Official Q&A Thread for July 20th Blog Post

Are you considering adding some kind of adaptive weapons, so republic players could use sniper rifles and imperials assault cannons?

With the delay for new character missions, will Same-Gender Relationships also be pushed back into next year?

If so, can they be made retroactively compatable as we will now have another large length of time to fill and it is unlikely we will be able to continue postponing entire Class Stories so they can be run after this feature is added.


Also, any chance of adding additional Romance choices for other companions we may have grown fond of? If I can see past Bowdaar or Gus's exterior and care about the person inside, I'm sure my Smuggler can do the same.

When the alignment system was first introduced it was said that neutral would be a viable option. When will this be the case as currently legacy and level 50 with dark and light offers something, a lot of lightsabers and relics are alignment specific and there is alignment specific gear from the vendor. There is nothing neutral for any of this. Making it mechanically best the ignore the story and just always pick light or dark. Which seems to be the opposite of the design of the game.

1) Has there been any thought to lowering the respawn on Nightmare Pilgram? Before it wasn't a big deal, but now with the mega servers it leads to issues.

2) When you guys talk about 'your metrics show that operatives are on par with marauders in operations' are you guys looking at boss fights only or the whole run? Most groups could care less about trash and how your DPS is on it, but look more at bosses.

3) What are the chances that we can get a legacy friends list or an add by legacy option when adding people?

Could you briefly describe what the secondary stats in game do? as i am currently confused on how stats such as Surge Rating and Critical Rating actually do.

Surge rating increases the amount of damage you Critical hits do and Critical Rating increases your chance to Critically hit someone, meaning you've done a really great attack (or heal) and it's doing bigger numbers.

If you've ever played D&D you know about rolling a natural 20 and doing something pretty epic (depending on the DM) - that's what critical hits are.


Edit: Ok, another question, birthed from the fact I've been talking to my Mercenary healer friend:

Are Bioware happy with how Mercenary Healers are playing at the moment? A lot of players feel that they're very underpowered in comparison to Sorcerers and Operatives and many people do suggest that Mercenaries should be low down on the list of classes to take to Operations. I believe the list is something like:
Sorcerer/Sorcerer -> Sorc/Operative -> Op/Op -> Sorc/Mercenary -> Op/Merc -> Merc/Merc

Is that right? Should Mercenaries be ignored in favour of the other two healing classes?

Question about crafting, specifically resource gathering. Scavengers and Bioanalyzers can both harvest ingredients off of strong difficulty NPCs and higher, yet Archaeologists have no similar way of acquiring raw materials and I've noticed my Artifice/Synthweaver needs to run more gathering missions to supplement what I find in the world. Is there a reason for this, and any thoughts to allow archaeology resource harvesting off NPCs?

This is a question about the metrics or data you receive from the game. It probably won't get answered but I figured it would be worth a shot.

How much time on average do players spend on PvP and PvE? Also for players that have a level 50 how much time do they spend on their level 50 character compared to leveling their alts?

When / How we will finally get same gender romance arcs ?

Since it is quite some time since the last update on this topic further information would be appreciated.

Are there any thoughts on implementing a wardrobe system for things like changing quickly between sets of gear?