skin color looks a bit weird in cutscenes but other than that it only affects the loading screen.

No I has nothing to do with dark side corruption. All my toons have it including my light side ones. https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/v478/joostruijs/Screenshot_2021-03-08_19_02_47_631548.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

Since about a month or so, all my characters appear translucent/ghostly on the login screen. This only affects their skin, not their clothes or hair. Once they are logged in they appear normal, except that their skin color looks a bit weird during cutscenes. I made a screenshot, but I don't see an option to attach pictures to the post. Anyone has a clue how to fix this? I was hoping this would get fixed after the latest patch was installed, but that didn't change anything.

The world bosses that are a conquest target every now and then are done quite frequently, but the ones that are not are rarely ever done. I suggest to change that. Why not put rarely done world bosses like the ones on Coruscant, Dromund Kaas, Balmorra and Taris on the conquest tab? That way they are done much more frequently. Of course there needs to be a different one for Republic and Imperial characters (reps will have to kill the one on Coruscant and imps get the the one of Dromund Kaas), but I don't see the problem there, there's already differences in the player/guard objectives. And also put the nightmare pilgrim in. It's so hard to find a group for it. If it's on the conquest list, it should be much easier for people to grind out their aratech coral.

Yesterday I tanked KP groupfinder on my powertech. One of the mara’s kept pulling before the tank. On the rancor aggro was all over the place (as that boss is taunt immune). Later I mentioned in chat to no one in particular: please stop pulling before the tank. It is not very respectful. His response: bla bla. On the droid boss he start wandering off up the walkway because someone pulled before me. After that I was fed up so I figured Id get my revenge on Karagga himself. Mr Mara pulled again and this time I let him tank, I only dpsed from the side. Ofc he died swiftly (unsure if the healers realized what I was doing and stopped healing him. His gear was pretty bad anyway). He started ranting and raving in chat. My response: maybe that will teach you not to pull before the tank anymore. His response: teach your mom. I just told him: one for the ignore list to which someone else said: I agree. We killed the boss shortly afterwards. And another one: Same powertech, but this time as dps. EV HM. No issues till pylons. On the pylons we wiped twice. Only afterwards we realized one of the mercs had climbed on top of the pylon on the left side, and was just standing there doing absolutely nothing. He was not afk or anything cause he had clicked ready. When we told him to stop trolling and come down, he activated the fight and dropped group. Really weird.

Did a master mode maelstrom prison yesterday. Me on 70 sent, with another 70 sent, a 68 scounndrel healer and a70 shadow tank. All went fine till the first boss. We ended up wiping because the other dps accidentally pulled a side group. (Healer died first, then both dps, tank stealthed out) Healer retreated, if figured id best stay dead until the healer comes back to revive, less chance of me pilling any skipped trash by mistake (we skipped a lot). Other sent prolly figured the same as he didnt release either. Now the tank went absolutely MENTAL over this. He started spamming chat with messages as: what you you waiting for? Press button Release Run back Press The F*cking Button Etc etc By now the healer is already halfway back so releasing at this point just wastes everyones time, plus I refuse to be intimidated by a dick player anyway, so Im staying put. The other sent loses his nerve though and does release. The tank then says: congratulations you are not the one getting kicked. And indeed he promptly initiates a vote kick on me. Tbh Im not surprised by that, however I am surprised it actually goes through... I hope the other two that were with me see this, because I want to share this message with them: next time, please dont let yourself be bullied or intimidated into agreeing to kick someone simply because the tank initiated the vote kick! Having a blue shield behind your name is NOT an excuse to act like a dick! Nor does it make you group overlord. When a tank acts like a dick, kick him and finish the flashpoint with a companion tank - because most MM flashpoints can be finished like that anyway. As long as there are players who reward tanks that act like jerks, we will be queued with tanks that act like jerks. Break that cycle now!!!

I was in a SM DF yesterday with my newest lvl 65, a body type 4 female chiss shadow in a Satele tunic. and at the start the raid the raid leader ponted to me saying: 'You. Ive seen your blue *** on the fleet before. Not often do you see a chiss in a Satele outfit.' I replied: 'And? Did you like what you saw?' But someone already started pulling then so that question remained unanswered. overall it was a really smooth op. Everyone knew their stuff. That raid leader was a leeroyer lol, wouldn't be surprised if he was leading HM opses with his guild.

