If you are not meant to be able to take over the other factions bases and PVP in them, Bioware needs to up the defenses of the bases and unflag people for PVP as soon as they enter the bases. In terms of the spawn camping or camping of medcenters is concerned this once again is Bioware's screw up. BTW I'm not saying the OP was spawn camping, he has said he wasn't and I'll take him at his word on that unless someone can prove otherwise. Players on PVP servers should be given an option to respawn on the fleet or their ship, or make quick travel an instant ability so it can't interrupted, there are so many ways Bioware can fix the spawn camping issue. Spawn camping can be a problem but I don't blame the players that are doing it, I more blame Bioware's bad design decisions for it happening. A side story, several months ago a friend and I, on our Imps, went on a little adventure to see how many Republic cantinas we could get inside of and visit. We expected it to actually be a challenge getting into them, we were surprised to realize it was extremely easy just with the two of us to get anywhere we wanted and neither of us were stealth classes. The conclusion we came to was either BW designed it so taking over the other faction's bases was intended or if such things were not intended BW had completely failed at designing real defenses for these bases.

I did my 1st HM Ops on my Shadow in full Battlemaster gear and it was fine, so if you have War Hero you are good to go. As a DPS Shadow it appeared to to me that Columi gear was just slightly better than Battlemaster for PVE, so War Hero should at least be on par. If your group is in full Columi already you should really be doing HM Ops, the drops in normal modes won't do anything for you, it will all just be more Columi which you already have. However if you have never run them, it would be a good idea to run the normal modes once just to learn the fights. The one thing I would suggest, you should be doing the daily quests on Belsavis, Ilum, and Black Hole to get the daily comms. Save these up so you can get your Rakata earpiece and implants or a better relic. Those Rakata pieces should be better than your War Hero pieces in those slots.

This has happened to me twice that I know of. The 1st time it happened I just chalked it up to me being mistaken, but it happened just a couple of days ago again and I know for certain it occurred. My inventory was not full and the item did not end up in my cargo hold. Both times this has happened, I set the item to be crafted and then logged out of that toon, only to come back when the item should have been done crafting to find the item missing as well as the mats.

The Grand Vanquisher was moved down to lvl 48 for some reason with patch 1.2, pre 1.2 it was lvl 50. All the techstaffs appear to have had their lvl requirement moved down 1-2 levels with the patch, not really sure why.

This guy might be over estimating a little bit but he might not be as well. I've made close to 10 million with armstech, selling blue quality items that people want for their companions and I wasn't trying very hard. If I had concentrated on it I could have easily made more, for example I only recently started selling vibroswords. The few of us that use armstech correctly make a killing because of attitudes like the ones shown in this thread that it is useless. I pretty much have a monopoly on my server because no one else makes the items I sell. In terms of 1.2 armstech will only get better since the augments we'll be able to make will be some of the most in demand in my opinion. Also you'll be able to RE vibroknives and scatterguns which should bring in even more money.

There are no orange techblades or orange techstaves because they are melee weapons with aim. They would require hilts to mod them and there are no aim hilts. Its fairly dumb that they made these aim based staff/saber weapons that only a couple companions can use. They could add aim hilts I suppose but no one would make them since the market for them would be so small.