I was just on Hoth, It was fun.

I be sure to head back next time Im on so we can play together.

And I agree, Ive only played with one guildmate. That doesnt seem right   Im gonna try extra hard to team up with people over the next few weeks. Be forwarned.

First time I have ever heard someone else say that. I agree, it had that tortured half dead world feel to it. Like it had been pummeled from above by some malevolent being.

Nar Shaddaa is by far my favourite world.  I mean come on...........NEON LIGHTS and HOLODANCERS......what the hell else does the galactic man need!?  hehe 

played several heroics with karl on tarsis tonight.  I can see how important a healer is now anyway... not quite as fun as other roles, methinks, but its ridiculously important. 

Understatement of the year.

I think Operative is the most fun as a healer. It just feels right to sit behind cover and provide tactical support for the team. Sure I throw in the odd poison dart or concussion grenade, but mostly I am there to observe. What I really like is when the team loses a few people right at the end and I have to get in close and flashbang the enemy and start backstabbing them for the final kill. 

It does bother though, that at this point most tanks don't get an AoE taunt so I have to enter the battle late just to avoid getting the attention of the rear enemy with blaster rifles. Sometimes my tank gets to 25% before i can even start healing. That makes things alot harder. 

Well from my perspective as a tank, the lack of generating high threat til you get your mastery tree maxed and get some hight lvl generating skills its really hard to hold a groups aggro.

I could be doing it wrong. But I have one AoE taunt. 50% after the taunt wears off they go back to their orginal targets which isnt me. Usually the DPS or healer.

Another thing Ive notices but Im not sure If its something 100%, whoever gets first hit on the target generates high threat to it. So, as usually in my case...one of the DPS starts blasting X baddy. It takes me forever to regain threat to get it forget about the DPS.

SO....do your Tank a favor, dont shoot till he/she is in the thick of it. Focus firing is also a bonus.

1) Don't worry about tanking weak/standard mobs. It's the DPS's job to kill them first, then move to the stronger mobs that you are tanking. If it's not silver or higher, generally speaking it's not your problem. Most pulls have only two or three mobs at most that actually require tanking... leading to the next point:

2) Most classes have a 60-second CC; use it. If you're up against multiple controllable elites (anything without the boss immunity buff), you shouldn't be fighting (or tanking) any more of them at once than necessary.

As an additional point of reference, taunts in SWToR don't work as in WoW. Rather than moving you to the top of the threat list, they only force the enemy to target you for the duration of the taunt. If you are not able to generate enough threat in that time to regain the lead, you will lose aggro again.

I'm still following this thread but I'm holding off on purchase right now.  This may be a game I pick up in 6 months to a year from now with an expansion or two included for the price.  Hopefully they will also come up with a free trial as well.  Could either do a timed trial (free 10 days) or level (free up to level 5 or so) to give people a chance to try it out first.

rebel scum.

I'm following this thread too, except I have zero intention to play.   MMO games aren't my thing, but it is nice to see something "Star Wars" succeed by getting the proper development attention it deserves.  Hopefully if Underworld is done well we may get a bit of a Star Wars Renaissance thanks to it and this game.

I haven't gotten it, but this game along with Sins was high on my list to play on my new comp. I am curious however, as I see metacritic is averaging reviews in the mid 80's, any complaints on the game from those playing?

No major complaints that I can think of.  It's, for the most part, my first MMO (or at least the first one that I dedicated some time to and got into).  I think that if you like RPG's, its a bit of a no brainer to pick it up.  So many different stories with a substantial amount of content. 

Probably the ones giving it lower scores are some typical MMOers or power levellers.

 You don't want to trrust Metarcitic on games like this.  10% of the haters will be people hating because it isn't exactly what WoW is, and 10% are sandbox MMO fans who will always be upset that a game is too much like a theme park just like WoW.