Fights are starting to take too long, and Khem val is woefully undergeared. As I have been leveling as a tank all my gear is tank oriented with absortion mods. Once I finish Voss thinking of switching myself to dps and use Xalek to tank for me... should I just hand him all my gear and regear myself of should I keep my stuff on till I get replacements? Or would you make the switch at all. I don't like andronikus and ashara is underwhelming when dealing with packs of mobs so not sure which route to go. This is my highest character at level 42 right now so no HK or Treek... been using the healer up until now.

What does any other tank get that you don't pre 27... honestly I have jug, PT, and assassin tank all in there 30's and assassin was easiest to jump into and actually hold agro. No tank gets the tank stance, cell, charge till level 14. At level 14 the only difference is the armor mitigation. I see really no difference at all on tanking at low level... up until athiss you even get groups with all dps sometimes. The biggest benefit to going assassin for tank spec at that level is discharge... then you get the option knock mobs out of the fight before the fight starts... as long as they are not droids you really can control the fights and reduced the number of mobs the group faces at a time.

Arenas are fine.... if they have a completely separate queue. Period. End of story. I hate arenas and the fact that I queue for LFG and PVP queue and when PVP pops and its an arena I lost my place in lfg for nothing. I immediately exit the dang thing because its no fun. I play PVP more for faction warfare not for meaningless wargames and while the 8v8 pvp is still meaningless it at least feels a little more reasonable. God forbid I draw a comparison but at least on SWG you could fight for and claim cities and planets. In DAOC you claimed keeps and defended them, it felt more real, more like you mattered. Arenas are the complete opposite of that. I don't mind that the arenas exist. My major issue is they force them on the masses without a separate queue. I have been enjoying the game but this kills it for me to have to deal with stupid arenas with randoms. No I don't want to arena period so why would I try to form a team for it either. Just get it out of my PVP queue.

I leveled exclusively as a healer so far as I want to heal in instances (in that respect sorcerer is great) pve though with Khem it was just a total pain in the rear... strong or champ mobs take forever and you end up doing nothing but spamming dark infusionl at khem draining your force at some point till either khem dies or the mobs succumbs. I ended up changing classes several times trying to find one I like and keep coming back to Sorc. Last night I got level 30 and let me tell you what a world of difference it makes. You DPS all you want Khem all of the sudden doesnt take as much damage, innervate 1 channel will usually get him near full and with resurg and shield he survives much better. Several times during the process I would respec to lightning and just blow mobs up then dismiss resummon Khem and keep going... literally just melting packs then I get an instance itch and switch back to heals... With this experience in mind I would say you can level from level 10 up as heals but honestly I would dps spec to level 30, then go heals unless you are dead set going to pvp or instance as a healer. It just is such a nicer experience that way when you dont have to resort to spamming dark infusion.

how are you getting outfit like that at level 18? I went biochem with my vanguard, if that is the stuff armormech makes I am so taking that on my mando now

Ok crap is in the fan again release another wave of new servers.... so what if it doesnt fix server queues I mean the servers are there now ready to play so what if people wasted hours of their lives on a character they cant access... they can just reroll or suck up the queues. Just remain silent on the issue maybe in a few months we might offer xfers or something but not now... This is the largest mmo launch ever, people should expect queues when we only release servers once there is all ready a problem. And if they dont like it what are they going to do, go back to WOW *laughs to bank* ....seems fairly spot on to me

I am so sick of rerolling... I have done it 4 times now due to queues... get into game day 2 of EA make a char get to 14 next day 40 minute queues... reroll on a brand new server get a char to 13 next day 25 min queue.... had day off yesterday and got a trooper to level 21, 10 am this morning there is 12 more new servers and a 20 min queue to the server the trooper is on... This is such bullcrap, I am tired of rerolling, I am tired of queues... if you would have released all the servers at the get go they would be more evenly distributed instead of the willy nilly crap of ok all servers are now overfilled release more server and ppl either wait or reroll yet again.

cross server dungeon finder ruined wow, not a dungeon finder in general. Bad behavior was encouraged because there was no accountability across servers not because of the tool itself.... I support a dungeon finder but am against anything at all that includes cross server be it pvp queues, dungeon finders, anything.

I just got my vanguard to 22, prior to geting Elara I started not having trouble, but having to stop to heal up after ever single fight... all of them period end of discussion unless tightly clustered group of mobs and mortar was up... you have the lightning ability has a very narrow short cone so if they are spread misses quite a bit and also its channeled so you seem to lose time on it. Every single fight I would end with very low to no ammo and low health... in walks Elara and every fight ends high or full health with max regen still on ammo, First thing I did once I got Elara was take on a level 19 champion level mob with 20k hp and I ended that fight with 60% life and max regen level on ammo ... its amazing the difference she makes to your quality of life. I imagine you would have same issues on your powertech if you unclicked all of Mako's heals and just tried taking out a pack of mobs. I almost gave up but its fine now!

I guess this means nerf mercenaries too since they are same exact class.... just pitiful.

i did wow launch, I did rift launch, I did eq launch, I did daoc launch, I did swg launch, I did vanguard launch, city of heroes.... list goes on of the entire list of games the only ones I have ever complained about is this one with the stupid staggered bull crap, and vanguard because it was a completely buggy POS game that didnt deserve at that time to see the light of day. I expect queues when everyone is let in at once, not an issue... but with piecemealing everyone in they should know what servers people have picked and which ones are full to implement new servers before you have 30 min queues across almost every us east pve server... (just checked they just just now opened a new useast pve server) but that took long enough for them to do it. I expect more for staggering the access over 3 to 4 days. Its my damn right too complain about it. You dont have to agree with it but for the way access has been granted I dont expect a 30 min wait to get in the game when I log on.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=254 show me in the list a new server that says pve us east.... every server listed new says EU besides that with 10+ hours in a char not going to start over.

Yep you said this staggered start was going to prevent queues yet here we are not even everyone in with 10 to 50 min queues on most of the east coast servers. I am so glad that you guys staggered the early access to prevent the queues and lag in the game and give us an excellent game experience out of the box. I mean its not like today while everyone was at work I lagged like crap in a pvp match or doing some pve, and there was no way that I got dropped to desktop 3 times, oh wait yes that happened didnt it. I said it before I will say it again, staggered EGA is a failure, I would have much rather had the queues for a few days while you opened up sufficient servers to handle the load. I am glad that I have 30 minutes now to type in this post while I wait on my characters to pop up to play since staggered start fixed the queues. Why are there no new servers opening up to handle the new players coming into the game tonight?

i actually got invite in last wave I am assuming with 8-30 preorder code date but this is still worst launch idea ever... Still going to play but 2 strikes against EA/bioware with the reversal on the grace period, and now the EA fiasco.. Now to get home from work and see if I can find a server that my names are available on...

All invite waves have now been sent. We'll be sending more invites tomorrow, starting from 8AM CST (6AM PST / 9AM EST / 2PM GMT / 3PM CET). http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=16391