Correction: Mages tanked the boss in Gruuls, and Warlocks tanked the boss in SSC. ...for the most part. Other than that, no WoW doesnt have ranged tanks. Eve online does it..well, it kind of has to? When do you see a hullageddon melee'ing people down? ???? AoC...worst MMO in history. Please dont mention that game again. What is Perfect World? Obviously not so perfect if it doesnt make it into mainstream websites like mmorpg.com Class quests done: in wow? They took them out, because they sucked. Personal stories...where? Ive leveled toons to max level in wow, rift, aion, warhammer, and now SWTOR. this is the first game to successfully give us ongoing personal stories and class quests.

SWTOR Story lines are better than any other MMO in the industry. V/O acting is better than just a "BAM" block of text and click accept. Moral system adds a twist to how you play. Companion system is better than any other companion/pet system in the industry. Id say in terms of a questing experience, it pushed the genre forward. Yes, SWTOR has its flaws... In my opinion, it lacks a persistant world. I feel very gated on many of the planets. It takes longer to go from zone to zone, world to world with all of the cutscenes, loadscenes. For end game, its pretty lackluster. Heres to hoping they improve it(not by only adding more raids or PVP maps, but solo content). Otherwise, when Im finished leveling a third or 4th char to 50 and seeing a few story lines to completion, I'll unsub and wait for Tera/GW2.

Bump. Id like to keep Kaliyo as a companion, but probably go mostly light side, while staying loyal to the empire and thumbing my nose to the Sith. If I did that, would I still have a decent amount of affection with Kaliyo?

I had the same problem starting out with my BH. Neutral choices for these classes fit best. I know bioware has plans to throw in neutral gear...quesiton is when?

Good morning. As many of you have seen threads like this, I'll post another one I just started an IA, but debating on light side or dark side. My IA is still level 5, but Ive had a few moral choices so far. Either tell that Dark Agent dude to leave the Evoki alone, or take a bribe and thumb my nose to the Evoki. I chose take the bribe, only because it is dark side and Kaliyo, I hear, hates light side choices(Kaliyo just looks bad*****). Id love to roll with Kaliyo, and when I quest with a particular companion the whole way through, I generally like to keep them appeased. However, taking a bribe as an IA just to score dark side points and win affection with Kaliyo(if I had Kaliyo at that time), doesnt feel like an agent. My view on an agent is: A mission is a mission, a target is a target. Cold and calculated Not a mindless killer that wracks up Collateral kills. Doesnt work for money. Loyal to empire. So my question is: What kind of darkside choices will I see in the future? Will I be accepting Bribes like in the BH story line? If I went darkside, will I be killing innocent people? For example, if my mission was to kill a jedi, I would kill the jedi and not accept his plea to live. However, if the quest turned into "Let the hostages go or kill them" (light/dark), Id choose light side there because the hostages would not have been part of the mission to kill the jedi. You see my dilemma. Any insight would be great as to what kind of light side and darkside choices are in store with the IA, and if I went Light side, when do I get a decent light side companion?

Having the solo raid drop orange only gear is an interesting thought, but I'd hardly call that character progression. If I already have an orange helm, and another one drops, whats the difference? I can mod it out to the max, and it'd give the same stats, if I am correct. The only thing that would be different are the looks. That is not character progression in my opinion. That would defeat a part of the purpose of these solo raids. Id say have it drop Tionese equivalent gear would be acceptable. A step up from orange, but below Columi. Still, Id love it if these raids took 1-2 hours to complete(so that I can work on it little by little throughout the week before lockout reset).

your post helped me. thanks

...recalling the scene in Empire Strikes Back where Luke is dangling from the Cloud City... /me uses the force "Bioware... Hear me..."

WoW went downhill because it made everything purchasable via tokens and things like that. They further watered it down when they decide to nerf a new raid after 1.5 months of being released giving a +damage,heal,stam buff. They further dummy it down by providing LFR. They took attunements out of the game. They strayed away from world bosses. WoW was great until they did all of this. Not to mention, trying to balance PVP and PVE which just doesn't ever work. SWTOR started off with all of this stuff. No sense in complaining about that. I think there are way too many commendations and sources to purchase gear. I don't think Bioware will change that, so there's no point in trying to discuss that. Since the content is already watered down from launch(albeit very nice content..good job Bio-ware! =) ), why not throw more content in there to cater to more masses the way Blizzard has so this game goes from 1.5-2mil subs, to 3 or maybe 4million subs. If people see this type of content/feature in the game, they'll tell their friends and guess what...we'll have a better, more popular and thriving game on our hands. It can only help the game and it is in Bio ware's best interests to pursue this. Bio-ware studio director Walton even said himself that Blizzard was genius in doing this. I would have welcomed a solo raid/solo instance/scenario in WoW when I was playing, even though I was a hardcore 5 day a week raider. It would have watered down the content, but I would have loved doing solo stuff in my off time. Hypocritical, I know. But it is what it is

Bioware really needs to implement this. Judging from the response in this thread and other threads Ive read, it is widely popular.

