Yayyy short stories! I'm glad there's going to be more of them. For anyone who hasn't checked them all out there's a list of them on reddit. That is one suggestion I'd make, if you are bringing them back it'd be nice if there was a section on the swtor site where you could go and read them all easily.

I posted a lot about how much I dislike the new gearing system while it was still on PTS and my opinion has not changed at all. In fact while I stay subbed because I want the game to do well I haven't played since around Christmas. Pretty much entirely because I hate the new gear grind so much. It's overly grindy, it's alt-unfriendly, it's convoluted, the world bosses are awful, I just want to do some unranked PvP and then pick up pieces over time without thinking about it too hard.

Did droid then bug in a group today and it seems like if someone dies during bug and releases while the encounter is still going no one gets credit for the kill. At least that's what is suspected is happening. We did it again after that and no one released and we got credit.

If you want to mess around with gear before buying it you can get on the PTS and buy 252/258 gear and all 240 augs and mess around with it. All the gear is on Odessen for like 1 credit each. I did check for healer gear and if you want 1.3s GCD you can do adept, 2 quick savant earpiece/implants, and 6 alacrity augs to hit it at 1859. That's assuming ALL 258 though, including weapon and offhand.

I do think it matters at least in regards to them also asking for feedback about it. If they actually tell us what their goals are with these changes then maybe we can give better feedback than just "reverse this change".

The bug boss in particular drops frames really badly because of all the adds and aoes. This is exactly why large scale world PvP is and always will be completely dead in this game. I'm on Intel Core i7 7700K @ 4.0GHz and my latency sits at about 30ms and that boss runs like crap. I do have almost everything on ultra though. Droid boss isn't great either but isn't quite as bad as the bug.

This is definitely still bugged in some cases. I have 8 characters I've been running Ossus stuff with. I logged on all 8 of them Tuesday to pick up the Masterwork Shard weekly and on 7 of them Flesh and Steel (the 8th had done it the week before). Also while I did pick them up on Tuesday I didn't complete them until after the patch that supposedly fixed them. The 7 that also had Flesh and Steel had no problems with getting credit. The one that only had the weekly did NOT get credit. I have no idea which boss didn't give credit because for some reason they're not separated out in the mission text. I did the bug boss followed by the droid boss, same group. No credit. So I don't know if having already completed Flesh and Steel messed it up or what but some other people in the group were saying they didn't get credit too, and some were saying they did. So I don't know but it's definitely not fixed.

It's in the little building where the rep vendors are on a table. Has anyone found the one for the Ysanna? On PTS it was in a little cave near where the crashed shuttle was but I don't see it there anymore.

I got the grudge line on my Operative. I probably did the Ilum questline stuff years and years ago, it's one of my earliest characters. My Sorcerer is a bit more recent and didn't get it and I'm like 99% sure she should have.

They can make individual mods and enhancements that are not bound to a slot (not sure if they become bound once you put it in a piece though). To get the schematics you have to pull one out of a 258 gear piece and RE it and you have a 60% chance to learn the schematic. And then to make a single mod/enhancement costs 1 of the NiM GotM crafting mats plus some CMTs (I think it was 5?). This is from when it was on PTS, they may have changed it since then but I doubt it. This is for 258 only, I don't think you can craft 252 anything.

Okay I just logged on PTS to test this out, 1859 definitely counts for the 1.3s GCD. I timed how many GCDs I could use in one minute at 1859, at 1760, and at 1958 alacrity. 1859 and 1958 both had 47 GCDs, 1760 had 44. This matches with what you'd expect since if it's 1.3s you'd get 60/1.3 = 46.2 and 1.2s you'd get 60/1.4 = 42.9. So the 1859 will work to reach the higher breakpoint. They may have just rounded up in those guides.

Isn't the alacrity threshold 1857 for 1.3s? You can get 1859 with 1 adept and 2 quick savant earpiece/implants, and 6 240 alacrity augments (in 258 healer gear). Or is it really 1860?

Hmm Hexid's alert hasn't reset for me. I have no available alliance alerts to do.

The character I picked up Paxton on finished Ossus and doesn't have Hexid available anymore. I checked another character that finished Ossus but hasn't picked up Paxton yet and he still has Hexid. So Paxton is definitely related for some people at least.

