Steam build appears to be missing eula.settings and eualas.version, adding these in from a bacjup i have removed the issue.

To help with gear progression going forward, would it be a good idea to allow for the conversion of SM R-4 operation tokens to Veteran R-4 operation tokens at a level that makes obtaining blue tier 330+ gear attainable to casual players say 8 - 1. i.e., Do 2 SM R-4 operations completely and you can convert the tokens received for a HM upgrade token. The benefits being upgrade path for all to 340, raiders will see a benefit in doing SM R-4 which currently there isn’t, SM R-4 participation would Increasing. Purple 340 gear (R4 Boss tokens) is still left as an achievement for people who clear R-4 HM.

You appear to have removed some Crest's that were earned before 6.0

Some of mine have and some haven't, at first looked like all the chars with a special character in the name haven't got the reward all those with normal alphabet names have, but 3 with normal names haven't got the rewards either

Save your money, despite a promise that it would change for live, it is still time consuming, expensive and utilly pointless for anything other than outfits and biochem & augment. THe steps to craft any gear that would be worthwhile will take you 2 months.

More examples of the complete imbalance between crafting and gear grinding Started Crafting Armourings to see how they had been thought out. Standard Purchased from the Vendor Versatile Armoring which is a Irating of 274 requires 20 Processed Isotopes and 8 Solid resource Matrix with a 20% chance to RE. So 80 Processed Isotopes and 40 Solid resource Matrix later I got to RE to a Blue Armoring Irating 278 with a 10% Chance to RE Single Crafting Cost 20 Isotopes, 8 Solid Resource Matrix 5 Lustrous Grafts (50 Premium Lustrous Crystals & 50 Premium Lustrous Fragments + Veda Cloth) and 3 Premium Syntex Grafts ( 30 Premium Woven Syntex & 30 Premium Data Spikes + Veda Cloth). So withthe 10% RE Chance I should need 10 Blues to get the Purple. I did this and RE'd them to get the Purple with an Irating of 286. At this point i have given up testing anymore on Armourings as the Mats requirement is so great and the time its takeing is so long its pointless. Within 3 Hours of Grinding you would probably have a complete set above this rating the Mats required to make it would take Weeks and weeks to get to Just make 1 286 Armoring. Now please tell me that you have heard what we are saying and something is going to dramatically change soon. Nothing currently is worth crafting on the PTS.

They Currently do not effect Crits or Mission Times

Can we please just go back to a time when I get some ingredients from gathering missions or Nodes I then combine these into a New Item. If i want to craft a green item I use Green Ingredients, if I want to craft a Purple it has some purple ingredients. I do not want to craft an Item, then use that item with some more ingredients to create another item, then use that item with some more ingredients to create the final item. It’s boring, frustrating, longwinded and above all else needlessly complicated. Back in the day when Rakata gear was king, the schema for it was 8 Durasteel, 8 Zal Alloy and 8 Mandalorian Iron. That was it, nice and simple. Sure, the Mandalorian Iron was difficult to get but it wasn’t a list that I needed to have a spreadsheet to work out what I needed to create just 1 item. So please just simplify the Schematics so crafting is simple and understandable.

