Lightsaber Style should be a choice not class-specific.

hmmm, I really like the idea of the saberstaff/dual wield option, it would add a LOT more variety to the players.

So why is a sub-class who specializes in swiftly, silently and manipulating targets efficiently as possible given a weapon that not only supposed to limit movement, through the enemy that shouldn't even be ready for you off balance but has also been known to be used by people who specialize in melee combat offensively and defensively?
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You are wrong about the double blade lightsaber. In fact it is more versitable and does fit them. Each blade can be turned on and off separatly. You see this in the Sith Return trailer where the Master uses two lightsaber one being double, but the blade in. Also in Phantom Menance, Darth Maul uses his staff when first encounter Qui Gonn Jinn with the one blade in.
It's the fact the blade are independant that make them so usefull for Assassin and Shadow.

You are wrong about the double blade lightsaber. In fact it is more versitable and does fit them. Each blade can be turned on and off separatly. You see this in the Sith Return trailer where the Master uses two lightsaber one being double, but the blade in. Also in Phantom Menance, Darth Maul uses his staff when first encounter Qui Gonn Jinn with the one blade in.
It's the fact the blade are independant that make them so usefull for Assassin and Shadow.[/QUOTE]

.um........you cant use one blade at a time in-game......just sayin...

(bump?) I am bothered the most by the Sentinel's dual-wielding requirement and bounty hunter pistol requirement

YES! YES! YES! YES!

That is all I have to say to the OP. best suggestion ever

those 2 comments resumed pretty much what i think...

I honestly think sents and maras should have a single wield option. The guard and jugg trees suck. The defense trees aren't as desired as hybrid for endgame tanking and the best DPS option for pvp is the shared tree.....

Although the OP's idea is nice in principle, as are rifle-using Bounty Hunters, I don't think it's practical in-game.

Right now, the only way to *auickly* tell what you're up against is by their weapon and/or how they hold them. With adaptive gear a Type 1 Juggernaut can look like a tiny Sage and I know if I see two sabers I know it's a Sentinel or a Marauder and if I know my classes I know what I can probably expect to be up against.

Down the road, when they introduce dual-wielding double-ended super-DPS class, I wouldn't want a Sage to be able to have that ability.

btw there are other threads about this same topic around, duno wich one is older but i think somebody should merge them all, if it has not already been done..

this
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=565554

this
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=578923

and this
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=206533

I am all for this. I'd love to have an assassin using just one regular lightsaber!