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I have never been for a level based system.

Since CU ive been trying to give the game a chance. I went as far as making a new toon on a different server. At low levels the game makes sense so far . . .

Howerver on my old toon I have tried several different respecs in my combat abilities. It seems that when i have only one weapon skilled maxed as high as i can get it, for example carbines. I can put skill points in carbines up the marksman tree, carbine specialization and then put more points into Bounty Hunter Carbines I am very affective. My current skill level is 27 and im trying to find missions with difficulty between 25 and 29. Most of these missions are giving me 1 xp in carbine exp per kill. I still get my scout exp for harvesting that seems to be normal. For example when i harvest from a mob i get anywhere from 40 to 200 exp per mob in scout exp. I also am getting my scout exp when I successfully pass a mob with mask scent.

I had to travel to Corellia to find any missions around my difficulty level ,as there werent any on Tatooine anymore where i live. The last 4 Corellia missions I tested only one had mobs that werent gray con to me and all were between difficulty level 25 and 27. The one that had higher than grey cons were red cons at combat level 29, this mission was rated difficulty level 25. How is this mission rated difficulty level 25 with me having to take out a base of mobs with higher combat level than me? I found if i could single pull a red from the base I could solo it but thats gonna be very dependant on the surrounding areas and where they "MAGICALLY" pop the base for that mission. Those from that one mission did give decent exp but i couldnt tell what type of exp I was getting as it said things like" You receive 421points of 40 exp. and "You recieve 367 points of 20 exp. and things like that. Ive recently notice that this type of exp message only happens when I have the entertainer buffs on me.

I realize this must be a bug. How am i supposed to solo and how am i supposed to get experience soloing?

While on said missions I was testing out some other mobs in the areas of them afterwards. Most of the mobs I tried It showed my hits and how much I was hitting for. Did not howerver show them as taking any damage. Eventually the targets would disappear and I recieved a message saying "Target Lost" and poof the mob would disappear afer a bout a minute of combat. I took damage normally and had to run a few times. But never saw the mobs health lower even though my text was showing I hit for up to 500+ damage on some occasions. Those mobs gave no experience. Thus I literally wasted several hours yesterday alone trying to test your Combat System.

Also on Tatooine all over the planet there are various groups of mobs, and I mean big groups like 50 or 60 mobs withing a few meters of each other. You can see them on the radar but cant see them on screen except for a few of them. Some seem to be trapped under the world somewhere. This must be a bug. This is also very common and I see it everywhere I travel there are big masses of mobs like this in clusters. Reminds me alot of some of the Kunark pathing bugs on Everquest.

Also when trying to raise new combat skills for example Creature Handler. My combat level is 27 yet the pets i can tame are very inadequate fighting mobs of my level. This is always gonna be a problem if you continue to have a level based system. Some people enjoy other aspects of the game than just combat. Those people will never get to see the high end content anymore unless they are forced to group and be a hole in the bucket of the group they join. Thus the only time they will get to do anything interesting is during weekends and peak hours. I am not one of these people but I feel for the ones who are stuck in these shoes. Thank God I have a real life friend that I can partner with when his wife lets him play to do some of the things I cant solo. If it wasn't for him there is no way I would continue a game that forced me to group or get help from total strangers, kids mainly, so I could enjoy the rich content that is promised to be coming to us.

At least consider giving everyone a free month to alpha test for you please? I am very unhappy not getting anything out of playing other than a headache and frustration. My account is currently canceled until the end of the first week in may and will probably stay that way if things dont get better soon and very soon. FYI I have been a SOE subscriber since the first year of Everquest and never missed a months payment. Bought all the EQ Expansions. Also have an EQ2 account and have played it since launch.

I don't mean to rant. I never had very good english skills as writing never interested me much. I am an artist not a writer. Its sorta funny how much effort I have to put into writing since I am now involved with SONY.

IDEA - - Roll Back all the servers except a few to pre CU and let the people who want to pay to Alpha test your product go on selected servers with this CU. I would like to see how many acually volunteer to pay you to develop your product for you.

Thank You for your time

Kevin Overbay