Please fix the horrible crafting system or greatly increase the drops of the Isotopes and Solid Resource Matrix items that are required now to make everything, even green stuff which should be easy!!! At the very least you can increase the RE % chances so we don't have to blow all the mats that take days to grind, then failing 5 RE attempts and getting nothing for your days of time. Whoever came up with this was a sadist. Been playing this game since closed betas and I think this current crafting system is probably the worse yet as far as its time investment vs benefit factor.

I used to love to craft stuff and RE stuff, not anymore. You basically have to grind all day on multiple chars now getting their conquest done for the week just to be able to make greens, and the % RE change was lowered way down so you can burn through a ton of mats and not even get any success on your RE's. Did Bioware just want to kill this whole part of the game???

Ability lag is pretty bad right now on Star Forge since the maintenance. Having to press skills multiple times or overall server lag going on. My ping to the server is 10ms because I live very close to the SWTOR East Coast datacenter but the game is doing its years old issue with abilities..

Thanks, I thought so too but I haven't played in like 18 months until I started again a few weeks ago, just making sure. Thanks for the clarification.

They said it would make it easier for those not in a clan to reach their personal conquest goals, those that are already in clans should see about the same experience if not slightly better. Double XP/CXP starts today as well right? "Double XP will run from June 11th - 18th." Or is it just normal XP not CXP?

I totally agree with the OP on the textures for this game being very outdated. I was away from the game for like 18 months and just starting playing again to catch up on the expansion. Having played a lot of AAA games over the last couple years and coming back to this game really made it stand out how poor the textures are in this game. I know its DX9 and all but I think they could do better. I mean on my 2080Ti would like some better textures and if it was a checkbox to add them to the client from the game launcher then only those with machines that could handle them could use them and those that could not could uncheck them. I would definitely pay the full price of a new game if they overhauled the graphics engine for this game, though I know that is a pipe dream the texture improvements I believer are totally possible, look at all those remastered games out there that did this.

@Eric or anyone from the dev team. Any plans to finally put grade 10 materials on the Jawa Scrap Peddlers? 5.0 has been out for several months now and all the scrap you give from CXP crates could really be useful if you added these mats to the Scrap Peddlers. As it is now all that scrap is either fodder for disintegration or you can keep it for Conquest crafting or you can turn them into a couple gifts useful to only a few companions. Thank you if you answer

Eric, Question, if you are going to now cap the CXP level at 300 and not let it go up at all for Tier 4, how will you handle this Tier 5 you say is a few months away? It seems to me you should still have had some levels of GC to make future releases of tiers work in your current system. I mean will T5 just be GC Level 301, or would you make T5 be 300 and just adjust the levels of the tiers below that?

yes i've done this just as fast on my Guardian DPS and Commando DPS as on my Shadow.

Also its not like its easy to do The Hunt on Master mode either. I know a lot of people that can't even do it, you have to have some skill. so you are getting rewarded by doing it successfully in quick time because you have skill. Now lets nerf it because we don't want skilled players getting ahead.

Wait so we find reasonable ways around this craptastic system you guys came up with to level our 16+ alts we have because lets face it you promoted alts, then you go and find whats good and nerf those things we found to do just to rub it in our faces. Why have I been so loyal to this game for 5 years subscribing is beyond me I have to keep forcing myself to not cancel my sub daily at this point. I feel like you guys are just trying to kill this game because BW or EA doesn't want it anymore. I want this game succeed but seriously, get your heads in the game.

Eric, From a Public Relations standpoint you guys really need to get ahead of the data miners. Because this info was all over the net a week or so ago and everyone is already mad. You are releasing a new T4 with a 100 more levels that require more CXP at the same time the 350% bonus that you have on right now will be ending. While you said you plan to increase CXP rewards it won't be to that level. So people that have been grinding up CXP on 1 or 2 chars to even get T3 have more in front of them. People that have several characters in their Legacy still have no idea how they will ever get those other chars into good gear without spending another mountain of time grinding them up. All the while you have people that have been players for years feeling like they don't want to deal with this hot mess anymore and moving on. I mean I have subbed for 5 years straight since release for instance. Even when I took breaks for months to do play other games and give myself a SWTOR rest I still would pay my sub because I wanted to support the game because I always planned to come back. Now I'm really considering just taking a full permanent break from the game, cancel sub and move on. I finally got 2 chars to T3 by just buckling down and grinding hours on the fastest CXP gain items on those 2 chars until I got them there, using boosts along the way that cost me RL money on top of my sub fee. This was probably the worse experience I have had with this game in 5 years. Who wants to play that way just to get 1 or 2 characters ahead? Instead of playing content I like I made myself just grind the largest CXP over quickest time items. If you have all these grand plans to fix things and make the community want to play this game and resub then I suggest you get it out there and stop being so secret. MMO's are long haul games and people want to know the road map. After all you don't take a cross country drive without a map right! One easy fix would be to take out all if not some of the RNG from crates. Make certain levels of CXP give out a certain specific piece. Eventually when you get to T2 you should had got every T1 piece, same when you get to T3, every T2 piece and so on. If you switch between tank and dps on a character then maybe just give one of each so if the person never plays tank they will just disgard them but if they play both char types they can still do that.

YES PLEASE!! These are rare and cost a ton on the market because they are rare, some as high as 80M atm on my server. But you only can use them 1x and can't even unlock in collections. Please add these to collections!

Ran into this same bug today, had made a new level 1 character recently and once I got Treek I gifted her up to level 30 and then wanted to get a bunch from the conversations on the ship but they don't seem to give anything at all. HK51 same thing, no influence form him either while doing ship conversations that used to grant it in the past.

