Official Q&A Thread for June 8th, 2012 Q&A Blog Post

With the announced level cap increase, which as a side note I believe to be way to soon, will all current content be scaled to the new level of 55? If not this will just take content away from players and give us less to do. Please consider making all FPs and OPs scale to 55 if you haven't already.

Not sure if this idea/suggestion ever came up. I would really like it if we can queue up for PVP or eventually the PVE queue with our lvl 50 character while leveling another character within the same legacy. I do not like sitting in the fleet and waiting for the queues. I think this would make a lot of people happy.

My question relates to the PVP system. Coming to SWTOR from KOTOR (i.e. this is my first MMO), solo play with companion(s) is my norm. That said, having found a good guild, I've grown to enjoy group play (heroics and flashpoints). While I picked a light PVE server (to avoid roving hordes of people crashing through the same area I'm in), I am curious about PVP and have started looking into it. This has led to 2 concerns and my question.

First, I see that there is a new stat (Expertise) that appears to only be built up via continuous PVP (like a PVP-only form of experience). Second, I see that there are whole separate sets of gear that one appears to need for PVP. Taken together this seems like a "PVE'ers need not apply" message for engaging in occasional PVP.

Why don't we just have one set of stats/mechanics and gear? For example, I hear that Expertise replaces Critical and Surge in PVP. What's wrong with just having Crit/Surge. I realize that veteran PVP'ers are going to have an edge in PVP, but that comes from real "hands on" experience in that play environment. Magnifying that by adding a PVP-only stat/mechanic on top of that seems to put a pretty high wall up between PVP and PVE players.

Hi, can you look at changing the cool-down of the purple (cyber crafted) grande's as they currently all share the same 2min CD!

Can this not work like 2 relics instead, and just have a 45 second lock out of all other grande's & let each grenade have its own CD (maybe even increase this a little to balance things)

With an upcoming increased level cap, do you have a strategy for keeping current Operations still pertinent and desirable to players (something like level 50 versions and then higher level versions)?

The current Operations are fun, and though I'd love being able to run a higher level group of four through one, I'd hate to see them stop being competitive options for gear progression at level cap--whatever that cap may be.

In future will we be able to more fully upgrade our weapons and armor? as in get paints and decals for the armor and addons for our weapons like bayonets scopes and grenade launchers? thanks in advance

When should we expect the option to purchase more character slots per server? Many players like myself are after at least sixteen characters per legacy.

UI Modifications have created a steadily rising quality of life for Operation members in competing MMOs as well as creating balancing issues for raid designers. In order to sidestep the balancing issues of Operations encounters, the SWToR has decided to not enable modding.

However, could we expect to see the quality of life improvements to the UI to be rolled into SWToR? Such as frame color changes to denote when a party/operations member has a debuff, or the ability to bind certain ability uses to clicking on the party/operations frames (such as guard, guardian leap, heals, debuff clense, etc)?

Is Cathar the only new Species that will be added to the game this year?

Looking forward to the new space missions, but will it be rail system or free flying? Also, good to see a new species becoming playable but will we see more this year.... Cathar would seem to be more republic based, what about Imperials?