Your post is excellent. But I really don't like your tone or writing style. Hear me out, I think all of your points are dead-on and are very strong, but your writing style seems more hostile and I just have a feeling it'll fall on deaf ears because it's not well written, even though they're all absolutely true.

Off topic but, my god you registered since 2008? That's dedication sir.

You can RE the high level ones. For the low level ones, you might be able to RE some as well. I was pleasantly surprised to be able to RE defensive enhancements on my Artifice after 1.2

Maybe I wasn't clear. Battlemaster = 58 = cannot transfer the bonus. War Hero = 61 = can transfer the bonus. You can have your cake and eat it too, you just need to be wearing the best stuff.

I thought about this and you may have a valid point. Specifically, we need to test if the droid is getting the +5% crit rate. There is a way to test it though. Is to just mass craft level 1 items. And I don't mean a handful, I mean at least a 100-200 and look to see how close we get to our theoretical 20%-25%. Would love for someone with 0-affection droid to test it and also someone with a 10,000 affection droid.

It's only the new/best stuff that carries the bonus. So War Hero for PVP and Campaign for PVE. Battlemaster and Black Hole do not. And niether does Champion/Centurion or Columi/Tionese.

Why is this a serious problem?

I am averaging roughly 40k+ an hour with slicing on my server. I send my companions out on either all 5 or 4 of the 5 slicing missions. Whenever I get a slicing recipe, I always chuck it on the AH for 70k.

Biochem is fine. You guys are nuts if you want to waste 20-30k a pull in adrenals using Exotech ones. Also, the blue medpacks are not strictly superior to Rakata one, the Rakata one does provide the 15% health boost which is quite nice. Either way, Rakata one is free, the blue ones are not and you can always have blue ones on hand and use whichever one is appropriate for the situation. Ditto Adrenals. In other words, Biochem is fine.

Depends. If the recipe is rare, then yes, absolutely. If you RE the Black Hole enhancement it will sell for a lot. You want to do be doing your normal dailies to save up 200 daily commendations to buy relics -- this means Corellia, Belsavis and Ilum. To get Black Hole tokens you're only going to make around 14 a week unless you do some raiding. You get 6 + 8 from doing the Corellia weekly and your Kaon/Lost Isles weekly, you can also get some extra from doing Nightmare Pilgrim weekly and raiding Nightmare Karagga's Palace or any version of Explosive Conflict (Denova).

For what it's worth, it's not actually useless because you do have 20% chance to shield without a shield on. Also, while cunning and defense is indeed a bit obscure (it's my theory at some point in beta there was a cunning based tank spec/class) it's not entirely useless as defense does indeed work in pvp. Most Medics often use the defense stim, for example. (More health, 2% defense). I know a handful of Medics and Bodyguards who use the defensive relics as well, it's not too much of an extension to assume some people are willing to use defense gear on their lower level medic/bodyguards.

You're slightly looking at it wrong. The chance to have bad luck is one thing, but you should look at what is your chance out of how many people? Then ask yourselves how many people are playing SWTOR. In other words, even if you had a 1.15% chance as you calculated, out of the at least 1 million people who play SWTOR, you might just be the person.

Do your weeklies and do your space missions everyday. Use your Black Hole commendations to buy some gear, pull the enhancements out and RE it. 20% chance you will learn it, but if you succeed, congratulations you can practically print money assuming you do space missions.

Grats on 50! A lot of the cybertech schematics are simply vendored, so if that's why you want slicing. Don't. However, slicing is a very good profession to generate money, especially if you have at least 3 max-affection companions or any who have +Slicing crit. Cybertech is a bit fickle. In general you won't be making money until you learn a pattern from Reverse Engineering one of the new ones, which can be accomplished in a few ways but is time consuming and a gamble. You need to either do the newest raid zone, Explosive Conflict/Denova or you need to do your weeklies and buy Black Hole gear then pull the mods out and reverse engineer them. 20% chance to reverse engineer. What you definitely want to do be doing however is your space mission dailies. Buy the epic box for 200 tokens. This'll get you the materials for the best crafting currently in the game. Either hoard the mats till you learn the appropriate Cybertech recipes, sell them or try to find a crafter to utilize them.

It's 20% or 1/5 chance. I learned it. But the material to craft it requires Synthetic Matrix, good luck finding enough of those to craft whatever you've learned...