Its a pretty straight forward question. As the market is now flooded with adaptive armor for next to nothing "if you dont mind looking like a frogdog reject etc". What is the point of taking armortech or synthweaving as a skill. The cost you would need to sell the item to recoup costs would be far higher than the free items that come from cartel packs and wherever the other stuff comes from. So far I've geared up all my companions in cheap-free adaptive armor plus the oranges that come from questing, just seems to me like the above mentioned skills are dead!

Similar issue here. Been in with a friend of mine today and its hard resetting the game on random packs, neither of us would actually die, but on engaging the enemy one of us or both would D.C. We in fact gave up before even getting to the first boss it was that bad!