Well, players spend a lot of time gathering comms to get good equipment, it is just a matter of time that all equipment turns to trash with a new Op, update or cap raise. In the end, there is no point in getting "prestige" items, soon or later the company will make things easier. Some weeks ago a WH weapon was 3600 comms, now it is 2000, next time it will be 1000....in the end it will be given as recruit gear. The important is the content, story and fun. For me SWTOR is boring at lvl 50, the most important aspects of the game are over right now. No more companions action, no real spaceflight, no random adventures, no action for solo/duo players, no feeling that I really own a ship. The 1.4 was just more of the same, comms and comms. Now I heard that there will be more dailies in Belsavis....to get more comms....damn. I want fast action and freedom. I don't want to play 2-3 hours in a Ops group to get a boot and hat that will became trash in the next update. As it seems, STO will have company, soon or later.

The transfers were without troubles. I had to change some char names, my son had to change char names and legacy. But I am happy, since I got to 50 I was unable to pvp, 45+ days without pvp. Yesterday I joined battle in seconds, I did 3 in a row, my first lvl 50 pvp warzones after almost 2 months! On my old server there was 2-5 ppl on space station at all times, yesterday there were 178 players on station. Yes I am very happy. Good work BW.

No, I don't want more dailies. I don't want to waste more time with boring routine just to get 6-10 comms. Even with a random daily quest generator, after some weeks I would have made all of them many times and would be struck in the same cycle. I am a casual player, not because I play little time but mostly because my time schedule denies me the opportunity to have a fixed HM/Op/Raid group. The first week I spent with dailies, I saw how pointless it was, so I decided to play my alts and only use the lvl 50 in PVP. As PVP is dead in my server for quite some time, I went back to dailies. Currently I am spending about 50-55 min a day in dailies, Illum and Corellia only, my patience doesn't last after this. No PVP, no craft, no story, no companion's chat, no space battles, no fun at all. In weekends sometimes I am able to do some FPs, however most of times I don't get anything useful. This weekend I did two FPs and nothing, 4-5 hours to waste. So that's it, dailies is what is left of TOR for me. I do Torvik every week. Right now I have 30 BH comms, so I still need more 5 weeks to get a chest. Yep, this can only be a joke, 10 weeks to get something that I made myself with craft up to lvl 49. Why I keep making dailies? Because alts PvP is dead and I hope that with char transfers things will improve.

I have a lvl 50 sniper with Armstech crafting skill. Since lvl 17 I am using handmade weapons. All my companions and alts used handmade weapons. I have a long list of purples rifles, pistols, etc, of all levels. I was glad to spend time and money in my purple weapons because they were always better than the others in game. Now at lvl 50 Armstech became useless, I made a lvl 50 augmented purple sniper rifle and a purple augmented knife, both are bellow the Tionese counterparts. My BH is lvl 48 now, he always used the pistols made by the sniper, now I am preparing a pair of oranges for lvl 50, with daily comms mods, because they are better than the ones I can make. Even the crafted barrels are outdated. So thats it, Armstech is over. Now I spend my time running after comms to get rid of every single piece of my crafted gear. The only option I see would be the ability to produce consumalbe ammunitions to improve the weapon´s damage. As they don´t exist, I would say Craft-Armstech is useless.

My companion's list. Temple - Used most of times. I keep her well equipped and with purple weapons. Her damage is great, it is like to have 2 snipers shooting. We use the same uniform and we look cool together. Good soldier and hot woman. The bad point is that she is not so good at holding aggro. I would like to have a deeper story of her. Sad that the chats are so few. Kaliyo - She is called when in solo a tank is imperative. I keep her well equipped. Her damage is not so great but she does not let me take damage. Someone I can trust just because she distrusts everyone. All weapons I use were made by her. A little crazy girl but I would cross galaxy to save her. No, I did not forgive that mistake..... Lokin - When in heroics and a personal healer is needed. He lends the equipment from Temple, so he is cheap to keep. Good healer, bad for the rest. Vector - Nice friend. I just prefer female company. Barely used. Scorpio - I find her boring as a character. I would prefer a more creepy robot. When I met her she was using a pistol, then she changed to a melee one. Maybe I don´t like melee companions.