Ran into this same bug today, had made a new level 1 character recently and once I got Treek I gifted her up to level 30 and then wanted to get a bunch from the conversations on the ship but they don't seem to give anything at all. HK51 same thing, no influence form him either while doing ship conversations that used to grant it in the past.

A lot of gaming laptops have M.2 slots or msata slots build onto their motherboards but they may be empty and available for use. I for instance have a Lenovo Y700 gaming laptop I use when I travel that has a M.2 PCIe SSD slot in it that you can add an M.2 SSD to if you want. I have a Asus MB in my main home computer that has a M.2 4x PCIe slot in it like this one and I use a 512GB SSD it that, it flys. Much faster than a SATA SSD for instance. So I would check on that with your laptop, you may be able to just add an internal SDD to go with your HDD. Or as some suggested you would be better off just putting in a 512G SATA SSD and dumping the HDD all together.

I love that you added all the 212 gear for crafting. What I don't love is that you made them all use a ton of the blue Exotic Isotope Stabilizer mats. Which to get all of those you can sell your blue crystals that you could turn in for 216 gear. So whats the point of having them be part of the 212 craft. Why not remove them from the 212 crafts so that new level 64's can start out with a nice set of 212 gear that is actually worth crafting so they can easily transition into doing all the SM Ops from there. This would also make crafting much nicer than its current state. Right now its so many mats to make the crafted 216 or 220 gear its crazy to use it really. Especially when you have to spend a ton of mats on the 212 to even RE to get the 216 or 220. Your crafting progression in its current state doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I think the progression itself is good but the mats at each tier need to be adjusted to make sense. 212 gear you learn from your crafting trainer should not use anything but items you can get from doing your appropriate crafting missions. If you are Armormech and want to make a 212 chest you learned from the trainer it should only use scavenging and underworld mats , purple ones to be sure but only those and not some special mats. I think the higher RE stuff sure but the ones you can learn right from the trainers should only use the mats you can actually gather with your crew skills that go with that crafting skill.

The healer companions were lowered too much then buffed again but they are somewhere in the middle now of 4.0 and 4.02. I have parsed them and no way they heal better than a live healer. So you should not be having any issues.

From release of this game in 2011. I was soloing H2's all the time all you had to do was gear your companion and keep them geared while you leveled. This was before heroic moment and all that stuff. So not sure what the issue is. And now the devs are saying H2 means 2 fighters and they consider your companion one of those. It should be easy with your companion as you are meeting that requirement. Now doing them solo is more of the challenge.

General Fixed some cases where Missions would not advance properly. The galaxy is no longer (and can no longer become) littered with the corpses of those who have fallen in battle. For real this time. Seems they are fixing some mission bugs, just not sure which ones or if they will fix some of the reported issues with class progression or companion conversations.

I like the current changes to the companions, it was a good compromise. You can't make everyone happy all the time but this went a long way to closing the gaps for me from both viewpoints. I thought they were OP before but then thought they were too weak and made doing the H2's tedious. Now I think they are a good in the middle balance. Still need the tanks shield fixed though, they still seem like they don't have a shield on in tank mode. 0.0% shield and absorption chance.

I agree, they also point out in a few areas that your little group is the exception. That there is still a lot of fighting going on between the Empire and Republic, it is not all out war but still going on. Your little alliance is like a coalition of forces working together against a common enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. In WW2 do we the UK and US like working with the USSR. No, but the Axis powers were the greater threat. Soon as WW2 was over guess what, the Cold War started. I would expect something like this from SWTOR. I bet once the common enemy is defeated a bit of the old fighting will break out again. Maybe some of your companions will stay with you maybe some will leave, or maybe some like Lana will find the yin and yang of the force and not really be dark or light but somewhere down the middle.

That doesn't take that long and really that was added more for the story crowd and solo players or those that might play with 1 friend. If you are finding that content too easy thats where the HM FP's and OPs come in. Part of this xpac was also raising all those up to current level too. So if you need a challenge to do those? Or put your companion in passive mode like a pet, so you have it following you around so you feel like you can collect them all. Personally the H2's and collecting companions is a RPG element for me. I just want to knock it out and get through thta content on my 20 chars. I don't want to have to tediously clear all that stuff with nerfed companions on all my chars. When I want a challenge I go do HM ops with my guild a few times a week.

A level 50 influence companion will have up to 25% crit chance and 75% efficiency on missions or crafting. If you bring up the companions window (fist) you can mouse over their influence bar and it will show you the current bonus.

In response to the OP. Its easier for you to make the game more difficult by taking things away you can control than it is for a less skilled player to add things. For example. A new player with not a lot of knowledge of the game will use everything they can (or know about as they might not even know all the things they can do yet.) to be able to clear content. Companions, stims, medpacks, maybe craft good gear and so on. If they are just someone new F2P testing the game and find it not fun because of learning curve and dying then they leave, Bioware loses a potential player or possibly someone that would sub in the future if they did end up loving the game. For Vet players you have the choice to make the game harder at any point. Don't upgrade gear as much, don't RE stuff to purples and use OP gear while leveling. Don't use all your companion skills, don't even use a companion. If you want influence for conversations with companions summon them for the convo and then put them away. Use a companion that is level 1 if you really want a companion, if they are still too strong turn off some skills. Use them in DPS mode or something where they take a lot more damage and die more often instead of using a healer one. Play with less gear on lol. The point is you can always make things harder by taking things away from your self but you can't make it easier if its to hard already for the players that have everything. If you are outside standing in 20 degree F weather in your underwear freezing with a stack of winter clothes next to you are you going to put on more clothes to stay warm or are you going to pray to whatever God to turn up the heat of the planet? Don't be so judgmental either, there are things in life i'm sure you are not as good at.