I just came to the forums for this specific issue. Crafted dozens of color crystals on my one Artifice for my new character to learn them (the cyan, black-blue/red/orange/purple, and purple), but they're not showing the 20% change tooltip like they did on my first crafter a few months back. I tried to R-E a few, too, which was a waste. Ugh.

Two things: 1. The item needs to not bind to the character (or at least be legacy-bound) so that it's not insanely frustrating to acquire on current and future characters. 2. Are we ever going to get weapons added to the Appearance Designer? You could knock both of these out with one shot by making the effects of your actual, main weapon rub off on the Appearance Designer ones. Get the cool effects of your CM weapons, while also pleasing us players with a less degrading scheme. People will still pay for packs to get the weapons with cool effects. /EndRant

Ven Zallow (right) and Vindican (left)

Hey, hey CM team! Hey, you! Yes, YOU!! How about we annihilate this ignorant/dense/foolish idea of a Grand Chance Cube, bring back the Bronze/Silver/Gold packs, and keep the regular packs how they should be (in other words, with the companion gift, new item box, and mount/deco)? Is that so much to ask? I don't know why you guys think you need to change things up like you are; it's just making you look like you have absolutely no idea what you're doing. As you can tell by pretty much every post in this thread, the people are not pleased and want what they had before you started mucking about with their money. Would love to see certificates return, too. That'd be swell. KTHX <3

Yeah, that happens a lot. I wish the devs would respond a little quicker. It's like they post something in the morning and don't bother checking for comments until days later.

If you saw closely in the stream (was hard to, as it only appeared for a moment), just like a set bonus on armor, you will be able to see what pieces you're missing, both on your equipped character and from the Collections window.

I'm not sure that you understand what's happening here... They're making it so every pack's items are all shared in crates for each category (weapons, armor, etc.), and that means that if you want a certain set and missed out when the pack was available, you have to gamble on getting it amongst every other armor set that's ever been on the CM and in every pack since CM launched. You know how absurd that sounds?

If the amount of stuff I get from packs is going down from like 5 to 2 (at least the regular XP boosts and certs had some use), the price of each pack had better be reduced as well. I'm frankly not pleased about how this is looking, as it'll be such a gamble to purchase one of the item packs (armor, weapons, etc.) and hope that I get the one thing I want out of the thousand that are in it (Like seriously, ***?). Also, why on earth would you want to remove stuff from the reputation vendors that some of us put so much money into leveling? That's just a huge slap in the face. Not pleased with these changes one bit.

As for the message as a whole, I do feel that same fear, but by the same token, it could be exactly what this game needs. I mean, it's not just another big bad emperor; this will include new companions and a more impactful story. To top it off, we're getting these amazing CGI trailers, which really make it feel like we're returning to the good old days. I don't know, really. That's just my two cents; it could be another washed out expansion, or it'll be something great. My hopes are on the latter.

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So is the early access going to include the flagships as well, or are we only going to have access to the strongholds on the 19th?

I think that this would make the choices more personal, and maybe then they could even affect the overall status of your group in the warzone. This would bridge that gap between PvE and PvP while still giving that same lush experience lived in either aspect. A really good idea! I think this would greatly benefit the TOR players -- Perhaps even the RP-ers!

Wouldn't it be sick if we could hold a lightsaber like a Jedi knight while being a sage, or a Sith warrior? Or maybe use certain abilities like the opposite faction's equivalents. I just thought It'd be nice to hear other players' opinion on the matter