My main is a lvl 50 sniper with armstech, scavenging and research. So I will tell you about my experience. My first successful rifle was a blue lvl 19. Since then, I only use weapons made by Kaliyo. I had trouble making weapons until I got more companions. You can't spare your Kaliyo during gameplay, so things are slow at earlier levels. My first purple was the lvl 25 sniper rifle, after this level I managed to get the purple rifle every 4 levels. For Kaliyo, Temple and Lokin, I got some purples blasters up to lvl 50, when I had money, so I kept them with blue pistols augmented when money was short. Because of bad luck I spent a lot of money to make the lvl 33 and 41 sniper rifles (more than 20 blues burned). The others were "easier" to get Selling weapons are not so easy, as you need sniper rifles and none uses them (except the companion Gaunt from BH, I think), they are hard to sell for good prices. The best selling weapons are Aim pistols, because of Bounty Hunters and Cunning Pistols for companions like Mako, Vette, Malavai, Andronikos, etc. I don´t think it is a good way to make money. If your trouble is to get rare materials. The critical chance raises when you reach the superior tier of missions. So if you can make missions lvl2, lvl1 missions have a higher chance to get rare materials. The second option is to use craft missions recipes, they return rarer materials easier but are single use missions. Be prepared to farm craft missions with Reseach. About barrels. I don't like them very much. I think it is easier to make a purple weapon than to make a purple barrel and look for the rest of the tiny mods elsewhere. I have a cybertech BH alt lvl 43, he uses the purple pistols I made, they are better than any other I can get in game. Gaunt uses purple rifle from sniper and Mako a blue pistol augmented or a purple pistol.

Last Sunday, I was in a group of 3 kamikazes in Alderaan Civil War. We spent all battle defending the left turret against waves of attackers, they were 7-8 on the other side. No pre-mades but they had a good healer. After that crazy battle I ended in 2nd, just after one guy from the other team, with 9 medals and got the amazing number of 48 commendations! With more 11 battles like this I finally will be able to buy my lvl 40 PvP top! Nice!

Even if you are a good player, you can´t win with a team of 3 vs 7. This is not a matter of who is the best/worst player. This is the point of the post.

Oh yes, a lot of 3x6, 3x7, 3x8, 4x8 and after a very hard time you get the prize of 30 commendations. And the funny part is that there was 100+ players online. The server just create groups of 4 and throw them into suicide attacks. No, these battles doesn't get filled, I participated in many of them that started with 4 and ended with 3-4 people against 6-8.

Yesterday, Sunday, I played PVP many times. First of all, for some weird reason my team was always outnumbered since the beginning. There were 100+ players in my facction on server. All the time the team started with 4(!) people against 6+ on the opposing side. Two times I ended the battle with 3 people on team because of deserters. With such number difference the victory chance is very bad. After several matches (about 8-10), all defeats, I quit. The best result was a 2nd place with 48 commendations. In the end after several battles I could not sum 250 commendations for battles were I was always outnumbered. Why did the battles start with such numerical difference? Why did the difference last the entire match? Why in a battle against all odds the players who stay are punished with 0 or 20-30 commendations?

I have two active accounts, for me and my son, chars lvl 44,43,39 and others. I brought a friend to the game that has a 44 char and an active account also. I am playing since the pre-launch in December. The only free gift I got until now is an unscheduled maintenance Friday 13th, my free day. If Bioware wants to give incentives to lvl 50 guys that left the game after reaching the endgame, it is ok, I can understand this. I just think they shall make this clear, so I can leave the game too to get my free month when I get to 50, if this is the rule! Now about the idea that some customers are more important than others. This is a not good path in a game where everyone is paying the same. Oh, I forgot... now some players will play for free.

I don´t mind if people quits the battle when someone takes his place. The problem is that last Sunday I tried to PvP three times in a row and for three times the game ended because there were not enough players. When the empire was losing, empire players quit. When republic was loosing, republic players quit. In the end some players could not play because some players keep getting out. After three times I decided to do something else. The best way to avoid a PvP player to quit is to forbid him to join another pvp fight, even if this is only for 2 pvp battles time (30-40min). Any other punishment is void.

At lvl 25-30 it is not difficult to get 6-7 medals and get top 3 if the teams are balanced. I already got a healing medal, but I am not sure how I got it, maybe I took too much damage and cured myself, lol.

Thanks!

I am almost done in Balmorra and all class quests are over. However. when I was doing the quests is the Collicoid area map, on the north, I passed close a destroyed bridge and found a box with a quest icon on it. When I tried to open the box I got a message saying that I dont have the key. Where is this key?