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.

Not as viable when we run with a Commando healer. Kolto bomb is kinda weak

The mechanic basically goes something like this: - Power punch the tank across the room - Pull 2 people toward him - Channel Punishment - People who get pulled will get hit almost every time. It seems like no matter how far away from the droid you are when punishment goes off, you have a chance of getting hit. That doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense. The last time we played this, I was down to around 30% health so I force cammoed and ran away long before he even began channeling punishment. I was literally back by the boxes on the other side of the giant room when the next Punishment when off and was hit for like 4k damage! Is this thing really an AoE or is it hitting random people regardless of their range?

We had a similar issue but I paid closer attention and found out what was really happening. Daksh is probably getting a shot off on the tank but it's either being absorbed or they are getting out of LOS in time. It's an instant ability but there is a split second before the shot goes off, there will be a red target on you. It is possible to get out of the way when they red target is on you and not get hit, the only problem is, he will immediately switch targets even if the shot was unsuccessful. To counteract this possibility we had our ranged DPS hide behind the opposite boxes and just come out and take pot-shots when they had an opportunity. It lowered the risk of this happening. As a sentinel, depending on how much faith I have in my tank, I will just lay into him during the second implant phase. I have over 17k HP so i can usually take one hit from the laser without dying.

I've seen people with augmented rakata relics. Just wondering if these are still attainable via Artifice. I have about 6 rakata relics in my bank (which i have no idea what i will do with) in an attempt to crit one. Just want to make sure this isn't all in vain.

/signed I have friends who refuse to play the game anymore because their computer lags so bad and the client updates are slow. When boss mechanics depend on specific timing and the performance of the application does not allow that timing to be achieved, the game is effectively broken.

No please, expose your ignorance and explain it to me....Wait, don't worry i got this one. Full champ gear on my sentinel gives me the following stats (with all class buffs): 786 max primary damage 16444 HP 11.6% PVP damage/defense bonus Full recruit gear gives my sentinel the following stats (with all class buffs): 710 max primary damage 13367 HP 14% PVP damage/defense bonus Are you trying to tell me that 2.4% damage/defense bonus will more than make up for 76 primary damage and over 3k HP? Plus champ is still viable to use in PvE where recruit gear stats are terrible outside of PvP. Centurion is probably worse than recruit gear but that stuff was growing on trees after 1.1.4.

It just seems the next logical step since medals are now much more closely tied to wins.

Am I going crazy or do I remember that 1.2 patch notes at some point said something along the lines of WZ dailies and weekly quests no longer requiring wins for completion. Am I going crazy or did this just fall off the radar?

I'm not understanding the complaint...you have gear...it still works...what's the issue?

completely missed that...thanks!