The Crafting System is just not Working to the extent that despite still being able to get mats relatively easily compared to when it goes live, I can't face creating even the new Augs the work load is so onerous. Critical Aug Blue, Schematic bought from the vendor requires: 1 Prototype Syntex Bonded Cloth (Bonded Attachment), 10 Processed Isotopes, 5 Solid Resource Matrix, 2 Prototype Lustrous Bonded Attachments. Prototype Syntex Boned Attachment requires: 10 Prototype Data Spikes, 3 Premium Syntex Bonded Attachments, 10 Prototype Woven Syntex, 8 Premium Veda Cloth. Prototype Lustrous Bonded Attachments require: 3 Premium Lustrous Attachments, 10 Prototype Lustrous bonded Attachments, 8 Premium Veda Cloth, 10 Prototype Lustrous Crystals. Premium Syntex Bonded Attachment requires: 8 Standard Veda Cloth, 10 Premium Woven Syntex, 10 Premium Data Spikes Premium Lustrous Bonded Attachment requires: 8 standard Veda Cloth, 10 Premium Lustrous Crystals, 10 Premium Lustrous Artifact Frags So to make 1 Blue Crit Augment I need: 252 Various Green Items, 84 Blue Items & 15 Premium Items. In Mission Times on a level 50 Comp a Medium Mission Takes 9.5 mins and yields 20 ish Items so 13 missions assuming some crits to get Blues as well so a mere 2 hours on a level 50 comp doing missions. To try and get the Purple Schematic on a 10% RE Chance 2520 Greens, 840 Blues & 150 Premium. If people can’t be bothered doing crafting on the PTS when stuff is easy to get just think what it will be like on the Live server

Mods acquisition is still a joke, I haven’t had a single 306 rated mod or enhancement drop yet from HM Vet. Drops have included 298 pieces, Shells with mods in ranging from 278 to 304. But no 306 mods so this method to get Mods for you set gear does not work. The other method I tried is buying from Takanna, this currently on individual items Armour, Mod or Enh sort of works but the rng involved for the cost is just plain frustrating when tank pieces drop on a dps. Buy a Main Hand or Off Hand from Takanna and again you are met with frustration. You don’t get a piece equal to your Irating, in fact you are lucky if it contains a single mod that’s at your irating. With the amount of Available options within Mods, Enh, Armour, Barrels and Hilts just make every 306-piece drop be made of 306 mods. RNG can then be if you get a BIS pieces and we can moan about the lack of BIS pieces rather than the complete lack of mods.

My Operative has an Item Rating of 306, went to Takkanna to get new Main Hand and Off Hand and dispite the above statement i recieved a 299 rated MH a 296 Rated MH and a 294 Rated MH. On the plus side none where for a Tank which is what happened when I tried to get a Barrel for the shell I have.

Ho Hum first thing i do is go to Takanna, buy a Unidentified Barrel for my Merc and get a Tank Barrel. These dont appear to be dropping to current spec.

I think / hope you have a miss type in the cost of the new mats from the Jawa Scrap Peddlers. I am aware the prices have gone up across all tiers but the inflation on Grade 11 Mats appears a little excessive. Tier 1 to Tier 10 mats progress nicely at 1 Jawa Junk piece through to 10 Jawa Junk Pieces then when you hit tier 11 Matts the price sky rockets to 200 Jawa Junk Pieces. I hope it’s meant to be 20 at the most. The current costing combined with the quantities needed to craft make this form of mat purchase pointless.

Bump, couldnt agree more

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Very old artical, that used to work: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=372248

I have now spent many hours running FP on both MM and Vet, Ran Ops and received and very small amount of Usefull Pieces to put in my Set Bonus Shells. The only reliable place I can see is the Vendor who gives me a Random piece. Can you please up the availability of 306 Armourings, Mods and Enhancements and please make them drop as your current Spec.

The individual Armour, Mod and Enhancement side needs a look at. Rarely getting Enhacements drop, Armourings rarely and Mods seem ok. Further to this I appear to get about 50/50 Tank to Dps Mod drops and while playing an operative, can you apply the same rules to gear to the mod drops please. I dont want Tank mods unless im a tank.