Lately Ive been mostly levelling my new LvD shadow and I had decided to augment her levelling by doing a few pvp matches. I wasn't too hopeful because we all know how low lvl flashpoints tend to go, but I was pleasantly surprised! those low lvl matches was the most fun I had in months pvp wise. no pvp gear, so everyone is kind of squishy, meaning lots of kills on both sides. I was also surprised how well my lowbie teammates were performing overall. Think I won like 80% of the matches I did. I was almost sad I dinged 65 the other day. I was actually in the queue for a WZ, queue immediately dropped as you are not allowed to enter a low lvl WZ once you get to 65. After I got to the fleet to get pvp gear I joined the 65 queue, and boy was that a disappointment Came in Alderaan WZ, everyone in my team staying in mid, even though the imps controlled both side turrets. I shouted in chat: one to me so we can take left, and then every single one of them went left. Imps ofc immediately took the middle turret. People that have been grouping with me in WZs will probably have heard me saying: are we so bad or are they so good? but that time I actually said: you guys are by far the worst group I ever been in a warzone with. I miss the low lvl queue Im on red eclipse btw.

For me: Darth Malgus. I know he's technically dead but so was Revan, and they brought him back as well. Could be that he wasnt killed but was frozen in carbonite instead or something like that. Thana Vesh. Even my dark side characters spared her in the hope she would ever become a companion. She could have cybernetic body parts for characters that did kill her. Sgt. Jaxo from the trooper storyline. My trooper killed 300 people for her to survive, would love to see her make a comeback. Darth Nurin (questgiver for Kaon storyline, Imperial side). Simply because she is a very attractive Sith. The Shroud. We already know he survived. Would be great storywise if he were to make his spy network available against Zakuul.

You as a healer has to kite the shock sticks so they dont get dropped inside the shield. keep moving so the cannon barrage doesnt hit you. Only the dps stand under the shield

