Not to bring up a classic Star Wars cliché, but..... I have a very bad feeling about this.... Last time things went down like this, I lost everything I had in game. It was Star Wars Galaxies and when I logged in, EVERYTHING I had was gone and Sony refused to do anything to help me.

Sadly I have to agree with this. We know that creating a raid takes time, and knowing that 5.0 is going to be a story continuance from KOTFE to KOTET tell us that there will NOT be a new raid until at least 2018 if at all. For many of us, that's the dealbreaker that EA should have been afraid of. Many of us have been waiting over 2 years for a new raid or flashpoint, with nothing to show for it. All we have is a single player game with microtransactions available from the Cartel Market. Eric Musco, we have been patient. VERY patient. Unfortunately, we are coming to a breaking point here. I know I am not alone when I say that my subscription is on the line and depends on what happens with 5.0. We cannot wait another year for something that should have been obvious from day one.

Melee weapons, yes, but not lightsabers. The odd weighting of the weapon would make it clumsy in the hands of someone not trained in their use, no? If sabers are so easy to just pick up and use, why then did the Jedi have the 7 forms of lightsaber combat?

Actually, it goes beyond the EU as far as it "not following canon". The biggest issues with the movie actually comes from direct contradiction with the previous six films' canon. Here is a prime example: Jedi Training in the Force. In TFA, we are shown young girl named Rey who, as far as we can tell has had: - NO training in the Force and on the use of it. - NO training in the Jedi Saber Arts and no formal Saber training. Rey is strapped into that chair onboard the First Order's Superweapon and she magically is able to use the Force to apply a Jedi Mind Trick to the Stormtrooper formerly known as James Bond. No training. She just wills it to happen. Canon in conflict 1: In The Empire Strikes Back, Yoda has to teach Luke how to use the Force to lift a minor stone, which he does. He tries to concentrate. Tries feel the Force around him. Tries to bridge the connections between himself and the Living Force. Despite the minor training, Luke cannot lift his X-wing out of the bog, claiming that it was "too big". How can Luke have such issues with the use of the Force, but Rey doesn't? See, something doesn't add up here. Canon in conflict 2: In Attack of the Clones, during the speeder chase of Zam Wesell, Obi Wan makes a point of telling his Padawan Learner, Anakin Skywalker, that "if he practiced his saber technique as well as his wit, he would rival Master Yoda as a swordsman". In TFA, Rey just pulls Anakin's saber out of the snow with the Force and beats a trained, albeit limited, Force Sensitive with training in the Jedi saber arts. Oh, and yes, I am aware that Kylo Ren had a wound from Chewie's Crossbow but that leads me to my third canon conflict. How is Rey capable of just picking up a lightsaber(which for the longest time was considered a weapon that was just as dangerous to the user as it is to the one its pointed at) and defeating Kylo Ren in a duel? Canon in conflict 3: In The Force Awakens, after the death of Han Solo at the hands of his son, Kylo Ren takes a bolt from Chewbacca's Crossbow to the ribs, which results in an open wound. It has been surmised that THIS is why, when he duels Rey in the snow, he loses the fight. Again, the existing films contradict this. In The Empire Strikes Back, Vader is dueling his son in the Industrial Heart of Cloud City on Bespin. Vader backs him onto a bridge and continues to try to overwhelm his son. He makes a mistake and Luke lands a clean lightsaber wound to Vader's shoulder/upper arm, which cause the Sith Lord to scream in pain, go berserk and cut his son's saber hand off, ending the duel. If Vader can take a deep, glancing saber cut from his son, then Kylo Ren should have been able to take the shoulder blow Finn landed on him and the wound from Chewbacca prior to engaging with Rey. These are just 3 examples of the canon not being followed for continuity between the movies.

