Yea I know what your saying - I'm just trying to determine if that's all of it or if I have a network / server problem as well. Yep! However, Asus just released new drivers for my motherboard yesterday so while they are installed I wouldn't call them fully tested yet.

Thanks, it's good advice, but I was specifically hoping for the type of replies that you mostly see here in this section. Thanks, yes I'm east coastish with a ping mostly in the mid-30s, although that never seems to change, even when problems like not being able to zone or attack occur. I did post in the customer service forum previously but didn't have any luck getting a reply. If the problem persists I'll do so again and cast a wider net. Yea one of the first things I tried was deleting the DiskCache file, along with client and graphics prefs. I replaced the launcher and ultimately reinstalled a fresh copy. Next I'll try using a different SATA port on the board, and if that doesn't work, I'll try moving it to another drive. Also thanks Derf and Ice for the server Req's; I'll try them both out. On Shadowlands it can run very smooth, even for an hour. The problems do occur at least once per play session though, and occasionally they don't go away. For some reason, Voss is particularly troublesome, and often requires a repair to load.

I've had a combo of issues lately and I'm hoping to get an opinion from someone before I jump server and move somewhere else (my roster is full and I have millions invested but why stick around if you can't play). I'm currently playing on Shadowlands and I frequently have issues like not being able to zone, world map not opening, can't access my vaults (all stuff you'd require updates from the server to do). However I don't typically get kicked off the server (except when it goes down, which it has a couple of times lately). On it's own this looks like just server issues and so I'd ask have other people had these issues as well, and if so were they on the same server or a different one? It's also worth noting that I've had other issues like maps failing to load (error message), invisible characters and bad textures, all of which have been fixed by file repairs - this is a frequent issue. I've reinstalled in an attempt to resolve the issue, and it seems to be a separate issue, but who knows. Any opinions would be great.

I gave gunslinger a try tonight (I spent a lot of time on the Imp side previously - thought I'd switch it up). I ran through the first 17 levels and it's been a lot of fun so far I do keep seeing people talk about the agent story though so I might start one tomorrow and see how that goes too. Sniper / MM would be about the same I think?

Thanks guys - that's all extremely helpful!

I've been gone a while and a lot seems to have changed, and changed again. I currently have a sorcerer at 50 so I'll eventually go back to him to cap out, but for now I think it's best to start over. Without a lot of free time I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Primarily I'm concerned with PvE and the story (not end-game). Role isn't that important to me, especially with companions, but playing a solo healer would probably be pretty dull. When playing a character I pay more attention to mechanics than style, so lightsabers and guns are all the same to me. My favorite mechanics are keeping abilities off cool-downs (SPAM!) and abilities that open up after a specific event occurs (ex. reposte). What I don't like is building x number of combo points before using ability X or Y. Basically I like chaotic spam and lack the patience to resist hitting attacks before I should Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Thanks for the reply. I restarted so I wouldn't miss out on the daily - that resolved it.

I accepted my first bounty contract last night. Off to Nar Shaddaa - completed collecting my pieces of info and had to call it a night. I finished everything up to locating the beacon today, located the marked area on the map - but no beacon. I suspect I was in the right area as I could hear (and read in the txt chat) someone else fighting the same bounty I was looking for. Am I missing something? Does it bug out if left overnight? I did check out images of the beacons online and know what they look like - but no sign of it anywhere. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks for the answers guys - very very helpful!

The short: I'd like to roll a Scoundrel and try their healing style, but you spend a lot of your time levelling up not healing - so I'd like to know what the rest of the play-style is like. The long: So i've played a few different classes - I enjoy levelling toons up but don't spend much time at end-game. I've always been curious about the HoT healers and would like to try a scoundrel, but we spend so much time dpsing while leveling up (questing, random group quests with more than one healer etc) that the DPS mechanics require a serious consideration - will I find them fun? Specifically - how do the fights feel when you are not healing? I understand there's an upper hand mechanic that's involved (is it involved with healing too?). How does that work - fun or tedious? What about range? I'm I forced into being some kind of weird melee gun fighter? I know it's a very subjective question but I'm more concerned with the feel of play than the power of the class. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer

Click the + on your hot bar and choose 'Open Interface Editor'. Then click your player frame. Then scroll down in the bottom of the new window that has opened. Click the box that says 'Show Information Text'. That's it.

Outstanding answers guys - thank you! Very much appreciated. That's funny about the healing vs tanking gear. I had that thought, but as you noted they are exactly the same (I overlooked the off-and).

Appologies if this has been answered elsewhere - I wasn't able to find much beyond 'guides' on how to get Treek (which is strange for such a straight-forward process). I've recently returned and I had a few coins in the bank so I thought I'd give Treek a shot - looked like the best bang for my hutt-bucks. I also started a new character so the levels matched up nicely. I have a few questions though. 1. What's the deal with receiving a package of her gear that seems to match the gear she's already wearing? I'm I missing a detail somewhere - is this the same stuff? 2. I'm getting absolutely no reputation with her in quest conversations - does this come into play later, or will affection only increase through gifts? 3. Am I causing myself problems later in the game by levelling with Treek? Do I need to be swapping out other companions to work on affection gains during quest conversations? 4. She starts out amazing at level 10 - does she stay amazing throughout the levelling process if I keep her geared or does it taper off?

Why are you comparing the launch of WoW with SWTOR? They aren't in competition - SWTOR needs to compete with current WoW. Blizzard knew this when they released their game - and it had everything it needed to compete with it's contemporaries. Maybe that's one of the reasons it has been so successful. If BW took the same approach I'm sure it would have a chance of taking the number one spot. What they did include has some real polish and is a pleasure to play. And to address one more thing - this notion that it took years for Blizzard to incorporate everything it has now like a LFD tool, damage meters and the Armor - it's a load of crap. The fact is - almost all of those things simply didn't exist previously and weren't being asked for. They started with a modifiable interface as a way of inviting the user base to show them what could be done. The capitalized on it and when people came up with good ideas they incorporated it. That's the hard way to do things. Where Blizzard had to innovate to keep customers happy, BW just has to copy what's been done before. Combine that information with the fact that the industry knows most gamers decide on the value of an MMO in the first couple of months and there's no excuse for launching without basic expected features. There's a laundry list of games that prove that point - some gone F2P and others that have just faded. All that being said - I like the game for the single player aspect and expect to get maybe 4 or 5 months out of it before moving on. New work will be appreciated, but I think the population has already dropped too far to make this game a long term investment.

They do work - I've seen them recently as this week. The first time I saw it used for SWTOR was in a youtube vid here on the forums a couple weeks after release. Someone had recorded two people using them in hutt ball - you can imagine how that went. First to the ball then across the line before the recorder could even reach the ball. The hackers didn't even care - you could see them zipping around taunting everyone. The thread was taken down before it reached it's second page. The guy using them this past week I saw when I made a new BH toon on Krayt Dragon. He was zipping around the newbie zone. Several of us were talking about it in general chat. I did take the time to report him - in PvE it's not that big a deal but in PvP it really does suck. That's a very long time for those hacks to continue being used.