Maybe I'm just getting too cynical in my old age... I find this thread ridiculous. Not so much the topic as I can see where in some cases a good player is going to make good use of these changes. The issue I have is there are already dozens of threads in the Consular and Inquisitor threads complaining about the removal of the 360 degree effect of the ability in question here. This again proves no matter what any developer does people are going to complain and good players will adjust. If you've gotten to this point in this post I have a suggestion. Instead of whining about something that hasn't happened yet why not do something constructive like help a lowbie, level an alt, or run a HM with people who need the gear. Complaining doesn't help the community it prevents its growth. Now if you will excuse me I'm going to go walk my dog and then go log in and help someone through a HM on one of my Empire toons so I don't look like such a hypocrite.

Ok I'll be the idiot that responds to people who can't be helped... From the descriptions above it seems some of you may be referring to different quests. Instead of complaining it would help if you would say which quest you are on and what the instructions in your log tell you to do. It has been since December since I was leveling my Inquis but I'll try to help anyway.

I just had to say this. I don't think they should remove the marking just that it should go away when you die and respawn. One other correction though after reading some of the other comments. If you are marked by the opposing team you CANNOT see it. Any mark you see on your head is your own team's. So I always pop a shield on myself during PvP. I find it gives that little extra incentive to PUG groups to protect me.

Ok I’ve read this thread enough and I can’t take it anymore. The complaining is DISGUSTING… and quite frankly demonstrates many posters inability to read and see a benefit when it is coming. Let me explain WHY the changes are GREAT with an example. Let us say I want to make a critical crafted chest piece to wear and two to sell since I think they are cool looking. (Doesn’t matter which chest piece so don’t ask which one) I’ve got a max affection companion with a critical bonus. So I queue up 5 on her, 5 on another and 5 on a third. So I’ve got 15 cooking. Low and behold when I come back from lunch I’ve got 15 shining new pieces of gear in my inventory and 4 critical crafted. Oh happy day I’ve got 4 augmented items, one to wear and 3 to sell. Now what do I do with those other 11 pieces of crap since in most all cases orange gear with no augment slot is GARBAGE. I Reverse Engineer them!! Now I’ve got my 10 items needed and I make my augment kit. Now I can put that augment slot into my offhand that I didn’t have already plus some extra mats to start the cycle all over again. Yes I’m being snarky but I find your lack of vision disturbing. On a less snarky note I’ll agree I wouldn’t mind seeing a 50% reduction in mod removal costs. And the best idea in this thread is to allow an adaptive armor kit to allow non social gear to become adaptive.

I'll be honest I have not had an issue with much needing to be marked in a while since I almost exclusively run content with guildies. However, for PvP content I have used and normally see the kill order be Target > Fire. As an interesting note in Operations the CC targets are more important. And normally it is more of a marker being asigned to a particular class CC. I almost always see Gear being given for a sorc to CC and Blaster is for a Merc. I find that lightsaber is normally used for a Maurader and no one ever asks a sniper to CC. I also find funny that an operative or assassin's CC target is almost never marked because the just go pick one. I would be curious if Sages are given Gear on the pub side. The above are my observations and typically reflect the way in which I mark when doing so.

I had to post after reading that. I LOVE this idea. I hope you add this to the list of items that the devs are looking at as a replacement to Sacrifice. Might need to be 3 minutes, but in either case this is a GREAT idea. +1 internets for you

I am almost positive that you have to completed Chapter 3 to get the events on Taris.

The same reason any developer would. The more reasons you have to play the more you will play. Since they've said it ends on the 24th today is the last day to start and get all pieces. However, I feel the event is fun. Bit of work for the causual (really bad for the one day a week crowd) but most folks can easily do an hour. Takes me less than an hour to do them all right now. I wouldn't put down this event. For all the world events I've been a part of I like this one and find it to be very fun.

I have found that you need to "unlock" the next daily. So the first day you can do the daily around the ship, infect/cure the Sand people and collect the infected bandages. Day 2 you get the pods. Day 3 you get the jawa scrap. Day four you get the extra samples. I don't know what day 5's is because I didn't do the event Sunday. So if you just started it will take you 5 days to get all the dailys so you can get the social set. Hope that helps.

Overall I like the new layout. However I view this site a lot from my phone. I know it is simple but could you make the "Next" button bigger to scroll through pages easier from a touch screen. Thanks!!

I normally will take the time to read a whole post like this because I feel if someone took the time to write this up they were passionate enough to deserve proper feedback. However when nearly all of your list of CONS are items that are being addressed to some extent in the next game update you loose a leg to stand on. I appreciate your wanting to be heard. However, say something worth listening too. Or say innovative things BEFORE you spew out about issues that have/are being addressed. Hope you continue to enjoy the game and if you made positive suggestions that they were cool and something that would make the game better. I didn't get to read them because of how you defeated any hope of folks taking your post seriously, but hey I'm just one person.

Ok I have to ask this question of all the folks saying that we will still have no choice in how we look if we are going to crit crafted gear. There are TONS of different models of orange gear. Where has it been said that ONLY the level 50 items would be crittable??? I do agree that the "tier" pieces will be suplanted but the Dev aknowledged that and said they were working on it. So there should be no complaint. If a BH wants to look like a SW they can!

Am I the only one that looked at the 2012 timeline and thought "Why the heck is SWTOR listed as a Q3 product?" I'll be honest I didn't expect and expansion within the first year. I hope that is a positive sign!

Posting from my phone so won't be as detailed. I'd like the horizontal scroll options on the /who window so you can read all of a persons LEG comment. Also the ability to reorder a companions abilities so you can use the 4 button mini bar more. That's for putting this together OP

I purchased one. I got a lvl 50 Artifact level pair of gloves. It was heavy armor and aim which I couldn't use. Put it up for sale I'll see if it sold tonight. Not sure it is worth it yet as I like a different state priority than is on the gear right now. I think I'll do at least one more before I write it off.

