No, a 560ti cannot play any game with three monitors. This is because the GTX 500 series only outputs to 2 monitors max. In order to get 3 you would need to get another 560ti and put them in SLI. Two 560ti's in SLI would run SWTOR no problem with three monitors. If you really want to play with three monitors you can either get another 560ti or get a new graphics card completely. The Radeon 7000 series outputs to more than 3, and the GTX 700 series outputs to 3. Right now, I would advise to either SLI your 560ti or get a Radeon 7850 or 7970 depending on your budget. Cheers.

From experience, the Sith Inquisitor story is SUPERB. I don't want to spoil anything, but just trust me...it was amazing. Better than any other class that I've played. The Sith Warrior was up there as well. It was really really really good, but the SI still takes the cake. I havn't played the Agent yet, but I've heard that is a great storyline as well. You can't go wrong with the SI.

Sorry to double-post but, I'm a rank 62 Battlemaster Juggernaut who gets at least 7+ medals a game with 60-120k protection every game. Clicker/hybrid. Where is YOUR evidence?

What it all comes down to is the skill level of the player. Skilled clicker > bad keyboarder (or whatever you want to call it) Skilled keyboarder > bad clicker Of course good anything > bad anything, but it just comes to show that it isnt the click/keyboard aspect that determines how well or poorly someone performs in a PvE or PvE environment, but their skill with what they are doing.

I have enjoyed this game from day 1 and continue to enjoy it, however I may quit after 1.2. The reason for this is because I am an endgame PvPer. I do Warzones and Ilum, not Ops/hard modes. The changes in 1.2 are a big slap in the face to me, since I spent so much time getting up to a high valour rank and getting Champion/Battlemaster gear that will now be meaningless. Any new level 50 will be able to get what I worked hard for easily.

Has BioWare commented on a possible race change for those of us who have already rolled and leveled up many alts pre-1.2? I know on a few of my characters I would have rolled them with a different race had it been available (ex. Pureblood Consular). So now I will have to delete and re-level a char all the way to 50 just because I want another race and BioWare wasn't gracious enough to give me a heads up about these changes ahead of time?

First of all I want to quickly say that BioWare has done a good job of making tanks somewhat viable in PvP, compared to other games. Now, I think any class specced to protect (ex. Darkness Assassin, Immortal Juggernaut) is signifigantly underpowered in PvP, due to the fact that healers can actively prevent more deaths/damage than they protectors can. During level 50 warzones, a geared protector gets around ~60-70k protection and ~90-130k damage (about, maybe more maybe less), and that takes some work. A geared healer, on the other hand, can get ~200-400k healing and ~30-100k damage. This seems unfair to the protectors. Here's why. Let's assume the healer and the protector average the same amount of damage per match, and look only at what they do to benefit their fellow team members, either by way of healing or protecting. At the end of a given match, the healer will have benefitted his or her team by 300k by way of healing, whilst the protector only 65k. Already we can see that the healer has almost 5 times the amount of benefit over a protector. Not only that, but the Guard mechanic is singnificantly underpowering. It provides a protector with most of his or her protection points, but also makes the protector take damage. So, while the protector has gotten 65k protection at the end of the game, 32.5k of that was from guard (I'll assume 50% for this scenario). This means the protector actually took 16.25k damage to him or herself. The fact that guard makes the protector take damage diminishes from his or her benefit, because the team as a whole is still taking all the incoming damage, just spread across 2 people. This would be fine if it guarded more, or perhaps absorbed some damage in the first place. The bottum line is that protectors do not offer benefits of equal share in warzones as do healers and DPSers. They are underpowered in that they cannot achieve as high of scores - it is almost impossible. Please, BioWare, consider this. Perhaps there is something I am missing, but from my point of view, protectors seem very underpowered for PvP. Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Wait when do these go live!?!? I love a lot of these, especially the one about getting credit for the Ilum dailies in warzones. When does this happen???

(Just for reference, I've played both stories to 50) It depends on the circumstances. If it were a 1 on 1 cage match duel, Darth Thanaton would win hands down. Baras just isn't as lethal with his fighting skills or the force as Thanaton. Thanaton would lightning the ***** out of Baras before he could do a thing. If it were like a war, it would be a much better fight. Baras has a wide network of spies, operatives, lackies, etc. He has the power base and intelligence to lead this power base. Thanaton also has many supporters, but perhaps not the scheming wit of Baras. This could go either way, but in the end I would put my money on Baras.

