It is 2022 now and the Ardent Oracle's armor set is still buggy. The chest piece has serious clipping issues on female body type 1 in particular. Bioware, please fix this. The armor set is still sold in the Cartel Market despite these issues, so a fix would be really welcome.

I did not figure out at first that I have to use those shields to beat him. After I figured that out, it was not hard to beat Arcann. Nevertheless, it was more of a challenge than previous boss fights I have encountered. Btw, I did it with a sage, so other classes might have more trouble without the healing abilities.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." Well, it already happened. Unless Lucas was lying... As for the original question, I always thought of Star Wars as a sci-fi saga, regardless of how much of it is actually scientific. To me, fantasy is The Lord of the Rings.

As said, a restart is always a good start. Try doing that first. This may not be an issue with the game itself. Not sure if this will help, but try playing around with the sound card settings. There may be certain "quality improvement" effects turned on, try turning those off. This includes any equalizer, loudness equalization etc. that you can find. You will find your sound settings in the control panel. The most obvious place is "Sound", but most for most sound cards there is a sound card specific program, try to look for that.

If you create a level 60 character, then you will jump straight into the new KOTFE story line and will skip everything that happened before, meaning main class story, Ilum, Makeb, Shadow of Revan, etc. You won't be able to do these previous storylines even if you wanted to. Outfits is one of the nicest thing they added to the game. The idea is that you have your main gear, which will give you all your stats for your character. In case you want to change what armor your character appears to be wearing, you can use one of the outfit tabs, and you change change between outfits with just a click if you have multiple of them. You can use basically any armor (chestpiece, legpiece etc.) in the outfit slots as long as the level and class requirements of the armor don't prevent you from doing that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think outfit designer even allows you to use e.g. heavy armor gear for e.g. consulars. Regardless of what armor you use for outfit, the stats will always come from your main gear.

Not sure how it was originally 4 years ago, but with the current game you get an experience (main pvp stat) boost up until you hit level 65 whenever you are in warzones. Thus, it's fine using pve gear until 65. Once you hit 65, you will need pvp gear though (without that you will have a great disadvantage). Getting the base-level 65 pvp gear is fairly easy since 4.0. As it was said before me, you can change your appearance for cartel coins, which includes your species and any other options that you can pick during character creation. The only thing you can't change is your gender (probably hard to implement because your gender affects conversation choices, romance, etc.). There is a Cartel Bazaar, and within it an Appearance Modification kiosk on both fleets.

Not sure if you have started yet, but in any case, you can always play the other seven class stories in SWTOR. Some of them are actually better than inquisitor in my opinion. Imperial agent has a hell of a good story. Sith warrior is very decent. Jedi Knight is what I would could call the classic Star Wars story in SWTOR, and is also quite good. I do agree a lot of points you brought up. Most side quests are boring and are similar to each other. But since 4.0 we can all afford to simply ignore them . Pre-4.0 you had to do some of these at least to keep your level high enough for your story missions. These days you do your class story and some planetary arcs, flashpoints, or warzones besides that, and you are fine. I see your point about level sync. Personally though, I am not really bothered by it. Probably because I have done enough planetary stuff enough already before 4.0, and these days I just go through the class stories and don't go back to planets much after moving onto the next. Regarding finding people to play group content with, well... This caused lots of headaches recently. The population of certain servers have dropped rapidly, and lots of people moved to other servers, because getting to play group content (like warzones) just took too much time. I for one moved all my alts (18 in number) from Bastion to Harbinger. I am not sure about server population Begeren Colony, but you may be experiencing the same issues.

PVE content works just fine for me. But seeing 25-30fps in warzones even though my GPU and CPU is not nearly at full utilization is bad. This game really needs some optimization. I really hope that some day we will get a fix for at least the biggest fps issues. It would be a quality-of-life change for SWTOR gamers.

I also saw the 500cc promotion screen on my launcher, but I did not get the coins yet either. I saw Eric's response, so I hope this issue will be resolved this week.

It is not really a regular thing, at least I don't remember it being that way. They reduced transfer prices to 90cc in Fall 2015, restored the prices to 1000cc this May, and then gave us 1.5 or 2 more weeks of sale because they did not give us enough notice. Personally I don't think there is going to be any sale in the foreseeable future. Not sure about the exact reason and for whom exactly, but they gave us one (1) free character transfer a while ago. Did you check if you have it? If you don't, then probably best route for you is to accept the high 1000cc price (worth of two months of sub cartel coin grants).

That would be really nice. Dark Reaver looked cool, and way better than a lot of Cartel Market armors.

My advice: do both eventually. Have a juggernaut male and a marauder female, or vice versa. If I had to pick, I would probably go with male for the first one. Male voice sounds better to me (IMO female sounds a bit like an old lady, but I got used to it), and heavy armor (juggernaut) makes male warrior looks like an unstoppable killing machine. (Comes from a guy who actually had a female warrior juggernaut first haha .) But this is just my opinion. Like others have said, take a look at videos first to see how you like male vs. female voice, animations, etc., before making a decision.

Imp often means "imperial" in the context of SWTOR. Due to the reason, consider replacing the imp rank with something else. In the guild I am, we commonly use all-caps for higher ranks. That helps people distinguishing lower-tier ranks from high-tier ranks. Example: ECTO-1 CAPTAIN is an officer ranks (instead of Ecto-1 Captain).

It is 40 CC for subscribers, 80 CC for free-to-plays. Reducing it to 20 CC would be a good start. Nevertheless, your point is well taken. It may not seem much with the monthly subscriber reward. But for me at least the 40 CC price makes me think twice before I do anything. Many people, including me, want to save cartel coins to buy something bigger rather than squandering them on hairstyle changes.

As everyone knows, every time one wants to change a small thing on a character, like hair color or hairstyle, the change costs cartel coins (however small amount), which translates into real money. I do understand the rationale behind this (lots of small transactions make up for a lot), but I fell that in some cases this is a bit excessive. It would be great to be able to change at least hairstyles or hair colors more easily, paying less CC or even paying only in-game credits. After all, these are small changes, and not changing our entire species. A decent compromise would be this: you pay the usual amount for any change, but once you pay for a certain hairstyle or hair color, it would cost no CC to change back and forth between hairstyles or hair colors that you already "unlocked." Of course, I would love to have an even better scheme (where I get to pay less), but obviously there is a limit to what one can reasonably expect. One must realize that BioWare can't just make everything free. I still do hope that these things are reasonable requests. What do you all think of this? It would be great to hear a dev's thoughts on it as well.