That you could 10-man GSB with your 100% outfitted HK BiS gear is inconsequential because none of them will ever be your buyer and they belong to a 0.1% of the MMO population. It also indicate you belong to a static group that never get new members who actually need gear. I spent my last 4-5 months raiding in Rift, in a very successful raid guild, and the GSB tier gear is absolutely necessary for anyone who want to take a look in HK or the new RotP... in fact, none of the T1 raid gear is obsolete for budding T2 raiders. The few craft pieces introduced (was it in 1.3 or 1.4?) with entry-raiding stats has also been constantly useful and is the best anyone ever have been able to craft in Rift. I find swtor crafting much more fun and seemingly much more useful. It is also important to note that everyone is motivated by different aspects of an MMO, and it exist a large fraction of people who has no interest in PvP so they will never have access to the PvP gear. Also many who never raid and they will want to buy what you can offer them, and think about all the alts raiders will have for gathering resources... sell stuff to them.

don't underestimate the long term value of having these recipes to new guild members and potential raiders etc. Everything is not as obvious as it might look just now with this relative new game. We could also hope for a bit more love by Bioware, i.e. perks just for us in form of some nice raid quality BoP pieces.

I understand your frustration getting that particularly "nice" chest piece... However, I would guess you might have a quite nice market selling various versions of your lvl 47 purple chest (if reasonable priced) to quite a lot of characters levelling more slow or alts with cash from a rich main etc.

you might do a lot better if you sell to the larger general mass (who is not near lvl 50) instead of someone who has power-levelled one character, as well as to alts... because I can promise that the market exist and even more so as soon as people starts alts and have no plan to max out PvP etc, on every single one. Also see post below yours, pretty sure you did not make the good gear you would be able to do with a lot of RE etc. + crit hit for augment slot. Only having 2 stats indicate low tier gear.

learn to live with failures... everything should not be 100% certain because it would make everything very boring!

Indeed, but the slicers making complaints have never seen a slicing node and believe it to be a pure mission skill... All others who see it as a secondary support skill have plenty of nodes to pick up and use that cash to pay for slicing mission with purpose of gaining augments (and some GTM shopping).

LOL... OP was doing missions, not gathering! Gather on your slicing noods.

Cannot help to wonder if the OP realize that slicing is a GATHERING skill and not a mission skill and that it makes perfect sense that he shouldn't hoard a massive stack of credits by doing nothing (anyone claiming it is an effort to press a button and wait on cash is wrong!). Slicing give a massive amount of credits directly without need to sell materials or sell crafted products, and you get it by being out in the world. I.E. just like the other gathering skills.

Dear Bioware! I should not have to queue to enter the server if I have a character in an instance and is kicked out by any reason, e.g. game crash. But I should directly get back to my character as soon as I get connected again. Anything else is really annoying, especially in raids. Regards!

I cannot understand why anyone is upset with the current change of Slicing... it now works great as a gathering skill, i.e. comparable to all the other gathering skills and it is still very cheap to level up with missions. I am also not certain you lose money by missions since I am still going pretty well plus. But you have to be a lot more selective with the missions and it is only the crit missions that boost the bank account a lot. So all is pretty well!

Seems like most people here don't understand that this game is less than a week old... Just that you have maxed out some crafting skills doesn't mean you have seen or know everything that will happen the next 12 months. I have 6 crafting toons in use (highest skill level is roughly 200 as I am in no rush to waste all other kind of gameplay) and I am not the slightest worried about the crafting system. It look so far very good. Also in regards to PvP gear, why do you care about it... it is usually not completive in high endgame PvE, i.e. raids and possibly some really hard flashpoints (exception having a few selected pieces in use) and it take a massive amount of PvP to even reach the level needed to acquire that gear. I am pretty sure most crafters will have massive opportunities for selling crafted goods as well as making gear for guild members. Also never ending comments "best" gear (all the time). I guess you don't realise that very few will ever have the currently best gear on all gear spots. That will always require an enormous effort so second/third ... tenth place gear, crafted gear... almost anything you can think of will have value. Material drops from raids should be good for crafters who raid, but do let same mats drop from flashpoints, e.g. weekly quests.

I seen thsi all the time as a healer... the raid frames doesnt update for most time and the health bars above the raiders head show very different health. Question: have you submited a bug report? Cheers!

she is on your ship even if you cannot find her... just press N if you want her to craft something for you.

The game is 1 day old... give the PvP servers some time to develop and see what kind of world PvP action will happen. Also, an MMO evolves with time and I for one would expect all parts of this initial release to develop and increased implementation, e.g. more planets made for PvP, more raid content, more flashpoints, more quests, etc.

thanks a lot from a beginner crafter...

100% EU english servers are FULL... we need more servers!

All EU servers pretty much FULL... maybe time for a couple of more servers.