I am on the pvp server port nowhere. Anyone who knows me either knows me or hates me, I don't do much more than troll and harass and pvp.
I have been around the block since the beginning, Your craft system is atrocious.
Do you have any idea how large the crafting contingent is?
Do crafters really have to wait for expansion packs to get new recipes?
There is nothing in the SWTOR box that makes crafters remotely unique.
First...
Nothing should ever be repaired to full durability EVER efinEVER. The crafter that made such item should have a chance at getting damn close but never ever full.
Crafted gear should have the possibility of being the best stuff in game.
Crafters should have the ability to craft and sell everything they can make.
Leave Rikata stuff alone, give it 50/75/100 uses and usable by anyone.
Alchemy/Enrichment... Crafters should never have to pvp or pve there should be a social game.
I take my tier one item x10 and make 1 random item of the same type but one rank higher 10 rank 2 makes a till 6 then have it take 100 to make a 7 and 1000 to make an 8 10k to make a 9 and 100k to make a 10... I would make rank 7+ legendary.
Engineering... instead of using reverse eng, player crafter can dump money into research.
Now, it may require special tools or workstations to accomplish things, place those in pvp/pve areas, however make it so the crafter can generate a quest that can be accepted and in it the quester is given instructions on what to do.
There are people I've gamed with, that simply want to belong to something and every decision in this game further alienates those people that are just not good at gaming. I know retired folks that are gamers, I am talking even in there 70s one an author from NY the other a retired cop from Hyannis Mass, Both rolled with me in DARKFALL of all places.
A friend of mine used to make comments in war zones about all the tomato cans, its not a disparity between haves and have nots its more than gear.
If SWTOR does not do something to make everyone remotely useful, it is going to destroy the established community.
Crafting should be looked at as an important facet and not an afterthought for bads , alts and tomato cans.
I want to thank Desir of Port Nowhere for re introducing me to the "Tomato-Can" Statement.