Watched 2 hours of the stream, really enjoyed it. Hope Towelliee will stream swtor a bit more often.

Assassins are way overpowered. They always crush me on my shadow. Also, nerf all the other classes plz!

Hi there! Inspired by a beloved topic from another forum, I am starting this thread where everyone can report their daily experience in the game. Let's see if it pick up To give you a feeling, I will post my report first. Yesterday, I continued my slow levelling of the scoundrel/scrapper with the Advanced Slicer armor on Hoth. I was excited to find out you can get your own Tauntaun there and that it is relatively cheap, picked up some food for baby tauntauns, looked up a guide on Dulfy and set out. Besides feeding Tauntauns, I did some planetary quests, helping the Republic fight the cold and its enemies back. Luckily, in the afternoon a second instance on Hoth opened, so getting a Tauntaun was easier. In order to not have to wait for respawn times at the Tauntaun nests and get some comms, I queued for a flashpoint and got an instant pop (as a dps, this has not happened to me yet, I believe!). It was the Maelstrom prison, one of my favorite flashpoints, which I was almost overlevelled for with my lvl 43. The fp was in progress, so I jumped in. The group was only like 5 minutes into fp. It was a guardian tank, commando healer and gunslinger dps. Me and the commando were overgeared, the tank and gunslinger slightly undergeared. First question on me: "Are you a dps?" Me: "Sure" Answer: ":D" I can only guess who my predecessor was. Anyway, we progress. The tank melts pretty fast on many pulls and all of us pull aggro from them, but overall everything is ok, nobody complains. On the first boss (the giant robot), the gunslinger dies (obviously first time in the fp), but only laughs about it. We continue to the boss with implants, where the tank dies to him, but we kill him and again, nobody complains. At one point, we skip a group using my "smuggle" ability and two group member comment on how cool that is. On one of the sith bosses, two group members die, but again, noone complains. After killing the final moff, a cunning chestpiece drops and I "greed" it, as it is no upgrade for me. As there were more cunning drops in the fp and the gunslinger needed on them (it was an upgrade for him in each case), they probably feel guilty and greed as well. I get it and they ask very politely if they could get it for mods. I trade it. In the final conversation with Revan, I comment that my smuggler's feeling says that we probably should not let him out of prison, as I believe he will start amassing a huge army to destroy everything in no time. Everyone laughs and we continue chatting. After that, everyone thanks for the group and adds that it was a really nice experience. Anyway, I get back to Hoth on my hunt for a Tauntaun. I do one more KDY later on and it takes me something like 4 hours, including some questing, KDY and the Maelstrom flashpoint, to get my own Tauntaun (I guess that you really need to do it on the weekend when there are 2 instances on Hoth). I really love it and cannot believe that it is my 4th character going through the planet and I have never noticed you can get it there!

I definitely agree with the statements that some silvers pose a much larger challenge after the update. I also agree it is not all silver mobs, but just some of them. In leveling of my 40-50 characters, I apply the following strategy: Instead of killing the weak mobs first and focusing the silver ones later, I start with the silver one and try to burst him down asap. After that, I focus on the weaker mobs. This results in lower loss of health. Also, I am usually overlevelled for the planetary content, and usually decently geared (definitely overgeared for the content). My companions, however, usually get only their greens from the planetary quests, which means they are geared in greens of the same level as the content. After the update, however, they started to lose too much health in each fight. Hence, I used some comms and credits to upgrade their armor so that they are overgeared for the content as well. After that, the silver mobs are a breeze. I am not sure, however, that this is intended. Should the companions really need to be overgeared in order to survive the fights they are overlevelled for already? I do not think so.

Nothing new on this topic as far as I know. I do not think that anything will happen in that regard, as I assume the change in the game code would be rather demanding. As the devs stated that changing the code is actually quite demanding, even if it is simple things, I guess this is not on the list. However, I would personally really love having the option to go from republic to the empire and vice versa, even if at level 60.

I played some pvp with my 42 lvl scoundrel today. I was bolstered to 33k health, while heaving some 4-6 level outdated gear. After I got to lvl 43, I fully updated my gear and did some pvp again. I was bolstered to 35k. Needless to say, there were people at or above 55 bolstered to over 45k health on a regular basis. (Moreover, there were plenty of obvious pre-mades. 3 out of 5 games I played today were a complete disaster, worst pvp matches I have ever played. Hopefully things will get better after a couple of weeks, but the bolster needs to be fixed by the devs.)

Can you please tell me the name of the hat AND assure me I can get it on my scoundrel?

I have the feeling all the mobs do more dmg, flashpoints or not. Especially some of the silver ones.

I took my scrapper, lvl 40, to a pvp match yesterday. Got an arena with a couple of 55s. After unstealthing, I got focused and destroyed within 3 seconds. I am not complaining, though, as this is just temporary. Just found it funny.

This is nothing in comparison to the trooper's cutscenes, especially if you are playing commando. You storm the place with a pistol in your hand, and threathen the enemy. The enemy calls reinforcements and you point your tiny pistol at them, while having a huge armor on you. For the whole time, there is a gigantic cannon on your back. It just looks riddiculous. I do not think it has anything to do with the operatives should have had a pistol originaly. I just think it is laziness.

I play the vanguard variant of this and I fully confirm everything stated in this post. Except for the blaster rifle aspect, as I already do have it.

Or maybe it is the case that all the mobs in the game now do a surprisingly high amount of dmg?

I heard he is a secret weapon to defeat the emperor. In the next expansions, the characters' stories will be insignificant, as he will be doing all the cool fights.

I feel ok with the new talent trees. I do not take it as a positive change, but my 40 lvl scrapper feels similar and my 49 lvl vanguard's dps seems similar. However, I am not liking the drop of survavilability on both characters. I am usually overlevelled and overgeared for the planetary content I am doing, but my tanking comps go down really fast even when fighting ordinary mobs. Today, I even died on my vanguard because of not paying too much attention. My vanguard, even though he was dps, used to feel like a small fortress, for which I gave up a bit of dps. Now I need to heal after each fight. The goal of the update was to make mobs under lvl 50 weaker (see the patchnotes). Well, it feels more like they remained the same, but my armor values halved. Having to re-buy some abilities was not a nice surprise as well. Btw., the new top gear for the republic still lacks the cool factor, much unlike the new imperial gear. But no surprise there. Overall, I am ok with the update, and I welcome the possibility to do some fp's alone, even though I play group flashpoints very often.

If I understand it correctly if I do not buy the expansion, I will be stuck at level 55 forever (or at least until I get it, which will probably take a while). I have a couple of questions, I hope someone will be able to help me answering them. What is the best gear I can buy for the basic comms without expansion and where can I buy it? I assume I will be able to do level 50 hard flashpoints, but what about 55 (from the gearing point of view)? Or did it change and they are now level 60? And these flashpoints, will they give me gear I will not be able to buy for my basic comms?