I'm not sure about offhand. But main hand is a Blaster.

Below you will find my thoughts on doing a Hard Mode Flashpoint (HMFP). The Hard Mode in question is The Foundry. There will be criticisms and kudos. My intention is to help folks who are approaching HMFPs for the first time and to hopefully provide good feedback. For the instant gratification crowd there is a TL;DR before each section. TL;DR: I have a fair amount of end game experience in other games and feel I can provide appropriate information from the three main rolls of SWTOR. Ok as a brief introduction. I’ve done endgame content in FFXI and WOW. I’ve done all three rolls in end game content. My experience is mostly as a tank and healer so whenever I do instances I try to look at an encounter from both of those perspectives. I don’t consider myself a hardcore gamer but I make it a point to be good at what I do when I chose to play in a party environment in an MMO. TL;DR: I’ve been 50 for a few days and this was my first Hard Mode but I am fairly geared. I also have tried to practice my healing as I’ve leveled. I took my time leveling once I got my ride skill as I was in two beta weekends. I’m a Cyber crafter and have made it a point to make enough money or create my own items to have at least blue quality mods in all my orange items. I’ve made some good money so I’ve bought a few purple accessories and the like. I’ve practiced healing in FP and leveling so that I could be ready for it endgame. TL;DR: The Foundry Hard Mode does add a bit of excitement and difficulty to the game, however, it seem to have too great a curve right now making it impossible. As stated at first this was my first Hard Mode. It started innocent enough saw a tank seeking and whispered him and then we had a full party shortly after. The party was two Juggs (one DPS), one Marauder, and me as a Sorc healer. Yes we were melee heavy and that didn’t help make the instance fairer that wasn’t the reason there were so many troubles. The group mentality was such that we knew we’d probably wipe (and wipe we did) but would keep coming back at it. We made a few dumb mistakes, the DPS attacking a different target before the tank or CC was up, however, this was the exception rather than the rule. Each of my other party members said that they’d done some other Hard Modes except me and each had a few artifact level items equipped. We got to the first boss (the big robot) and wiped twice on the big AOE he does (melee heavy hurt here) but eventually we got him down due to good defensive cool downs, shields, and getting the F out of there. I thought this boss was fair, if you were stupid you died. However, if you handled the encounter properly you could beat it. This is the type of encounter I like to see at end game for MMOs. The second boss, HK, however was a different story. I’m sure many of you have run into the bug where the shield core will crush you in a much larger area than the shield core actually is. So that was frustrating. It took us a few times to get our groove down and for the tank to listen to the rest of us but he did fall. The one issue I have is that when try to attack the pads to make the core go back up sometimes you’d still get the action from your toon, but you’d actually interrupt yourself by moving too fast. The Broodmother is where the start of all the problems began. The group was able to get the mechanics of the fight down on our first try. Running when she turns to you to stay out of the bad is one that I quickly learned after she owned me. This boss has a hard enrage timer that is VERY short. On our second and subsequent tries we were able to not die until she enraged and then started one shotting people. We’d get her to less than 15k and then she start trashing us. We were able to defeat this boss because I DPSed almost as much as healed to push us over the edge. I got a nice belt out of it too, but that timer was VERY short and nearly impossible. Then we get to Revan. We all knew this fight and had interrupt priority and yes I was on most of it. We couldn’t get him below 1/3 health before he’d enrage and one shot us. The first two times I thought I’d just missed an interrupt and he got his buff but the third time. I was actually had him targeted when he started one shotting and he never received the Force in Balance (or whatever it is called). The reason I know he gets the buff is I did this fight solo on regular to see the instance and didn’t bother to interrupt because I out leveled the FP. We couldn’t get Revan past 1/3 of his health after 6 tries and at that point we’d been there for over 3 hours and I couldn’t stay awake so we called it. I don’t have a problem with unforgiving mechanics but if you can control what you can control and can’t beat a NON raid encounter that hardly seems fair or productive. I don’t mind dying when I can make some progress. However, it seems that Revan is tuned such that you HAVE to be in mostly raid gear to make the timer. This seems like it needs to be examined. TL;DR: There may be some issues with the game but I genuinely enjoy it. I’ve experienced a few bugs but in general I haven’t had the issues many of these forums complain about, however, I hope as more of us get to 50 and provide good feedback that we see some encounters be more fair instead of impossible. I hope my experience helps a few folks and wouldn’t mind hearing a few others but if you’re a troll please go find another bridge. My character is Nary’a on the Shadow Hand server so if you need a healer who is dogged in beating an instance send me a whisper.

I've used basically the same equipment since level 20 and just modded it. I'm level 49 I haven't done any end game yet but I've yet to find "base stats" on orange items. So I'd say until end game you should be fine tempering all slots in an item to keep it up to date.

OK. I have to post a response here. Why are people thinking the OP is serious. I laughed so hard when I read this list. I hope this community isn't so self absorbed to enjoy a little sarcasm once in a while. Thank you for the laugh!

This may have been asked but I can't find it anywhere. Is it possible to change the order of your companions abilities? I'd like to move some of the cooldown abilities to the first four spots so I can use them with the companion bar minimized. If you know how to do this please share.

I hope the rest of you find this funny. I'm sure you all have moments where you can say "I was at 'this place' when this 'event' happened." Most of the time these are serious and life changing events like when you find out your having a child or the death of a loved one. I'm not saying a game is anything like those but that won't change the fact.. I was sitting on the toilet at work when I got my email for EGA and I will never forget it. Peace and Fortune