my thing is that this sphere isn't a reward to be earned, it's pure luck. finding a team that can take xeno down isn't that tough anymore. but to get this mount you have to win the lottery twice in a row. first it has to drop, then you have to win the roll (assuming loot is round robin). if it was a true skill reward, like the mounts for taking down all the boss in the first 3 ops, then I wouldn't complain one little bit. if they made xeno HM a daily instead of a weekly, that would quiet a lot of the complainers if it was on the gree vendor for 100 helixes, I'd just save up. if you want the dessler nomad, keep running those 55 HM's till it drops. you can do those as often as you can get a team. but you only get a handful of (very, very slim) chances at the red sphere per event, and that is what causes all the QQ. I wanted the special snowflake title, so I kept chucking snowballs till I got it. a little grindy, but that is MMO's for ya. i would be ok with it being a 2400cc mount on the market, but i really don't care how they change it. i just want a chance to EARN it rather than a few chances at the swtor keno... sorry, the swtor xeno jackpot

I can just buy the armor and the solus mount either with cc's or off the gtn. you cannot buy the red sphere. you can maybe bribe it off someone in your group if it drops and you don't get it. but let's be honest, if you just got one off xeno, what would it take to make you give it up? no amount of credits would get me to part with it if I got one. the problem is that this event doesn't happen that often, and the only way to get this particular mount is from a weekly. if Xeno HM could be done daily I think there would be less nerd rage. I have no problem with earning stuff rather than just buying it. but at least give us a chance to earn it. unless you have a lot of geared 55's (been here since prelaunch and I only have 3) then you're just SOL on this mount. even if you do have (like a fellow guildie of mine) eleven 55's in full 78's, you still don't have a very good chance of what is essentially winning the lottery.

IMO what they should have done is offer many colors on the event vendors as BOL (like the blue one is) and make the ones that drop from the xenobot BOE with no rep requirement. as it is now, the red sphere has 0 value other than the yippie factor (and for the record... my assassin 'needs red sphere badly'). having the red sphere as a BOL item, that you only get one shot at per week (per properly equipped 55), and only during the event, and only if you're lucky enough to have it actually drop; and that's assuming you get a capable team if you're not in a raiding guild, and also assuming that the team leader sticks with free roll and doesn't snipe it for themselves, is kinda dumb. rare is good, achievement is good. arbitrary slot machine winnings belong in the cartel pack category where they belong. there are other rare drop items that can only be gotten by raiding, but you have a chance of getting those items every week. if you want it that badly, keep grinding. this one item cannot be gotten by grinding. you could have all your character slots filled with geared 55's, and succeed at the xenobot challenge with all of them both weeks of the event, and still not get a red sphere. then you have no chance at it till the event comes around again. assuming they don't remove it like the korrealis mounts. and don't get me started about the spheres being piloting 3 only... dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb!!!

they totally need to do this asap!! it's not like your coding anything new. it's really just a reskin at most. you can even make it a full set based on and existing ingame set of gear. this is a shot of a dancer in the tattoine imperial cantina that is even a part of the SI quest line. just name the set after her and put it on the market like has been done with several other sets already http://torwars.enjin.com/profile/5744332/pics/detail/album_id/308974#pid=2307884 http://torwars.enjin.com/profile/5744332/pics/detail/album_id/308974#pid=2307886 http://torwars.enjin.com/profile/5744332/pics/detail/album_id/308974#pid=2307887

I haven't ever seen a screenshot, but here is where I first heard of the black-white crystal.... http://dulfy.net/2012/05/07/endgame-color-crystals-post-1-2-and-how-to-obtain-them/ load all the comments and scroll all the way to the bottom. one of the first couple of entries was about a sighting of a black-white crystal in game back before server merges. though I do truly wish they would put these on the market, I have read more than a few stories like this about someone getting something really unique and cool from CS as an apology or to replace a rare item mistakenly deleted. be honest with CS and your patience can be rewarded

lol... "whoah... how'd you get three lightsabers?!?!"

add me too the chorus of peeps who want malgus' armor!! the sith raider is very close (minus the hooded cape of course) but the circle in the middle of the chest is raised instead of flat, the boots are wrong, ect. I wonder if they are holding out till they get the whole hood up / hood down thing working? but seriously, his lightsaber has been in game since launch.. the rest of the armor would be nice. especially for us juggs who wanted to join malgus!! as a side note, now that the dread masters story is supposedly over. having malgus stage a comeback in a future expansion would be awesome. after playing the FE fp a few times, I realized the next power warriors need when they add lvl's 56-60 is the aoe force choke

would be really cool if we could get some medium and deep purple for our twi'leks. IIRC, Yathura was purplish and it was really cool. other colors would be great too, though I don't know if there should be too many colors. but if there are red and blue twi'leks in the game and the lore already, then there are bound to be some purple twi'leks out there

we have several skimpy outfits for the female characters. would it be too much to ask for some speedos, or runners shorts, or something for the guys?

