With the bonuses being additive and assuming they all stack it would be closer to: 3.5x(250% increase) +.1x (Legacy) + 1 (100% booster tier 1-2) +.25x (25% booster tier 1-2) +.15x(DvL 15% if active) +.2x(20% highlighted) = 5.2x base cxp That would mean a 20 cxp mob would now equal 104 if I understand the system correctly.

Not too many people are going to log out of their main and play an alt until GC has any type of incentive to play alts. My only PvP is on my main until that is resolved which means I will not be logging on a Republic alt to balance any faction imbalance.

If his gear was unoptimized as a fresh 70 wearing whatever he had, it may have been higher in STA and then after bolstering he was higher again? Not really sure, just spit balling. Perhaps his STA was higher but his DPS stats lower? Perhaps he was a crafter and had augmented his gear while yours was not? Possibly Bolster is just weird?

Not entirely sure I understand your question but I will take a stab. I am a Canadian and the only time I purchased any Cartel Coins I charged them to my credit card. The price was charged in US$ and the Credit Card company then converts it to a C$ price. Is that what you were asking?

Your influence level with your companions remains the same when they return.

Those rewards are lifted from Dulfy's ever useful website. I believe Musco presented the number prior to 5.1

This was posted before or as part of the 5.1 patch: Unassembled Components Unassembled Components only comes from PvP activities. You can skip directly to the Unassembled Gear pieces if you do operations but for PvP you have to go through an extra step to earn them. Earning Unassembled Components 5 – Warzone Win 2 – Warzone Loss 3 – Arena Win 1 – Arena Loss 5 – Solo Ranked Win 2 – Solo Ranked Loss 8 – Group Ranked Win 3 – Group Ranked Loss 8 – GSF Win 3 – GSF Loss

Perhaps a short term Vendor to exchange the armour mod for the next tier armour mod with the appropriate amount of unassembled components might resolve this? 1/slot or no more than 7 per character - some sort of safeguard to avoid exploits?

One simple solution might be to add an armour mod vendor. Simply turn in the armouring piece people had pulled out and turn that in with the same number of unassembled components to upgrade to the next tier. The only exploit I see would be people pulling armourings out of the duplicate items they get - are they slot specific?

How did you get a tier 3 item after only one day? Level 85 GC still has you in tier 1 so it wasn't from boxes. If you are able to collect fragments fast enough to be upgrading from 1 - 2 -3 after one day I would say the drop rate is more than high enough but I do not believe that is true so I must be missing something.

Your opinion of the cost of gearing via components is obviously different from mine. I received 26 gear components from PvP with a 4-6 win loss ratio for a couple of hours in unranked. I spent some of my evening running some new Incursions with friends so I could have collected more but wanted to see some of the new fights. For non-raider PvE players that want to gear up in order to try harder content such as Master mode chapters/Incursions I don't see a lot of hope out of this patch. I am lucky in that I enjoy PvP but it is not the only thing I want to do day after day, every day for the next year to get T3 gear. Even a system allowing us to turn in duplicate Set piece drops from the GC reward boxes for 1/2 the component cost of the piece would be a good step forward or a slightly smarter drop that won't drop an item you already have equipped when you open a box and replaces it with a different set piece would be a step forward. Ath

I feel your pain. My one hope is that if I can keep myself alive long enough (1 minute plus), that one of my team mates is able to cap a node or take down some other objective while they are chasing me in circles while I heal like crazy.

Thank you for the link, I will try those suggestions, I had specced out of the Whirlwind effecting Utilities but perhaps I will give them a try again. I had also discounted the light saber attack - but rereading it I can see it adding to my survival if I am not getting mauled by multiple dps simultaneously.

/Agree

As an Inquisitor healer, I find it very unusual if I don't die multiple times per WZ. As soon as I start healing 2-3 DPS jump on me and target me until I am dead. Stun breaks, bubble etc can buy me some time but it soon enough ends with me being dead. Not complaining as in fact it is a very valid tactic - take out the other teams healers before yours dies and you pretty much win. I am referring to the person saying to play better so you die less

I am sure I ran 5 of them for Nar Shadda last night through GC as I was working on my Personal Conquest goal and wanted the extra CXP..

The only thing I can think of the vendors sell that I am aiming for is a Bind to Legacy pistol shell so I can pass item modifications around on my account. I have several lightsabers but nothing for my non-Force using characters.

Apparently Nay is too short. Hopefully this is long enough

I am pretty sure the wrist slot items were originally not available in Orange. Playing at launch it was one slot that was hard to find and I 'thought' they were only available from drops or Social merchants.

As of now, no information with that much substance has been released. Unfortunately we do not know the answer to your question yet. Ath

I wonder sometimes why we as gamers worked so hard at things like EQ1 Hell Levels. Probably the sense of accomplishment. Having said that I don't think I could play that style of game these days.

I can't say for sure this is your issue, but if you have your current Companion out on a mission you quite often need to select other Companions from the drop down list in order to send them out on missions. Alternatively you can click the gathering skill next to the specific Companion. If it is not that, it sounds like a bug

I have never and I mean ever scavenged a blue/purple metal from a destroyed droid. Are you sure on the Terenethium? I have never received and never expected to received anything other than the common items via scavenging. Ath

I can think of two options from your question: 1. Some helmets have graphics which include breather appartatus or other mechanical components. 2. Certain races(Cyborgs?) have an option during creation to customize certain mechanical additions much like others are adjusting their haircuts. 3. I cannot comment on whether implants have an obvious graphic representation as I have not experienced that yet if it does. Ath