I am pretty sure only the world boss on Belsavis is 2 hours. The rest are supposed to be 1 hour.

The new world boss on Voss will have a chance to drop a +41 magenta crystal schematic. Require a 16man Ops team with a certain crafted/vendor item to prevent one of his abilities, I think someone from the PTS says it hits for 200k without the item...

No idea yet, lol.

You mistake what I meant here. The first lightsaber you get is customizable. You don't get to keep trying to craft it, it's a one-time deal. If you want to be able to crit-craft lower level lightsabers, you will have to wait until 1.2 comes out and introduces those new schematics.

What crafting do you need these mats for? You say you're a pvp player, so why do you need to be making pve gear? (which is all the high level mats are used in...)

There are not schematics for them in the game. The premade mods drop randomly in operations.

Except you do get to make your own lightsaber pretty early... And by swapping out mods/etc, you can potentially keep that same one until you reach 50...

This plus 1. I am not sure why they are removing the lockouts though. I thought they wanted to remove credits from the players...lol

Investigation says "any skill" [paraphrased] in the Codex, but I don't think it rewards Cybertech schematics, since Slicing is the source of them.

You don't lose much using a Crit-crafted Str shield (and no need for a Willpower augment, blech!) I leveled to 50 using crit-crafted purple Str shields, and the comparison was a loss of minimal Force damage and less than 0.5% Force crit...lol

Are you mad you wasted mats getting the blue/purple for both? There was a post not too long ago that had the comparisons between all of the enhancements that are mirrors, and it was stated that the list never got truly updated from the beta to either get rid of them, or have the actual different ones. Sorry you missed that.

I believe Taris and Balmorra each have one. Though these can't be used effectively for Mara/Sents, for skills like Rupture (requires two lightsabers). So it's mostly just for looks, sadly.

Tionese = BoP. Columi = BoE.

The Legacy gear is random drops, and from what I have read it cannot be RE'd. So aside from if being relatively easy to come by (if you're in the farming mood of course...lol), it's worse than getting lower level crit-crafted orange gear.

My shadow tank has used a Str shield from the moment I was able to crit-craft a purple. You lose negligible Force damage and less than 0.5% Force crit by using one. Not that big of a loss.

Lots of bonus series to be had, make sure you've got them all! Taris. Tatooine. Nar Shaddaa. Balmorra. Alderaan. Hoth. Voss. I think that's all of them (in order of when you're able to do them, not in order of the planet you get them on).

You're wrong. I have done this quest on three different characters, only one having an in-combat CC, and successfully killed both mobs without much hassle. Stop making this quest sound like it's a problem when it isn't.

I all honesty, you'd be best waiting until 50 to switch. My trooper was Diplomacy/Underworld/Slicing while leveling (don't ask me why...lol) I switched her to Armormech/Scavenging (put Underworld on a separate toon and kept Slicing) And it took me less than 2 days to level up to 400/400 (not sure offhand how many credits it cost, but I was grinding dailies like a mofo during this time, so with ~250k per day income the new skills weren't a problem.

While leveling yes, otherwise grind the hell out of the Rich Yields to stockpile materials. And once you're 50, this is cheap as hell to do.

Oh my... You are not the first person to say that either...lol But yea, it does only work when there's more than 2-3 options for gemstone missions (Grade 6 is boned because there's only 2 Abundant options...) But the rest of them have enough to be worthwhile grinding through. This is how I roll on my artificer, and on any toon with a mission gathering skill.

Getting a Gemstone mission is easy...Unless you're referring to something you didn't mention in your original post. It's as easy as going to your ship...The list resets when you get a "hard" loading screen in the game.

Diminishing returns on Crit/Surge make that specific [Mastercraft] example not very good. Sure the weapon is front-loaded with those stats, but if you're already at the caps (30% crit/80% surge) you're just wasting secondary stats. If it was Power/Accuracy, it would be different since Power has no DR, and Accuracy only continues to reduce armor past 100% (giving slightly better return per point than crit or surge).

Koan Under Siege drops two as well if I am not mistaken. Or was that just Coulmi tokens...?

Well unless you're planning on crafting blues/purples while you level, you won't really need Treasure Hunting. So you can save a little money and use Slicing while you're leveling and then powerlevel Treasure Hunting at 50.