This literally made me lol - my coworkers all thank you

Actually Fiscal Year starts whenever the heck you want it to start, not necessarily April 1. Just an FYI for you - I'm not sure what their statement was hoping to accomplish either Edit: Ninja'd by Moutlael

*puts hands into the air* red tangents envelope us

Sorry for your loss, but this did give me a good chuckle. Hopefully they roll out a patch soon - saw another picture of a SW wearing a helmet under a hood (awesome btw), but with their nose sticking out of the helmet

/Signed You have my admiration. This seriously made my day man. Or to use a gree quest related sentence: "[this post] sounds pretty efficatious to me!"

I think you might be confused - Heroic Moment is the ability every class gets around....I want to say lvl 10 or lvl 14 or so. It's the ability that has a 20 min cooldown and can only be activated while you have a companion with you. It generates 3% of your max health per second (or per 3 seconds) for 1 minute. I think the heroic abilities you get can ONLY be activated DURING the Heroic Moment buff (which is what I just described above and lasts 1 min). You don't unlock Heroic Moment, it's an ability that every class gets around lvl 10 -14. I think for BH it's called something like "On the Trail" whereas for Sith Warrior or Inquisitor I think it's called "Call on the Force." Sorry I'm not too clear, but I'm at work so I don't have the game sitting open in front of me. Hopefully it makes sense though. EDIT: Too slow

(tl;dr - sometimes you can play and get nothing but the WRONG kind of drops, but I've kept on my game by keeping up with mods for orange equip and spending commendations at the end of planets for either gear or mods. Also if you have someone else to play with (friend, gf/bf, sibling), try that and play with different classes - increases the odds of getting something someone can actually use!) Sounds like the OP has it bad - I'm not in the same boat, but I CAN sympathize. My gf and I have been playing all kinds of combinations (we've each made 1 of each type of character for each faction) but we always make sure that whatever two characters we're playing, we don't have the same primary stats (ie her BH will never play with mine, but we'll use her Inquisitor instead). At any rate, I think we both have pretty good gear - mostly orange's from flashpoints and occasionally heroics (though the flashpoint gear with updated mods is usually better). We also play through a planet and then spend ALL of our commendations either on gear or on mods so I don't think we're leagues behind where we should be (like the OP sounds like (s)he is). HOWEVER, the reason we started playing different classes (if I'm on BH she's not using her BH) is that when we did that we never got ANY drops. So for example, we'd both be BH with Mako ... we're both looking for aim and cunning items right? We went through a WHOLE flashpoint (I forget, either Athiss or Hammer station) and got nothing by willpower and strength drops. I'm not exaggerating, we got ONLY willpower and strength drops - even from the big boss fellah at the end! Even when I'm on my class quest playing by myself, not in a party with her or anyone I'll get drops for the wrong class! The most recent example was a BH quest (yeah I like my BH the best so far ) in a BH instanced area as part of my story quest and I get willpower drops for all the baddies.....I mean what's the freaking point in that? At other times though (still grouped with gf) we get nothing but the CORRECT drops....it truly seems to be random, but at least it's consistent. If we start a play session getting the wrong drops, we get nothing but the wrong drops. If we started with the right drops, we'll get the right ones throughout. Sorry for the long-winded post, just had to add my 2 cents. We're not gimped like OP is, and we stay that way by keeping up with mods (mostly) through our commendation vendors, but I truly do understand the OP's frustration. And if you don't have someone else to play with (like me and my gf, or that other guy and his sister) then getting the ludicrous amount of incorrect drops that I've seen with my own eyes would be EXTREMELY frustrating.

This has to be part of a larger problem - I haven't seen it on my Sith (because it's low level), but my trooper will constantly go green from heals from Elara. After about an hour of gameplay I'm pretty much just running a green character around the world - and yeah it IS that bad. I understand that this'll take a back burner since it's not game-breaking or anything, but it's pretty lame to get all your sweet armor and have customization like the game has only to be staring at a practically solid green person running around

^ This right here - I'd love to see what you actually have on your screen. I've got 4 toons all hovering around the mid 30's. I have the right bar filled with stupid stuff and 1-time use stuff like fleet pass, mount, different cylinders for my trooper (despite the fact that I only use 1 of them) and I haven't even filled up my 2 bottom center bars with abilities yet. I even put all abilities I buy on the center bar - seriously, I haven't removed any abilities from my trooper yet and I haven't filled up those 2 bars at the bottom. I understand where you're coming from, having to flip between pages for a million abilities doesn't make for a fun experience...I just don't understand HOW you're coming from there, so a SS or something would be great for my understanding Anyway, I agree wtih some of the other posters here, thanks BW for the variety of abilities, I haven't felt overwhelmed by them at all. I HAVE noticed that I don't use certain abilities as much as I thought I would (due to the way my AC is spec'd) but that's all part of the game isn't it? Thanks for making me use my noggin when I play.

I'm sorry I don't have any thing helpful to add to this thread (as most everything I've learned/seen has already been stated). But I needed to reply and say THANK YOU for the information! I thought I had a grasp on the crafting in this game, but I really only understood the linear crafting haha no clue about the non-linear one O_o Anyway thanks again for the information, I'm bookmarking this thread right now!

Definitely /signed. I hear UI updates are in the works and I hope they at least include moveable windows, and at the very least the ability for windows to overlap one another. I don't need everything on my screen to close when my crew comes back from a mission only to report that they don't have anything to give me

I had a day of questing with my gf where she would always get green or blue gear/mods from chests, but everytime I opened it (no matter which toon I used) I would get either the pants or the gloves....I feel your pain bro. Nice ode though, I did enjoy the read!

Same exact thing happened to me in Beta - black screen but you can hear the opening cinematic, and once that's over, mouse over stuff and click but you just can't see anything. All I had to do was update my gfx drivers. I did that and re-launched and it worked just fine! I would definitely try that before you reinstall...hopefully it works. Good luck!

Not sure why being in Europe would make a difference (but I haven't exactly read a million threads on this issue so he probably knows something I dont). When you get the black screen, can you still hear stuff going on? When I first started I had a black screen but I could totally hear the cinematic going on behind it. Turns out I had to update by gfx driver. Funny that you should mention BF3 too, I was playing BF3 on full settings just fine, and then this game comes out and no black screen? You gotta be kidding me, BF3 requires much more than this game surely?! Hopefully that helps, otherwise maybe that other guy has info for you.

Thanks, that's good enough for me! I'll go and cruise the preferences tonight haha. I'm glad that's in there, it was such a pain trying to outfit my companion without it :S