If we're gonna take Kylo Ren's injury into account, that it somehow weakened him to the point where he couldn't fight what amounts to a novice in the Jedi Saber Arts, then I'm calling bulls*** on it and there is canonized evidence to suggest otherwise. Saying that she was able to beat those goons on Jakku with a metal staff isn't the same thing as fighting a trained, yet likely amateur(I will give you the point on Kylo Ren being partially trained) Force User armed with a lightsaber. You're comparing Apples and Oranges here. Case in point: Obi Wan and Anakin fighting General Grievous' Magnaguards armed with energy staffs in Revenge of the Sith. Those droids were programmed to use those staffs expertly and viciously and yet Kenobi is able to defeat them with relative ease, as is Skywalker. Now, droids vs. sentients may not be a solid argument, but you have to think that an average person would have been killed by those Magnaguards in a similar situation. When Luke was dueling Vader on Cloud City in Empire, he got in a lucky, glancing blow on Vader's shoulder, one that was powerful enough to make the Lord of the Sith scream in pain. Vader then went berserk and removed Skywalker's saber hand. See what I mean? I can't buy the bowcaster bolt to the ribs "cop-out" for why Rey, an untrained user in lightsaber combat, can just suddenly defeat Kylo Ren, even if wounded, because of the Bespin duel between Father and Son. In Attack of the Clones, it is hinted through the dialogue between Obi Wan and Anakin that saber technique and skill is an important part of wielding a lightsaber, so we can infer that Jedi are trained in use of their sabers. Even Finn had some rudimentary saber training, possibly a part of his "conditioning" within the First Order. Rey's combat with the saber was clumsy. You can see it in the film. She is lunging and swinging and then dodging and running, whereas Finn stood his ground and actually dueled Kylo Ren, until Ren was hit in the shoulder. He then gave himself fully over to the Dark Side and ended that fight quickly. Speaking of which, there is only one possible way that Rey could have suddenly found the strength she needed to crush him the way she did: She must have embraced the Dark Side of the Force. It explains her sudden strength and brute force to defeat Ren. Watch her after she knocked him down. The look on her face. The Dark Side was there. In the novel I believe she even hears voices telling her to finish him quickly. We all know what happens when someone starts down the Dark Path.....

You DO realize that simply being level 65 does NOT qualify you as ready for HM FP's, right? You need GEAR and SKILL in order to survive. I have seen a level 65 tank with 208 gear out-tank another one geared with 216 and 220 pieces, so skill is a HUGE part. Also, at level 65, depending on the tank, stacking Defense is a BAD IDEA.

BB-8. I liked the film. It was a good Disney film, but it was a mediocre Star Wars film.

The magic has vanished. So many "fans" have bought into the hype of the Disney machine that they didn't see what you did. I liked TFA. I felt it was a good Disney film. I felt was a lackluster and mediocre Star Wars film, barely beating out Attack of the Clones and Return of the Jedi, which I hold as the worst of the 6 older films. Yes, I see Phantom Menace as slightly better than The Force Awakens, and you can poke fun at me and judge me all you want, but at least Phantom Menace had an original story, characters that were believable(Darth Maul was bad-***) and a story that didn't try to do too much, too fast. The Original Star Wars Trilogy was a magical set of movies that took place in a galaxy far far away that was set in a war. They were emotionally charged films with a sense of wonder and mysticism. They pulled you in and for two hours, you forgot about the world outside of that theater house you were in. The films had personality and heart. They were dark, dirty and full of personal, emotionally charged relationships between the primary characters. They had a magical feeling. The Prequels are heavily misunderstood and underappreciated. They brought us into the time before the Galactic Empire. Before the Original Trilogy. The time that Obi Wan Kenobi referred to as a "civilized age". There was no dirty, dark places. The galaxy was a much cleaner and far grander place during the time of the Republic, which is why the scope of these films was different and CGI became almost a practical necessity. The Prequels just could NOT have been made using practical physical effects. Many people dislike them because of the scripts(which were not that great. I can certainly agree on that fact), but the films themselves were original stories(despite the fact that everyone pretty much knows how the ending was going to play out) that had heart and had captured the essence of Star Wars. These films felt like Star Wars. The difference was that they were set in an earlier time, so naturally they had to be somewhat different. The choreographed lightsaber fights were a necessity since in this trilogy we seen Jedi and Sith at their full potential vs. the weak old men, half human cyborgs and young, inexperienced Jedi students of the Original films. The Force Awakens, however, did not have the magic of Star Wars. Yes, for many of you the nostalgia factor was way up there, but this film was simply nothing more than Disney providing "lip service" to those "fans" who believed that Lucas ruined their beloved franchise with the Prequels. This film was devoid of the magic that made Star Wars fun and entertaining. Even the John Williams soundtrack for The Force Awakens felt detached. The Prequels built upon and enhanced the magic of the original films, while building upon their legacy. Whether or not you enjoyed them is not relevant. They are canon. TFA was a reboot of A New Hope with a few different twists in it to make you feel as though it was new. This film was full of plot holes(some glaring and others not so much).There was nothing original and in some ways, this film has single-handedly ignored and destroyed established canon in the first six films.

