Making my way to my first 55, and I'm wondering if it's expected for Shadow of Revan to bring MK-10 kits, or if MK-9s are expected to be able to handle top-level augments once the expansion hits.

Pretty much all there in the title. I googled and couldn't find anything specific. I'm doing a PVE gunslinger and am wondering if taking Sharp Aim (10%/20% armor penetration for aimed shot) is going to help me at all or just be a wasted skill.

Honestly would also like to see this fixed. I avoid all armor like this now because I just come to expect a bubble butt from it. I don't know the intricacies of this game engine but I can't imagine it would be a laborious bug to fix.

Alright, so far I'm really, really not liking this mode. Two things in particular are not making any sense to me. 1) Is gunnery in this mode based on stats/RNG or actual aiming? I keep following people around, putting what seem to be perfect shots into their ships, yet I only see the yellow damage floaters every 10th or 20th laser bolt on average. 2) How do the lock-on concussion missiles work? Sometimes I hold down mouse 2 and they fire on their own, other times I can hold a lock on someones tail for over 6 seconds and ever see the missile launch. Is their some ancillary command to firing the missile, in addition to locking? I was under the impression that once the lock completes, it fires on its own, but it doesn't seem to do this most of the time.

Alrighty, thanks to the both of ye.

So what you're saying is, two orange pieces of armor, even if one is attained at level 5 and the other at level 55, are identical so long as the same mods are attached?

I understand that orange gear in this game is "custom", and scales with the mods put in place with it. I got an orange reward from a quest and I want to compare it to the orange armor I'm already wearing, but the reward is unmodified and the one I'm wearing has mods, so the reward obviously looks inferior. My question is, is there any way to compare these two items "base stats", without dropping the creds to rip out the mods I already have in my equipped armor piece? Thanks.

Your hostility is unwarranted and your answer correspondingly unhelpful. I was clearly not asking for anything except a simple explanation for how low level characters get seemingly high level gear. Take your juvenile and confrontational attitude elsewhere. I had the feeling there was some kind of secondary way people were equipping their alts; there's no way I was just walking past all that good looking loot. That "Legacy" system explains it. Thank you for the detailed and polite answer. The other fellow should take notes.

Really wasn't sure how to make the topic title make any sense but that's my best shot. Anyway, I just started playing this today, and one thing I've noticed is that whenever I click on other players in Ord Mantell, it says they're a similar level to me (levels 7-10), and yet they appear to have a crap ton of stuff. Fancy armor (but not cartel coin stuff), speeder mounts (and no, I'm not mistaking the public fast travel bikes for the actual mounts), and companions. All stuff that looks like it would come from mid to late game. So what's going on? Is there some "prestige" system where people revert back to level 1, or am I just going through this game totally wrong?