It is something that obviously happened since the last patch

1.2 patch notes said that Huttball would have an added mechanic that would kill any player standing ont he ball stand when it spawned. I have yet to see this happen and am wondering how this is triggered, or if it is not even implemented?

I was an Artifice. I leveled all the way through with it. I got to 50 and was so excited that I would be able to craft great lightsabers and awesome rare crystals. The lightsabers were lacking however since one new raid weapon would easily replace anything you could put in there, thus lightsabers were dead. As many others I quickly began doing dailies to get my earpieces and implants, and quickly found that the mods from the dailies were better than any I could make, thus mods were dead. Rakata Relics, the most useful thing to us, I crit crafted 2 with augment slots and that was the most it has done for me. However with 1.2 you can buy better than the relics with dailies, and thus again relics were dead. The one thing that I thought I would always have the edge on, color crystals. I thought there was no way they could take away the rarity of my crystals. I quickly came to realize that the only rare color was magenta. And then 1.1.5 hit and everybody could buy better crystals than I could make, thus crystals were dead. 1.2 gave me little hope, but the idea that I could RE lightsaber and offhands and craft with augments was exciting. However when I began to think about it, thats only 2 things. If I switch to synthweaving I could get 5... This caused me much dilemma and you can ask my guild mates i spent hours contemplating whether to switch. They gave no incentive to keep artifice. I switched and I don't regret it. Unless they release crystals strictly to artifice there will never be use for it. I hope that this gave you some insight to what a real artifice who was conflicted what to do felt. I got 400 synthweaving in one day because of left over mats from artifice. I spent 150k credits and have all the schematics for battlemaster and war hero. You know what I could buy for artifice? Nothing. Good luck deciding what is right for you.

I believe you can see why I asked this question from the responses I got. Since I got three different answers. ^This is what leads me to believe that only the Tier 2 (new) endgame gear will be the ones you can learn schematics from. ^Shows that the Rakata gear will be Reverse Engineer-able and you can get operation materials from it, but you will not learn the schematics. So you could possibly get a biometric crystal, or other raid materials, but there is no possibility of learning the schematic. I guess I should have asked my question better in the first place. I meant to ask if Rakata schematics would be learnable through RE

Sorry if this has been done to death, but I was wondering how Rakata RE will be in 1.2. Is Rakata gear RE-able to get the pattern and then craft with a augments slot or is it specifically going to be only things that are released after 1.2?

Lets address some things. First of all I see none of these things as bugs. You yourself said how you can fix them. The purpose of the fight, the last and main boss fight, is for you to be aware of everything that is going on during the fight. You should be able to figure out who has ran through their lightning balls fairly easily by using some form of team speak. When someone gets thrown, you yourself said you just need to slow down dps and let them come down before you burn them to the correct percentage. A lightning ball tether is a joke, it would make the lightning balls too easy and they could easily be dismissed. Many of the things you listed can be avoided by being more observant during your raids. Wait until you do hard mode and pillars that fall on the boss dont break shield or the slew of other bugs that cannot be avoided at all. Good luck in your future raids.

Our taunts are very valuable in PvP. The 30% damage reduction to others is very helpful since most of the time they are not particularly worried about a shadow vs a healer or a commando spamming grav round. Also it can give you 4 medals in the match if you can get 10k protection in one life. Mass taunt can be used from stealth but ive found that the single taunt does break stealth.

I only use Theran when I cannot take down a story mission elite with Qyznn. I can take down almost all elites with Qyznn tanking and me just damaging as fast as I can. Qyznn usually dies just as the elite dies but its not a problem because I can throw up deflection and I got it in the bag. Qyznn is my favorite companion by far, he can hold his own, tank, and do some damage.

With game update 1.1 it seems that the problem is fixed. Thank god

As a shadow consular I am constantly using mind maze on groups to attempt to keep the fights under control, however Qyzen has different ideas. Every time he is re-summoned, or that I get off my mount, his aoe turns on automatically even if I had previously turned it off. It is a hassle to open up his bar every time he gets out and turns it off. I was wondering if there was a way to turn off the ability permanently or if i'm just going to continuously turn it off.