For HM raid bosses, EVERYONE needs to consider the following: - Everyone should be at level 65 as there is NO BOLSTER in HM Operations. - Everyone should be geared and augmented properly for your class and spec, also because, again, there is NO BOLSTER in HM Operations. Failure to follow this rule can lead to wipes because usually the team doesn't have the DPS to beat the enrage timer on the bosses. - Everyone needs to learn mechanics. If you cannot be bothered to learn mechanics, you don't need to run HM ops. That's what SM ops are for. - Everyone needs to learn a rotation for each toon they have to maximize their output numbers in Threat, Damage and Heals. - Everyone should have Target of Target activated on their HUD. - Tanks should be putting Guards on the top two aggro hogs in the group. Pulling the first group of trash should give you an idea who that will be. Now, onto the Bonetrasher fight: 1. This boss cannot be taunted by the Tanks. It will randomly aggro on someone. Just allow it to approach and pop Defensive Cooldowns(if applicable)as it hits you IF you are the target of the boss. Eat the damage. Your healers should be able to keep anyone up in this fight, provided everyone is geared properly. If not, the Healers are either not geared properly, have a bad rotation or do not understand their spec/class. 2. Try to keep the boss in the center of the room as much as possible. His knockback can send you into the acid around the room, which will kill you. 3. The aggroed player should try to stand in front of the boss when he approaches you so as to not spread damage raid wide with his cleave. When he pounds you into the ground, you should be able to use your stun-breaker to wake up from that and move. You should also be able to pop your Defensive Cooldown ability(everyone has something that can do this). Try to keep your raid group behind the boss. Tanks can stand with you in front and take some damage with their Cooldowns. 4. When Karagga throws down one of his Gamorrean soldiers for Bonethrasher to eat, it is imperative that it die as quickly as possible because if the boss eats him, he gains a buff that causes more damage and takes less incoming damage, which does nothing more but prolong the fight. That's pretty much the fight. Just rinse and repeat.

It's not? Tell me, then, if it's not true, why the concern, It occurs to me that without a teacher, there will be no Jedi, or is the very story in the new movie contradicting itself?

If training is a form of learning, and knowledge and understanding come from learning, doesn't that make training/learning required? Also, your previous statement makes it sound like you're flip-flopping now. She received training? From who? She's never met Luke Skywalker until the end of the film.

I didn't want to have to use this, but...... CREATURE: Not far. Yoda not far. Patience. Soon you will be with him. Rootleaf, I cook. Why wish you become Jedi? Hmm? LUKE: Mostly because of my father, I guess. CREATURE: Ah.....your father. Powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi, mmm. Okay. It's no longer potential. Yoda admitted Anakin's strength in the Force. Okay. Now I'm really confused. The Force requires training and knowledge and understanding to use? Did I get that right? If I did, maybe you can help me with something. If what you said is true, how could Rey have used the Force to do Jedi Mind Tricks on that hapless Stormtrooper? How could she have withstood Kylo Ren's attempts to read her mind? How could she have won that duel at the end of the film? She still hasn't been trained in the Force. That was alluded to early on the film when she thinks Luke Skywalker and the Jedi were mythical.

With this logic I believe I am correct. Why wouldn't Anakin be the most powerful Force user of his time(especially given his connection to the Force, which is measured by his midichlorian count)? If anyone sounds immature, it is you. It sounds to me like you wish to ignore the Prequels, which is impossible since THEY ARE CANON. Sure, you can pretend that they don't exist, which is childish, but at some point in this sequel trilogy, Disney WILL have to bring elements from the Prequels into the films. Case in Point: If Luke Skywalker engages Leader Snoke in saber combat in a later episode, which may be coming, it will be similar to the choreographed, stylized combat from the Prequels. If Snoke is who everyone seems to think he is, both he and Skywalker are Masters of the Force and the fight will be similar to the Yoda vs. Darth Sidious duel from Revenge of the Sith. In fact, I foresee a dual duel(lol) in the classic Star Wars style that switches back and forth between Luke vs. Snoke and Rey vs. Kylo Ren in Episode IX with "Battle of the Heroes" or "Duel of the Fates" as the score during this scene.

QUI-GON takes the blood stained chip and inserts it into the comlink, then calls OBI-WAN. QUI-GON : Obi-Wan? OBI-WAN : Yes, Master. QUI-GON : I need an analysis of this blood sample I'm sending you. OBI-WAN : Wait a minute... OBI-WAN activates the analysis program QUI-GON : I need a midi-chlorian count. OBI-WAN : The readings are off the chart. Over twenty thousand. Even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chlorian count that high! QUI-GON : No Jedi has. OBI-WAN : What does it mean? QUI-GON : I'm not sure. Master Yoda is the most powerful Jedi of the order, or was until this point. This scene shows concern on the part of Qui Gon Jinn as no Jedi has ever measured a blood to midichlorian level as high as Anakin's in the Order's history. It's not potential. It's scientific fact, proven by the midichlorians. Even Darth Sidious knew how powerful Anakin was/would be. DARTH SIDIOUS: You cannot stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us. YODA: Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the Dark Side of the Force.

Well, Anakin Skywalker IS the most powerful Jedi in the timeline we are talking about. The Midichlorians, like them are not, are canonized via the Prequels. Because his midichlorian count was higher than any other Jedi in the order, including Yoda, that makes him the most powerful Jedi in the universe at that time. Source: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.