And there should be a chance to return some of the rare mats that were used to craft that orange gear. Currently, even REing an artifact gear would only give you 1 or 2 piece of green mats. They DO NOT consider the mats at all. I guess it is just an another LAZY RNG. I would rather sell them to vendor.

It is just another LAZY RNG Programming. Everything RNG except they are not supposed to drop anything for classes not in the ops now, although I actually still experienced operation dropping smuggler's gear while there is no smuggler after their latest claim-to-be-fixed patch. In a consecutive run of two op last week, we got a lot of JC gear while there was only one JC, then the next one, only one Trooper gear from all bosses while there were 3 troopers in the operation. Drop according to composition? Nah ... they have their own explanation for all those statements in the patch notes which no one else would agree.

Without auto copy of our level 50s to PTS, it's not going to work well. Besides, some patches are not even up to standard to be uploaded onto PTS. Basically they have a serious TQC problem. I am guessing there are merely any programmer in BW understand all the source codes and they are trying to fix things that they don't really know a lot ... thus so many flaws in the fix.

I noticed this on the first day of patch 1.2 and reported immediately. The other planets work well. However, I doubt this will be fixed soon. Seems that it takes MONTHS for them to handle any in-game bug report and fix them. Glad that you bring this up on forum because bugs reported on forum get fixed more quickly, still takes weeks and no guarantee. That's one of the reason that this game is declining because ppl gets sick of it. Things like this will be fixed in one week or so in Rift.

It's just another INSTANCE. The whole planet is an instance for a specific faction. Make things work out easier, but also mean impossible interaction between factions, almost no surprise. That's why some people get bored more quickly. In WoW, even in the early level 10ish zones, there are lots of interaction between factions even on PvE server. That's quite a huge difference to make you aware of the opposite faction. In SWTOR, you only feel that in Warzone and PvP zone of Ilum.

It is a FAILED DESIGN. I leveled an alt from Slicing 1 to 200, focusing on Sliced Tech Parts (No Lock box) mission and know what, from level 1 to 200, ONLY 3 SCHEMATICS IN TOTAL!!! And my companions all have over 6000 affections. The drop rate is just the same as those other optional crafting schematics obtained through missions, or maybe worse. But they cannot be the same! Augment schematics can only be obtained from slicing mission and SHOULDN'T BE TREATED THE SAME! Are you supposed to fill your bank with tons of materials and still not having any useful schematics to use them? They should go and look at the GTN for the price of augments, its like 20 times of the price before 1.2. Most mid level augment costs more than 5000 and blue one costs more than 10,000 credits. Let you make a lot of augmented gears and tons of materials but cut off all the augment schematics ... What a stupid design.

It was already obsolete even before 1.2. A neutral GTN, imitated from WoW, is an old and poor idea. They didn't even know the neutral AH in WoW was already completely obsolete even at launch. So many things in this game are based on the 2007 MMORPG design and yet they don't even have things like multi-specs or LFG which are already available 5 years ago. A short-sighted, old game design won't last long.

Every other notable MMOs which are supposed to be released in coming months have their schedule postponed to next year.

One serious problem with me is, the legacy system does not consider players playing multiple accounts either as solo or as a family IRL. You have a HUGE DISADVANTAGE if you ever want to benefit from it with multiple accounts. Everything costs DOUBLE if you have two accounts. You already pay twice for subscription and now they want you to pay twice in game for the legacy. Yet your characters on one account cannot get any benefit from the other one with level 50s, such as buffs, companions. They should have an account-link to make this work out. No one would wanna pay twice for everything then get punished for a huge disadvantage.