72 Hour debuff imo. But yeah....they need to have separate queues for premades.

Yeah, I don't particularly enjoy killing the same spiders over and over again every day - but it's less tedious if you're killing spiders one day, cat-faced people the next, and space zombies another...all in some random rotation. But being driven to the same content every time you log in is not cool. Maybe rotating hot spots (pve and pvp) would help...but i've had my fill of Belsavis.

Let me say first of all that I really want SWTOR to succeed. I enjoyed leveling my first toon to 50 and have been working on a second. I also play that other big MMO and after 7 years of building friendships and racking up play time, it's unlikely that I will stop playing it any time soon. What worries me is whether I will have room for two MMO's that essentially follow the same format to end game: Get Max Level ASAP >> Do Daily Quests for a couple of hours each day >> Run Heroics repeatedly >> Then you can be successful at end game content. I really don't want TWO part time jobs (ie. daily quests) and I happen to find SWTOR dailies much more of a time sink. I also don't want to spend an hour trying to find a group for hardmode instances (group finder...seriously...how hard is it). I wish SWTOR would have been a little braver in its core game design to find something for me to do rather than the same old grind fest. Perhaps GW2 will be a better companion MMO. Perhaps it's not too late for SWTOR to be something truly different.

The few heroic flashpoints I have done (in a mix of PvP gear and blues) haven't been too difficult per se....just long and exhausting. False Emperor, for example, has too many "interesting" trash pulls. I don't mind difficult trash nor do I mind numerous trash pulls...but they need to either pick numerous or fewer more difficult trash. I also felt like we were doing a lot of running and hitting WAY too many elevators. So this probably doesn't answer your question about gear but you should be warned that clearing many heroic flashpoints is more than a 30 minute enterprise. Finally, be prepared to die and don't be afraid to google boss strats.

Why don't commendation vendors refund commendation marks? Twice now I've finally found a usable item (the usability filter is totally useless FYI) and purchased the item only to find that it requires a light side rating. Sure, I should be more careful....but....the usability filter DOES NOT WORK...items are NOT sorted by class/spec forcing people to scroll through countless useless items...and after finally finding an item with the right stats I'm ready to purchase. Mistakes happen - I don't want freaking credits when I sell back - I WANT MY commendations back. Make it so.