Why are all the outer wheel rooms on Empire's Fleet wide open and the Republic's walled off except for a door? This makes no sense to me.

Two schools of thought here. 1) All End Game gear is the same. You can hit metrics in PvP to get access to different tiers or complete raid content and do the same. It won't matter which path (or both) you follow, you end up in the same place. This would require about the same amount of time working through both trees to reach each metric or one path will take over the game. PvP is always available even when playing solo, raids are not. PvP results vary between each match, raids are either successful or not. How can you make the time and skill involved for both equal? If you can answer this, you are smarter than me. 2) Two completely seperate paths with entirely seperate gear sets. This allows the progression to be independent for each path. It requires time put into each path to excel at both. It is easy for the Devs because they don't have to worry about balance between the two paths. The downside is this requires each set of gear to stand out within its environment. They use expertise for PvP, nothing currently exists for PvE other than better stats. Either the PvP gear stats have to lag behind PvE stats or there is a one way transfer from PvP to PvE. Would I like for my gear to be equally good for both paths, hell yeah. Do I think it is possible for the Devs to setup a system that allows this without giving an advantage to one path or the other? NO.

Make the Crit Crafted gear Bind on Pickup and then only the crafters will have that gear.

Tell that to the Level 50 who camps Tattooine Empire speeder points on DWC.

You do know that you can switch which companion follows you? As a Bounty Hunter, unless you are Healer spec, you will likely want Mako around especially when dealing with elites. Press N on your keyboard and the window with your crew skills will open. There is a button for each companion on the right hand side with an arrow and another symbol. Click that to call up the companion.

As an Arsenal BH, I would love the whole tree to be reworked to limit the importance of Tracer Missle. If it weren't so damn important, most of the Nerf request would disappear and maybe I would not be targeted so quickly.

AMD/ATI just fired an old friend from the Austin TX plant so EFF THEM, nVidia RULES!!!

Didnt see this posted so if I missed it, appologies... Can you imagine how infrequently you would encounter other players if the entire planet was playable? I see posts everyday talking about how empty the game feels and that players are happy to see one other person and that is within the confines of the current planet setup. Sure I would love to see the future location of Luke's childhood home on Tattooine but not at the risk of never seeing anyone on any planet ever again. As much as my inner explorer wants to cruze all over each and every planet, I don't want to see random animations repeated over and over again. If there were to be complete planets, they had better have something to see and hopefully do.

Do you have to name class/race/spec or just,"WOW another player!!!"?

Actually I use this as a feature. I hit my castable ability, change targets and shoot again. Case in point, the casted 60s stun. Launch that at an elite/strong, switch targets during cast and open fire on a weak target as soon as the first cast is complete. If you target the wrong mob, take a step in any direction and retarget.

And what you fail to grasp is that DPS is not the end all/be all. My merc has great DPS WHEN I GET TO USE IT. Most of the time, I am stun locked/interupted and can barely do any damage with almost no ability to escape or stop the stun lock/interupt. At least you have other options. I am either ranged DPS or dogfood with nothing in the middle.

A-BH dps is only high when not being stun locked/interupted. I mean if your never-get-killed Sorc/Sage needs more DPS and still never dies, my BH should be able to use my DPS on the move right?

Well hell, while we are at it let's buff the Arsenal tree BH to allow mobility while hitting you with a dozen tracer missles. I mean, everyone knows how to kill a Arsenal BH is to stun lock em and interupt so at least with mobility I can try to run away while Tracer Missle-ing you to death.

So says the lightning spammer above.

ditto, after a dozen or so MMOs and playing a PvE, good guy tank, I was ready to be a PvP, bad guy DPS.