"I can't share the details about the new class just yet, but as a hint, it's going to be a "ranged" one." source: http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=896631 *cough*archer ranger*cough*
here is my take; yes, the voice acting in this game is laughably terrible at times, but, for a completely free to play game it's above and beyond what they could have done with just text dialogue. i really appreciate the effort put fourth to make the game what it is. swtor has top notch voice acting and they shelled out a…
FWIW at the end of beta I was using a mace. All the same animations of the sword but just a mace. If that's any indicator we can and do use other weapon types.
PS: You can block with the starter shield every bit as well as with an end game shield. Shields only offer +AC and stats. The actual act of blocking is 100% I]assuming you have the shield pool for it[/I and doesn't take into account what kinda shield you're using. It's a binary block or not blocked.
It's blocking, it's just a bit confusing on how it works and took me a sec to catch on. You will still see the red damage number fly but it's pulled from your block meter instead of your hit points. The only cue you get to indicating you successfully blocked or not [other then the fact you didn't actually lose any health…