I really like the current color, but I can completely get on board for having options. Not sure about pink, but having options are always better than having none.

I can see how that'd be useful information... Right now I'm just PvE. Using the group finder to do a few hard modes and ran Karraga's for the first time last night. Hard modes have been going ok. But the operation seemed more difficult than I had expected. Too many times (2-3?) I was in the middle of casting a big heal while innervate/etc was on cooldown only to have my target die. Figure it's either my spells not casting fast enough or the previous spell not hitting hard enough. Seeing as how I'm pretty close to the crit %, a bit low on the surge % and bit high on alacrity % I'm going to go with the earlier spells not hitting hard enough. I've got a few columni items, the rest are the tier 1 whatever-it's-called that I'd collected prior to my break.

I had a similar situation. Not quite as big a guild though. I got out and joined another guild. Building a guild back up is a pain that I didn't want to go through right now. Just wanting to enjoy playing the game since I've freshly returned.

I've been gone from the game since around 1.3 and recently came back to give it another go since I have some time to spend once again. After searching the forums, I've not found any comments about healing stats/gear after the 1.2/1.3 time frame. Are the base stat lines still the same? Surge 75%, crit 35%, alacrity 8-10%, max out power/willpower Also, around the time I stopped playing I remember talks about being able to remove set bonuses from items and attach them to custom gear. I tried that last night with the tionese chest item to dump it into my preferred gear look and it didn't bring the set bonus ability. What's up with that?

You can never PRE-ORDER content on DDO through the in-game store. You CAN buy it after it's been released to the subscribers/purchasers. This is pre-order. Want to spend your in-game coins? Wait 'til it's been released.

Yep, I used to do that often prior to 1.2. Now it's just annoying to have a few of the same mission piled up (eg Archaeology) and take 2-3 days to get through them. I figure I'd just misread the notes and they took that option AWAY.

He already has slicing. I'd go with Underworld Trading.

I wonder this also. I was just seeing the standard "Armormech (XXX)" come up when I clicked the RE button. Nothing showed if a schematic was available or not.

Back in WoW-times, my guild had a "Kegs & Eggs" raid on Saturday mornings that started around 7am. Lots of rules for when you had to take a drink. If you weren't slurring by the second boss, you got kicked out of the raid for not doing it right.

There's a toggle choice in the preferences menu that allows you to compare companion gear at the same time, you end up with two seperate pop-up windows. One with your gear and one with your companion's gear. At work, so I can't dig into the menu to find the box you need to click.... but it's definitely there.

Check out the sticky at the top of this forum.

Increasing your companion affection level increases your crit chance. At 10k affection on all my Sorc minions, none of which have any bonus to biochem crit, yield about 1 in 6 items with an augment slot. This is just from my limited sample set of course. But you can definitely get them at a much higher % chance than 1 in 100.

On my Merc, all my companions are maxed out at 10k rep and I continue to run the Rich 5 companion gift missions all the time. Sell 'em on the GTN for a tidy profit. If I can't find any Rich metal missions, they're fetching me gifts.

8k each? I need to change servers it seems... You guys much be rich.

I broke 75 level 49 blue earpieces before I gave up on it.

Sure you don't have a stack already formed in your inventory somewhere? They auto-stack so wouldn't be in the "next" open slot in your inventory.

I've got scavenging, UWT and Cybertech on mine. Crafting armor (the mod version) and Mods is nice once you get decked out in orange gear. I was able to save most of my planet commendations and bought the epic boxes from the venders. Made some decent money on the last few planets that way.

They come when you get a "crit" with your crew mission. The higher your companion affection the higher chance to crit.

Those drop as well. I have 'em coming out of my ears compared to always running out of Red Goo. Maybe it's just my version of bad luck.

Don't remember the name of the earpiece (also level 49) I've been working on, but I've passed 60 RE's without a single schematic learned. At this point, I don't need credits for anything and it gives my minions something to do. Been wondering when this supposed RE "fix" is coming. For now, it's passed beyond frustrating and into the disturbingly entertaining phase.

I assume you're looking for Red Goo. I'll toss out something because I have never seen another player out there... In the Voss bonus mission area. Way up in the NW area there's a tunnel with Verantikor (something like that... the tech beasts) that are all strong mobs. Most have a handler, so you need to be able to take care of yourself while farming them. Anyway, kill your way through the tunnel and into the area north. There's a pretty good sized area full of these mobs. They're all bioanalysis-able. I got 20 Red Goo in about 30 minutes one day. Plus you get the other level 5 biochem materials in droves as well as credits and loot. I have been getting Red Goo off of about 1:5 kills. It's a good place to spend time grinding if you have the patience for it.

You do get affection even in 4-man groups. Until you get a feel for what answers your crew member likes, it's hard to max out affection per run.

1- Right click on the gift with the companion out that you want to give it to. You'll get a 3 second "cast" bar to hand it to them followed by a 30 second "you already gave a gift" debuff 2- I didn't bother with affection until I had money for gifts. I do recommend you go to the fleet and find the companion gift vendor. You can get level 1 green quality gifts for 200 credits each. Buy 'em in piles when you have the money. Or check the GTN for level 1 gifts, you can get deals some days. 3- On my Sorc I only raised it on a few that I used for crew missions. Didn't have the money/desire to see the storylines played out. I did get them all to at least 5k affection for the speed bonus on missions. On my BH, I'm going to max them all out because I have the money now and the desire to see the storylines play out. 4- Don't bother with courting gifts until you get affection high enough to start seeing "flirt" options in their dialogues. Even then, just try it with a 200 credit level 1 gift. They might not like it yet so don't waste the better gifts. 5- Just give the gifts that they "love". The others are a waste IMO.

You can search for orange gear on the GTN, sort of. Run a search with just the following drop box criteria: Armor + Light Click on the rarity tab at the top. Guessing at the name... the one above the picture showing colors and it will sort them out in the following order: Orange / White / Green / Blue / Purple First few pages will be the Orange gear for sale.

I would post my outfit that I've finally scrounged together and is something I like, but I can't find the screenshot folder. And no, it's not in My Documents. Got the mostly red w/ black chest from Tatooine commodations and paired it with a set of legs that are mostly black with red highlights/trim. Looks pretty good. No hood, which is one of the major reasons I like it. Got tired of that look. Have Kalliq's helm too, but I've had it turned off for a while now. Edit: Found it buried about nine folders deep. http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/751/screenshot2012010310445.jpg