F2Ps have a chance to crit although its so low it will almost never happen. BIOWare should be ashamed of themselves for making it this way. They have watered down crafting so much with the cartel junk that its barely worth pursuing until end game. Also by the time you would have crit even on pay 2 play you easily out level the stuff. The low-crit, might as well say no-crit is the only reason I have a sub currently. If they would sell the higher or should I say normal crit chance in the market with the CC's. I would have bought it.

If you had to choose between your armor or weapon + focus which of the 2 has the biggest impact on your characters skills? I guess what I am saying if you were a healer or an assassin type character and you stripped the character naked would the armor give you high stats overall or would the weapon+focus do this?

^^^This is exactly the reason. Not to say getting HK-51 is hard is just I hate to have to wait till 50.

Lets say I start a new character and join him to my current legacy that has the unlock for hk-51. I pay the cartel monies or credits to get hk-51. I then transfer this character to another server and move him to a different legacy does hk-51 unlock on that legacy?

I still think the CC's cost is insane. HK-51 is super useful compared to this Ewok pet. His one shot ability has made fights so much easier when leveling. What I don't get is if they want to make money why price this so high? Personally I wont be getting it until the price goes down. As far as the legacy lvl 40 thing its stupid. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to sit at home all day and play this game from their mom's basement. Some of us have lives, wives, jobs and pets. While I do have characters at the level cap, I do play 4 other MMO's so star wars is not always the one I play with what little free time I have.

Here is my take on crafting in this game. Starting out I began playing this game back in March of last year and played it off and on. My previous MMOs where Aion, Rift, Tera, EQ2, COH/COV and Lineage II. So that gives me a pretty good idea on how its supposed to be done in an MMO. There is a clear disconnect how the players see the game and the devs see the game in terms of crafting. First off its way harder than it should be at least for the lower levels when there are fewer companions. Believe me this is not a case of "I want it NOA!!!" because I have crafted epic weapons in Aion and anyone who has played that game knows how time consuming that can be. As it stands there is absolutely no reason to craft except for personal enjoyment and the infinite reuse consumables. There is little if any benefit stat wise to craft. The stats need to be significantly higher for epic gear to be, you know, epic. Why is it broken? You can get comparable equipment while leveling from the commendations, at end game the best stuff is from raids and flash points which leaves crafters out in the cold. It takes companions too long to bring back mats and they arent even worth the time in most cases. Recipes are in all the wrong places. Everything related to a craft should stay with that craft. Yeah I get we need to trade stuff but with stuff being all over the place trade rarely happens. For instance it wasnt until yesterday that I realized that there were blue recipes for Artifice for crystals that give the power stat. I didnt see this recipe at all from treasure hunting. It was from investigation. Why is it there when the primary way to get the mats and recipes are in Treasure Hunting? It makes no freaking sense. Same goes with the augment recipes and mats being in slicing. I could go with the mats being a slicing only thing but the recipes need to stick to missions which match the craft better. What else needs to be fixed is how you need mods for lightsabers and weapons. Mods should be craftable by the craft they go to, as well as enhancements. All of the weapons for arms tech that are wisdom/strength items need to be moved to artifice. Lower the minimum level for all orange/purple moddable gear. Make the armoring/hilt/barrel determine the level. Meaning we should be able to delevel all gear if we wanted. This would be great for HK-51 since if you get him is practically naked at lower levels. Lastly what I would fix is the freaking gathering missions with the whole too many gift missions and not enough metals thing. Its highly annoying to have to switch zones/log off just to refresh the list. We are already facing a time penalty with waiting on the companion to come back but its even worse for once you add all the zone loading just to get the mission. Thats my $0.02 on crafting in this game.

I started a new toon recently and I am leveling with Hk-51. So far its been pretty fast once I got him purpled out. I cant wait till I can start getting more gear for him. On my lvl 54 character I am also preferring hk-51. No need to worry about healing or tanking in most cases cuz the stuff dies so fast. I just wish flashpoints dropped droid gear.

where on Corascant has this I been looking for a while now and don't see this vendor any where?

After a long break from the game I started back playing my Assassin and now It seems like I am always out of force. I remember I had to do a forced respec do to points being refunded. Something with the powers changed and I could not get my build to what it was before. Now I am always out of force. So do I need to change my build to something else? If so what do you suggest for Tank Spec and DPS spec.

For this specific companion I notice when you get him at lower levels he is completely naked. I just wanted to know whats the best or should I say which way would give him the most stats. Orange gear with purple mods or purple gear that's part specific?

Aion currently does this too. That crafting system was setup such that you had a 20% chance to proc. In order to force a proc you had to craft like 200+ of an item that cant proc thats from the same tier of that item you want to proc so that the streak breaker forces the next 2 crafts to proc. This works for most items up to gold status. I have not tried it beyond that because the crafting costs to do such are too expensive. In most cases it was cheaper to craft 200+ ingots of something because you could turn around and re-use those same ingots in another craft later on.

Vette does this too but you can buy a customization to get around the issue and make her naked. I hope they fix Ashara in a future update.

I hate it I been trying to get her naked since I first got her. If anyone knows how to make her body suit go away please enlighten me.

