There isn't any valor gain on Ilum anymore. It's all been taken out, afaik.

Again, proof that they listen to *some* of the community. Some of us were quite content to keep skipping him.

I disagree. Let's not go to Ilum. Ilum is ... what it is. Plus we'll have all-new Ilum soon. I maintain that open-world PVP events should take place on Quesh. After all, Quesh is - by far - the smallest planet. This means that there's plenty of confined spaces for people to get into large-scale fights. Plus, the trash mobs there aren't going to be a threat to anyone who is L50. (Not that trash generally is, but ...) Thoughts?

Harbinger actually got two rollbacks, fwiw. And has had more server crashes than any other server since the merges. We've gotten nothing aside from queue times and more fleet lag.

Actually, subs do have to wait in queues, they just get to jump ahead of free accounts in line.

For what it's worth, I can craft all 27 armorings except Patron, several 26 level mods and enhancements, all +41 saber crystal colors (have all three magenta schems), and all battlemaster shells on my various characters. About the only thing I haven't bothered to try to learn is biochem recipes. Drop E'lora or Durg'en a line in-game for armoring crafts.

lolno. DPS who aggro strongs and start taking damage = need to heal. A tank who jumps in and leads with a taunt before an AOE damage ability = healer will rip in exactly 6 seconds if they toss any heals at all, let alone an AoE heal or a HoT. You make all of your generalizations thinking tanks know how to play their class. By and large, on my server, half the tanks that queue without full groups are DPSers in tank stance without gear and skill, or are in tionese or worse. My healer is in full campaign, my MDPS in half dread guard. I have to remind the tanks *constantly* to guard me as DPS, and if they don't, I apologize to the healer immediately for making them work hard. As for healing .. if I have a bad tank, I can keep them up, but i spend most of my time DPSing because otherwise I'd be meat. That's why I pretty much exclusively run guild HMFP runs now. There's far, far too much bad.

There isn't any very low level gear for any companion. Why would HK get something no one else does? Do we need level 1-8 gear for Corso, T7, Qyzen, Jorgan, Mako, Kaliyo, Vette, and Khem while you're at it? You can obtain droid gear at level 9 from cybertechs. Complaining that he's not geared on the starter world is ludicrous - neither are you!

Could be worse. You could be Armstech or Artifice and have no schematic drops in any HMFP or op - except for vanishingly small chances of schems for columi enhancements. Personally, I think *all* hardmode flashpoint and operation schematic drops, including the exo schems, need to be not bound so they can be traded and sent to alts. At worst, they should be Bind-to-legacy instead of bind on pickup. My 400 Biochem alt is still level 35 - it'd be nice to get some gear crafted by him and stims crafted for my main without having to powerlevel him to 50.

The entire planet of Corellia is "contested" .. so is Belsavis. Contested could simply mean sides vying for control. It doesn't necessarily mean PvP objective-oriented. Fact is, until a dev comes out and SAYS what it is, or we play it, nothing we say will matter, so what's the point?

1. Recruit gear is *not* free if you're not a brand-new 50. You may've bought the token, turned it in, and taken the credits months ago like many players did. 2. Ilum *was* a PvP planet. Nowhere in the dev posts the previous poster mentioned does it say that it'll *stay* that way. According to those same dev posts, there is no guarantee that the Western Shelf will remain a PvP area. Just because it is NOW doesn't mean it will be in 1.7. 3. They cater to the PvE crowd because they outnumber the PvP crowd by most estimates 10 to 1. We'd see the same amount of QQ if there were a faction-specific event.

If you're a level 50 buying it for a low-level alt, rolling a cybertech alt and crafting a set of moddable parts -or- buying a set of droid parts off the GTN is of almost negligible cost. Or you can find someone who can already craft the parts. Or you can just wait until after DK/Corusc. and pick up some of the moddable droid part quest rewards and start keeping those up to date. It's seriously an issue for about fifteen levels at most - and you can run HK around *naked* on the starter world without a problem.

Which is why C2N2 is so incredibly awesome for Cybertech. 10k affection = 5% Cyber Part = 5% 3 Legacy Perks = 3% 13% Crit rate on cybertech crafting. Yes, please.

Wasn't ever promised "next patch" .. was promised "soon" ...

That *was* the open-world PVP area. There's been exactly zero proof that it's going to *stay* that way. Furthermore, the devs dropped pretty strong hints that Ilum will be (in their words) "completely revamped" and that "open-world PVP is on the back burner" .. It'll be a PvE area. Mark my words.

Look up some Phalanx members on Harbinger. We're always willing to help out new folks and make friends in the process. <endguildrecruitmentspam>

Nope. Techblade, vibrosword, electrostaff, but no training saber. For that matter, no orange moddable offhands of any type can be crafted unless you're a merc, slinger, or mara/sent.

Well, it *was* an auto-flag area. There's no evidence that it will stay that way, and plenty of supporting facts to state that it'll change. I use as citations: Dev blog post from 1/2. Copypasta in Spoiler tag: Emphasis: do not look for massive new Open World PvP this year quite a departure from what was there before It's going to be a PvE area, guys. Enjoy!

Learn. To. Interrupt.

I actually have the full mindful guardian set (that i was able to find) on my tank. I have chest, legs and boots. They're modded with campaign armorings for my DPS set..

I'm virtually certain he's using blackhole weaponmaster gear, of which 4/5 armorings are tank armorings as well. Make sure you buy some Vindicator sets to get the proper high-might low-end armorings.

Odd. I make it a point to inspect every other player's gear every time I run a fp, and recommend that we kill/skip bosses accordingly. I need zero gear from any HMFP on any char, as all of mine are in rakata+, but I know there are always people new to the game and new to 50 who need help. As for the people who say that you should skip every unnecessary boss bc they drop tionese crap, well.. one of the most skipped boss encounters, the droid in Taral V, drops a random 56 quality piece of gear. Usually it's an exo, but I've seen columi belts and bracers drop from it pretty regularly lately. It's a 2 minute fight. If I have a 15k player in my party, you bet I pull the droid, no matter what character I'm on - and I tell the party I'm going to do so, and why. Furthermore, some players are cyber/armor/arms and need to scavenge. Some players want to skin the bio drops in Lost Island. All it takes is that players take five seconds and communicate with the rest of their party, and that you as a player see what's in your group and make allowances. You accomplish nothing by failing to help the people around you get better - all you do is bring them back into your pug pool the next day without improved gear.

If there was a way to have a moddable training saber on my jugg, you bet your butt I would, and I'd pvp constantly. For the lulz.

This is a holdover from early Beta. Back then, you needed different enhancements for weapons and armor, and in some cases light/medium/heavy were also slot-bound. Therefore, you needed two or more different enhancements with the same stats. They removed that effect but didn't remove all the duplicate enhancements when the game went live, and now they can't remove them because there's no way to tell which versions people have trained up the purple quality.

Well, Malgus *falls* .. but we can't be sure he's dead. I'm willing to bet we see him back soon enough.