Although I'm rocking a GTX560Ti now, the GTX260 was the best value purchase I ever made for my PC. Lasted ages and was cheap as chips. Some general rules about buying PCs: Memory nowadays is dirt cheap and is an easy upgrade to do yourself, so don't make memory size a dealbreaker if it's too low. Make _sure_ you're getting a 64 bit OS. Your eyes will love you for a high quality monitor, and you keep the monitor and just upgrade the main unit when the time comes for an upgrade. Similar rules for mouse and keyboard.

As soon as you make it to the Commendations vendor on a new planet, check out the level requirements and stat values. Commendations all the way when the reward isn't an Orange item. As you level up other characters' crafting, the number of actual commendations required for gearing out the current will drop significantly.

You put a shield and a heal over time on the tank and run out of the area... You don't mention which class you play, so it's hard to give you specific advice. I've killed this boss with 2 player DPS and 2 Companion healers. Companions don't move out of "the fire". Additionally on my dps sage I've switched from dpsing to healing and shielding the tank due to dufusery by the healer, though you can't keep it up for a sustained period especially if the tank isn't rotating his cooldowns. He isn't hard by any means, and that big aoe is the only serious threat.

If you have 3 level 50s spend some time with someone else doing the Ilum and Corellia dailies. Boom, 1 million creds per day quite easily. You don't HAVE to have the unlocks, you are not barred from content by not having them. Best purchase I ever made from them was Rocket Boost 1 (massive boost for getting out of an instance you've just cleared). Yes it was pricey. Has it paid for itself? Probably not, but it's close.

With Mists Of Pandaria released this week, it'd be crazy to go up against it. Sites will be giving the coverage to WoW, and the cynicists will compare the two. Wait a week and drop it then.

This may come off as a little obnixious but... READY CHECK? "Jump when ready" is getting OLD and you came across as suprised you didn't have a ready check at the guild summit months and months ago.

8 months, but we have a release date for it's new set of end game stuff, and it was exactly the same for Wrath into Cata (except they chucked a thrown together raid from recycled content in for that one that went down like a lead balloon). It looks to me as if I'm going back to WoW. Most of my guild have left due to lack of content (they cleared EC:HM months ago). Due to work commitments I couldn't raid with them back then and I can't go with a realistic expectation of making progress there now (just need Vargath and Kephess for the mount) due to lack of decent players. I fully expect TFB to appear on PTS a week before MoP hits, and I suspect it's probably fully tested bug-wise already and numbers just need fine-tuning because they've been holding it back due to a lack of ammunition to go against the other releases that have been coming out recently (GW2 where my guildmates are) and soon.

I was on my tank on Sat evening and spent 2 hours waiting for an Op group (I'd already done Karagga's Palace, so it had to be an EV group). I got one pop that someone dropped out of. The problem is the massive number of dps that are queuing, and the fact that an 8man Op requires exactly the same ratio of players as a 4 man. If they changed the GF raid size to be 16, they would be taking proportionally more dps players out of the queue than the other roles, but unfortunately you can't do that, because the pool of players is too small without cross-server. What they could do (realistically) is make it so that if you queue for an Op as a group (as in 2 or more players) you can switch between 8 and 16 player requested. This allows your 7 man quild run to pick up a tank who hasn't turned up, and do your regular run. If you queue solo, you have to queue for 16. Also, put a punishing timeframe on groupfinder use if you drop out. 1 hour, stacking each time you drop out, with a stack dropping off once per day when the dailies reset.

When looting in Ops too. Do I have that recipe or not? Less than a minute to find out, and roll need/greed/pass on the other half dozen items of loot too.

Lol! Because 8 isn't enough? Not very Star Warsy is it?

I reckon the Voss gear looks better too (my male sage is frankly sick of brown, wedding dresses or a toga), and furthermore I think it has been fixed where the prevous version (white) was actually broken as the Unify Colours used to make other parts blue. I'll actually be rolling with the Voss Mystic Robe (with Black Hole mods) for my chest if it stays the way it is. So much of this game is broken in little ways (see Thousand Papercuts thread) and so many broken promises (frequent content) that its a shame. And I'm with you regarding the Force Wave changes.

Should read: This cannot be used in instances or in combat (24 hour cooldown). Or every FP and Op would consist of 3 (or 7 or 15) players twiddling their thumbs until the stealther had made their way to the final boss. Actually now I think of it... Lost Island Hard Mode...

Real money? I already paid a small fortune for this game, and dual spec would make life much easier. Anyway, the way to 2 dps CTS is to have your healers spaced apart so they won't both be in the same airstrike (as best you can), but close enough together to heal each other. The dps then have to take it in turns to take aggro from the boss. Done it dozens of times with my dps sage. Use the cantina drink that gives +84 Presence, aggro dumps, taunts, stop dpsing, defensive cooldowns, Heroic Moment, Unity.

Maybe player 1 should have considered his options and looked more carefully at what he could have bought. And to be honest, he was going to play those warzones anyway.

This. In addition, I successfully tanked EV SM the same day I dinged 50 (incidentally the same day I dinged 49) on my Vanguard alt. A little bit of foresight, and running dailies with geared buddies for BoE mods all that's required...