totally agree. and the tionese and columi stuff too. if we can't get the shells, can ya at least put the schematics in a future pack?

all the complaining is totally justified... and here's my complaint. this is just the newest insult in a long, long line of insults to premium customers and loyal subscirbers. highlights include; those who bought the CE are still waiting for anything to be added to the CE vendor. ROTHC will be free for subscribers... oh, wait, sorry, that'll be $10 on top of your normal subscription fee. there will be 2 subscriber bonus' in july... er... sry, the second thing we had in mind is broken. lest just pretend we didn't promise that. new content every 6 weeks... bugs and all since BW apparently doesn't believe in testing squat. ability to purchase cc's in game coming in 2.3 and subs will get one halfprice purchase. ah, sry, we didn't test that and when we tried to launch it, it broke. lets pretend we didn't promise that. dear BW/EA, spend a content cycle fixing bugs. put all the mounts and armor shells that have been removed from the game onto the CE vendor (should be easy and would finally fulfill a promise). and give all active subs who have purchased ROTHC the 1050 cc's. or don't and watch subscriptions continue to fall. I love the starwars, but am really not loving the lack of lube everytime BW/EA shafts us subs

too many names... call it the psychedelic red bubble defense

this is one change they really ought to rethink. high shield builds are really not possible anymore. i'm pretty casual so i'm still in BH/columi blend gear.. b4 2.0 I had close to 50/50 shield/absorb (forget what my defense was). now on live I have ratings of 344/570/337 for stats of 12.86/35.77/28.67 I have the dread guard relic that grants +215 to shield/absorb. when I hit that my stats 'jump' to 39.45/33.4 with the changes to gear drops in endgame I am hoping to be able to get into more raids and gear up, but I don't think pursuing high shield/absorb stats is worth it anymore.

too much emphasis on dps. my jug tank is my main and I roll with jaesa 99% of the time while soloing. in the whole makeb arc I only got quin out for archon and the isotope-5 droid boss fights. single saber mastery adds 30% threat to sweeping slash and smash. so 2 points in decimate are better for tanking than 2 points in dreadnaught. also, vicious retaliation sounds good, but it's only while blade barrier is up. since this is a defensive cd that should be saved, 2 points there are almost a waste. move those to sonic barrier. and the 2 points in ravager are much better spent in quake for the debuff. also, I noticed in 2.0 that accuracy has been reworked so adding points to that in the veng tree is now more than worth it. this is the build I use... http://www.swtor-spy.com/skill-tree-calculator/juggernaut/10/?build=003222100212120202122102023000100302300000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000000000000000 have fun

couldn't agree more. the steady green beam is more than half the prob in pvp. just make the hammershot animation with a greenish tinge like the merc heal shot would allow us more survivability in pvp. as it is now all we really have to offer is being agro magnets. that can be worked to an advantage against mediocre teams, but not much.

curse my tues - sat schedule i may give it a go on a couple sundays though, just to say that i did it. GL to those trying to make a race of it for the record, i saw a post laying it out like this. if you have the FP xp bonus consumable, AND maxed out the legacy FP xp bonus, they both stack on the double xp for a whopping 310% xp from FP's. just do class and planet missions to finish out the chapters and spend the rest of the day in FP's. group with 4 other like minded people and 1 - 50 in 24 should be np link to source for the above: http://dulfy.net/2013/03/13/swtor-announces-double-xp-weekends/

are there plans to raise the dark side/light side point caps a little in the near future? like many others, i hit dark V well before 50 (at around lvl 40 in this case). but to stay dark V i must always choose the dark side options and dark side diplomacy missions. it's taking a little of the fun out of the experience with that character, as well as cutting my diplomacy options in half.

food for thought indeed... thanks

granted i'm hybridizing. but changing between cells takes only a couple seconds. i guess the real question then boils down to, if i launch a kolto bomb, and it activates kolto residue, then i switch back to another dps oriented cell before the 15 seconds are up, does that negate the remaining time on the kolto residue? kind of like interupting a channeled action as it were.

this is what i was thinking, more or less. totally a work in progress since my commando is currently only lvl 12. but as a ranged dps/off-heal (occasionally taking agro to give tank and off-tank a respite) i thought it would serve. http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#800MfRoRzZrIkdRbzokZb.1

building a commando to run with a 4 man rp troup. planning a dps/off-heal build. was only planning to get kolto bomb and kolto residue and spend the rest of my points on dps skills. is kolto bomb/residue worth it for an off heal? we have a sage who's going straight heals for our primary health dealer so this is pure backup for operations and such.