That sounds awful and I hope your nightmarish vision of a "good" game never is made a reality.

I've managed to get orange gear for my shadow that has no earth tones in it at all, and I don't have one of those crazy hats. I just wish they would provide a greater variety of looks for end-game gear. I'm having to handicap myself by playing with gear that isn't as good because I don't want to wear the crappy one outfit they've made for each class at end game.

I typically seem to get put on teams of three people or so at the start and then about 20 seconds before it closes they give us more people. And of course the other team has about the full roster at start so by that time they've won the game already. Seriously, it's making me want to just go back to playing a shooter or something for a pvp experience. At least they know how force balanced teams.

What happened to me was simply when I hit the max rating for LS points it erased my DS points. So go do a flashpoint or something, get the points and it should do the same for you I would assume.

I have only played through Consular so far, and I enjoyed it. I'm going through SI right now, and yeah its first chapter is better at this point, but not by much. The consular story takes a very interesting twist near the end of Chapter 2 and it has a pretty good finish.

I don't mind. I was a little ticked to be honest when I first got the ability and realized the slow time ability didn't actually slow anything down. Seeing as how it's just about the only good AOE attack for a kinetic shadow I don't think people have any room to complain much.

I tried to play Ilum some today and fun fact: there were more imps in the pvp zone than the Republic had on Ilum and the Republic Fleet combined. I'm actually in the same guild as the OP, and even as a casual PVE guild we're normally the ones trying to rally every 50 we can find to pvp on Ilum. PVP isn't the center of my experience on SWTOR so it doesn't crush me for it to be so broken, but it was a fun thing to do between raids. After all these Imps got their super gear the warzones are pretty much a joke now. It began as a small problem on some night version of hoth, but it has dripped down to ruin just about every area of pvp in the game.

I haven't tanked as another class in this game, but I love my shadow tank. I just main tanked the two world bosses on Hoth and I'm usually the highest in protection for warzones. I don't really feel squishy unless I don't have a healer. But that just makes sense, no tank should be invincible.