No you don't: http://i40.tinypic.com/2djcq37.jpg I tried finding the guide that had a slightly better chart, but this still works. Each of the blue items can be RE'd into any of the purple ones, they just have different names. Also, if you didn't know

How about: http://steelseries.com/products/keyboards/steelseries-merc-stealth They have put a lot of the gaming keys separate on the left hand side.

So you guys are saying that Chaff Flare is more of a preventative skill than a reactionary one. I'll have to give it a try the next time we play together. Thanks

I've only used mine while grouping with my buddy, and I have yet to have it work. He's the tank and I usually open with Tracer Missilex3, then Heatseeker, Unload and Rail Shot. By the end of that he still has aggro. Then I fire another Tracer. Sometimes that's enough to pull the mob off him. I figure that the Tracer was just enough to bypass my buddy in threat level, I pop Chaff Flare and ..........nothing, just pretty lights and sounds. According to Torhead (I don't know where they get there data from, but...) Chaff Flare = ModifyThreat: AmountPercent=>-0.25 This indicates it should be a 25% threat decrease. Now I'm pretty sure that my last Heatseeker doesn't put my up the threat range so high that a 25% decrease couldn't put my under his aggro. *shrug* I guess we'll see if Bioware addresses this with either a post letting us know it's working fine and we are doing something wrong, or they patch it.

You may be able to RE it, but you cannot learn schematics for an item by REing it, you can only learn the upgrade version and even at that, I don't know if you can learn the upgraded versions from loot.

You'll have to retrain it from the skills trainer and start over Even with lag, how did you accidentally unlearn it? You have to click the little "x", then the confirmation/warning window pops up which you would have to accept.

AFAIK purple (artifact) is the highest level that can be crafted at this time.

Check your targeting key bindings, there is an unassigned option for toggle target of target.

Maybe try posting this on the Customer Service forum.

"The reverse engineering return rate is not currently working as intended. In an upcoming patch, we are improving the reverse engineering rates – especially for the higher-level items. We are also looking into the issue where a player receives "You already know that schematic" instead of learning a new research variation. Patrick Malott Systems Designer 02.07.2012 12:30 PM"

Then you go in tell us your experiences. What makes what you are telling us any more or less made up than anyone elses (including my own) results? Just because some of us haven't had the bad luck you have in slicing doesn't make us lairs or "fanbois".

Read the patch notes, they only changed one thing, and that wasn't it.

First off this point is server dependent. Secondly, sure you can set them at a price that is above what they cost you to get, however that doesn't mean people will buy them at that price. I can do a scavenge mission for 300 credits and get 6 mats which only sell for 30 each on the GTN. My math says I just lost credits. *EDIT* FYI, I've ground Slicing to 400 (95% doing missions) and overall I gained, not just straight up credits, but also in selling the blues I got on the GTN. The longest "losing" streak I had was about 3 in a row.

Excellent, thanks for the info Carlseth.

Good questions. I know I have a crazy number due to this as well. I'm less than 1000 from Light V, but it should affect getting there. My Light Side points have been maxed for a little while now (not at V yet due to a couple thousand Dark Side points), however I continue to gain overall alignment when gaining LS points. So I imagine hitting V with a decimal is still possible.

Its a known issue, I thought it got fixed in a past patch, but I may have read it on the PTS patch notes and didn't make it into live.

Maybe ask your guildmates to help out with mats. Why should the burden fall just on you. If none of them have the crew skills to directly help, maybe they can offer up credits to purchase mats. Also, try using a high affection companion to do the crafting, the crit chance increase will help since when you crit consumables you craft an extra one. Just a couple of suggestions to help you out.

Actually you don't even have to have affection that high to see one difference, completion speed. Next time you craft something or do a crew mission, check the time stated for the item/mission. then check the time remaining as soon as you start the item/mission, you'll see a difference. I know with my max affection companion, on a 28 minute mission, she only takes ~24, shaving 4+ minutes off the time. As for crit chance, I don't know any specifics, but I have noticed a slight increase in crits for items and more so for missions.

Just to go back to the OP's original post:

Also check out the "Specialty Vendors" on planets, I believe they sell those items for creds.

Just to add, you have to be level 10 in order to see/speak to the person mentioned above. For a long time I wondered why people where asking when do you get your advanced class when they were level 12-15. I now know, from personal experience, that if you get to the fleet before level 10, the quest giver does not have the triangle above his head. So, you may have missed it if you were lower than 10 when you arrived to the fleet.

Actually BW has stated that mod stations are required for high level modding. Since I am not high level yet, I cannot confirm this however. Only orange items can be fully modded. However there are some purple items that are partially moddable.

"But when I'm alone why does it move so much??" Still could be Trooper/Bounty Hunter buff, I know I try to do drive-by buffings every chance I get. Each of the four classes on either side of the war has a unique buff, so everyone should buff others (even when not grouped with them) whenever you can. I know we all would appeiciate it

Except that the patch notes are posted *after* the patch is released, therefore even if it was stated (which, I agree, it should have been) it was still too late for those who were saving. There were other changes (for the better) that were not noted either (like adding light/dark beside the Diplomacy missions for sale in the GTN). When there are ALOT of changes, especially from different departments, it's hard to note them all.

Just left-click and hold on the ability you want to move and drag it to where you want it. If that's not working, make sure your hotbar isn't locked (a little lock symbol on the left side of the hotbar). If it is, click it and it should unlock.