Been wanting to write a story about Dr Lokin and Doc ever since I've put them both in my strongholds medbay. I like both characters: they both have an interest in the medical sciences, so in theory they could have been friends or colleagues, yet for some reason they ended up on opposite sides of the chessboard. Being a scientist myself I wanted to explore these interesting characters a bit further. This story will have mild spoilers regarding the agent, Jedi Knight, smuggler and bounty hunter storylines, as well as the general Oricon story. 'Damn damn damn! It died again!!' grunted Doc in frustration. Kira sighed when she saw the dead womprat lying in the isolated cage they put it in three days ago. Doc hit the wall in frustration. 'I was so close. So close! And now I have to start from scratch again. I am going to need more womprats.' Kira sighed. She went to Tatooine three times already the past month to collect womprats. She hated the job, because she knew she was signing their death sentence. So far none of the little furry creatures had left Docs lab alive. But she knew the work they were doing was vital: they needed to find a cure for the Oriconian plague before billions would die. Everyone had assumed the nightmare on Oricon was over after the famous Republic privateer captain Halby led a small strike team into the heart of the Dread Palace and defeated the Dread Masters. Halby's public execution of Dread Master Calphayus - an act the Jedi council had disapproved of - was broadcasted live throughout the holonet. There were rumors the twi'lek smuggler had been aided by the legendary bounty hunter Asteeda, the grand champion of the Great Hunt, but both the Republic and the Empire had denied this. And indeed, it seemed preposterous that a forceblind bounty hunter and a Republic-aligned smuggler would be able to take on six of the most powerful Sith Lords that ever lived at once. Rumours aside, it was a fact that the Dread Master crisis was assumed to be over after Calphayus died. Until a few months later the Oriconian plague suddenly broke out. It started on Oricon, of course. Within a few days half of its population had succumbed to the terrible disease, and soon its spread to other worlds as well, both in the Republic and the Empire. Kira was sure the Dread Masters were somehow behind it - only they could come up with something that killed so indiscriminately. Doc turned on the incinerator - turning the disease-ridden womprat corpse into ash - and tossed this datapad in a corner. 'You know what the problem is gorgeous? It's this damn war. Every time the Empire attacks one of our research facilities, it sets back our progress by weeks! And we do the same to them. At this rate, it will take us years to find a cure. And by then we will all be dead.' His train of thought was interrupted by the beeping sound of the holocomm. Doc looked up. 'What's that? I'm not expecting a call? Better put it on, it might be a female admirer' Kira rolled her eyes. She hated it when he was like this. It was no female admirer. Quite the opposite in fact: when he turned on the comm a figure of an older human male appeared. He was wearing a doctor's coat and had a grey beard and a bald head. Doc's face turned to disgust. 'Eckard' he said. 'Still alive I see. I should have finished you when I had the chance.' The older man shaked his head. 'Tut tut. Is that your way to greet an old friend?' Kira looked confused. 'You two know each other?' 'This bantha turd and I have...history. What do you want, Eckard?' The hologram started speaking. 'I know you have been trying to find a cure for the Oriconian plague. We have been trying to do the same. Knowing how brilliant you are, you probably reached the same conclusion as I have: we will never find it if we keep sabotaging each other. So I propose a truce. I have a laboratory on Nar Shaddaa. I'll send you the coordinates. If you accept, please come there and bring your research. If we compare our notes I am sure we can find the cure we are looking for. Oh, and one more thing: do come alone. I am a very cautious fellow and I don't trust your present company.' The hologram dissolved. 'Who was that?' said Kira. 'and what did he mean by 'we'?' Doc pulled out a datafile and gave it to her. 'That my dear, was Doctor Eckard Lokin.' Kira took a look at the file. It was a scientific journal: The application of intravenous kolto injections to restore damaged tissue - by Dr. E. Lokin and Dr. A. Kimble. Kira was no scientist, but she had heard of this implementation of kolto: Master Kiwiiks had told her once that this treatment had saved countless of lives. Kira looked puzzled. 'who is A. Kimble?' Doc sighed. 'That's me. My mother named me Archiban, after my great-grandfather. Always hated the name' Kira looked up. 'Did you invent this? You never told me! You probably saved thousands of lives with this you know that? But I still don't understand what this has to do with that man we just spoke to' 'He was my professor at the Coruscant medical university. Brilliant man. It was his inspiring lectures that made me want to become a doctor in the first place. After I graduated, he accepted me as his PhD student. What you are holding there is the fruit of our combined labour. Everything changed however after the war broke out. Dr. Lokin was always ambitious, and the Republic has always had certain laws that forbade certain types of research, which frustrated him greatly. So when the Empire approached him and offered him a high tech lab to do his research free of restrictions, he jumped at the opportunity.' 'He defected to the Empire?' Kira interjected. Doc nodded. 'That was more than ten years ago. Haven't seen him since.' 'If he's with the Empire now, you can pretty much guarantee that this is a trap. You do know that right?' Doc sighed. 'If there's even a small chance we have a shot at curing this terrible disease, then I'll have to take the risk.' 'For once I agree with the pathetic Jedi girl' They turned around to see Lord Scourge standing in the doorway. 'Goddammit' said Doc 'Haven't you heard of knocking?' Scourge ignored the comment. 'Not that I care if you live or die, but do you know who Dr. Lokin hangs out with nowadays? None other than Cipher Nine' 'Cipher Nine?' said Kira. 'I thought he was just a myth' Scourge started laughing. 'Oh he is very real. And if Lokin is involved, you can be pretty sure Cipher Nine is involved as well. And that will not end well for you.' 'Nevertheless' said Doc. 'I am going. And none of you can stop me'

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Am I the only one who thinks the crew from Guardians of the Galaxy is basically the smuggler and his companions? I mean, Star Lord dresses like swtors smuggler, he dances like one, talks like one, fights like one etc. His female companion is more or less a carbon copy from Akaavi Spar except she's Miralian instead of Zabrak. The raccoon dude kinda fills the comic relief role of Guss Tuno. And both crews also have a vocabulary challenged companion: Groot/Bowdaar The story also has similarities:

My smuggler is a scoundrel, but I have a sniper as well. My strategy for the sniper is simple: use a healer companion. Now I know smugglers got kinda shafted there because they get that annoying Guss Tuno instead of the uber cool Dr. Lokin, but if you get your healer in 162 gear or above he will more or less keep you on full health during trash pulls. Don't use Corso unless your a scoundrel (on scoundrel/operative you are better off using a tank because like half your damage comes from back blasts)

ran into a game of tank wars on the eyeless hard mode yesterday. Joined a group with my dps juggernaut. We had a main tank and an offtank for the adds in the group. Now I know a second tank is not really needed, but in this group we had one. Which is fine ofcourse, except when the tank designated as offtank decides on his own that he is better suited to be maintank and starts to taunt the boss of the whole time. Boss keeps running back and forth between the two tanks, the entire room fills with green circles and there are even RANGED dps and healers being killed by purple circles because he does a few in the middle of the room. If you are that powertech tank on The Red Ecplise that did this on the runs in the middle of the night yesterday, **** you for wasting 15 peoples time.