Same experience for me. Upgraded, installed all the updates and it plays the same as 7.

I received defender points, but not the medal.

Just built mine a few months ago.. first build Case: Corsair Carbide 400R Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77V-Pro CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K Memory: 8GB - 2x 4GB G-Skill Ripjaws Graphics: EVGA 2GB nVidia GeForce GTX 670 SSD: Samsung 830 Series 128GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM PSU: Corsair TX 650W

Thanks for your help all. I PvP a lot because I enjoy it so even if I buy that gear I think I'll have plenty of comms by the time I get to 40. Thanks again, really useful.

I started PvPing at level 11 and have about 1000 commendations. I noticed the Jedi Knight PvP vendor has some level 20 items that look like they're pretty decent. At the moment I'm level 17 but some of the items on sale like implant, ear slot, look good at least given that I've not found any items for those slots through questing. Are these actually worth getting at level 20 or should I be looking elsewhere? Thanks!