clearly, someone who has not had slicing and scavenging/und trading at the same time. optimally you could make 7k profits per hour per companion running lvl 3 12 minute quests. that was was too high(even though at that point I still made way more off of U.T.) however now, at any level optimum returns (meaning no fails no below mission cost boxes) is pointing at under 3k. I can use any other gathering mission(except perhaps bioanalysis) to make more than that just by sending on missions. discounting that if you have a crafting skill, you can at least make stuff for yourself that is useful. I have biochem with my 47 commando, and that is awesome just on money saved, and I have cybertech on my smuggler, and that is being brutal in pvp xDDDD.

I played assassin tank all the way to max lvl in general beta,and this is what I found. The assassin takes longer to hit its stride, having lower kinetic Dam Red. (although you trade off with higher elemental reduction) and fewer defensive cooldowns. It has higher DPS and as you level, quite a lot more control abilities and utilities, although I only hit 42 in general with jugg, I personally found assassin much more fun to play, and just as good.