Yep I lost Hexid too after doing the alliance alert for Paxton.

I'm glad there will be changes in the future but I'd really like to know why this was an intended change. I mean there must have been some reasoning behind it, right? What was the goal here? Also for the future it'd be nice if major, but not obvious, changes like this were actually announced or posted about. We found out about it on PTS just by testing it out, but if we weren't able to play with it on PTS and I had bought a piece specifically to move the mod/enhancement to another piece and it suddenly didn't work anymore I'd have been pretty annoyed. Unless I'm forgetting something this wasn't posted about on the PTS forums or in the patch notes at all, and it doesn't become obvious until you've already pulled the mod/enhancement out.

PSA: Make sure to stand in the orange circles when you click the tunnel and rocks.

I've opened nine of the boxes and I got Adept Implant, Bracers, MH Weapon, Gloves, Serendipitous Assault Relic, Initiative Implant, Pants, Quick Savant Earpiece, and Focused Retribution Relic. So I think I've been fairly lucky compared to some people. I assume relics, implants, and earpieces drop more because there's more than one 'type' of them that can drop. They should adjust the drop rates to account for that.

Here's a google doc that lists all abilities by discipline and then for each ability lists utilities and passives that apply to them (for level 70). Some details have been added like unlisted durations, added resolve, and what makes abilities glow. The eight advanced classes are there but four imperial, four republic. I didn't do all of the mirror classes.

Charles Boyd actually tweeted about this before: https://i.imgur.com/xW72WK9.png So I guess he doesn't know yet. Which is weird because I don't know why my character wouldn't instantly tell him. And it's not like he was off doing other stuff since he was there when you talk to Pyron/dino dude after you meet your contact. But as long as you get to talk to him about it at some point I guess that's fine with me.

Has anyone played a loyalist Trooper romancing Theron through the new content yet? I was wondering if (some Ossus spoilers ahead) So I'm just wondering if he says anything else for a romanced version. Also here are three letters Theron can send afterwards if anyone's curious (again, Ossus spoilers):

The weapon schematics were available for purchase on PTS and those took 36 CMT's to craft. Also if you want to craft individual mods/enhancements you have to RE them from either purchased or crafted gear pieces with only a 60% chance to succeed and each one costs one of the NiM GotM mats (as well as some other stuff) to craft. It's bonkers.

I just finished Ossus story on my Marauder now. I started it after having completed all previous main missions but not much side stuff and the only alliance alerts I completed were to get my old class companions back as well as the ones that you just have to go talk to to get them. For reference I have Theron alive, Koth dead, Kaliyo dead, Jorgan alive, Acina alive (sided with Empire on Iokath), Arcann dead, Vette alive. All of them stayed correct for me throughout. Companion list was correct when I logged in after patch, it changed as soon as I picked up Inflection Point. As soon as I picked that up 2V-R8, Broonmark, and Pierce moved to "Unavailable" and the text said I hadn't encountered them yet (but I had recruited them for sure). Also their influence levels changed in the companion list (eg. Pierce went from 31 to 11), but the correct influence shows in the crew skill window still (and I can still use them for crew skills even though I can't summon them). Everything else was fine for me though. No duplicates and I only got the alert for Dark Jaesa (which is correct). I do have the problem where her influence is stuck at 1 and she gains no influence from gifts though.

I'm having trouble with the endurance datacron. I've gone through and clicked every tablet in the correct order three times now and the circle or whatever isn't showing up on the wall in the instance. The first time I jumped off the waterfall after I clicked it so I thought maybe that messed it up but second and third time I didn't die or anything. Why is there no indication for if you clicked it right? Does anyone have any tips? Do I have to not use quick travel? Is there a time limit? Do I have to click each one multiple times? It's really annoying. I have finished the main storyline, do I have to finish the weekly or something too? Edit: Apparently fourth times the charm. Literally only things I did differently was I went back to the main area and picked up Sacred Artifacts and Collected History dailies before the first table and I don't think I aggro'd anything while I was going between tablets.

Well that's a rotating weekly, no? Sometimes it's PvP, sometimes it's PvE. Although yeah I will say I only like the story and planet. The gearing and grinding stuff is abysmal.