If I like the look of an item I would want to keep it and still be viable. I am looking forward to this.

BW has been listening. From Georg Zoeller: Major changes are currently on schedule for the next major content patch, such as extractable basemods (armoring, barrel, etc.) from purple items, critical crafting successes on orange outfits, more bind-on-equip schematic drops for artifice and other professions, increased relevance of augments, better reverse engineering chance, and other improvements. We want to create significant incentive for players to engage in the crafting economy – as provider of goods or supplier - without requiring players to take up a specific profession as a ticket into endgame. Thread: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=2417047#edit2417047

It is a thief skill and is designed to make you money (but not as much as it used to). So instead of gathering you would use this to get money and then buy the ingredients you need. It is better in 1 respect in that you will find stuff to slice every where you go instead of having to go to a specific place to gather the correct ingredients for whatever you want to craft.

Dangit thanks for the warning

While I like pve and I intend to do a lot of raiding it doesn't make sense to me for ingredients to be BoP.

After you have selected your crafting skill you can get recipes from talking to the trainer again and more recipes after you gain levels. (There have been quite a few people who have started threads after missing this piece of info (yes, I missed it too on my first toon) so I thought I'd post it).

"This is not the crazy fool you are looking for"

I do like in this game when stray beams from misses in a battle quite a long way away travel along the map and shoot past your face.

Nerf Herder.

Spacebar, Spacebar, Spacebar, Spacebar, hover mouse on 1, if netral click 1, Spacebar, Spacebar, Spacebar, Spacebar, if blue or red find the appropriate response for your toon and done.

How about odds and evens. You appoint someone referee and 1 player calls either odds or evens and then both players whisper a number between 1 and 10 and then the referee adds them up and declares the winner.

You don't need to aim it just twist right and left a few times. I think it works very well as a melee defensive tool.

I played Alderaan yesterday and went straight to the center and shot some missiles, used my stun, ran around kiting, used flame thrower even and then suddenly the round finished and I was second overall on the leaderboard. I was level 13.

Stupid question: Can't they trade?

Very helpful thankyou, I appreciate the time you spent on it.