Yes, I remove all armor,mods,enhancements from pvp gear to use custom gear

No, I did not augment the shell

Already put a ticket in about 4-5 days ago, wanted to bounce this around. See if anyone else has had this problem or knows of a solution. So, I have the Exhumed Force-Master's bracer. I have the ranked coms about 2000 at the time. The bracers I have the Exhumed Item in my inventory. Its not in my bank. I open the Ranked vendor to buy the Dark Reaver Force-Master's bracers. The token and the ranked coms on the right of the item are green and shown as affordable. I attempt to buy the item and it says "You cannot afford this item" I then tried to equip/unequip the item. Nothing works. I've been buying gear on this game since launch and have never had an issue. So I decided to try the normal things, I logged out completely. Ran a repair on the game. Logged back in. Same results. I then decided to get the belt. That worked, no issues with buying the belt or any of the other 11 pieces of ranked gear. I then decided to try and buy another exhumed bracer token, and try turning that one in instead, by putting the old token in my bank. That was unsuccessful. Again, I am 100% positive that I have the coms, I have the item needed for the Ranked piece. I stared at it for an hour to make sure lol. Any thoughts related to this issue would be appreciated!

I'm going to agree here with AlatarTheGrea, I do better on my sorc in Arena pvp than any other dps class. First off, my death field like to hits like a truck, I've seen up to 7.5k damage to each of the opposing team members. Do the math on that. I basically just killed one of them and I can try doing it again in 15 seconds. Then I dot the healer making those pesky operative/scoundrel healers pop out if they try and stealth and they can't cleanse, its constant damage. If I see a teammate hurting, I hit Polarity shift put some big heals out. All the while, My creeping terror stays on cooldown(every 9 sec) rooting one of the players. This is just a small portion of what I do in a match but I win. ALOT. Know your role as a sorc and you will do better, if you give them a target and they focus you.. You die.. Keep your distance and don't over commit like I see most sorcs doing. Learn to Kite and make those smashers(jugs and maras) give up and move on. I promise if you root them every 9 secs,static barrier, Overload knockback, Force slow, electrocute, force speed away... root again and apply those dots on the run. If they use a stun break on any of those stuns, Whirlwind them for 60 secs. They will give up if you know when and where to do those things. If all else fails, Force barrier for 10sec. Take a deep breath and realize you don't have the skill to play a madness sorc.

I sorc heal in pvp most of the time but since the patch I've been spending a lot of time in the madness tree. Madness has become a scoundrel/operatives worst nightmare. They can no longer just stealth out and find a save spot to heal up without the madness dot pulling them out of stealth if Death field is applied. I've seen madness Socs do anywhere from 800k to 1.5mil damage in a normal match on my server. BUT, we still die fairly quickly if we do not use our defensive abilities quick and efficiently. If left alone, unimpeded from our button mashing, totally Viable! I'm currently running 3/7/36 build

For those of you that dont live in the U.S and are not able to enjoy a Thanksgiving holiday with a lil double xp game time... Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to those around you. Its about being thankful for what you have or maybe just thankful for being healthy and having the opportunity to waste some time and enjoy a game. So try and level out and just be thankful your even getting another double xp weekend. I know I am.

I logged in this morning and notice my ranked dropped down about 60 points. It went back to what it was yesterday before the update. Ive won about 13 ranked matches and only lost 3. So it does seem like something is wrong here. I didn't see anything about it already posted. Any useful help with this would be appreciated, thanks!

I hit lvl 55 and was rdy to do ranked five hours after the pre release hit. I wasn't worried about building up my coms again. That is why I spent them and because I now had a perfect set of min/maxed EWH gear that could easily help me thru to more coms. Which turned out to be a waste of my time and coms, and only a waste because they removed all the expertise off my gear because of silly oversights that the pts should have provided thru testing. Oh and if I wanted to be on your ranked team I could be, and I could probably easily take your spot. So talk less, think more and try and keep this post on topic which is "Give back our Expertise" rather then singling people out and insulting them.

I love watching a couple dps jump on me, blow cool downs all while my force barrier is up. couple secs later they realize what is going on.. switch targets and I go on my merry way. Is it OP.... well it does have a 3 min cool down. So not IMO - Redheaded

I Agree!

No, the ppl that didnt upgrade from there recruit gear and saved all the coms up, they have a one up now.

atleast recruit gear had expertise.. and that is in no way even close to the same issue here.

I guess it doesnt matter that my PVE gear is now better then my pvp gear. For pvp. Oh well.

What are you talking about. Everyone is not going to start with a fresh set of 55 gear. We have to start somewhere. The removal of expertise was not on the PTS so ppl had no way of knowing that the gear would be Completely useless in 55. So some of us spent our coms. If they were going to make these kinds of changes they should have just reset everyones comes all together to lvl out the playing field.

Over achievers who take pride in being at the top of there game. Im not concerned with getting the new Gear. I will have that in time. But NOW, in that time.. I will have very little expertise and all the current work I have done has turned out to handicap rather than benefit me

Ive been 55 for 5 days now. I have PvE gear to lvl with. I dont need my PVP Gear to be turned into something is wasn't, to begin with.

Its common sense, you dont change the stats on something that we have all worked so hard to get. I understand that it will lose value with the expansion.. but to be completely useless and to remove its stats because thats the "easy fix" to the problem is not cool.

I have just about full EWH gear... I used up all my coms pre 2.0 to make sure I was going to be Geared for the transition... Just to find out that all the thousands of coms I used and countless pvp matches I ran were a waste. Ive got just about zero expertise in lvl 55 pvp matches now... Whats the PTS even used for. We should have known about this issue well in advance. Otherwise I wouldnt have wasted all the coms on EWH gear. Instead I was safe to assume it would be good gear to start with in the expansion for pvp. I'm absolutely useless to my current Ranked team now. I want something to be done about this. This fix of yours is not a fix.. its a setback to countless ppl who spent hours and hours preparing for the update.. just to give those "gear vs skill" ppl an easier time in pvp. ERG! Very upset. -Redheaded

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I'm not completely sure, but my best guess would be his Force bonus healing or a percentage of damage from a force attack.

These are my BUFFED stats. I'm in full BH gear(2-27 cunning barrels), best in slots except 1- 61 armoring. I do not have all of the datacrons yet. Cunning: 2319 Power: 1065 Endurance: 1770 TechPower 1346 Bonus Healing: 771.2 Critical Chance: 34.57% (164) Critical Multiplier: 79.20% (456) <-------Points in skills Activation Speed : 7.93% (114) I'm thinking that I should probably drop at least 1 or 2 Power/Surge Enhancements for Power/Alacrity? I've heard numerous ppl write Alacrity off and I've tried it both ways, Alacrity won both of the HPS mock sessions I ran. I am also not too worried about my Crit atm because I will start my next upgrades with the 27 mods ect. My Average HPS on 2 entire 8m EC HM runs have been around 1,660 according to my combat logs. Am I even in the right neighborhood on this? I don't have any fellow Operative healer buddies so I can't swap notes lol. Any legitimate constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated