I already wrote about my suspicions in general forum: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=9701987#post9701987 Shortly, I'm getting same pieces repeatedly from Artifact Lockboxes from week to week that are given as a reward for Ossus weekly (10 Ossus dailies), and it's happening on most of my toons, again and again. I submited a ticket (#33797132) about this and they replied: "After checking my resources here, this particular case appears to have been caused by a bug within the game that will need to be corrected in a future game update and as such, cannot be corrected by Customer Service on the time being. But do not worry as our development team are reviewing the reports and will investigate the issue to apply a fix. To allow us to identify and correct these issues, we would request that you submit a Bug Report on this issue. Bug Reports submitted though the In-Game Help Center go directly to our development QA team and not to Customer Service. To submit a bug, you can type /bug in your chat window or select Bug Report from the drop down when creating a new ticket in the In-Game Help Center. What I can suggest, is for you to check the latest patch notes at http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes every patch for information on any fixes or changes in our game updates or our Known Bug list which can be found at the top of our Bug Forums here: http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=417. We regret that we will be unable to provide you with further updates on this issue directly." So, I'd like to inform QA team about the bug here, hope you will correct this soon.

So, It's-100%-RNG guys, congratulations, they say this is a bug. At long last I've received reply to my ticket regarding to my suspicions, where I wrote that all of my toons are getting all the same pieces from Artifact Lockboxes: "After checking my resources here, this particular case appears to have been caused by a bug within the game that will need to be corrected in a future game update and as such, cannot be corrected by Customer Service on the time being. But do not worry as our development team are reviewing the reports and will investigate the issue to apply a fix. To allow us to identify and correct these issues, we would request that you submit a Bug Report on this issue. Bug Reports submitted though the In-Game Help Center go directly to our development QA team and not to Customer Service. To submit a bug, you can type /bug in your chat window or select Bug Report from the drop down when creating a new ticket in the In-Game Help Center. What I can suggest, is for you to check the latest patch notes at http://www.swtor.com/patchnotes every patch for information on any fixes or changes in our game updates or our Known Bug list which can be found at the top of our Bug Forums here: http://www.swtor.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=417. We regret that we will be unable to provide you with further updates on this issue directly." I've created new topic in Bug Reports section, let's see what will they reply.

So, I checked again, the total loot from Artifact Lockboxes so far, just want to understand the system (I play on Darth Malgus and Star Forge servers both): DM server: Slinger/Sniper toons got only hands from Artifact Lockbox (Upper Body) (5 pieces), or only relics from Artifact Lockbox (Lower Body) (2 pieces); Senti/Mara toons got only implants from Artifact Lockbox (Upper Body) (5 pieces), or only boots from Artifact Lockbox (Lower Body) (3 pieces) Sage/Sorc toons got only cuffs from Artifact Lockbox (Upper Body) (3 pieces, started those toons later); SF server: Senti toon got only chests from Artifact Lockbox (Upper Body) (4 pieces), or only relics from Artifact Lockbox (Lower Body) (3 pieces); it has 1 258 implant though but it came from Lockbox which was obtained not from Ossus weekly but from a Command Crate (they seems similar, may be a coincidence); Slinger toon on SF server is the most lucky - it has 5 different 258 items obtained from Ossus weeklies, and there were only 3 same items in 8 weeks; [disclaimer: now I must say to all advisers do not worry - I farm crystals every week too and every of those toons has 20-25 crystals as well, and about 200k of UCs in legacy banks collected in last several months, I could have "4 BiS 258 sets on my account" too like some cocky kid was bragging before, I just don't want to create 8 toons of each class and to brainlessly grind the crystals - all I want is just to play for my own fun] So, all this is very suspicious, and it's not look like as a random; I would agree if 1-2 toons had similar items per weeks, but not all. That is why I suspected that this is either a bug or the developers have made an algorythm of this "rng" that makes ppl to spend more time for gearing. And I heard from several ppl on those servers that they had similar problems. And I tried to google and seen some ppl on reddit complaining that they had 3-4 similar items in a row. And even in this topic with very few inhabitants someone said that he had only implants/relics so far, and the other one who "had 1 character get 3 chestpieces in 3 consecutive weeks. I've had others that get 3 Accuracy implants in 3 straight weeks". And now I'd like to ask you again - do you really think that this is a real RNG? And is there anyone else who had similar problems? P.S.Sorry for my English, it's not my native language tbh, but I speak 3 other languages better than English.

there's a difference between "suspect" and "100%", don't make the grammar nazi from comment above whine again

LOL kid, you shouldn't have skipped math, a guy who got the same result in a real rng 8 times in a row definitely must play the lottery xD and I wonder what makes you "100%" sure, in my experience only dumb ppl can be 100% sure in things that they can't prove. all this conversation with ehm gifted kids can be funny sometimes; it's like: - I suspect that loot from lockboxes is not random; - dude, the best way to gear is grinding mws! - I'm telling that it's not random, I didn't ask how to gear; - you don't need this gear! you don't do nims! - it's my business do I need the gear or not, read carefully I'm getting the same pieces for the last several weeks by all 8 of my toons farming Ossus; - man, I read it, you are wrong, it's 100% random, I can't prove it but I'm 100% sure! xD

oh lol I hate rng now; idk why you can't understand reading, but again - it's not rng; 8 toons: they all get same pieces from lockboxes - 1 gets only chests from Upper; 2nd gets only cuffs from Upper; 3d gets only Hands from Upper; and etc. did you already studied math in school? what's the chances to get the same result in rng (let's say from 1-4) 8 times in a row? try /roll 1-4 - and when you will have same number 8 times in a row then come back and we will talk about rng

yeah right - create a topic telling that gear from lockboxes that supposed to be random is not random at all, and you'll get free "wise" advices from kids how to gear right and why you don't need bis gear xD

Dude, read the name of the topic - "is not random", the point is that they say it's RNG but it's not. What's the chance to get via random same result 8 times in a row? The question is - is it a bug, or they did it intentionally. I suspect 2nd option.

This BS made me sick to death already. You wait a week for new piece of 252 gear and you get 5th hands or 4th chestpiece or a implant with worthless stats - this is very disappointing. I'm doing Ossus weeklies by 8 toons and every of them are getting same pieces of gear: some of them getting only cuffs or only hands or only chestpieces from Artifact Lockbox (Upper Body) or only feet from Lower Body. This can't be a coincidence - chances that you randomly will get same pieces 8 times in a row, for weeks are so low, so that makes me to suspect that developers have made a kind of algorythm which makes your gearing as long as it possible. They've made a game where you can obtain gear only farming some crystals that you can get only 4 of them per week. And in addition some weeklies were bugged - on 1st week when you could receive it only on Tuesdays, and that GSF weekly that just tells you go fk yourself with your GSF victories - it's still 0/3! All this game is just a waste of time. I'm not gonna pay for such sht anymore, gl!

Before the last patch ping was stable 100-110 ms, but after the patch it jumps from 100 to 1000 ms and back every minute!

Is it ever possible? I've joined the game couple of weeks ago, got a subscription, I was playing as F2P for some time before, but not much, and last week I was waiting for GS about several hours everyday without any luck! I don't even know do I really need this mode or not, I just want to try to earn some GS points for ship improvements and to see what GS is really look like.