If I may offer some input. Been playing the game since beta, but more off and on since KOTFE timeframe. The tanks and healers are still here, they just don’t PUG as much. Namely because of the issues random groups bring. I can’t tell you how many times I run into dps that want to ‘go, go, go’ or pull something first just because they’re impatient. Most people play this game to relax and having to deal with ADD riddled idiots who act like they’re on speed takes away from the enjoyment of the game. Why bother with all that when I have a set group of friends and guild mates who enjoy pushing content while socializing and having a good time? Most MMO don’t have a tank/healer ‘drought’. Most of them just got tired of dealing with a toxic player base that is the equivalent of ‘Karen’ wanting to speak to the manager....

Personally, if we have the worst survivability of all tanks it should be balanced it with us having the highest dps (of the tank classes). Now, after several years, I’m used to getting screwed over by the devs at every turn because they have starry eyes for all Jedi/Sith classes, but come on. Give us a little affection this time around, please. I’d take either another DCD or top of the tank damage charts. Actually having some range again would be nice as well. People like to yell ‘you have to tank up close anyway’ but you’d be surprised how often I could hold a strangler away from the main group with hammer shots and sticky grenades. Man I miss those.....

They’re kind of doing a semi-revamp with the new tactical slot. That’s actually more than I expected them to do at this stage. While SWTOR still makes good money it’s nowhere near what EA predicted it would be at and since their greed is even more powerful than Valkorian I can’t see them investing any significant capital into a rework of that caliber. As much as we all love the game, this is simply a petty cash flow for EA to use for other investments, same as the madden and FIFA series. Nothing improves, but you’d better believe that cash shop will continue to put out overpriced items....

Pretty sure they’re going to ignore PvP completely. At least that’s the feeling I got from their presentation. They spent 10 minutes talking about what they’ve done for PvP in the last 2 years but only released upcoming info on PvE stuff. More than likely it will just be a mad scramble to balance everything a few months after it drops and then they’ll piss off everyone because no one likes things being taken away. I just hope they decided to give us Vanguard tanks a hug this time. After 7 years of being beaten into the ground by the nerf bat l, a little affection would be a nice change of pace...

I can fill one of the tank slots if you're still looking. Returning to the game after a break due to RL commitments. I have a Jug and PT both GL 246. I'm open to play either, though I feel with the recent changes the Jug is probably the better utility character.

2023 can not come soon enough. Can't wait for the IP to be out of EA's money grubbing mitts.

I have never been more intimidated by Vader before. That was literally insane. Now we see why he was feared....

Good call. The Dirty Dozen is a good comparison

Saw it at the opening show...gonna see it again today. I hated FA but this....this could be just as good as Empire...

That would have been sweet, although both of them were defenders of a Jedi Temple on Jeda so there may be more to them. I hope they come out with something about their backstory. The movie focused on the heist (as it should have) and it was amazing as all hell.

His 5 minutes completely eclipsed his entire run time in Episode 3 though. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't watch it, honestly.

I rank it up there with Empire as possibly being the best SW movie ever. People just want hours and hours of character development, due to SW having been out for so long. We've had this universe and characters for so long and they've been developed across so many mediums that we hold the movies to unreal expectations. Go watch New Hope again with an open mind. There was very little character development. Vader had basically very little screen time. Luke was discovered and wrapped up his backstory in 15 minutes. Han got nothing more than the 'fastest ship in the galaxy' line. The story was about rescuing the princess and stopping this unimaginable death machine from obliterating everything. The characters back story came over the next 2 movies and the 30+ years of video games, cartoons, books, and other things we ravenously devoured because the IP is so immersive. While I want to know more about the characters in Rogue One, where they came from and how they got there means jack. This was about the heist. PS: I hated Force Awakens. It was a just bigger, flashier rehash of New Hope with half the heart and plot holes big enough to fly that planet sized death star thru. Rogue One was simple and contained while still being a Star Wars adventure. And thank god, no one instantly became a master in the force like freaking Rey did...

Disney has already stated that there is no cannon outside of the movies. They axed the EU completely. Leia at the end is now the cannon. I didn't mind the ending much but there were some good stories in the EU that I think Disney Killed way quickly. Regardless, everything we've read about Leia not being there is no longer relevant. I do agree about the rushed character development. There were many people, Yen and his buddy, a few others I wanted to know more about but this was literally Oceans 11. No one complained that we didn't get the whole backstory on the characters in Oceans 11. All we cared about was the heist. This was the exact same thing.

Lol...the took all of the PT's fun skills at the launch of the xpac. Now we just get smacked harder than the other tanks.

I saw this too, and it makes me scratch my head. Yeah, he had a power base to work with, but the motivation wasn't there. You helping the Republic came down, I felt, to being the smart economic choice in the class story. I mean, maybe a smuggler would want to be king/emperor but the way it's laid out just didn't feel right. Just like the BH, working within the rules and for the Eternal Empire would be the smarter choice.