I disagree with this a lot. This borked crafting system forces you to make alts to make everything just to make it useable. If there was not so much overlap I would agree with you. To me in almost all cases its significantly cheaper to farm the mats on my own than to buy from the over priced market. Yes this is factoring time being worth credits. You have a significant problem whenever the cost of the mats bought off the broker cost more than it does for the final products sell price. Also if everything you needed to make the finish product was in the craft I would enjoy this system a lot more. Artifice should not need cybertech just to make a custom light saber complete. Just as armstech should not need artifice to complete its custom weapons. I think its fine for synthweaving and armortech to make the custom shells however all this crap being faction and archtype specific really puts a damper on choice in this game. The social gear is not all that either aside from the slave girl outfits. Fix for this game would be to allow going forward Artifice and Armstech to make all it needs for its weapons. Cybertech would make all it needs for the custom outfit shells that Synthweaving and Armortech make. For augments they would be item specific. If it goes to a lightsaber an artifice has to make it, the kit and the augment itself. If its synthweaving the same goes for that as well. Lastly all Rakata crafted gear is bind on account so you can move it to alts. This gives those who want to work on that stuff a reason to instead of just being worthless.

My system meets or exceeds the minimum requirements in all categories but it takes forever and a day to load. In some cases it never loads and I have to close the client and try again. I was wondering if playing on a Solid State drive would it make a difference on load times If you already have a quad core system with 8 gb of ram?

Hell I would kill just to have the damn thing start out sorted by level instead of difficulty. Its annoying to have to resort the list every time I log into a character.

Whats the cheapest and whats the fastest way to max out companion affection, I have all the legacy perks if that helps? Is it worth it in the early levels before you get the healer pet to just use the ship robot to heal you for the more tougher content. On my way to 50 I practically ignored the healing ship droid and struggled on the harder stuff because of that. I have alts with cyber tech so gearing it up wont be hard I think, I just need to know whats its primary stat. What is with the companions I do have at max affection failing the grade 6 missions? I thought at max affection it was impossible to fail. Which character customization do I need to buy and where its located to make Ashara show her real skin instead of the leather suite. I bought the slave girl outfit for her but it does not look right with the leather. The same thing happened with Vette until I found the right customization to make her other clothing come off.

Crafting in this game has always been broken in my opinion. Way too much over lap. To me Artifice should have been able to make everything that goes in the Sabers and Generators, same goes for Armstech while Cybertech's stuff should have been strictly for armor. Then I would change the whole RE thing to something a bit more easier, none of this 10% chance to RE something unless it was an item modification. I figure its only fair since Synthweaving and Armormech have a harder time breaking something down to get what you want in the blue to purple phase or the purple to purple phase. I think end game crafting should be competitive with the end game gear. And all craftable rakata stuff should have been bind on legacy. Lastly from levels 1-40 the crit chance on companion missions should be higher considering you level so crazy fast in this game.

Just wanted to know if anyone has tried this at level 50. Often times I want to solo a bit to make a bit of cash in between flash points but its too tedious to do respecs on the fly like that. So I wanted to know has anyone ever tried creating an all purple presence set with Synthweaving for a sorcerer at level 50. While I know it will take a while to do but I am looking to boost my companions performance while solo when in the healing role. From what I understand that Presence stat boosts companions but not you. Do you think its worth doing? This will be just an extra set of gear not my main gear.

I have already un-subbed due to this crafting madness. Believe me this isnt a case of just wanting the item now. One of my previous MMOs was Aion so I know all too well about the RNG crafting time and dedication. I never found crafting in Aion as frustrating as I do in this game. So many credits wasted for nothing. I could see if the items you were making last really long or something but by the time you make something you already out leveled it. Then when you step back in look at the end game how the bulk of the gear is better from instance or dailies than the crafted its just a slap in the face. That there was the straw that broke the camels back.

For a solo player what is one of the best ways to earn money from tasks, missions and such. I do not have much play time so making money from crafting is out of the question.

Does anyone know of a site that shows what all the mod-able gear looks like on a character. Preferably adaptive gear. At level 50 we have some of the most ugly gear ever and there does not seem to be any good alternatives. I just wanted to know before I spent a ton of time making stuff with synthweaving.

Crafting in this game has been royally screwed from the beginning. There is just too much cross over as to what goes to what. Artifice for example should have been able to make hilts, artifice only mods, artifice only crystals, artifice only enhancements. More swords other than just light sabers. All recipes and materials contained in the 3 crafts needed for this. Armstech should be the same. Both of these should be able to make the kits too. Basically each craft should be self contained meaning none would need stuff from the other crafters just for those items, you would need stuff for the armor if you need it if you could only make weapons or vice versa. Slicing would stay as it is since its kind of its own thing. Thats how I would fix crafting in this game by making it less confusing and less tedious.

Wont belong before we have idiots selling these for less than the mats cost. Crafting in this game is so jacked up.

for orange gear at lvl 50 I see where to get the armor for the slots and the hilts from the dailies but what about the enhancements and mods? Do we just use artifice and cyber tech stuff?