I had something very similar happen to me on Oricon only it was with the same faction. He didn't try to stealth, he just capped the objective and took off while I was dealing with the mobs. I also called him out on it and he proceed to tell me that "I'm a hypocrite because I probably do the same thing, ect." Afterwards he became the newest addition to my ignore list. As far as cross faction goes, I'd say it's pretty cheap. But in my opinion it's alot worse if they are in the same faction.

If you are having problems surviving EC SM or HM, as long as you are in 63's you should be fine. I am assuming that you know your rotations and are doing everything possible max your dps; stims, adrenals, ect. My main char is a sorc healer. If I was constantly having issues losing people during an op (any op), I would make sure that I was properly geared, knew my own rotations, and of course...know the fights. As a dps, I feel like your responsiblities fall more in line with damage output and your healers should be concerning themselves with your survival. Just my two cents.

I have never used the grenade. Always force push.

Qwel'draken Republic Black Hole Targeter's MK-4 Adaptor http://www.torhead.com/item/cecQIyw/black-hole-targeters-mk-4-adaptor

Dookoo handily pwnd Obi-wan every time they fought. Anakin killed Dookoo, but Obi-wan beat Anakin. To say that Obi-wan never lost is ridiculous. Out of the list I would say that Yoda is the last one standing. Yoda technically didn't lose against Palpatine, instead he chose to quit. If I remember correctly Palpatine was hanging off of one of the senate platforms by a fingernail when Yoda called it quits.

Now that you're at level 50, check out the mission terminals in the Supplies area of the fleet. These will give you access to the daily and weekly missions. Also, Hard Mode versions of all or most flashpoints are available to level 50s. In addition, higher rated lvl50 gear will drop from the Black Hole daily and heroic missions. The best PVE gear drops occur in the Hard Mode, and Nightmare mode ops. Group finder is also a great place to start. I hope this helps.

Mandalorian Iron is still needed to craft almost all 22 level mods, armors, earpieces, ect. (at least for cybertech) Other very valuable crafting supplies include: Synthetic Energy Matrix and Molecular Stabilizers. <---not sure if they are UT or Arch though. Hope this helps.

How does giving two separate pieces of gear (at least with different names) the exact same stats give players more options with their gear? My point is simple. The Black Hole MK-(insert any number higher than 1) pieces should have higher stats than a MK-1. Period. The fact that they do not is simply piss poor design.

Yes, but that still doesn't explain the fact that the stats are exactly the same.

Can anyone explain why the stats on a Black Hole MK-1 earpiece is exactly the same for a MK-4? I was able to reverse engineer a MK-4 earpiece that dropped on SM EC. However, considering it will cost nearly 1.2 million creds on the GTN (just for mats) to craft one of these buggers, why would someone pay that when they could just do the dailies until they get the 35 Black Hole comms to purchase a MK-1 with the EXACT same stats? To me it seems like common sense that a MK-4,5,6..ect would have better stats than MK-1.

When I first joined a level 50 wz, you still had to work a little bit to get recruit gear. If I remember correctly it cost nearly 300K. So I agree that beginning at the bottom of the expertise pool can be frustrating. However, now the recruit gear is given to you as soon as you hit lvl 50 so the facerolling isn't as severe as it used to be. I have even made posts about my frustrations with pvp. The main problem I had with pvp was that I wasn't playing my class correctly. I wasn't using the correct openers, taunts, ect. Once I learned more about how to effectively utilize the tools at my disposal, the better I performed in the wz's. In most cases I find myself somewhere in the middle of the leader board. However, there are definitively many cases when our team gets stomped. It is all a part of the game as far as Im concerned. If I could change anything about the pvp, it would be the ability to queue solo for RWZs. Other than that, its just another part of the gear grind in my opinion. There is no reason to penalize players who earned the gear.

When I first joined a level 50 wz, you still had to work a little bit to get recruit gear. If I remember correctly it cost nearly 300K. So I agree that beginning at the bottom of the expertise pool can be frustrating. However, now the recruit gear is given to you as soon as you hit lvl 50 so the facerolling isn't as severe as it used to be. I have even made posts about my frustrations with pvp. The main problem I had with pvp was that I wasn't playing my class correctly. I wasn't using the correct openers, taunts, ect. Once I learned more about how to effectively utilize the tools at my disposal, the better I performed in the wz's. In most cases I find myself somewhere in the middle of the leader board. However, there are definitively many cases when our team gets stomped. It is all a part of the game as far as Im concerned. If I could change anything about the pvp, it would be the ability to queue solo for RWZs. Other than that, its just another part of the gear grind in my opinion. There is no reason to penalize players who earned the gear.

I agree with everything that Darth-Malice states in the opening post. Well said.

My JK is spec'd as Vigilance, so the deft mods work great for me.

Hmm. That's really surprising to me. I'm also a 400 cybertech and I have never noticed that they were missing. I suppose that there would be a considerable market for them on the GTN. I will also be looking into this. Hopefully, I can find a few to RE.