Ah "scaled" not "scaling".... that makes more sense, but I think I would rather get him with his fully moddable set of 50 gear than just scaled down crappy gear I can get anyway. And no, he is definitely not useless, but he is definitey by design a level 50 companion considering you are required to be 50 to actually get him the first time... youre just getting the same thing you would get at 50 by paying for the legacy unlock on a lower level toon, which also requires you to have gotten him with a 50 beforehand.

Unless they added something I havent seen, its been just an added chance to crit craft an item for a long time... its under the companion perks correct?

There is no added chance to RE schematics... theres an added chance to crit craft an item with an augment slot in the legacy perks, but none that I know of that increase RE chance.

I may have came off a bit wrongly lol, its late / early whatever you like to call it... I dont disagree with some of the "petty" stuff like 2 hotbars, you really only "need" 2 to play the game with, my extended ones are full of speeders / quicktravel and other unecessary stuff thats basically convenience. The hide helmet / match colors thing, also petty and heck we didnt even get that when we paid 60 bucks for the game lol! I'm with you on the XP though, 30% slower and 0 rested XP is kind of an odd thing to throw in and seems kind of like a punishment for not giving them money.

No I read the whole thing, I'm not saying its "smart" of them, I'm just saying its obvious that they made F2P extra crappy in the hopes that people would pay to become "preferred" or outright sub for petty stuff like hiding your helmet which has 0 effect on gameplay.

Artifice is definitely not dead... plenty of money to be made off enhancements / hilts as was mentioned above... however synthweaving is pretty much junk except for making augments which really dont make much money anyway compared to the millions you can rake in from artifice or cybertech.

Ah yes as to your question, you CAN buy a BH armoring off the GTN (even crafted ones) or from someone, or have them craft it for you.... then equip the armoring, pull it back out and RE it for the schematic, I learned several that way.

Oddball... the whole point of them having the restrictions is to encourage them to subscribe... if you could just get everything that subbing gets you for free then no one would sub... not a difficult concept really, they make it crappy because its FREE, if you want it to be not crappy then PAY, simple.

So let me get this straight.... you spent 240 REAL DOLLARS trying to get a speeder that looks like a chair and a moddable belt that is the same as all the rest use-wise in a videogame? If I get them will you mail me 240 bucks real money instead of the 2 million fake videogames dollars theyre going for on the GTN?

Confirmed, I am Cybertech and Artifice.... you can learn the mods and the enhancements from BH gear that you buy with comms, but not the armorings from them. This is also a good way to make money if you no longer need any BH gear but have BH comms to spend... every piece you buy has 3 RE-able modifications that each give you 1 Molecular Stabilizer a piece, easy 500 - 600 K

Actually you cant do it at ALL without being a 50 yourself... 1 of the parts comes from a HM flashpoint which requires you to be level 50 to do, so he is a level 50 companion. I havent seen anything that mentioned that his gear "scales" or is even supposed to... I dont even think that feature is implemetable in the game, how exactly would they just magically change his gear lol?

So... you would be 50 for a whole 1 pre 50 match.. yeah thats a major problem /endsarcasm .

I have a DPS Sorc and use him, he is AWESOME! I have no problems doing the Heroic 2 in sector-x solo even with both of us being dps, we kiil the mobs fast enough it doesnt even matter who has aggro lol. (Disclaimer - I am full BH geared, all augmented and HK is Rakata / Assassin Droid geared)

The key is to wear it with something thats not black... black goes with anything except different shades of black lol.

Hmm, since the topic is nerfs... lolsmash could be turned down a notch, other than that... which is avoidable if you dont let them sit on your face... I dont have any major complaints.

This^^ I have a WH Sage and a WH Sorc, both balance spec... its very easy to stun / root / knockback / force speed away / force slow a lolsmasher, basically nullifying them by keeping them out of range and using TK throw, your main AOE, and dots to kill them sometimes before they can even get more than a saber throw on you. L2P... however the damage from a lolsmash is a bit over the top, 6 to 7 K to several people if they get it off is ludicrous.

I'm not even entirely sure what the point of this thread is... you can name your guy frostedluckycharms and it WONT AFFECT ANY PART OF THE GAME... yes you may be all QQ that you dont have the exact spelling specific name you want, but it really doesnt mean squat and 100% of the other people could care less what your name is, I promise.

LMAO!! Wow, this is the complaint now about sorcs / sages?? Half the time I dont even bother using my bubble and still destroy melee sents / maras. Its called root, stun, pushback, force speed, dots, self heal.... all you have to do is keep them out of range by using a rotation that keeps them away from you and put dots / aoe damage on them, and all they can do is stand there and watch while you light up their day. L2P is all I have to say.

You also forgot to mention what class you are... that makes a difference as to what armor you can equip unless its adaptive

I didnt really find any of it "useful"... its all cosmetics and fluff, which is fine, but not particularly useful or needed.

I'm guessing in order to "hide" the face they just made the mask change the facial features to black, perhaps because of clipping issues where the players face would stick out... just guessing, but theres got to be a better way than just having a black face when you zoom in.

I'm kind of hoping they make the cloak that he wore, his full outfit was pretty sweet from KOTOR... anyway i love the mask except for close up where you can see the face is there and just painted black, it would look better if you just saw no face close up.

That I'm not sure about, but short of them making a Nihilus Cloak, I havent seen much that actually "matches" it directly.

It doesnt color match... thats the end of the story. I cant tell you WHY they didnt enable that, maybe because its Nihilus's mask and he didnt wear any color other than black so they wanted to keep it true to character, who knows. Bottom line is you wont find anything to color match it with, because it doesnt color match.

Actually I guess this would apply to all moddable droid gear, but now that HK-51 is out and a lot of people are getting him the issue seems to be of more importance, especially since he comes with moddable gear. His moddable gear shows images of a helmet, chest, hand, etc when you open them to modify... but slot bound helmet, chest, hand, etc. armorings are not equippable in them. The highest non slot armorings you can get easily before the crafted level 61 BH ones are the lowly level 51 armorings from dailys. The only other way to attain armorings between level 51 and 61, such as Columi 56 or Rakata 58, is to run a select OPS or FP and hope that you get the offhand drop for Cunning or Aim... which is a long shot and especially if you are a class that doesnt use those stats. My suggestion would be to allow slot bound armorings to be used in the moddable droid armor in specific pieces... or put in Columi and Rakata armorings that you can get with comms, even if they are "droid only" or something.