Like the guy above me said, consider getting an i3-21xx instead of that AMD Phenom. Don't be fooled into thinking less cores = less performance, the i3's are WAY faster than Phenoms. They're also less expensive. Also like the guy above me said (he must be a very intelligent individual), consider going for $30 more and getting an i5. An i5 2500k is super fast at stock speeds, and can be overclocked like a madman, faster than many i7's! As for the graphics card, I highly reccomend the Radeon HD 6850. For your price range, this card fits right in and has great performance. It is ~$150 and can max this game at 60 fps. However, if you are willing to wait another 2 weeks, Radeon is releasing its 78xx series of graphics cards on the (14th?). These will be around if not $5-20 more, and will be more powerful than the 68xx line. Bottum line: If I were you, I would definately 100% go for a dual core i3 wih hyperthreading or a quad core i5, and wait 2 weeks for the Radeon 7850 to come out for $150.

SWTOR uses as many CPU cores as your machine has. This is proven in a test done by Tom's Hardware found here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/star-wars-gaming-tests-review,3087-8.html

Just my quick 2 credits... I play the game on an HP notebook. It is an i5 dual core @2.4GHz with hyperthreading. I do not have a graphics card, and run on INTEL HD GRAPHICS. I am rank 47 in PvP and have no problems playing with 20+ FPS in warzones. The lowest I ever see is 15, and am usually somewhere from 20-30. My point is, if my notebook using Intel HD Graphics can run warzones and hard modes with 20-30 fps, the engine can't be that bad. If your machine has less power than Intel HD Graphics, it is not the game engine, it is your machine.

Hahaha when I encountered The Wall, I TOTALLY started thinking of Pink Floyd. Guess I really went nuts. On a more serious note, I don't think this is a big issue at all. There are going to be conincidences (I don't know if I spelled that right) and de ja vus (or that) here and there all throughout life. It doesn't neccesarilly (and perhaps there as well?) mean anybody is copying anything.

Being a Republic/Jedi character doesn't make one "good", and being an Empire/Sith character doesn't make one "evil". Besides, I would argue that the Republic, and the Jedi, are evil (at least more so than the Sith). Who massacred an entire civilization and caused the extinction of a sentient race from the face of the galaxy at the end of the Great Hyperspace War? The Jedi and the Republic. Who condems what they do not understand and cannot control, therefore justifying calling it "evil" and destroying it without trying to comprehend that it is just a different approach to a religion (the two sides of the Force, dark and light)? The Jedi.

Please don't mislead others by not knowing basic facts yourself then ranting about it. Everyone should know by now that framerates DROP in the Imperial/Republic fleet due to the amount of players there consentrated into one area. Even my friend on a GTX 580 drops down to 30FPS there occasionally. Now, in regards to the thread, those are the bare MINIMUM specs. They are meant to show who can LAUNCH the game. Not play with 30-60 FPS. I run SWTOR in Intel HD Graphics 3000, and get 19-35 FPS (FRAPS tested) everywhere (including solo, fleet, PvP, etc.). I also have had the chance to play on two other machines. Here are the complete specs and FPS of all of them: 1) i5-2410m, 2 cores/4 threads @ 2.3GHz 4GB RAM Intel HD Graphics 3000 FPS: 19-35 2) Pentium 4, 2 cores/2 threads @ 3.0GHz 2GB RAM Radeon HD 5450 FPS: 8-25 3) i7-2600k, 4 cores/8threads @ 4.9GHz 8GB RAM Nvidia GTX 580 FPS: 110-111 (30-111 in fleet) Now, obviously the higher grade components you have the more FPS you will get, duh. What a lot of people (and you readers) are doing is taking machines that are NOT 3D gaming ready and expecting them to do well in SWTOR. Browser games and games such as Terraria and Minecraft barely stress one's computer. Just because you can play these DOES NOT mean you can run SWTOR. SWTOR is a brand new MMO, which requires decent gaming components. Most important part of my post: SWTOR is an MMO but is NOT CPU intensive like many others. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Based on FPS tests done by our friends over at Tom's Hardware, SWTOR is mainly a GPU intensive game. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/star-wars-gaming-tests-review,3087.html Please read that in-depth review of FPS in SWTOR.