Not sure if this has been seen before, but I just learned the schematic Overkill Focused Battle Boots from RE'ing the green boots that come on Nadia. I'm guessing the original boots she was wearing were the same as the Focused Battle Boots just with a Nadia-only restriction. Anyway, an interesting find.

I'm fairly certain that two levels of RE don't exist for items RE'd in a linear fashion. I could be mistaken, but I don't think you'll find a [superior] artifact quality orange crystal.

Personally, I'm halfway through Act Two and really enjoying it. As a shadow, it seems act 2 is more my sort of territory but I enjoyed Act One as well. Frankly, why be disappointed with a consular story that deals with diplomacy? That's what we do. Disclaimer: I didn't actually read most of this thread to avoid spoilers.

I've found a couple from underworld training missions, usually of the opposite faction. You might check the neutral GTN, pick up some cheap there. As far as gear, I'd suggest reverse engineering some greens into blues around your level, I usually pick up some pretty decent gear that way.

This is exactly right.

This thread was so promising. Anyway, as a long time endgame healer and on-the-side tank, it's pretty clear to me that know competent healer would let a tank sit under their maximum health in any sort of mildly challenging content, whether that tank has a billion hitpoints or a couple thousand. Once you're not using endurance, it's useless and you could stack ANYTHING and be more useful (alacrity for faster TK throws, lol?). Of course, stacking actually tanking stats is best, but if that's not an option, no reason no to take the willpower option.