Tobold's Blog Wednesday, December 07, 2011 SWTOR difficulty
level  One of the more remarkable things about the SWTOR open
beta weekend was that I died. Several times. Both in group and
in solo situations. And I liked it. Of course I was trying all
sorts of crazy stuff, for example I had a "Hogger" moment with
my Sith Inquisitor when at level 5 I came across a level 6 elite
mob and absolutely had to try to kill it. No luck, got killed 3
times, then went back to base, leveled up by handing in some
quests, trained up, and then went back are killed that elite
mob. Even got a piece of blue loot, although it was heavy armor
and completely useless to my character. Actually I have the
impression that heavy armor loot drops from a level 6 elite mob
are completely useless to everybody, as far as I could tell
nobody gets heavy armor skill before level 10.  My character
also died when trying to run through a cave full of mobs instead
of carefully fighting them one by one. I died in a group at a
boss which had a special a