A few questions about the game.

I just started following this game, and have some questions that were not answered for me on the official website.

1. So you can't be a villain, but PvP is sitll part of the game, that leaves me wondering how will cryptic make up for the lack of two opposing factions? What types of PvP will we see in this game I.E. Arenas, open pvp, scenarios, etc. I believe I heard there would be arenas, which is great, but I personally like to be able to fight in an open world setting, and for meaningful objectives. Will there be sub-factions of some sort to allow for open world PvP? Or will there only be arenas?

2. How will leveling work? How grindy will the game be, what is the maximum level and has an estimate in game hours to reach it been stated by cryptic? Is there anything different about the games PvE content as opposed to the typical mmo being questing, killing the same mob to level for hours on end, and end game raiding/instances?

3. How does character customization work (not talking about cosmetic customization). I hear there are no preset classes, and that you determine your "class" or role by your choice of skills. Does this mean we can pretty much be a hybrid of whatever we would like? Is there a skill tree similair to the talent trees in many other games that would reward people for specializing more in certain aspects?

4. How will skills work with different weapons. I've seen some lightsaber like weapons in videos, and I assume there is a plethora of other weapons in the game. Will all of these weapons have skills specifically for them? Or will skills work with certain weapon types for instance swords, hammers, guns (if they're in the game at all).

5. Gear. Will stats in the game be gear dependant like they are in many other mmorpgs? Since you customize your hero to look how you want when you create it, does that mean gear will not have any visual effect on your character? If gear doesn't exist, or stats aren't gear dependant, then how will we get higher stats, and what will the rewards be for PvE content like instances?

6. Crafting. I'm a huge crafter, and I haven't really gotten any details on the crafting system from the website. What will it be like? Will we choose 1 profession to have and then level it up, what determines the quality of the items we made, or will all items be the same quality as their recipe states with no variables? How will we gather resources and recipes to create things? What kinds of things will we be able to craft? gear? upgrades of some sort?

Thanks a bunch. I will probably have more questions later if you have time to check back.