Firstly, I should mention I play on Empire and know nothing of republic. Purple crystals are not hard to obtain. I didn't read the entire thread, so I don't know if this is mentioned. Though I saw someone say stuff like only marauder and jugg's can get a purple crystal, which is completely wrong. I know plenty of Sith Sorcerer's with a purple pvp lightsaber. Outside of that, do Battle of Ilum on hard mode. The final boss drops offhand weapons. Ninja (since the only thing that matters to you is your purple crystal) a sith warrior offhand columi token. Go to the vendor and use that token to buy the "Fall of Atris" which is the marauder offhand weapon. You can very easily pay 30k to pull the crystal out of the lightsaber and put it where ever you please. I have to say again that I can't speak for republic and whether or not this works for them.

So, I'm having problems with my game loading ridiculously slow for some reason and I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing these problems. When I say loading slow I'm not referring to my FPS (which is over 60 at highest in-game settings) I'm talking about loading into planets or alt-tabbing, etc. To give an example, after a PvP match is over and I leave the re-queue option selected and hit exit warzone the game takes 2 minutes to load into the planet sometimes and the join warzone popup will have already come and gone while waiting for me to load into the planet. Sometimes when trying to change screen resolutions or settings it will give me a 15 second timer to accept changes before it reverts back. Countless times I've come back to the game with 1-2 seconds to spare to hit accept or in some cases I come back and then see it immediately starting loading again before I have a chance to do anything cause it assumed the settings didn't work. My computer: i7 960 (3.2ghz) gtx 560 ti (tried both latest drivers (285.xx and beta 290.xx) 6gb ddr3 mem So my big question is if anyone else is experiencing this? Any suggestions are appreciated. Edit: Game loads just as slow when all settings are at their lowest.

Perhaps I'm missing something when it comes to PVP but all I seem to be able to do is queue for all of them and get whatever is available first, which seems to be nothing other than hutt ball. I think it's a great plan to allow 1 faction to do a sports event against each other when there isnt enough of the other faction, but at the same time I've only ever done the other warzones once or twice and as much as I love PVP I'm starting to dread even queuing up. I tried looking for an area where I could choose the warzone but I can't seem to find it and maybe that's my problem. I'm just getting sick of hutt ball.

That kinda sucks since it's so expensive to respec there'll end up not being a lot of healers. Good to know, though. Thanks

Can you heal effectively in flash points and heroic quests while in a dps spec or do you have to be in healing spec?

I'm sure it's a silly question but I can't seem to figure out what the purpose of valor is. It's not used to buy any items and I can't seem to find any info on it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks