I must be missing something, but how's this gear any different from any other augmented orange gear (except for aesthetics)?

Does this have to do with the patching mess.. or do they actually require valor 60 to wear? Because I just crafted one and it requires valor 60. (whereas actual BM gear which you can buy with WZ comms doesn't seem to have that requirement any more).. Seems a bit odd.

Wasn't she patched in version 1.1? I believe she's not as hard now as she used to be.

Bounty Hunters and their Tracer Missiles. No other class has one button rotation. lol

Alderaan commendations vendor sells two types of moddable pants: one white and one green-ish. As for non-moddable pants, I think there are a lot of those, including brown. You should check GTN.

The question is: at what level? Staring from like levels 30-40, all elites have that much health, not to mention champs. I think any class character should be able to defeat ONE elite (of the same level) in 1on1 scenario with relative ease.

You get it back if the item is unsold.

6, I think.

This. Make it a habit to log out of the game from the rest zone. Unless you play for 10 hours straight, doing this will ensure that your XP bar is practically always green, and you will get double XP for every killed mob.

Actually, bonus objectives give the most XP, especially the ones with stages. Also don't forget to make use of RestXP. Always log out from the cantina (or rest zone). You'll get double XP for mobs when you're rested.

Select a mob, then right click on his icon and you'll see marking options.

What do you mean? Are you presently in the Republic/Imperial fleet? Because flashpoints start from there.

AFAIK, you can inspect players. Right click on the icon -> other commands -> Inspect player. I'd also suggest that you try and manage your funds better (so to speak). Frankly, I am quite puzzled how you managed to end up broke. Taris was the first planet where I felt like I made quite substantial profit. I only bought my bike/license on Tatooine and I had nearly 200K by then. Don't get me wrong or anything, but if the game says you can buy "something", doesn't necessarily mean that you have to. As a balanced Shadow myself, I obviously don't need Shadow Strike, so, for example, there is no point in upgrading that skill. Only upgrade skills that you actually use. Funny that you asked about force cloak. This ability is quite handy at saving money, lol. In short, it allows us to exit combat (without having to die and pay top $$ for repairs).

If you are, than you've been pretty unlucky with your rewards.

Doing quests is not the only way to get credits. You can always farm low level mobs (eg. rakghouls on Taris) and sell their junk.

When I said Sith gear, I meant you actually need to be Sith Warrior class (or at least some Imperial class) to wear it. That seems to be the common "issue" with UT. Imperial players get schems for Republic characters and vice versa. And I don't buy it for a second that this is simple RNG occurrences. I can only guess that maybe BW did it to stimulate market.. but it's absolutely no fun to get schematics for gear which you can't use. I can't tell you much about Cybertech. From what I read, it's only useful for making ear pieces and grenades. Once again, you will be getting plenty of mods and armor as quest rewards (and commendation vendors have them as well).

As a shadow, I initially picked Artifice... but couldn't really get into it. Dropped that and picked Synthweaving/Arch/UT... To be honest, I am not happy with that one either even though I did get it to 350. The problem is the lack of good schematics (and practically non-functioning GTN on my server). Unless you're willing to invests hundreds of thousands of credits and craft/RE like crazy, you won't be able to craft anything better than you can get from quests/flashpoint/pvp/commendation vendors. If you do get lucky with Underworld Trading and get an orange schematic, it will be for anything BUT synthweaving; and if by some miracle it is, it will be for Sith gear. :/ Now, I also have alt Trooper toon and picked Biochem... and in early levels (at least) that seems like an awesome skill by comparison because it allows you to create stims/medpacks that are way better than vendor's right from the start.

That depends on how you spec yourself. In any case, I recommend Shadow. It has stealth. Believe it or not, in PVE.. stealth becomes a great asset even outside combat scenarios.. for simply getting from A to B and not having to fight every insignificant mob in your path.

AFAIK, you don't get double XP for quests, only for killing mobs.

I found that in PvE, survivability is usually better than superior damage, particularly since shadows posses various cc abilities. Respec as balance or kinetic (or hybrid), have Tharan Cedrax healing you, and it will make a huge difference. Ive gone against elites 4-5 lvls above me.

I've noticed stealth doesn't work on mobs who are 5+ levels above you. I tried to sneak into Sith base on Alderaan, as well as some bonus areas that were way above my level. It was as if my stealth wasn't there at all. Even Blackout didn't help. Force Cloak didn't work ether for that matter. I think this may be intentional. Now that I am high enough level to do Alderaan bonus quests, I see that some mobs can still detect me from pretty far away whereas others can't. Pretty strange.

Do rich and plentiful missions have more chance of returning a schematic? Now I am thinking if moderate missions have the same chance, then I've been wasting a lot of money for nothing by sending my comps on plentiful+ missions.

But how do you craft blue/purple items then? AFAIK, some of the materials needed cannot be harvested anywhere, and can only be obtained through missions (or GTN... maybe). Strangely, I found that farming strong mobs can be very profitable. Up to level 32, my favorite location for this was on Tatooine. There in the Dune See, there was a place with a dozen or so strong droids. They drop credits as well as valuable junk, and if you're 6 lvls higher than the mobs, you can kill them in 3-4 seconds and don't get XPs (which is good as far as I am concerned). Granted, this obviously quite tedious work, but in 8-10 minutes, I manage to get 3-4k credits.

I am half way about 200 in Underworld Trading. Must've run 100+ missions, and wasted 100K on them, and in all that time I got 8 schematics. 7 of those were for ARMORTECH, while I am Synthweaver Jedi. Not only that, they were also for Imperial armors. Either I am missing something.. or this system totally sucks. The market doesn't have anything either. Either people are not interested in selling their schems, or they just don't care about market on my server - I don't know. When I read other threads about people not making profit from slicing, I am like ***. Forget profit.. lol. All I want is to craft something I can actually use, and something that's not available for a few commendations at the nearest vendor.

I am not 100% sure, but I believe you can find him there http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/respec.jpg/