Correction to this post: logged back in and saw something that provided a moment of clarity: Crew Skills Trainer. Apparently this dude had my new recipes! So I purchased what I needed and then crafted and got what I needed. EA/Bioware, my bad about forgetting about such a key vendor. Problem solved. Jedi Sentinel now much happier. Thanks. Out!

Hi all. So the last few days before and after the 4.0 update I decided to come back to the game as a subscriber. I knew in checking my main character 2 nights ago things were amiss. A level 26 Jedi Sentinel with level 18 gear on Nar Shaddha...all blue and orange gear mind you but still. So I decided to do some artifice crafting after a few Archeology missions to get more Artifact fragments (as I was low from last I played). Did some crafting, it went nowhere. I found a link to an official SWTOR blog page about crafting at patch 4.0 (not sure when that patch exactly goes live for me as a paid subscriber but I digress [i think it did when SWTOR wanted to do a large scale patch 2 nights ago but again I don't know]) and I found some info based on what was talked about with crafting that left me very confused regarding what I saw and this blog page said I'd see. I want to point out a couple of these quotes from the blog and then explain what I saw: Quote 1: "All Crafting has been organized into 8 Grades . This is to help clarify the different crafting tiers, allowing crafters the ability to easily determine what crafting materials they need for what items. All existing Items and Missions have been adjusted to fit into these Grades. Here is a detailed breakdown: Grade 1: Level 10-16: 0-80 Grade 2: Level 16-24: 80-160 Grade 3: Level 24-32: 160-240 Grade 4: Level 32-40: 240-300 Grade 5: Level 40-46: 300-350 Grade 6: Level 46-51: 350-400 Grade 7: Level 51-55: 400-450 Grade 8: Level 55+: 450-500" My Artifice skill level as of my crafting tonight is at 205. This should qualify me for grade 3 which means by and large from this table I should be crafting items based near or at my level. If this is so, then what reason am I still crafting lightsaber Might Hilt 10 (meant for a level 20 character) as my highest known recipe when my lowest recipe should be level 24 grade 3? Quote 2: " There are no longer any Premium (green) items to craft. All craftable items now start as Prototype (blue) quality." This is another anomaly with my account because I looked at my Archived recipes and I saw mostly all green items and a few blue I reversed engineered myself when I was last playing. Now please understand, I looked at the blog for this after my last logged in session earlier tonight thinking what I saw then was normal. Now I know...it certainly isn't. If the blog was correct I should see my green recipes upgraded to blue and my reverse engineered items before as blue be purple. Quote 3: "The chance to get an improved item from Reverse Engineering has been increased." I crafted 11 green Might Hilt 10's to get a blue and...it was as bad as Keltner on the mound when the Cleveland Indians opened their season in the original and first Major League: not a single blue out of 11. In the past long before 4.0 when I last played I could do maybe 6 hilts of any kind and...get a blue recipe with out of that 6 any time I did 6. Finally Quote 4: "In most cases, Crafting times have been greatly reduced. This will enable crafters to craft more items to coincide with the faster leveling." This isn't a complaint more than it is just an observation, my crafting times were exactly the same as 2 years ago. No change. To what I feel about all this I quote Lars Ulrich from Metallica when he was describing how he felt when the famous riot in Montreal happened after Guns and Roses decided not to play after James Hetfield had a pyrotechnic malfunction: "Total...confusion." The blog where I quoted it here said I'd get the changes mentioned and more and I feel like this didn't happen. Now granted, if the patch truly hasn't gone live then my point is moot and you may ignore and I also humbly apologize but...as of October 23rd at 10:14pm Pacific, if the patch is live on my client then I ask just 2 words which close my point here: what gives? Thanks and until next time I am out!

Great answers Lunartic. Thanks. Out!

Ok this is interesting news here. So I have the 1.2 patch but with my Jedi Knight/Sentinel I am not sure if I am eligible to make my own custom built lightsaber based on my crew skills. I have the Artifice/Archeology/Treasure Hunting skills. Does that at one point make my character eligible to make his own lightsaber? He has only about 120-125 points into the Artifice skill so I may need more points into the skill to get it. But the question remains if my crew skills make him eligible for even being able to do so. That's all I got. Out!

Awesome. Thanks for the info Golden Hornet. 2 more questions: 1. What 2 crew skills do I need to power the Cybertech crafting crew skill if I choose it for the Guardian? 2. Can a Jedi Knight/Guardian use The Battleborn Chestplate as well or is he better off with better armor made from the Armortech crafting crew skill? If he's better off with real heavy armor I'll run with that instead. Thanks in advance again for your answers guys and gals. Out!

Hi all. I just began a 3rd character on the server I play on (a lvl 23 Jedi Knight/Sentinel, a lvl 11 Imperial Agent/Operative and now a lvl 6 Jedi Knight/soon to be Guardian). Got a question concerning the Battleborn Chestguard my Sentinel has. As a character with the crew skills of Artifice, Archeology and Treasure Hunting my Sentinel can handle mods for lightsabers and focus items but yet cannot upgrade his own armor plate for the Battleborn Chestguard (though he can do the enhancement). My question is this: is there a crew skill that can make the Armor plate (example of plate's name would be Might Armoring 8) for the Battleborn Chestguard? Because if there is I'd like the Jedi Knight Guardian to have it. However; if no one can make it (and you can only obtain those items from enemy drops and Commendation rewards) to complement the Sentinel's classes what would be good to place the Guardian with? Thanks in advance for your answers. Out!