My item restoration request took 6 weeks and then they were unable to fulfill it. So don't get your hopes up.... (I never actually had the item in my inventory; it was auto-assigned in EV and I had a bug where the boss was invisible and I was unable to loot it to get the item. They were unable to provide the item to me and apologized for the "frustration"....).

650k. mainly due to opening new markets.

~500k or so. They'll lose most max levels but add new players to enjoy the story or as it expands to new regions. For me: lvl 1-49 was very very fun. lvl 50 is mindnumbingly boring.

The endgame. The lack of PvP while leveling.

Same. Lvling to 50 is very fun! At 50 the game is mindnumbingly boring with poor PvP and raids.

Expect a wait of ~5 weeks...... sucks I know.

Sniper/Bounty Hunter Merc

All of them unless they can be soloed by a stealth class. i.e. needing to press a button vs. killing a mob.

Ranged DPS rules in PVE. So Sniper and Merc are both great!

Signed. The need/greed mechanic works for the rest of the game. Why doesn't it work for Normal Ops?

I had low health with assasin also, but I wasn't tank geared/specced. But if you are picking resolve armoring your health will definitely be lower. I still have under 15k HP with epic everything and augmented earpiece/implants and 2-3 columni pieces. As for progression, Dailies > Norm Ops >= HM >= HM Ops. The loot reward from Operations vs. HM is completely out of wack. You can do EV in a little over an hour and you'll get ~10 columni pieces or you can spend an hour+ doing HM and get one columni piece. I guess since EV is on a week timer is the justification but still seems little strange.

I agree with this being bad design. We got locked out of Boarding party since we killed the main boss and didn't finish off the doctor before he enraged and killed us so we got quest complete and locked out but no loot and wasn't able to go back in to try the fight again.

Because 1/2 the time or more you don't get credit for downing the second boss. Secondly, if they made it killing any 2 bosses on EV then you could get credit for killing 1st and 2nd or 4th and 5th if you came to the second day of a raid or something.

The dailies are easy. Do Poisonous Strat on Ilum for the enhancements and the heroic 2 on Belsavius for the mods. I solo the heroic 2 on Belsavius with an assasin and just switch to tanking gear and get out a healer. Poisonous strat on Ilum needs either 3 people or 2 people if someone has an incombat daze (i.e. mercenary or the like).

I have two sets of orange gear. One for tanking and one for DPS. I just have Xalek wear the tanking gear until I need it. To outfit it with both DPS and tanking gear, you can do the daily commendations for armoring mods and then the Heroic 2 dailies for enhancements and mods for both DPS and tanking gear. Do it every day for a week or so and you'll be completely decked out with one set of gear.

This is an interesting build. Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm skeptical if that gives more damage than a 0/13/28 Deception/Madness spec. 30% crit damage for maul and cheaper shocks and just lose the top of madness spec and the couple points in darkness for crit %. Crit >> Power for a madness build IMO since then it procs your raze more often.

Meh, they aren't a big deal. Get the matrix relic and most of the primary/secondary and then get the rest of primary/secondary/endurance as needed. The +10 all stats is worth it. When you have 1600+ in your primary stat an extra +10-15 in your stats isn't noticable. Same with goingfrom 16000 hp to 16200.. People can get as needed but I certainly wouldn't make it a requirement to start raiding IMO.

Just run missions for it and Quick Growth Agent. The problem why it's rare is too many of the lvl 5 missions are for implant processors or hyposyringes and first aid kits. If those were rarer then there'd be more missions for red goo and quick growth agent. Sometimes I have 4 missions for those materials and only 1-2 for actual bioanalysis materials.

I've done very well with Assasin. Only thing that seems to out DPS me is a well geared sniper and even then it's close. I've respecced to Madness for more sustainability and less burst and now it seems to be a closer call also. I haven't competed with a Marauder, but have done more/similiar DPS than BH and Sorc.

You said what gear you have, but what about your companion? If I kept Khem at equal gear with orange gear and well modded it made it alot better. The mid 40s can be a struggle though. Once you get Xalek life becomes alot better.

Buy a purple one off the AH for 50k or so if you only want to just have it until you get the Rakata.

Do you like the 9% armor penetration and 6% lightsaber charge damage better than chain shocks? I agree with you for overcharge saber. I took the points out of that and put it into avoidance. I like the stealth bonus since I mind trap alot in flashpoints but it's something worth removing and seeing how it goes.

There's no way I'd put more accuracy when you are at 100% accuracy over power. At 100% accuracy normal attacks always hit (minus defenses) and all specials penetrate 10%. I don't think I'd necessarily put surge over power either for Deception. For Darkness it's probably different.

Unknown. Self buffed with resolve stim I have 97.7% accuracy, 28.6% crit(356 crit), 83% surge and 310 power (1559 willpower). Thus, I am keeping them fairly in balance with a slight edge to crit/accuracy but i haven't experimented alot with other setups. With the 9% crit from exploitive strikes I sit at 37% crit, which seems more than sufficient. Especially if you pair with the agent for 5% more crit chance. Thus lately I've been trying to bring my power up overall.