Official Q&A Thread for February 10th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post

When can we expect a Looking for group/raid function?

I mean even Teleporters like the summoning stones of WoW would be nice start. I am discouraged from partisipating while leveling because I don't want to stand around when I can simply level. If I got to run to here and here and here and here and... well you don't get alot of exp that way.

Are there any plans to allow players to transfer Stats and set bonuses of Raid/pvp gear to mod-able gear to cut down on gear homogenization?

We don't like being carbon copies of everyone else.

Will you ever make the Legacy system a cross server option for though who want it? Some servers have little to no Republic players. I started as an EMP. I have had to change servers to find a high population Rep server. I would have preferred to stay on the same server to early my legacy points.. but I would have had no one to play with.


PS. Please never add combat logs or damage meters!

Why doesn't the Global Cool-down reset after cancelling a spell?

Eg. I start casting a heal on myself just as someone throws a lot of burst damage at me, I react by cancelling my cast (because I decide I will die before the cast finishes) to immediately cast my instant/emergency heals. However, due to the GCD I have to just wait and watch my character die. Either way I die and I have to just sit and watch it happen.

Will we ever see an appearance tab in game for those who want to use green or blue items as there appearance?

Will there be an alternative maintenance period for Europeans that better reflects our least populated server times, in comparison to the American downtime?

Why are there so much PVP based content on PVE servers? Is it the main playstyle of SWTOR? Not all of is enjoy this mindless way of playing and therefor roll characters on PVE servers. I would prefere flashpoint cue system over this warzone stuff. And what is the point of allowing lvl 10 toons to enter a warzone filled up with lvl 50's?

Will chat bubbles be Implemented in SWTOR ?
Conversations are difficult to have ingame with all my attention placed on the little text window. I have A lot of the 'optional' names and otehr details turned OFF....so the text window has no reference point ingame to me....I could make it simpler by enabling names displayed.....bit of course I still have to refer to the text window to see what is being said.
Let me simply enable chat bubbles, that will keep my screen clear until someone talking actually catches my attention.

There might be a clear reason for this, but I fail to understand the intent of it hence my asking here in the hopes i don't get flamed if the answer is totally logical.

Most MMOs I know will grant you extra XP when your character is rested, great. but in practice, resting your character means playing less, so it actually means, that the less you play, or if you somehow schedule your playing time according to your rest bar, you get more XP, making it somewhat faster to level up by playing less.

Why is this the logic instead of encouraging continuous play by granting XP bonus the more you play?

I usually like to play a lot over weekends, but once the rest is gone, it's much more painful to continue playing the character, that's usually my hint to log off and go do something else.. I however don't really follow the logic there, never did. I get it that extra xp is a bonus, but shouldn't the bonus be given to more active play rather than the contrary?

Thanks,

At present, open PvP lends itself to 1 dimensional game play, that is, the dominant faction ends up camping outside the oppositions base, while the opposition is happy to stay in there base.

What ideas does BW have that can possibly grant incentives for players not to camp and defenders to not turtle?