Little late to the party here... but as an Imperial... how does one get the one in the Lower Industrial Sector without running past 3 or 4 lvl 55 Champion pub droids guarding the entrance to that area? Are we supposed to just run past and die multiple times just to get this part?

Yup, just noticed that myself as well tonight. Was trying to mix and match an outfit from armours I have in various collections, but the details panels wouldn't show up to allow me to preview the items.

The change you are encountering is because you beat them time wise to open the 3rd door in a quicker time than they did, ergo leaving it so you won. If they had only gotten past 1 door, the match would have ended the moment your team cracked door number 2. This was done mostly due to the fact that by that point... you'd have won, and alot of the defenders would likely have just quit out or avoided doing anything since the match was already won by the opponents. Frankly I welcome that change as I don't want to sit there for another 4 or 5 mins throwing myself at them for kills/medals when the final fate of the match is already known.

LOL... love the hand gesture after romancing the IA agents companion. Oooohhhh yea.

Right..a week or so after its been on the test server and they'll release it? Patch 1.2 has many issues and bugs, as someone who's jumped onto the server and trying things out and submitting many bugs, I doubt we'll see this released before the end of April if we're lucky. 1.2 is a huge change with a lot of new code.. you can't just expect 1 week or so will have everything ironed out and ready to go.

Ok.. at lvl 30.. why would you need purple? I've gone from 1 to 49.. and used blue's from commendations from the planets as I progress through them.. and not suffering any. Really you only NEED the purples at 50 to be up there and competative.

If the item in question is "grey".. meaning the text when you hover over the item icon is grey in colour.. then yes its just vendor trash. Another clue is if its stackable. Mods that go into weapons and armour are not stackable at all, but keep in mind that stims/health packs are stackable and not junk

The primary place to get mods/upgrades for weapons/armour is from the commendation vendors on each planet, or from the GTN by buying them from other players who have crafted these items. Another way is some quests actually reward you with a choice of upgrades. Usually armouring being the main one I've seen, with enhancement being next, and on the rare occasion barrels (I suspect for saber users you'd see hilts as rewards). It is VERY rare to see a mod drop from a mob you've killed. The less than half a dozen times I've see it happen, its been a purple mod, and only once has it been a mod I could use, and even then, I had access to something that was the same, if not better in a blue already slotted. I think you'd have a far better chance of seeing a fully slotted item drop, and be able to canibalize it by removing mods from it. I've seen two "orange" sabers drop in my times on Drommand Kaas, and pulled a couple mods from those to use on my sith warrior.

Leggings for light are missing, should be at skill 40 (med and heavy have leggings at 40) Belt for light at 80 skill level crafting is missing (med and heavy have a belt craftable at 80) Gloves for light at 100 skill level crafting is missing (med and heavy have a belt craftable at 100) At skill level 120 there are no light boot pattern, but 2 bracer patterns with differing names yet the exact same stats. Med and heavy have boot pattern at 120, and only 1 bracer pattern then. Frankly.. if you're heavy or medium... Syth seems ok. However if you use light, or want to equip light armoured force using companions, this skill is NOT for you till they fix the missing patterns.

I don't know what changes were made re the graphics settings. But since the patch its reverted to an older smaller resolution for me and when I try to set it back to the widest/largest resolution, the timer ends before I can see the UI to select "Keep Changes". Its very annoying having to play on a lower setting when I was on a higher one before. Please in future patches like this, DO NOT reset the graphics settings of the players set up.

Oddly.. I can't see a reciepe in Sythweaving for Light armour leggings that should have shown up for lvl 13 gear. There is heavy and medium variants... just no light.

I think smugglers are supposed to get these on the last part of their quest before leaving the planet but its bugged. Shrug...

I've found Armormech to be very useful so far. I've not only been able to make some orange modable gear for friends/guildies, but I've been able to make armour for my companions as well instead of taking the pieces quests give you the option to choose. I think this, like the sythweaving and armstech skills are always over looked for the potential of what they give to companions more than our own toons.

Only your companions craft. You yourself will not do any of that. The only thing you can do is gather if you wish, instead of using the companion to do it.. but using the companion is a faster method.