I agree with you on most accounts. the only thing I am excited about is the purple crystal. I find it silly to be selling the magenta schematics on this vendor along with the white crystal (which has no legitimate way of being acquired) . Purple can only be found in the Empire fleet along with the red-black crystal and vise verse the cyan and the blue-black can only be found in the republic fleet. If it were only those 4 colors in the vendor it would make more sense to me, but they cut out a fair bit of crystal hunting that they shouldn't have.

Forgot this was possible. I agree that its strange how you can make a saber with + Power in it but not the crystal itself. :/ It does seem that Artifice will be getting a buff in 1.2. Its somewhere in the dev tracker. Ill have to find it

It must be a drop from a PVE boss or a commendation lightsaber. + Power crystal schematics can't be learned by artifice.

If you find out the names of the lighsabers go to tor-loot.com or torhead.com and type in the name to find it. torhead might give you better results.

Its not in the fleet yet. Supposedly it was going to be in 1.1.5 which will be out next week. But when they updated the patch notes they took out alot of stuff from the original 1.1.5. I don't know if the updated notes are just in addition to the previous or if the updated is the only part that is coming out. I am still hoping for the vendor but if it doesn't come I won't be surprised.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=3150977#edit3150977 Well looks like we are no longer getting the vendor. The updated patch notes took it out entirely. Sad face.

Looking forward to buying it from the crystal vendor in 1.1.5? I can't remember if you can buy the magenta, but I do know you will be able to get the schematic for artifice so you can make it. My guild is still going to go old school and kill the world boss for it

Available in both PVP and PVE

Im thinking that they are using this vendor to put off some questions until a later patch. This vendor could be here just to make us happy for the time being until they release more color schematics like the magenta. as the above post says, 1.2 could make artifice a worthy end game skill. I certainly hope so

Huh? where is it? In a PVP zone I assume.

Wow. That's awesome!

Did he get into the fleet or was it just the landing bay? My guild encountered a glitch a patch or 2 ago where after Karagga's Palace some of them ended up on the Empire fleet landing bay, but when they went to use the elevator it took them back to the Republic fleet automatically.

if you find anything out about how to obtain it, please post it here! Thanks so much for this.

I know that the cyan and blue-black crystals can be removed form their weapons, but they are bound to the player who picked up the weapon. I assume that the purple and red-black crystals are the same. There are particular weapons that can't be modified, so the crystal can't be removed. Most of the time these are outlined in a green border. That's what Muguruma was referring to. Hope this helps

Yup if you go to http://www.tor-loot.com and find the raid on hard mode it has many +31 power weapons. Unfortunately it doesn't have the color of the crystals but im sure at least one is yellow. Here is the list for anyone interested in Power Thelanthra's Wrath - Lightsaber The Specialist - Blaster Rifle Saber of the Eternal Grandmaster - Lightsaber Blastorm - Blaster Pistol Casualty - Double Lightsaber Honor - Lightsaber Hypersonic Blaster - Blaster Pistol Kaelynn's Grace - Lightsaber Ki-Lu's Saberstaff - Double Lightsaber Ruin - Blaster Rifle Silence - Blaster Pistol Strife - Lightsaber The Pacifist - Blaster Pistol The Sleeper - Blaster Pistol The Stinger - Blaster Pistol Zeal - Lightsaber