. The stock clocks were 725MHz core and 1000 (4000MHz) Memory clock. It got something like 3100 points from 3DMark, and I managed to get it to OC to 940MHz core, and 1100 (4400 MHz) memory clock, and it only got up to about 60 degrees when pushed hard. It then scored 3900 and some change 3DMark points... almost a 30% improvement based on however they do their scoring. Where it counts, the hardcore 3DMark tests were giving us 11 to 12 FPS average before the OC, and 19 to 20 FPS after. I have also read some reviews on the hardware sites that said they managed to get a lot more out of the core, but the memory gets touchy beyond 4400 MHz.

Using the info from Tom's Hardware's benchmarks of graphics cards on The Old Republic and then using newegg to get a price range for each card, I made this list for my friend. He ended up spending the approximately $150 for a Sapphire Radeon HD 6850, and it's phenomenal and overclocks well. He had been originally using a 5450 as well. First colum is maximum FPS, second is average FPS, then the price range of that model on newegg. The 5450 should come in right below the 6450 on the very bottom of the chart. Keep in mind the 5450 doesn't need it's own line from the power supply, so a store bought computer like Dell or HP probably included a power supply that doesn't have a video card power wire. The minimum wattage required to run a nice vid card is usually significantly higher than what comes in one of those computers anyway. This means if you upgrade to a nice gaming card like the 6850, you'll probably have to buy a new power supply to power it, plan on throwing down $60-ish for that upgrade, as well. Old Republic Recommended: GeForce GTX 465 or above Radeon HD 5850 or above Star Wars: The Old Republic Maximum Detail, 4x AA, 1920x1080 Radeon HD 6970 79.3 - 68.0 - $320 - $380 GeForce GTX 570 71.7 - 58.0 - $330 - $380 Radeon HD 6850 47.4 - 40.0 - $140 - $200 GeForce GTX 460 44.1 - 35.0 - $150 - $200 Radeon HD 5770 38.7 - 32.0 - $120 - $140 GeForce GTX 550Ti 33.4 - 28.0 - $115 - $175 Low Detail, Low Shaders, Bloom Off, No AA 1920x1080 Radeon HD 5770 83.1 - 69.0 - $120 - $140 GeForce GTX 550Ti 77.4 - 62.0 - $115 - $175 Radeon HD 5570 41.9 - 35.0 - $55 - $175 Geforce GT 240 GDDR5 34.5 - 25.0 - $45 - $65 GeForce GT 430 30.4 - 23.0 - $60 - $80 Radeon HD 6450 23.9 - 17.0 - $40 - $70 Radeon HD 5450 vs Radeon HD 6850 Power Consumption (Max TDP) Radeon HD 6850 127 Watts Radeon HD 5450 19 Watts Memory Bandwidth Radeon HD 6850 128000 MB/sec Radeon HD 5450 12800 MB/sec Texel Rate Radeon HD 6850 37200 Mtexels/sec Radeon HD 5450 5200 Mtexels/sec Pixel Rate Radeon HD 6850 24800 Mpixels/sec Radeon HD 5450 2600 Mpixels/sec

I'm using a 4650, my friend was using a 5450. They had to run on pretty low settings, but they still managed. Even being a mobile GPU, a 6750M should be superior to those.

There have been a few times when I have picked up a green level light saber that was better than the orange level one I'm carrying, because of the mods I currently have. I switch to the green one, but hold on to the orange one until I can afford better mods for it. When I do, it becomes the superior weapon again. Just some food for thought. Hold onto those moddable weapons, but don't pass up the opportunity to use an unmoddable weapon temporarily.

Well, first off, he only has one toon with special characters in it, and I know that it happens to be an apostrophe. So that's not the issue. The weird thing about them having to be online, is that SOME of the toons of his I try to add, it lets me add even if they're offline, and some it doesn't, and the really annoying thing is, I need to be able to add them when he's offline. How else am I going to know when he comes online?

My buddy, who got me into the game, gave me a list of his toons. I started a character on the same server, same side, and tried to add them to my friends list. Some of them added, some of them wouldn't, and I got the message "<name> does not exist." I thought maybe I didn't get some spelling or punctuation right, and let it pass. Yesterday, he created a new character, and we played together for quite a while, and I added it to my friends list. Today, I created a new bounty hunter, and on this toon, I tried to add the name of the character he was playing yesterday to my friends list. It said the character didn't exist. I logged back into my other toon from yesterday, and it's on my friends list no problem. Anyone know what's up with that? I need to be able to add my friends when they're offline so when they come online, I can see them. But the game doesn't always seem to know they exist when they're not logged on.