I was deception from 10-50 with khem until I got Xalek. If you are dying a lot, you're doing it wrong. I was on almost every planet 3 levels early on average. The key is stealth and CC. You have them. Use them. Win.

Annihilation is common because its the best spec pre 1.2. The self healing plus innate survivability of marauders makes pvp ridiculously easy 1v1. If you had an easy time against one they were either terrible or had cooldowns spent. As it stands on my mara I can solo kill any advance class with ease if my CDs are up.

It flat out states that you can buy the pvp gear schematics. So no need to reverse engineer anything.

There's just one problem, I can't find the vendors. At most they added gear to lightside and dark side vendors but no chest pieces with hoods. As it stands, there's still nothing with a hood up for marauders til 50. Please, if I'm wrong, someone from the PTS post screen shots and where you got it. So far though, I haven't found anything.

Could you provide a link because I went back about 5 pages looking for a thread that just provides info on system specs?

So I would need to upgrade the processor before I can play? Alright. Any suggestions, based on those specs, on what I could buy that would fit in the tower?

I just need something to meet minimum specs until I can get upgrades in about a month or so http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883103409 My gf just got the game for me and I installed it on a diff computer I bought but it doesn't run it at all so I'm returning it and looking at this one instead. Full specs in spoiler tag.