Use the free L60 and play through KotFE with it; you keep all companions AND get to see as much of the new game as you like. Do not start with any existing L60s if you dislike losing your companions, even for a short while. With the free L60, you can have your cake and eat it, too.

...are available to Bioware. If they wanted our opinion on any given topic(s), they would afford us an opportunity to speak. There is no need for them to guess about anything.

Take name of player character, turn in exploit report.

Exactly; I did all the new content (at least as far as I was willing to go, which was thru Chapter 8, and part-way into Chapter 9) on the free L60 and am back to casual grinding all of my original L60s up to L65 on Yavin whenever the mood hits. That way, I kept all of my "original" companions, such as they now are in their generic, boring, and sad form. I discovered that the story of KotFE was actually quite good. I really liked it for the most part. But that is as far as the play-value of combat upgrade goes; everything else in the new game experience is a vast, grey, dull wasteland, just like Ziost. No reputation grind (aka the Alliance series), no PvP (aka M1-4X grind), and no Qyzen forced-grouping (aka juggernuts (sp) points-for-doughnuts) for me. I am sooo glad I did not touch my original characters!! I augmented all of my companion gear sets when I prepped for the coming of KotFE, and so far, the new 208s are a wash when it comes to upgrade value, because all of my characters, including the new L65, do just fine with those old, augmented sets. Thank goodness for the appearance tabs!! My subscriptions lapse in mid-November; I will easily have everyone up to L65 by then. Then I will just wait until Bioware runs a new 'renewal' promotion, and see what is available for 'returning' subscribers. Until then, I can save my subscription allowance. I never thought I'd be back on Yavin so soon.

Qft ^^

Have you used the NO token?

Well, you can always quest without them; you'll soon see that they have some usefulness.

First, do the whole RotFE with the free level 60; do not do it with any of your original characters. This will prevent you from losing any companions on your original characters. Second, play that quest line out until your chosen end. I actually enjoyed the new story through Chapter 8, which was well worth the price I paid for it. Second, I did all of the starter quests for the Alliance reputation grind and left it at that. It is clear that these quests are why level syncing was created. You are probably going to spend a lot of time on the lower-level planets if you want to get that Alliance going. I did not do the PvP quest line for M1-4X on my new Sage, because I am not fond of Bioware's attempt to force me to do things I clearly don't like to do. Nor am I going to chase Qyzen's many tasks, because I am not fond of Bioware's attempt to force me to do things I do not want to do. I now have a L65 Sage, with several new companions (one companion is all you really need). I've got a bunch of new Legacy gear, some new mounts and three new trade professions at L500, and two pieces of level 208 gear. All of my original L60s have all of their companions and combat skills that remain in each class. I'll level the rest of them to 65 while my subscription lasts, and Yavin 4 is good for about a 60-to-61 level ding if you do the weekly along with the 8 regular dailies. I think the regular 8 dailies will get you about 3/4 of the way thru a level with level boosts. Do go back to your spaceship and finish out your companion story quest lines; it is worth a level in xp if you use an xp boost. Plus, it will remind you of what you've lost in your characters' personalities. Painless and pleasant, except for the companion quest lines.

He's busted for my Sage.

Okay, but my question is much simpler; for every PvP victory I achieve, I get some sort of tally or count toward a total number which gives me something as a reward, like you said, depending on the context. Is that correct?

When I achieve a PvP victory over another player, do i get, like, a kill achievement or something? Do the number of PvP victories result in an award of something?

...the list of which 500-level professions go with what free level 60 class. I am sorry if I missed the link; could someone direct me to it? I'd rather not roll a new character blindly.

What they said...

This is not completely correct; the game can auto-target a flagged player, even if you are fighting with an NPC, and you are flagged as a result. For instance, a flagged player can enter the zone of your AoE attack, and wait until the NPCs are dead. The game will auto-target it and "poof", you are flagged if your AoE cast isn't finished as soon as the NPCs die. Same result, just not willful on your part. Thanks to that clever "game enhancement", it took me two days, and over six hours in Catina, to clear the flag. Yeah, the PvP system works great on PvE servers. Oh, I know, just turn off the auto-target...that's helpful. I just love having to take so many precautions not to become another tally-mark on someone's PvP score-sheet, just because I want to play PvE. I know my chance of winning that contest is nil because I am not PvP equipped. This is something that Bioware has complete control over. And the fix is INCREDIBLY easy. But there is no way Bioware will implement it. Just more Bioware POS programming. "Bioware doesn't care"

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