Sounds really promising, now just need server to come up so i can try it

New patch to download, so cool your jets its a Test Server

The system just isnt working still. I have tested both a 258 & 306 geared Char via Vet and MM FP. The 258 geared char on first runs through HS all looked good got some up grades to 270, my rating got to 267 and then RNG kicks in and rather than get the pieces i need to lift my rating further I get more me too or downgrades on the pieces i already have. i did 10 more HS Vets Solo then stopped this gearing method as it was frustrating and moved to the vendor to try my luck with my 900 odd Tech Fragemtns. I got 1 270 belt a 270 tank relic (Im an Operative) & a 270 Implant. So 2 out of 3 upgrades and my rating finished on 270. So bar the tank relic I was lucky and got upgrades on my pieces, the tank relic was however very frustrating waste of tech components. The other side of this is that some of the 258 gear i started with are still upgrades on the the 270 i am currentyly wearing but i cant use them as this would reduce my Item rating. So the gear I worked for in 5.0 is better than the gear I am currently wearing but cant use as it reduces my Item rating. (More on this with my other char). Im also using a Tank relic but im sure no one will call me out for it. Frustration level 8/10 The 306 iRating gear char has all 306 rated gear, non of which are modable. I have been lucky enough to get 3 set piece items i would like to use. I can't the Mods in them are below 306 so if i equip them my Item rating drops and thus any futher Item drops i get are less likely to be Upgrades. All the drops i have been getting from Vet and MM flashpionts have been sub 306 modable or un modable 306 gear. Just make anything thats 300+ rating have mods as a first step, at least i could use my set pieces at a point where I am still not just looking for upgraded gear. It would also allow me to choose the stats im playing with and let me play the way I want to. Frustration level 9/10 Additionally, dont give me down grades at all, its just annoying and dissappointing. Rather than a downgrade give me some tech parts, it would be a more positive outcome.

Converting the cost of making a Green Asseemby Component to Jawa Junk i will need 4000 Green Jawa Junk per Assembly component. If as you say the Jawa prices are not going to change and the loot drop of Jawa Junk is going up. Can you please insure there is adequate storage for the Jawa Junk. Currently Stacks to 9999, so i can make two and a bit Components from a stack. So its either going to be Jawa Junk prices are too high or I dont have enough storage to do anything worth while with Jawa Junk.

Erics Post from other thread The team is still reviewing and planning changes around the crafting feedback. There are changes coming, don't worry. I will post about those once I have specific information to share. In the meantime here are a few of the base takeaways the team is looking at: Ossus turned out not to be the best testing ground, we would want you to be able to harvest nodes faster than you did. We want to increase the crafting materials earned from Flashpoint and Ops bosses. This change is actually in the next PTS build. Times for schematics and missions need to be reduced. Jawa Junk prices aren't likely to change, but we want to increase gains of Jawa Junk. Want to make adjustments to the Conquest Materials requirement or inflow. Again, I will share specific changes when I have them. -eric Eric Musco | Community Manager Follow us on Twitter @SWTOR | Like us on Facebook [Contact Us] [Rules of Conduct] [F.A.Q.]

So, after spending many hours testing the various gearing options from running Fp's, Ops and using Vendors the major issue for me that’s come up is the use of iRating. Perhaps it’s a misunderstanding on my part, but from what I can see it’s the current Characters Item Rating not the specific Items Rating that is used as the base line for Upgrades / Side grades. My issue with this is the current use of iRating (Character gear Rating) is forcing me to take any item that’s statistically better than the item I currently have even if it doesn't contain the stats I want as it improves my overall Characters gears rating. I then have to play with this piece equipped on the off chance that I will get another improved piece. Similarly, if I am lucky enough to get a set piece item, if it contains a lower gear rating than another piece, I have in the same slot I can’t actually use it. I don’t have a solution to this in mind I’m afraid but the huge quantity of me-too items I am seeing is probably due to this and causing a great deal of frustration in the gearing process.

I have been though Ops, HS Vet and MM. All giving a very poor retun on Gear, I thought it time to try the vendor route and this is what I got from "Takanna Spoils of War Vendor" Tried to upgrade a chest with him, went throogh 147 Random Chestpieces purchased and got from a green Level 270 piece which dropped in a HS to a Green 270 Piece. The numbers are just off on the return here, I gave up trying to improve what I had and wont be back on the PTS until after next patch. Gearing currently is a total waste of time.