An example of loot tiers could be as follows: Assuming, for sake of argument, strength is the primary stat... (initial stat value is just an example and not accurate to ingame representations). Level 50 green piece - 65 strength Leve 50 blue piece - 71 strength Level 50 Orage(modded to max) - 78 strength HM Flashpoint / Solo Raid - 85 strength Normal Raid - 91 Strength HM Raid - 97.5 strength Nightmare Raid - 104 strength Do the math, each level up is roughly 10% increase in stats. I know there is columi, tionese, and Rakata. Im just giving an example where solo raid gear stats would be...roughly around HM flashpoint because it would be solo, but tuned for the difficulty of a raid for a solo person which realistically could be as difficult as a HM flashpoint with an OK geared group.

OK, I read the rest of your concieted, uninformed, insulting response. I have more than 2-3 hours a week to play. I dont have 2-3 hours in a single sitting/session/clip to play. I have a 9month old that requires attention, and I help out around the house. I am able to play 30-45 minutes..maybe an hour or at max 1.5 hours when the baby is awake. I can get what I want to get done in that time(dallies, a little leveling on alts, etc). Im sure I could get one or two bosses down in 1 hour in a solo raid...then log off. Dont presume to tell me what I should and should not be playing or spending my money on. Let me presume something...that youre either 19, going to community college, working at TGI Fridays and living at home with mommy and daddy thus not having any responsibility and so much time to play. Or a 35 year old investment banker, not married, no kids, that wants to break from reality for 5+ hours a night and has umpteenth hours to raid. My presumptions are wrong, and I am wrong for assuming...so are you.

I'll respond to this one. I stopped at "Normal Mode operations are made specifically for casuals that don't have the time or skill to do the "real" operations". Buddy, listen... Like most of the "Raiders" in swtor, I have raided for 4-5+ years in WoW, even before the watered down junk of WOTLK and Cata. TBC was true raiding. Vanilla was true raiding. SWTOR raiding is laughable at best. I tried raiding in SWTOR. With a maurader that I had just hit 50 about 2 weeks prior, with mostly Orange/Blue gear with an epic sprinkled in for good measure, I was asked into HM EV. Without watching any videos on the fight, or reading any strategy..OR MY GUILD EVEN EXLPAINING TO ME THE FIGHT, I made it through the first two bosses of HM EV without dying once (I then had to go because my daughter woke up). For someone with no gear, no idea of the fights, I was able to see that I shouldnt stand in bad floor, that I should run away when targeted, group up when everyone else is, etc. So all of you so called "raiders" that tout the all mighty raiding torch as the end all/be all aspect of MMO, a non raider with no clue of the fights was able to breeze through the content as well as you seasoned vets, whom consider this the pinnacle of an MMO. As casual as I am, I progressed as quickly as you did. How does that make you feel now? How does having a casual in your ranks, make you feel? With that said, it is not an attack at Biowares raiding design. There isnt much they can do in way of making things interesting and out of the mold of WoW raiding. Move out of this, avoid that, interrupt this, stack here, spread out here, kill adds, kite this, taunt after X stacks...its all been done before. So Ive seen it all before, and was able to parse out the bad stuff in a fight and stay alive. ..Real raiding.. haha. What is that? I want solo raiding. I like doing my HMs with my guildees, PVP with guildees, grouping for heroic daillies...but I want to raid alone with the companions that Ive spent time, money, and commendations on gearing. Whats wrong with that?

Glad a lot of people think it is a great idea. It is not a new idea, nor is it something new in any MMO. There are others that have tried. With the companion system, I think it would fit very well. Make it solable, or doable with two people. Sky is the limit to how they want to structure this. Heres to hoping Bioware takes notice of this thread and what kind of general response from the community it has received in less than 6 hours. ...and watch...some elitist raider will post underneith this to undermine what I just said

Id support this.