Purple Crystals for Republic. Still no response from Devs!

this is probably the best way of handling the situation really. it is just a game not really important in the long run.
personally i would like a revamp of the jedi and republic quest lines ( i feel they are written horribly) than giving anyone any colour of lightsaber.

Again a lot of people do keep their first lightsaber.

So how is that a reason that therefore no one can care at all what colour their lightsaber is?

Ignoring how silly this is gameplaywise (hf doing PvP that way):

Well then it is easy, everyone sticks to the color of his initial lightsaber, because changing the crystal constantly isnt supported by lore also.
Now you can go on and complain that the storylines of jedi dont grant you the ability to choose your color from the start.

^ thanks for the laugh, best ive had in a while i think!

Hideous trolls aside, I'm a massive fan of purple lightsabers and was quite disappointed that they are unavailable to us on the Republic side.

Equally I was disappointed to find that my class Columi gear makes me look like a traffic cone.

C'mon devs, give us purple lighsabers, if its not a big deal then its not a big deal surely?

They are changing mods so you can put your PvP stuff in your favorite orange lightsaber soon.


Yes I agree that the MMO model that SWTOR follows isn't going to allow you to have exactly the same lightsaber, but you can keep the visual elements, the hilt and colour.

Or as I said choose one you like (within the current limits).


But again where in that does it mean that no one can care about the colour of their lightsaber as suggested?

You must live a very humourless existance then.

I wouldn't be so sure if 20 points of difference in one stat would really make any notable difference in PvP. Besides: you can upgrade saber all day long while keeping the visuals.
Perhaps if you are total min-maxer than you switch colors every moment you happen to put your hands on better-stats crystal, but let's not go too far with this.
It actually does.
You can obtain color crystal long before getting a lightsaber than craft hilt and put the color crystal inside. So you can run with a chosen color crystal right from the beginning (ofq. it's in limited scope - magenta or cyan crystals are locked from you but still: it's possible).

Your business model would fail miserably. I suppose the 10,000 thousand other things in game are worthless....It's all about the color...

Astounding....that you can decide for someone how much they are "into" a game.

I think the business model of lightsaber colour is something Bioware put an awful lot of thought into (whether you agree or disagree with it).

I can't decide for them, but I can have my opinon of it.

Much like some one can say (as they have) that lightsaber colour is completely and utterly irrelevent, but that doesn't make it so.