Hi, I'm looking to join a guild for raids with my 55 DPS Sorcerer. All its gear is 162 or higher, most of it is 180 now. Character's name is Aurexandra, and I'm usually online in the morning from 8 until 10 am PST, then again around 10pm.

Reading the skill descriptions for Madness versus Lightning that's kind of the idea I got. Madness seems to focus more on crit while lightning seems to focus more on overall, pure damage. I decided to go with pure lightning spec with power. As I gain higher tier gear I'll focus on accuracy then surge and crit with power. Thanks for the advice!

I understand now! It took checking my lockouts tab and re-reading your reply a couple times, but I get it! I kept assuming it was one mission or another, but it's defeating the boss that is the lockout. I also didn't realize the original mission was one time only, which explains why I can't pick them up anymore. Anyway, thanks so much for clearing all this up for me. Much appreciated.

I'm just wondering what people are finding is better for endgame content like ops and flashpoints. I've been crit and surge the whole game and I enjoy it all right, but don't really care that much. Anyway, I was helping in a hardmode and was pretty much useless as a DPS and was told I had too much crit (25%) and not enough power (about 300). It does seem that with all 180 rated gear that the best crit chance I could hit is 30ish percent, while I could up my power to well over 1000 while increasing both alacrity and accuracy. Actually, let me add an additional question. Right now I love my lightning-madness hybrid, but would a pure lightning or madness yield better DPS for endgame PVE content? Thanks!

So I'm a little confused about getting the actual missions. How often can you do ops missions, is it daily or weekly? I ask mostly because I can no longer retrieve the Eternity Vault mission, and it's been over a week since I did it (I did both SM and the weekly in one go). I'm also unsure about how you get "locked." I completed the weekly mission for Scum and Villainy, but I didn't have the ops quest so I should still be able to do SM. So I joined an ops team doing the weekly just to get whatever comms I could while I was in there but I was not able to enter the mission area, even though I had the quest. I haven't tried since, but does this mean once you do the weekly you can no longer enter the mission area and do SM at all, or was it simply because the leader was at the boss and I can only do it with an ops team starting at the very beginning?

Thank you Silencion. It's funny, the next tiers came up as 440, and I was again befuddled, because all my current level schematics (420) wouldn't level up Cybertech, so I was still stuck at 435. Then I noticed for some reason the level 420 earpieces WILL level cybertech, but not any of the armorings or mods. It seems a simple strange set of happen stances made everything needlessly difficult. Thank you again.

Is there a guide for this, or am I missing something obvious? I started with levelling up cybertech. The trainer only has level 50 schematics which I can use to get to 435, but no new schematics are available. Scavenging and underworld trading are level 450, and I never got any new schematics, nor can I find any on the GTN. I know LOTS of people had no problem figuring this out and getting to 450, but I guess I'm just retarded. Advice is appreciated, thanks....