Ok that is a provocative title but here is why. Bolster makes absolutely no sense at 55. If Bioware want a level playing field for PvP then why not just give everyone the pvp set at 55 in a box? Thanks to bolster I run around with 1200 expertise in my PvE gear. I have a full set of pvp gear in my bank and it is just collecting dust. Why don't I use it? Simple. I survive longer with bolster and PvE gear than I do in PvP gear. As a sorc pvp healer (not claiming to be a good one) I have to basically evade everyone. If I go up against a damage dealer I won't survive unless I can get away. My gear doesn't help me with that (you could say the reduction on static barrier helps but it doesnt). Even the expertise damage reduction doesnt help but it's moot as I get 1200 expertise worth for free anyway. So why not just give everyone conqueror to start with? I find bolster is more of a shot in the face of the people who grind out the gear in the first place. I would be sick if I had ground out the full obroan set to be killed by a bolstered player who facerolled across his keyboard to kill me. Now I know what you are going to say here.... a skilled pvp'er in full pvp gear should always kill someone without pvp gear. I give you my answer to that. A skilled pvp'er will kill someone anyway. So that is moot. So I put it to Bioware... remove bolster or give the full pvp set in a box to each user at 55. Keep bolster for the sub 55 game.

I can sum up PvP for you in a flash(point). Empire is made of talentless, solo wannabe, no teamwork, no tactic, argumentative, whining douchebags who have a few people amongst them that despair at the lack of even a remote ability to play the game tactically like they should. Empire suck. Republic is made of people who generally work together, tug each other's lightsabers and get the job done through mutual ************. Republic own the pvp. footnote: I still wouldn't play Republic. I would rather buy a jaa-jaa binks doll, rip the stuffing out of its bottom and have fun... all night long /sings lionel ritchie.

@OP As a sorc healer I can tell you this. The OP/Scoundrel has almost twice the healing power of a sorc healer. Providing the OP/Sc is good. Someone who PvP's a lot with these classes can quite easily facetank heal 1 character when they control the alpha. With some movement they can outheal 2. They really do have a powerful healing build. This makes my sorc very jealous.... I wouldnt say I want it nerfed however. I would rather be brought into line with my sorc. In my experience it is never nerfs that balance games generously. It is buffs.

YES ! For that spec you want at least a 500w. AT LEAST !

Use SWTOR Unleashed. It works wonders for fleet. I found that the problem with stuttering is caused by loading in game FX on the fly when they should be in RAM for best performance. This can only be acheived with SWTOR:Unleashed. Try it.

After a long haitus (over a year) I came back to find the value of items still similar in respect to the amount of credits you can make. Of course daily/weekly mission money and time spent has increased but the inflated value still seems amazingly balanced. Take a game like Diablo 3 for example (apples and pears I know) but the inflation in that game was beyond ridiculous thanks to bugs and glitches that the bots and gold farmers used to collect currency. So much so that it ruined the economy in a very short time. In respect to SWTOR this currency seems very strong in it's variably static nature. Slight increases through the course of time but with appropriate sinks it has done very well for such a game type.

I decided to use this as I was having trouble healing in 16 man hardmode DP (not too much trouble but i was on less than 10 fps so I was always behind on healing). I have a 5 year old pc with dual core 2.6ghz intel, 8gb of shiny ram, radeon 48xxHD. It's not the best pc (for this game but others run fine, especially with unreal engine which is what I built it for) so I don't expect much in certain MMO situations. So I loaded up a 4.5gb ramdrive with the basics and FX. It improved my fps slightly but the real benefit comes with the reduction of stuttering from loading assets. It helps a LOT !. I notice character models load a lot faster, if not instantly. What I would really like to know now however, as I have some room left for the ramdrive, is which asset file contains the Oricon data? I would really like to load up faster after a wipe. Anyone know?

The healing output is great in PvE but it really sucks in PvP except for a quality positioned and timed aoe heal. Expertise is really lacking in giving sorc healers the boost they need to stay alive. Here is an example. If a class goes 1v1 vs a sorc healer and doesn't use any stuns/knockbacks/interrupts then the sorc still cannot outheal the damage coming at them (in a standstill fight). So the sorc has to run/move to reduce the damage output. The on-the-run healing is poor for sorc (as compered to operative). It is nice we get an interrupt free innervate in 2.7 but it's not going to save us. In the time it takes to stand and channel innervate without pushback we can take more damage than it heals. So stopping to heal as a sorc is deadly. Now lets add interrupts/stuns/knockbacks. A sorc healer has no chance but to try escape. The problem is there are too many ways to stop a sorc running away even with talents. To sum it up... Sorcs are only effective at range, with no attackers. PvP gear is making no difference. I believe force-healer pvp gear should give a bonus to expertise healing value. It should be on force-healer gear alone because obviously other healers can wear better armour grade and have more mobility. With all this said... the new changes seem positive for sorc pvp healers but when some alphas can take 75% hp from a 30k+ sorc in full expertise there is something majorly wrong. I spend more time being angry in pvp on my sorc than on my operative. Why? Because my sorc is way better geared and lasts 1/3 of the time in a fight even with a 10 seconds immunity bubble. So much so that I have practically retired my sorc and only play it when I have no raiding to go to. Also please bring in NiM Flashpoints. Thanks

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I want to see a wormhole discovered when a transporter from Belsavis goes horribly wrong, transporting a young padawan to the current day Earth. Once there he is taken in by a family who teach him not to take the car for a spin, not to swing blindly at the lightbulb with a pinata stick, to dress "hip", to be normalised as a human being whilst taking on the bullies at school and winning the hand of his 10 year old prom date. Wait.... I am still under Disney NDA for the new movie. Ignore all this.

A healer doing dps is a sign of the FP being too easy or he is doing his job with heals well enough to know when he can DPS or the tank is geared enough not to be taking dangerous damage ... so the ultimate answer is NO

yep my bad I was checking with window minimised. Just edited my post to confirm it does multicore

This game doesn't use more than one core of my CPU. As my cpu is fairly old (dual core 2.8ghz) I really need the dual core aspect. I have 8gb of ram which is more than enough for what it uses without SWTOR:Unleashed. However I have been considering using that. The thing is... if it isn't using dual cores then Unleashed wont do me any good as that mostly dumps files into virtual ramdrives. This has got me pondering now and I will investigate this further as surely no game should be limited to a single core these days. Even an old engine like hero engine should be updated. [edit: It seems it does use more than one core but only when in fullscreen. When minimised it reverts to single core load. It top ends at 85% which is nice to leave some for other apps. This is with lowest graphics settings. I bump the graphics upto full and the cpu stays the same, the system ram stays the same. The throughput to gpu will be my bottleneck there with a HD 48xx. The only time it gives me any greif is 16man raids of course. Everything else is fine]

Funny thread. The best thing now is if you take Treek you should be able to solo Kuat or two man if that's not allowed.

I hope you raided her that night. Let us know if anything drops.