Well the original empire in the movies is just a heavy handed metaphor for nazis and since BW's empire is the conceptual derivative some of that is going to seep through. That said there a certain cold appeal to how the empire gets things done when juxtaposed with out western democracy.

By a DoT tick? When you DoTs tick down and DM is up on a target a stack of DM is consumed with each tick.

Because at level 20 you get deathfield which buffs your dot damage and does a nice chunk of damage on its own and the talents below DF aren't really all that great at low levels anyway because they buff spells you don't have

Did bonethrasher actually hit your 'tank' for 40k? That must be hard with no aggro table... Was he enraged from eating a Gamorrean or hitting the timer or both?

Why do you hate raiding?

As opposed to blue humans and white humans with alternative jewelry and facial tattoos?

I really don't get why so many mmo players don't like playing mmos? Irrespective of how DAoC or SWG did it half a decade ago Wow's staggering genre crushing success has pretty much washed everything else away. Today mmo means leveling up so you can start gearing up to raid/pvp and get on the gear treadmill. If you don't like this system why do you buy and sub to games that use this system? Specifically regarding the OP's post no on social classes. As a raider I don't like the idea of having to rely on a toon to raid (which lets be fair the social buffs would either be so strong as to be required or the whole class would be rendered moot) that can't even be brought to a raid.

Cool story; Frost (or hilariously before that unholy) tanking would have been a better model to carry into cata from wrath then blood. The only reason blood was superior in wrath was the because the tanking model was 'I HAS ALL THE STAMINA HEEET ME NOW BOSS' as opposed to cata's mitigation and avoidance model which frost and unholy used.

Pics or it didn't happen, Pugging raids in vanilla didn't happen, even if you were a few short you certainly didn't let unguilded randoms in without heavy vouching from respected guild members (which would beg the question why they weren't in a guild). Are you sure you aren't confusing vanilla with wrath of the litch king? Purely pugging raids only really became an option in WoW until wrath

Actually no, it only started being more of a problem in pve then pvp when Blizz decided to break the game and 'balance' the game around arena because it was going to be their next big esport. Before that casters often had to stand and hard cast to pull off big numbers so any fight that required movement ruined their dps without effecting melee that much. As balance evolved (which BW followed somewhat) they shifted away from hard casting and channeling and focused more damage into instant casts and dots. This helped balance in pvp but hurt melee in pve because high movement fights had drastically less of an impact then they had in the past. The above combined with the BW raid designer's favorite mechanic being 'boss centered aoe' has drastically shifted raiding against melee dps at present.

Assasin was always touted as a 'hybrid' (more force attacks then a SW but less then a sorc) class since before the game was released (in fact the community manger even posted about it to suppress fears you either had to be a caster or a heavy melee player when classicly jedi always used a combination of both) you not doing the research isn't a reason for it to be a heavy melee class. Yes it sucks deception needs buff but no one is saying that you have to play madness. On an unrelated not why is DF so jarring? Have you never used a target aoe before?

What are you smoking? Baras wears the columi pve sorc armor. The pvp assassin armor is the sith chicken they look nothing alike (he's not even wearing the assassin columi armor)

Deception is lower dps for a multitude of reasons; Dots give you more sustained damage between your burst phases, madness has better regen, madness copes with movement (and the multitude of terribly coded boss centered aoes) better and math (on SW) suggests that it does more damage ins a knock down drag out patchwerk fight. You don't need to raid to get raid gear, normal mode raids can be done in questing gear and both normal mode raids and heroic flashpoints drop columi gear which is the tier 2 raid gear. If you like deception no one is saying you can't play it, what people are saying is that it's not as optimal as anyother spec in pvp or pve and it badly needs buffs.

The stretch between taris and Talos was pretty annoying for me but once you get talos you faceroll everything else.

I've herd this argument before from a guy called Ghostcrawler, you'd like him he's a dev on a fun little game with pandas in it that's going to have the talent trees you'd prefer.