In the same patch Rakata gear was made obsolete by the release of Explosive Conflict.Try again.

Remind me again in which previous expansion top tier gear dropped from things other than Nim bosses?

What I don't understand is why higher rank crates drop the same junk at the same percentages as GC rank 1 crates. I'm rank 3 and I see lots of useless rank 3 greens and blues. Why can't I get rank 2 purples (234) and legendaries (236) instead? Those would be far more useful for me than junk greens with no set bonus. The same goes for crafting schematics. Many of my rank 3 crates have no schematic. In those instances I'd rather get a rank 1 or 2 schematic since I don't have all of them yet and that's better than nothing at all.

Yes Gault who I have been trying to kill off in profit and plunder. I've picked every kill option i can and the minimum number of story companions you can't get rid of is 6, it pisses me off.

HM Flashpoint queues are dying because of PVP - they're dying because of uprisings. Uprisings split the 4 man group content pool and being more rewarding (in terns of cxp) causes fewer peopel to queue for HM FPs. All those people doing Fractured farming aren't doing HM FPs.

It's a good idea for punishing premades. See a premade winning quickly, everyone leaves, WZ shuts down, premade gets no CXP. If everyone does it premades will be history.

I like gating the new planets behind chapters. Darvannis is far less infested with mat farmers/bots than Zakuul.

At this point all that's missing is losing cxp for dying and this would be an Asian grinder...

We had legacy commendation grants before so I could pvp on a couple of different characters and then consolidate the warzone comms to buy gear for a single character. Now if I try to pvp on more than one character that just scatters the components and it takes longer to get enough on a single character to buy anything.

Unassembled components need to be bind to legacy like command tokens otherwise there is no point to pvping with alts if all it does is scatter components across several characters.

30% aoe reduction was added in 5.0 so it couldn't have been an issue for years. If anything this change doesn't go nearly enough - the 60% reduction from Phasing Phantasm needs to be removed even more.

Thanks for recognizing the changes are not enough, but to reiterate why the legacy boosts won't help at all: Nobody I know thinks buys lots of CM cxp boosts makes playing alts any more appealing, so I don't know why adding a 15% boost that doesn't stack with that helps at all.

Lol grinding priority HM KP/EV = "good gear the hard way." GC is bad RNG but let's not pretend 4.0 wasn't anything other throwing the best gear at anyone with a pulse like an Oprah giveaway. That opened the door to the monstrosity we have now.

Got the republic one from tython in solo mode. No sign of the imperial one from korriban yet but like the sleen the drop rates appear to be really really bad. http://imgur.com/311V5De

I don't get this thread at all. Before: nobody did CZ dailies because you just got a few credits/rep items (I was there in 4.0 farming the desler, place was a ghost town) Now: they give like 3k CXP It seems to me (ignoring the issues with GC generally) 5.0 made them more rewarding, not less.

Nonsense. People hate the RNG system because there's no guarantee of ever getting anything no matter how much time is put in. If you like it so much you should ask to be paid in lottery tickets

Finally got it after almost 30 runs in solo mode. http://imgur.com/a/p1lCo Zero drops (no pet or deco at all) in any of my other runs and was starting to think these were just rumors, so don't give up I guess.

Can I make the suggestion to change the gear from the discipline to the spec selected from the dropdown menu? It's already intuitive and sometimes I solo things on a healer in dps spec for gcp but I want healer gear.

Is buying more than one outfit from the CM also not intended? Because there's no point to buying all these unique outfits if they can't be used on companions.

It's kind of odd neither set looks exactly like the concept version. The victorious doesn't have the chest pocket, but the legendary added those ugly bulky gloves, there's no way to get the concept version.

But but I bet if they made it a platinum pet they could get a whole bunch of cartel coins from hypercrates

According to http://www.swtor.com/fallen-empire/chapters: That's it. I've been an active subscriber, the Bonus Chapter is out, and I've done Chapters 1-16, but I can't access the Bonus Chapter in game because apparently I haven't done the HK-55 alliance alert, which requires doing To Find a Findsman first (which I can't do because I don't want a stupid bug companion and want HK-55 to stay dead for story purposes). So despite meeting all the requirements listed on the website I can't do the bonus chapter. And I can't abandon the mission either, just because, so it just clutters up my mission log. I'd also like to point out the requirements for getting HK-55 are: Again, To Find a Findsman is not listed as a requirement to do the HK Alliance Alert. Please stop gating story behind mandatory companions that we have to recruit for one Alliance Alert who will probably never participate in the story again and are only good for cluttering up the followers tab with their portraits staring uselessly at me as I wish there was some way to remove/kill them. It really kills the RPG in MMORPG when I can't even control the composition of my own followers.

You're kidding right? WoW basically implemented connected realms so they could have "server merges" without calling them server merges.

Thanks for reminding me RoM had an awesome housing system. I wish SWTOR had armor stand decorations that let you store extra gear sets and switch between what you're wearing with the press of a button.

Tell that to a sorc. Barrier while the rest of the team mop up the ops who don't target switch. Or phase walk away. Mercs suck because they have terrible CDs.