My first class was IA Operative, healing spec, then a BH Merc, healing again (which seemed like a breeze after agent). And after that SW Juggernaut, immortal spec. With Quinn companion its way too easy. Takes long most of the time, but I am quite unbreakable. Only have to use defensive skills if I'm in fights with golds, bosses or too many small stuff. I'm not sure about marauders, I've seen them hit hard compared to me, but juggernaut feels rather solid. I'm only lvl 35 on him and just landed on Quesh, but I soloed every class quest before (mostly on first try) and the only thing I had trouble with was the fight against 2 silver jedi on tatooine when my companion was knocked out. But I was 2 levels lower than recommended level.

The easiest way to get orange gear is flashpoints (ironic). I had trouble in flashpoints at lower levels as sith juggernaut (same as jedi guardian) because I lacked the ability to taunt properly. That changed once I got an aoe taunt. I would say about 70% of successfull tanking is buffing up on player-made stims (which are superior to anything you can buy from npcs or loot at a similar level) and maintaining your gear. The gear has to be current. As high quality as possible. Again, the irony is that better gear drops in flashpoints. But better mods are made by players. The rest is staying in sight of a medic, maintaining aggro and reasonable skill rotation.

I can live with Nar Shaddaa being the only place where I can sell items to the other faction (although it rules out sales of lower level items as people only reach Nar shaddaa once they're around level 20). As an imperial crafter I am appaled by a vast choice of weapons that cant be used by my faction or armors that require 'jedi knight' and 'smuggler' to wear them and are for level 15 - too low for nar shaddaa. Either don't give us these schemes (through both vendors and random drops/crit rolls), or let us sell! Besides I would absolutely love the unified 'galactic' trade network for all of my faction's planets! Its really annoying to have to travel to different planets if I want to sell items of particular level to players. So far the fleet seems most reasonable (and the biggest market), but I can think of the potential buyers I'm missing simply because I'm not listing in Kaas city.

I joined the queue roughly 5 hours ago. It lasted almost 2 hours first time, I got in. I played for around 40 minutes (managed to pick up a couple of quests and hand in some of the 'talk only' quests). Then we decied to go exploring with my friend and I disconnected... Was dumped back into the queue and been waiting over 2 hours again... I'm 74th in the line as I'm sending this. Is this reasonable? For Frostclaw apparently, it is.