Not sure if this has been mentioned previously in this thread because i didn't read all 28 pages of comments but I like how these "real" numbers don't take into account the ongoing cost of hosting, bandwidth, troubleshooting, and basically ongoing development that is still occurring. I'm sure it's profitable but the margin of profit painted here is just false.

I tried 3 more this weekend with no luck. At least there is renewed hope that it is at least possible now.

Wow...real classy BW. Where's my 10+ BCA's and 40+ Corusca Gems?

That's my point. I'd prefer the secondary stats of the Enforcer due to having enough Crit already and want to start stacking Power, but it has 18 less Cunning so I was wondering if 18 Cunning is better than +51 power?

In my experience Kaon is one of the easier flashpoints. Our group only had a couple pieces of columi each, went in there without knowing much of the mechanics (outside of reading a quick walkthru before entering) and finished it on the first try without wiping. As opposed to Colonel Daksh in Maelstrom which took us a good 5 tries the first time. Of course the rest of Maelstrom is cake. I still haven't tried lost island and from all the videos I've seen on it, the risk doesn't seem worth the reward. We'll probably try to tackle it some day though.

It appears there aren't any field tech rakata implants so i was wondering if, as a scrapper I should go with Field Medic instead. Field Medic has +18 cunning over the Enforcers and also has Crit/Surge. My Crit is already over 35% and the Enforcers have Power/Surge which is nice but i sacrifice that +18 Cunning for Endurance. It's my understanding that Cunning > All but just wanted to make sure.

I leveled my scoundrel as a Sawbones, thought I would do end game content as a healer and found I really don't enjoy healing. I resepecced as Scrapper and really need some help. I'm messing around with different rotations mentioned here on the message boards and one thing I noticed with all of them: I run out of energy pretty quick. My main is a sentinel where I use the abilities as soon as they are off CD and I have enough focus. That clearly isnt working for the DPS scoundrel. Should I add artificial delays in between each ability to keep my energy above 60% or should i just burn it down and use Flurry of Bolts while waiting for it to recharge? Not really sure how to avoid this from happening and any input from you scrappers out there would be excellent. Thanks, Matt

The whole reason I was hoping for a crit was so i could have a relic better than the campaign relics. Well since I will be able to augment the campaign relic, it effectively makes my rakata relic worthless and I might as well just grind out the 200 comms and augment a campaign relic.

As opposed to your logic which is no more than "uh doesn't work like that...just because." Why would BW include percentage numbers that mean nothing to the end user due to some hidden formula?

Is there any chance we can get a reply from a Dev. Just something along the lines of "yes you can still crit, yes it's really friggen hard, and yes it's working as intended" The lack of response makes me think they screwed up and are going to ninja fix this and blame the impossible streak on RNG.

Actually whoever said recruit gear is better than champion you are wrong. http://swtor.askmrrobot.com/character/2562fa79-d722-4491-9502-3454a3ff6229 That is a link to a imaginary character with recruit gear on the Gear tab and Champion gear on the Wish List tab (ignoring relics) Below are stats taking into consideration the PvP bonus from expertise: recruit bonus heal - 424.6 recruit dmg reduction - 37.38% recruit bonus dmg - 615.12 recruit HP - 12559 champion bonus heal - 468.0 champion dmg reduction - 35.12% champion bonus dmg - 681.38 champion HP - 15405 So recruit has the edge in damage reduction by ~2.2% but the increase of almost 3k HP, the bonus healing and bonus damage (assuming field medic gear) more than make up for it.

Bump. Really would like an official answer other than the canned response I've seen posted in various threads

I'm sure after crafting as many as you guys have you know you can RE them and there is a chance you get your Biometric Crystal Alloy back. I don't believe it's possible to get the gems back though. I've definitely given up until i see or hear of proof that it's possible after 1.2.

With sawbones and a half geared DPS companion you should be able to solo champions. I leveled my scoundrel with sawbones and think I may have died only two or three times in PvE.

I'm at about 20 without a crit. I think I'm gonna stop trying this until we get some sort of a confirmation on this whether its bugged or working as intended. Still nobody has posted whether they've successfully critted post 1.2 which concerns me a great deal.