Raytan

Awesome,thanks for the update Tienbau. I did have another question regarding mining, are the mob asteroids not in game yet? You know the ones you would go to mine and out would pop a big mean mob instead of some nice resource. Not that I miss them but I haven't run across any and was wondering if they are in yet. If you do add them in for the love of god make sure level 50's don't pop out of level 3 asteroids like in beta and the early stages of live, I forget how many times I died to those SOB's lol.

I really loved to mine in live but I haven't had a chance to do a whole lot of mining yet I was just wondering how are the drops of hulks in this version of the game? I remember it took EA a looooong time to get hulk drops at least somewhat balanced going from totally worthless to way to good and back several times. I don't really think they ever found the perfect balance but I could usually go out and spend 3 or 4 hours mining and bring back one or two decent hulk drops and if I was lucky something quite good. How are the hulks now a days? any AA gear dropping off them?

Just give um befriend, that'll make them happy

Is Menace really useless at the higher levels? It has been 5 years and no doubt my memory is a bit rusty but I recall using Menace to good effect on mobs up to cl55 even, maybe I had a device or something to boost it's effectiveness. I do remember Shield Inversion being pretty useless at the higher levels on my PW though.

So how are the PT's in solo and group combat especially at L150? On live my 2 main character's were a L150 PE and a L150 PW, loved the raw firepower and survivability of the PW and loved the moderate firepower and versatility of the PE. Just looking at the skill list they almost look too good on paper 5 weapon slots, crit targeting, menace, shield recharge...I hope people will still invite my PE to groups lol. So I just wanted to get some opinions from those who have first had experience with the PT in combat situations especially in the higher levels, are they as good as they look on paper, what issues do they suffer from the most, how is solo leveling? I do plan to make my own PT eventually but for my first character I went with a PE since that's what I know best.

Pax Swift Star in Sheppard is full of L20 Scuttlebugs and is a great spot for CL 18-22 PE's or any CL 18-22 for that matter.

Have Repulsor Field or Power Down been changed at all since live? Because as I remember and as Phaethon said Power Down was totally useless on live with Repulsor Field being only slightly less useless and I do mean slightly. Im just curious as to what if anything may have changed with these skills and is it even possible for the devs to alter class skills in any way. I do have to disagree with Phaethon on Grav Link being a useless skill, for me anyway Grav Link is a must have skill for solo leveling between Grav Link and Menace you have enough CC to take on several mobs at a time so instead of killing 1 or 2 mobs and running away if you have more chasing you and your shields are low.