Since the new gear is a NiM drop they'll probably do the same thing they did with Kell Dragon...leave it there till the next HM ops get improved gear, then bump it down.

I play a sorc healer in pvp. When I get focused by two dps who know what they're doing, I melt unless I have a guard and a healer on me. If I don't get focused I can keep my whole team alive indefinitely, and if a tank sits on my head and interrupts me every once in a while my healing output gets halved. It's not so much a l2p issue as it is an l2teamwork issue. Unranked warzones are as much a battle with RNG and getting your team to work together as they are against the opposing team. When the other team has five healers, it's hard...but then you know you'll never die because with only 3 dps (some of whom may be tanks) are gonna put zero pressure on your team...so now all you have to do is distract them long enough to cap the node, and they'll never take it back. I have capped nodes in the middle of a battle many times before...and had nodes capped on me, too. Distract people and you'll be amazing how effective tunnel vision can be.

Dulfy has a fantastic guide, complete with area maps. A word of caution...it is a grind. I recommend you just leave a character logged in on Hoth and logging in every 1-2 hours to do another run. I averaged about 1 data per nest, 6 nests per run...so it's 3 runs to get the cheaper one

Matchmaking died a slow and painful death, and it was replaced by a cadre of shaved monkeys. Being shaved, they are bitter, and choose to take it out on poor, innocent pvpers like yourself by matching. 4 dps vs 2 dps, a healer, and a tank of superior level. Or matching 1 heal 3 dps vs 3 heal 1 dps. Little things like that. ...that round lasted a while.

The legacy vendors on Dromund Kaas are located in the central square of Kaas City, just north of where you turn off to get to the GTN, vendors, bank, trainers, etc. each class has it's own vendor, but for the purposes of transferring gear , any will do. Just make sure it says "bound to legacy" or "binds to legacy," and is a modable piece.

Pretty much this. 0-3 hours weekdays (most nights around 2, some less and some more). If I have nothing to do saturday...8-12 hours, depending on what's going on in guild/how my weeklies are going. Sunday usually about 6. Subject to change if I have other things going on or if the wife doesn't have homework.

ic. The PvE medpacks are still pretty decent, and the prototype ones give you a hot. I never use pvp medpacks out of wzs...actually I rarely use medpacks out of wzs.

If he popped a medpack and his hp-boosting skill at the same time he could have appeared to jump from 1/4 health to 90%. Juggs have a skill that temporarily boosts their max hp by a considerable amount. EDIT: can you use wz medpacks out of warzones, but in pvp combat? Cause that's 35% of your hp right there

It also helps if you play a class with an aoe knockback...so you can send a few mobs back down if you start to get overwhelmed.

Every time I'm on Makeb I kill a few more nerfs, hoping for a hidden achieve with the title "nerf herder..."

I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying the problem doesn't end with normal flashpoints. It goes on into hardmodes and ops at endgame. People power levelling with KDY is all well and good, but if you are new to mmos, you don't learn your role in a flashpoint without them... I, for one, generally try to obey the roles as much as I can, unless I am goofing off with guildies, in any flashpoint or operation I do.

Incompetent/lazy dps has been a problem since the level cap raise...With the level 50 HM flashpoints being as easy for 55s to complete as they are, people develop bad habits that they take with them wherever. Just /ignore the ones who cause real problems and you're good. I was in a HM EV 8-man the other day, and no one in the group was taking it seriously. Don't get me wrong, it didn't end up mattering, we one-shot everything...but when the dps can stand in the lava on gharj and dps him far enough ahead that he starts shaking the next platform before he even walks up to it...doesn't build good habits. That being said, it can be very fun to goof off in the easy old instances, try new things, and good-naturedly grief friends/guildies, but I have found that a lot of people will bring the habits into the level 55 instances...which I personally can't stand.

They haven't said anything explicit about rent yet, but from what I have seen my understanding is that it's a single purchase and then you're done.

What I would like to see is basic trophies for completing the ops, and then boss drop trophies that are more intricate/different design for HM or NiM clears. Just my $0.02.

I turn off all my healing companion's attacks, so they only use the basic attack, and only when their heals are on cooldown. I also turn off their 8-seconds of no healing me self-stun that I break anyways.

If you're that concerned about it, watch the big green letters that appear above your head, and take note of the name. Then if you feel as though the heals deserve a medal for the excellent work they did keeping everyone alive and helping you hold the nodes, you know who to vote for. Penalizing healers for doing their job (ie healing damage inflicted on the entire group) is just going to get people to queue dps. I have personally had matches where I had over 1.2m healing on literally two people: myself and my tank buddy who guarded me. We kept 6/8 of their team busy at their own node the entire match with only a couple deaths while our team held the other two nodes (because they didn't know what focus fire meant and their dps was low). Should I be restricted to 300k healing, then? I took over 600k damage that round, and healed all of it. But because I healed myself it doesn't count and I miss out on the 360k healing medal? Think about it.

Just a tip: don't be afraid to cc one of the strongs on the Oricon H2 per group ... They dish out a lot of burst damage. I duo Oricon with a tank buddy and we usually just both pull it healing companions, and get through it pretty well. Sometimes I throw in an off heal, if needed, but if I dps the little guys down there's only 1-2 strong and 0-1 elite mobs per group. The staged weekly on Makeb is good for comms, but the dailies can be a bit brutal. I usually only do them if I also do the GSI dailies...I find it helps me get motivation when there is more than one quest in each area.

Is there any other kind of ninja?

That's a good idea. My ship is getting kinda cramped with all those layers crowding in on the passageways. I was getting kinda tired of bending double to reach my cockpit. Alternatively, I could get the droid a paint scraper...

Stealth ninja skills?

This. As a free expansion, the "pre-order" is just being a subscriber. Kinda a thank you for supporting the game, same as what happened with GSF

Personally, I'm hoping they tie in some of the decorations with achievements. I mean, they have the system there, in place, already... Having some rare flashpoint/ops boss drops as decorations would also be cool, but IMO they should have some sort of trophy at least for clears, and then something bigger/better/more impressive and/or different as the rare NiM drop. But I would be happy to see something like a stone or wood plaque/status for clearing the instance on SM, a bronze one for HM, and a platinum one for NiM (or something to that effect). Like everyone, I am waiting (im)patiently for the devs to release more info.

Not sure offhand about mods/enhancements, but you can craft yourself sets of gear that have presence on them. Re-ing green gear pieces into purple ones can potentially give you that option (I'm pretty sure the blue tier is only crit, power , and defense).

More likely than a new crew skill (which would still leave the current crew skills mostly dead aside from a few niche recipes), each crew skill will be able to make pieces and/or parts, which you can place or assemble into furniture decorations. I personally would prefer that...it would give me incentive to log onto my crafting alts again

I dunno about you, but my Sorcerer is quite dutifully working out the secrets of eternal life. He's not there yet, but I wouldn't mark him as down for the count quite yet.