They are on Belsavis in the lvl 50 daily areas. Not neccesarily Heroic areas. I have had better luck in the area up north by the world boss. I find them as I run the dailies. They show up on your minimap as perfect Upari crystals and when you gather them you get a perfect one and regular ones.

You can mail things between faction within your legacy. It would be easier for one person or the other to simplay make a lvl 1 toon on the other side and mail stuff back and forth. Assuming that you don't already have toons on both sides. Saves time and money.

You can buy a light armor belt from the Fleet Comm Vendor. My Shadow has the pilot one. Legacy belts/bracers are legacy level 10 and legacy lvl 20 I believe. No character level requirement that I am aware of. Otherwise class specific ones are world drops that occasionally come up on the GTN.

Do you have any proof that purple schematics are not available? Because the BW Devs have said otherwise. They say teh truth is out there. We just need to find it. Anyways, Fleet Comms are pretty easy to get. I am going to try a variety of boxes and hope I find something usefull.

The blue lvl 6 boxes or the purple lvl 7 boxes? You said lvl 6, but your pic shows the lvl 7 ones circled.

Interesting, but not really neccesary. I too bought all three magenta recipes and now find them useless. I am still keeping artifice. And this change won't get me my creds back. As mentioned with the legacy system you can easily have an alt with each skill and freely send stuff back and forth. I would much rather BW spend time and money on other problems than this.

Why? Just because noone has found the recipe yet and some people did not but a purple crystal when they had the chance? I kept very close tabs on the purple crystals since they even mentioned the vendor. They said the schematic would be around to find. But never did they say it would be easy or common. They also made no bones about exactly when the vendor was going to disappear. Smart people bought the crystal from the vendor when it was available. It was around for a couple of months so that would've given most people plenty of time to get the money to buy one. If you chose not to or chose to wait then you took a gamble and lost. Myself, I bought one for my lvl 50 shadow and bought a few extra for my lowbies who are still leveling. My lvl 30 Guardian has one in her bank right now. There is a saying out there among those who deal with customers, Piss poor planning on your part does not constitue an emergency on mine. I am sure that BW is probably thinking along those lines, though they would say it much more politely. Myself, I think that all the color crystals should be reasonably obtained, including purple. I am frustrated that there has been no word on the schematic. But I planned ahead and have my crystals. So man up and realise you missed your chance and quit asking BW to fix a non-existant problem by just handing you what you want. Eventually the purple schematics will be found and life will go on.

As Kira says, all the good tailors went to the Imperial side.

I really think the colors should all be available without too much trouble. Maybe make then a bit tougher like the magenta's, but if someone spends a little effort (or cash on the GTN) they should be able to get pretty much whatever they want. In fact making the "rare" colors similar to the Magenta crystals to aqcuire and make would be pretty ideal. Rare enough that they won't flood the market, but common enough that you can probably find one or someone to make you one. That said I have already made millions of credits from selling purple crystals that I bought from the vendor. And as long as I am the only one on my server (Vornskr) selling them I can ask as much as I want for them. I really want to get the schematic, but as long as it hasn't been found I am making money.

They are not impossible. And they did have a purple crystal vendor for awhile.

EQ was interesting and fun and got me into the genre. But all those things that people are reminiscing about were complete PITAs. Corpse runs? Really? Having to camp an area for hours on end? Absolutely zero soloing for the vast majority of the players? No thanks. Need I really go on? It was cool because it was the only thing out there. But if WOW and EQ came out at the same time most everyone would be playing WOW. I am grateful for EQ to be the ground breaker. Because of EQ and WOW we have games like TOR now. But I would never, ever want to go back and play. I actually tried. Twice. And both times hated it. But if you do want to go back it is free to play now! LOL For giggles I logged on and my Paladin is still there after all these years.

It has been confirmed? I don't buy it till you give us more information. The only thing that has been confirmed to my knowledge is that they exist in the game and Bioware has said that 'the truth is out there' on the sites. But if the truth is out there it must be covered up by the US government or something.

I have been doing just fine selling basic color crystals. I can sell them for about double of what the mats sell for. They sell slower than before 1.2, but still steadily. Even low level crystals sell well because people leveling want to upgrade and you can;t buy those with plent comms. And as previously mentioned, any oranges with augment slots do well. I have been making more money after 1.2 than I was before.

Caveat Emptor. Buyer Beware.

I disagree with the OP. A bidding system would suck. I also played WOW since it launched and always bought what I wanted with the buyout price and sold with the buyout price. Bidding took too long, especially as a buyer. I wanted to get my gear and get out to actually playing. Not camp an item in the AH for two days. The rare times I would actually bid is if I saw something really cheap that I didn't need right away or planned on reselling. But I would just toss on a bid and go. I wasn;t going to camp the item. If you really want to set up an auction just set up your own auction channel and have people join it who are interested. On the flip side I have mailed offers to people for items on the GTN I thought were a bit high priced. And so far most of them have accepted my offer.