Still a 5/10

.... 5/10

Such hyperbole and exaggeration.... if it was completely pointless a level 10 character wouldn't be any more powerful than a level 50 character while being synced. That's not going to be the case....And honestly, you have no idea how big (or little) of an effect it will have until the patch goes live.

Started reading, found myself smashing spacebar after the 3rd sentence. Sorry.

If they're doing away with Cartel certs or making them extremely rare, then they really need to rethink the reputation vendor items and their costs

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Whether you care or not, you'd have to be pretty blind to not see why some people would take exception to the whole concept of level sync. I agree with the OP... experience as the only reward is pretty lack-lustre. The pro-synchers who praise this as the "revival of SWTOR" or making all old content "relevant" again.... how? It's just experience. It's not exactly difficult to get in this game. Give us unique rewards if you want to nudge people into doing all the side/exploration quests.... You know, toys, mounts, armour sets, all those cool things you stuff your Cartel Market packs with..... Create "Exploration" Commendations which are rewarded upon the completion of all these optional side quests... Create new vendors that have a whole whack of new silly toys/emotes/mounts/etc that we can use our Exploration commendations on.... But of course, that would require a little more work then simply changing a few numbers around in Exp tables....

I appreciate the help guys, nice to see some people in this community actually willing to offer insight and useful advice.

So, you were saying?

Guess I'm just unlucky then. Hopefully support remedies this in a semi-timely manner...I won't hold my breath though. I hope 4.0 fixes all of this.

Man why isn't that in bold letters when you go to a Reputation Vendor - ITEMS BOUGHT DO NOT ADD TO COLLECTIONS? Doesn't it seem absurd that your reward for getting your rep to Legendary (in some cases) is you have to spend Market Certs for every character you want that item on? I mean maxing a cartel reputation is like what, 4 crates? 5? So you spend upwards of $150 and you don't even get to put the items into your collections.... I don't get that logic.....ESPECIALLY since the items I really wanted weren't even in the same packs that rewarded the reputation required to get the item from the vendor! Love to have that one explained to me. If I had known that the Bounty Vendor music therapy probe and Darth Malgus Holostatue wouldn't end up in my collections, I would never have bought so many Bounty Supply Co hypercrates... I would have just bought the damn items off the GTN and used Cartel Coins to unlock them through collections. Would have cost WAY less.

Wow, I don't understand how some items end up in collections, and others don't. There's way too much conflicting info out on this, and seemingly nothing that I can find that is OFFICIAL from Bioware. Googling turns up plenty of confusion on the issue, hell even in this thread alone there's a ton of conflicting info. You would think for the sake of transparency and to save a lot of headaches/anger from customers, Bioware would make this abundantly clear...if indeed items are supposed to/not supposed to end up in collections after acquiring them from the Rep Vendors. Perhaps the changes to collections in 4.0 will address all of this? I haven't read much in the way of detail there, but I have to admit I'd feel rather put out if it turns out I have to buy these items individually for every character after spending the money I did on attaining Legendary rep...

Darth Malgus Holostatue also not unlocking in collections.

Just noticed the Darth Malgus Holostatue also falls into this category. Not unlocking in my collections.

Thanks, appreciate it... Opened a ticket, just want to make sure others (if they google, like I did) will get a recent result that will give em a heads-up.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=841153 Grinded the rep for Bounty Supply Co (bought multiple Hypercrates).... purchased a Music Therapy Probe for credits + market certs.... Timer ran out, doesn't unlock in my collections. This particular item is from the Vice Commandant's pack, so apparently this item SHOULD unlock in collections, regardless of where it came from. It does not.

Music Therapy Probe - Vice Commandant Pack It's not vendor specific.

Thanks

I'm not even closing the game, just cycling alts to do crew missions.... and constantly finding one on Fleet.... and when I do quit the game, I do so through the menu (properly)

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=675119

So I decided I wanted a few Bounty Supply Co items bad enough to max out my rep which was a result of multiple hypercrates.... Imagine my dismay when I find out that my Music Therapy Probe doesn't end up in my collections..... Am I alone in thinking thats just a little ridiculous when you factor in how much real money it costs to max out a rep? I'm not allowed to spend some cartel coins to unlock it across my legacy after I've dropped the required cartel market certs? Ridiculous.

Hey, an annoying bug keeps happening to me, seemingly at random... I'll log out in my Dromund Kaas stronghold, log back in and be on Fleet, at Korriban Departures... happens randomly, to any of my chars... no rhyme or reason to it...

To clarify : Does this mean completing chapters 1-3 for the badge? Or do you need to complete Makeb as well ?

So annoying that you took the time to click the post and add this pearl of wisdom in. Top kek.

Complaining about the RNG of free stuff. Cute.

From an "old content relevance standpoint" level syncing really seems like it's only "beneficial" to new players....I really find it hard to believe that any old players are suddenly going to say, come Oct.20th, "Woo! Full exp for that gray level 10 quest on Hutta! After 4 years, I can finally experience the rest of the story because it's all worthwhile now...because EXPERIENCE!" I mean, anyone who was REALLY interested in the story.... would have done these quests, regardless. I think they should create new rewards, or a new type of Commendation, like "Exploration Commendations" and then create a new pool of rewards that you can spend them on... unique mounts, toys, gear.... whatever, use your imagination. However, besides the obvious additional work it would require, there's also the point that any one who has already completed these quests would now be ineligible...Would have to give them a way to reset their side quest progress.