Thanks for the info! i did end up finding the PvP freebie gear now I just need to practice my skillz a bit and get back into the swing of things. I specced deception, copied one of Shin's posted specs, will probably play with a few more later. free re-specs = awesome!! lol

Hey All, Just came back to this game this past New years day from maybe an 8 or 9 month vaca (quit before server mergers) and was curious what the best/easiest way to gear is these days. I noticed they give you the tionese points to gear up but is there a similar feature for PvP? Looks like my old madness spec I used to level isn't quite optimal anymore? I enjoy a mix of PvP and PvE so trying to find a balanced spec now that can do fairly well in both. I am currently at work so i cannot watch Shin's vids or what not so any advice to re-acclimate myself to this game would be helpful. Looks like they made things a lot more mod-able than when I left the game so I just feel like I have a lot of catching up to do on gearing and rotations/priorities and it almost makes me just want to log off again lol. I actually quit playing my sin shortly after hitting 50 to play my BH due to poor server population issues but now all my guys are on one packed server so I would love to get back into my Sin. So with that said, should I just run WZ's til my eyes bleed to get badges/commendations for gear and mix in some PvE where necessary? People seem to be favoring deception spec (which will be new to me but I can adjust) for PvP, how does it fair in PvE? Thanks in advance for the help and hate to ask but a lot has changed since I quit playing.

I was a littlle curious about trying the operative melee PVP tree but had a few reservations. Has anyone tried this one yet and if so, did you find yourself excessively kiteable? or was it actually able to hold it's own in PvP vs the many snares/stuns/escapes that exist in game?

It actually is quite relevvant in relation to this post/thread. WoW was competing with some good games when it released. For those of us who played WoW at release, we know it was unpolished and released with known bugs and definitely did not have all the content that was added months later. Like a few people mentioned earlier, there were days that servers crashed and characters got rolled back and lost xp and such multiple times in a day. Times when the servers were just not available or stable enough for play. There are bugs that have been in WoW since day 1 and STILL exist to this day. But despite all that, WoW succeeded and was a very good game for many years and they ended up king og the pile even WITH all the faults it had at release. SW:ToR is far from perfect right now. I do have to say the servers have been more stable than WoW was at release. The gameplay seems decent enough to me. The content is no less buggy than WoW was at release. Ultimately I don't think SW:ToR owes us anything for not having 100% of the content we feel they should have had in the game. All MMO's release with bugs and problems and missing content. They did it back in wow's day and they do it now. This is pretty much normal and nothing is owed to anyone in my opinion.. and this is ONLY my opinion. For me, I am enjoying the game. I still enjoy WoW as well. Just not as much as I used to. But I will continue to play SW:ToR and gripe free as it gives me something else to do during the downtime with my other stuff.

I think it was back when my online games were text based only? I remember the first time seeing pictures on online rpg games and being like.... NO ******* WAY!!!

Here is me and our newest addition to the family at nappy time. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/189/babymer.jpg/ This is the wife and I. We both play most of the time. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/004dns.jpg/ and another of the wifey and I. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/21/015uyq.jpg/ Nice to see everyones pics.. so very nice looking people.. guess gaming isn't just for us nerds/geeks anymore =P