Mourning the end of testing and a lively topic about which race you will be on your first character and why!

Thanks to Sunny from Sunny's Diner for the topic idea!

Enjoy my friends!

- Alan

Well I was extremely hyped up to roll a cyborg until I saw the cyborg options in beta, I thought it would fit with the whole "Frankenstein/Gankenstein" motif well to be part cybernetic but the models are just so underwhelming idk.

-Gank

My character will be a Zabrak. I'm guessing my original toon way back in SWG was chosen as a Zabrak as I was fascinated by Mauls species and just wanted to be a horned up humanoid with funky tattoos.

So seeing as my new TOR toon will be a great great great..... ancestor.. to my SWG Smuggler... he'll be a Zabrak as well.

Its a shame more of the less humanized species are not represented... Rodian would be a nice alt toon. I can see their points for why they limited races... it still doesn't mean I won't be interested to see them expand it some more.

I'm disappointed and yet excited that my first character rolled and my main for the guild will be human... It goes against my gaming history as I've always tried to play something that is opposite/different then what we all experience in every day life. But at the same time, I'm really looking forwarded to fleshing out a character that started in table top form, into a whole other genre. Just hoping that some of my friends will be able to join in and that I don't get swept up in alt-itis too much, not that this is a bad thing with all the great story this game has to offer.

So yes, human will be my first race. Long live Draylen.

Over the beta I got really attached to the Miraluka as far as Jedi are concerned. Most of my characters will be human because I find it easier for role-play. Something from my reading of the 20th anniversary of Heir to the Empire where Timothy Zahn about having Pellaeon give all the perspective for Thrawn sums it up, in that sometimes the experience is best felt from something familiar that from something alien (paraphrasing, but you get the idea).

Good topic Alan. I'm going to select a human for my Jedi Knight. Eventually I'd like to have one of each race/class, but I'll start with a human for my main. My Jedi Knight in SWG was human, so my TOR character will be his ancestor. Through the legacy system I'll make my other characters part of a family that includes some adopted siblings (to explain the other races).

Good cast Alan, except for that part about how cold it is in Texas. Try snow and then we'll talk.

I'm going to make my first toon a human Jedi Knight. I usually make a human first off, because I don't want the novelty of an interesting bone ridge on my face or deeply weird skin coloration to wear off and then have that stuck on my main forever. So with my main I generally play it safe. Alts are for experimentation.

Gonna go with the Miralan Trooper. I'm always going for the humans but feel like I want to get a little more adventurous and I feel like the Miralan is a happy medium.

I used a Zabrak in beta and it wasnt my cup of tea, at least Lightside. So I'm thinking for my Knight (Still might change) I'm using human female, I just never played a female toon, and I'm going to test it out. Imperial side I'm going to use a Sith (the race) Assassin.

Played a Chiss Sniper last weekend and really enjoyed that race/class combo it fitted pretty well.

As for the Smuggler im making in Merc im really not sure, im leaning towards Cyborg just because i dont want to be a regular human.

And i dont like Zabrak at all, worst race in the game in my opinion.