I'm a little confused why it takes so much to level it, considering that the system was an idea Bioware mentioned at every showing of the game back when it was still in alpha. I currently have a lvl 50 and a lvl 44, both of which are still on social 1. I didn't really do flashpoints/group missions often, but I thought often enough to at least get out of the first level of social. How did anyone else get to a high social level? Just by grinding, or what?

Mostly off-topic, but I've noticed that the Diablo 3 team is nerfing the difficulty a lot as well. They're buffing each class while toning down difficulty for a few things, and it seems odd when a lot of people complained that the game was too easy early on.

While I use a Razer Naga, and it does help things a LOT, it's ultimately not what makes things easy. The way you say it, you make it sound like everyone takes 20 seconds to push a button they have mapped to ALT+#'s and that all hacks are cheats.

From my understanding, the endgame content is rather easy after you have gotten top-tier gear. Correct me if I'm wrong on that front, but why continue making high-end gear that makes the game easier instead of making more, harder PvE Flashpoints? Yeah, we're getting new Operations, but you can only play those if you can get 8+ people that want to do it. The thing that makes people want to play endgame content more is difficulty, and I feel that they're not doing too good of a job at that. It's why most of my toons are PvP oriented.

columi and rakata are nothing compared to getting black hole gear. That one has to be the worst to do, I read a chart somewhere that it would take 6 weeks of constant daily grinding to get fully geared.

I agree that there are a ton of things that TOR needs to improve on, and the team really needs to do it before they lose all their subs, but the game just needs time to work in everything and listen to suggestions. WoW wasn't that great when it started either.

I'm a tank assassin.

Maybe, but I thought the healing might help for survivability in duels and make for better soloing gear.

Well the one I mentioned is good for a healer, and there are different versions of it for PvP and PvE.

Hey everyone, I didn't know where to put this so I posted the thread on general chat. So, I noticed that there are lvl 50 relics that have a 50% chance to restore more health when you heal someone. I was wondering if this works for an Assassin's Dark Charge, or if I should invest in another relic.