Game engine is crap, everyone knows that. I5 4670 @ 4.0ghz and an R9 290 here. Shouldn't be any reason I can't run this game 1440p with graphics cranked up @ 60FPS+. (Grass and shadow detail turned down, no AA) Lol nope. 16 man TFB will reduce it to 18 fps during fights. Yes, I could turn down the graphics. But I shouldn't have a need too, my hardware far surpasses what should be needed for an optimized engine. (Oh, wait... optimized in SWTOR? LOL) I can play Far Cry 4 in the same resolution, graphics cranked (no AA), and I run 40-60FPS. (Fairness, I do love SWTOR, but I am not without my gripes)

Just in time to shaft the early access subscribers of their training costs. Bravo. PS: You fix that bugged Revan fight yet?

HM Black Talon. TL;DR -- this 12x XP makes GF kinda of a russian roulette and a weird mix of competent players making dumb mistakes. All "fresh geared" 55s, including myself. Powertech tank, about 7K in achievements -- 31K hp, in a larger Empire guild on Jedi Covenant. Run goes super smooth up until Commander Ghulil. Playing my operative healer, definitely not 1337sauce awesome, but I'm a competent healer. Dude is going down FAST about a minute into the fight, I start freaking out thinking I'm not healing well.... look at his debuffs... six stacks of the non-cleanseable AOE fire debuff. A 55 tank. Standing in the fire. On HMBT. Even DPS know not to do this. I did not let him die on purpose and promptly battle-rezzed him as the DPS assassin started to successfully tank him OUT of the fire. Needless to say I was very confused about this, erm... tactic... and informed him "Sorry man, but I just can't outheal the fire you were standing in."

These really should be a reusable item with a buffed duration! Perhaps a limited edition one-use version that sparkles multiple colors? Either way, signed!

Still gone as of 2.0. Likely not a priority.

Same, have yet to see/hear/read about any acknowledgement from BW about the sound effects missing for those skills.

I don't PvP on my Merc, but this would def get me back into it. /signed, even if I'd have to get used to insta-cast TM for PvE.

Great CPU choice, OP. Have you considered overclocking if you're willing to get an aftermarket cpu heatsink and work in the bios? 3570Ks overclock quite easily to well over 4ghz, a lot are capable of 4.5ghz on good airflow based coolers. Check your motherboard manual, you may have an easy auto-overclock option to gain some "free" extra performance. There's also TONS of guides to be found on what does what, safe voltages, safe temperatures, best coolers for the cost, etc. And definitely keep your 6790 for now, new GPUs will be trickling out shortly. I actually run a 3570K @ 4.6ghz w/ a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 heatsink, a GTX 670 with a hefty overclock, 16gb DDR3-1600, 7200rpm HDD, Asus Sabertooth Z77, Win7 64bit, and you seem to be getting very similar frames to what I get, so save yourself the $400 and invest in a next generation video card.

Creative goes to a Chiss operative in my guild: "Bluewienerdude". Ridiculous goes to yet another guildie, human bounty hunter "Bigwhitecauck". Sadly, they're not played by the same person.

I've noticed the graphical glitches, and the missing SFX for tracer and fusion missiles. I did see barrage proc a lot less, and require more tracer missile use to proc it. Don't know about the DPS issue, but definitely gonna parse against a dummy tonight to check it.

Thought I was going crazy, but they sure are missing their sound effects.

Before even looking at a significant GPU upgrade, make sure that power supply isn't a propitiatory design or one of those tiny form factor ones and a quality 500 watt power supply will fit in it's place. If you can't fit a good 500 watt (Look into Silverstone, Corsair, Seasonic, or Antec as suggestions), then you'll need to look into a new case or jimmy rigging the PSU to the outside of the case. Then follow everyone's solid advice.

My guild was stuck on Fab for awhile we downed him using 3 guys (1 healer, 2 ranged DPS) up top, and kept him at the starting position. We burned through the puzzle only hitting the button to use the furnace when it was back at the start point. To do that, solve it initially, then solve it on the middle one, but don't turn on the burner, and then immediately set it up on the starting burner again. His armor stacks never went above 2 ticks, and we had one of our worse players DPSing him down below with 2 tanks, a healer, and one more DPS. If we had one of our better players, we wouldn't have had half the op down at 5%. Sorry for any typos, keyboard at work is a better paper weight then something to type on.

Hanhaar's Sith Empire downed the infected bantha on Hanhaar with 16 people. Adds at ~80% and 20%, has a knockback that only affects a small area around him. Not that hard with a coordinated op.

Edit: Level 50 world boss in open PvP area. 1.2 million HP. Hella buffed.