I must say, I am truly impressed with the amount of transparency and communication that has been coming down the pipeline today. Thank you so much for all the quick and (mostly) detailed updates Eric!

Heh, someone on Dromand Kaas was reporting this exact issue in gen chat, I had a strong suspicion that this was the issue. I'd say this was a VERY good reason to bring the servers down and I am very thankful you can fix it without a patch! Thanks for the timely updates!

Wholeheartedly agree! I love this game and I am excited every time I get to log in. I don't mind a little maintenance to keep the game I love up and running

Thank you for keeping us apprised!

It was warzones, at least that's what i saw

Agreed. As much as it annoys me, I'd much rather them bring down the servers to fix a serious problem then let it go on to give us more time to prepare. Unfortunately new patches generally come with quite a few unforeseen bugs that don't like to show themselves until they hit live servers. Sneaky little buggers...

Well, since I can't remove this post I suppose I'll just update. Despite moving to fleet and other areas before, for some reason just now when I decided to go to Odessan to grab some of the heroics I wanted to do today, all the bugs I mentioned magically fixed themselves. I was able to accept my mission rewards and the GC DvL tracker works again. No idea why, what happened or how, but at least it's back to a working state!

Hey guys, so I was in a FP just before the surprise maint today. We finished, barely, but when I used the exit area button to return to my stronghold the game got hung on the loading screen. Since the servers were going down anyway I just alt-tabbed and closed the game from the desktop. Now, ever since I logged back in after the patch, I have two pending mission rewards from said FP that I cannot accept. No matter how many times I click accept it just closes the window and leaves the "2 pending" button just as it is with no rewards. On top of that, my GC window has shown the force in balance since logging back in as well, despite others telling me it is different. I've rebooted my computer, logged out and quit SWTOR properly for hours at a time (I went and took a nap hoping it would work again when I got back) and neither has helped. I'm out of ideas! I submitted a ticket, but I have very low hopes of it being answered any time soon so any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Sorry I can't help myself, just wanted to say this is a really good question and I would like the answer as well!

Wow, just wow. Thank you so much for this EXTREMELY indepth answer! This is going to drive me crazy with gearing now, I'm not that rich so getting more mods isn't as easy as snapping my fingers, but I'll certainly try. What you said makes perfect sense and I really appreciate it! As for talents, I'm definitely changing some up. I'm looking at now: Tier 1: reduced time on cc breaker and it heals you getting attacked reduces the cd of charge Tier 2: enrage (not sure what its called knight side, the ability that grants a bunch of rage/focus) purges movement imparing effects and grants bonus movement speed, charge grants movement and push/pull immunity for 4 sec Tier 3: reduces cd on the heal on dmg taken dcd (enraged defense for jugg) endure pain cleases all affects Tier 4: Mad dash can be used while immmobilized, purges all movement imparing affects and does 50% extra dmg (i dont care about the dmg, just the escape) and reduced CD on push, aoe taunt and intercede and increases the dmg and threat reduc on interecede by 10% I really want to use the talent that gives shields to your allies when you use your aoe taunt, but I just can't see what to give up for it or if its even worth it. Would be nice if the tooltip gave a number on the absorb shield. I'm trying to get better at seeing whos taking dmg and guard swapping. I really need to get better at the latter most of all, I have a tendancy to set it and forget it. I made my operations frame have HUGE health bars for my healer and I find its also rather useful on my tank to quickly see whos dropping and intercede to them if I can. I gotta admit, pvp tanking is way more fun than pve tanking!

Update! I was messing around and I finally figured out I can move the WZ score cards! I still cant seem to touch the alignment toggle anymore, but with the score cards moved my problem is solved!

I'm using a UI i downloaded off the internet somewhere that i've since HEAVILY modified. I spose I could go back to default and move everything around to where it is now, but damn thats a lot of work >.< Spose it's better than nothing, thanks!

Ok so I'm not a new player, but I couldn't figure out where else to put this. Earlier today I edited my interface and moved the light side/darkside toggle up to the top of my screen. Problem is, I didn't realize that where I moved it to it covers up some of the warzone info panels. Now whenever I go into the interface editor there is nothing to click on for that ls/ds toggle, I can't move it anymore! Clearly I did something wrong or I am just plain stupid, help me please?

Remember you said this when you buy a tier piece then immediately get the SAME tier piece in your next GC crate. Remember this as you cry yourself to sleep.

T and proud!