No it doesn't make up for it. You know there are actually 4 tier of gear right? So being almost as good as tier 2 is far from being good enough. Not to mention the totally INSANE amount of tries you might need to crit a full set of orange armor and weapons. Have you looked at the materials those level 50 recipe require? Yep those thing that only drop in Hard Flashpoint or operation, those exact flashpoint and operation that also gives you the mean to acquire tier 2 and tier 3 gears. My wife tried to crit a purple belt recently 14 tries and it didn't crit! (btw whoever designed this, let me tell you this as a game designer myself: Randoms are evil! Never, Ever use them for a feature like this. Ever!) That's waaaayyy too much effort just to look the way you want, that's ridiculous, especially when the PvE raid gear looks terrible. Where other games just give you freaking wardrobe tab or appearance slot or whatever and are done with it. That system is overcomplicated and doesn't achieve anything. The mod system would be a really viable solution if EVERY items in the game was FULLY modable and ALL the stats came from the mod. As long as there is non moddable gear that's better (making it mandatory) or worse (making it completly useless), than moddable gear, the system will fail.

I have armstech level 400. But it is completely useless and I never use it. It was ok while leveling, allowed me to craft nice barrels and save commendations. Once level 50 I was like: Alright time to craft some purple level 50 barrel! Oh they are only level 49 max, alright, still the best I can get outside of raid! Uhoh what is this level 50 purple barrel for 8 daily commendations (you can get 8 in like 30 min), better than anything I can craft. Damn it! So yeah, armstech is currently useless, besides for leveling, and even then it will only save you a few commendations here and there. I m keeping it for now, but might reroll to biochem once I start raiding seriously, who knows they might make it useful before that time!

Story was really awesome.

That's a very specific case though: 1) You have to be armormech as they are bind on pickup 2) Belt and Bracer are the only slots that are REALLY hard to find in custom and so you can't slot them with the daily commendation mods, armoring and stuff 3) Those recipe still require Biometric Alloy which drop in Hard Flashpoint So besides that EXACT exception you mentionned, everything you can get from daily commendation is better than crafting. You can get Purple 50 Armoring, Enhancement, Mods, Barrels and Hilt, that are all better than the crafted (they are only 49) Same for the Ears and Implants that you can also buy with dailies. So yes, Belt and Bracer are the only slot that are good while crafted. Yes the itemization is a bit ****ed right now, especially raid wise. The worst thing certainly being that everyone will look the same, they said "Yeah but you have the custom gear and mods for that!" but you can't remove hilt, barrel and armoring from raids gear, so you are stuck with it if you want best armor/damage. Which means that in 6 month everyone will look exactly the same in full columni/rakata gear. We need proper itemization and we need proper appearance slots.

I hope you are joking right. Those daily quests are extremely rewarding. Purple Barrel and Hilt better than anything crafted, same for armoring, excellent implant and ears, also better than anything crafted. Not to mention that those daily mission gives a ******** of money, you can make around 200k a day doing them. Also the 2+ on Belsavis gives a purple mod and the 2+ on Ilum gives a purple enhancement. Basically you can full slot all your orange items in purple mods better than anything crafted with minimal effort. It is just the perfect and really easy way to gear yourself for Hard Flashpoint and Operations.

Imperial Agent: 10/10 Completed it. Lots of Twists and surprises, perfect "spy" feelings

Adding my vote here. We need a fix for this and fast. I am considering to stop playing my Jedi Knight till they fix this, freaking hoods are a pain in the a..

RE is a pain indeed. That being said, to get purple material you should buy the epic crafting mission from the GTN, they are quite cheap usually. I bought like 20 and got like 100 something level 49/50 purple mats.

I have the same issue, happened after one of my companion became unavailable. Logged out, etc, nothing fixed it. I ll try the "learn a mission" fix now and see if that works. Maybe otherwise it will fix itself when my companion becomes available again. In every case this is a major issue that requires fixing asap.

I have the same issue, can not send any companion to missions, only craft since Kaliyo has been unavailable. How did you fix it?

There are also some people who plays Early Access now but might not play after the release, maybe they only preordered and then canceled once they put their code in?

Yes I have the same issue. That being said I am hoping that by focusing on a specific talent tree, some abilities will get enhanced and thus become the highest priority for you to use, ending up simplifying things a bit. The most confusing ability for me right now is Ravage. Sure it doesn't cost any rage, but it is also 3 sec channeling during the time I could do 2 Basic attack and gain 4 Rage that I could use for another strong ability. I am low level though, but it seems that in every case Battering Assault is the single most important ability we have since it generates 6 rage.

That statement sounds very dumb to me if it is true. Saying that a pure DPS class will be equal to another Pure DPS class is ok (Like Marauder and Sniper) But saying that a class that can fill both Tank and DPS or Heal and DPS can DPS as good as a pure dps class is dumb. Dual Speccing would simply kill those class altogether, making them less versatile and overall uninteresting.

A bit of a pain to be honest. So if I want to be a full pledged Armortech for example I have no choice but to get both Scavenging and Underworld Trading. Damn...

I have a question about the gathering/missions and some ressources. For example Armortech uses Terenthium which is an Underworld metal, obtained through Underworld Trading. Does that mean that if I don't get Underworld Trading I have NO other way to get that metal? And thus will never be able to do the associated recipes? Basically there is no Terenthium node that you can harvest with Scavenging? Or enemies that drops it or whatever? It is either get Underworld Trading or Buy it at the GTN?

I have a question about the gathering/missions and some ressources. For example it says that Armortech uses Terenthium which is an Underworld metal, obtained through Underworld Trading. Does that mean that if I don't get Underworld Trading I have NO other way to get that metal? And thus will never be able to do the associated recipes? Basically there is no Terenthium node that you can harvest with Scavenging? Or enemies that drops it or whatever? It is either get Underworld Trading or Buy it at the GTN?

Very nice!