Raisins the point of what does a vanguard have to do with raising your crew skill to 450? It doesn't matter what you craft if it gets you towards the finish line. Then just sell it on the GTN, it's not BoP.

Yeah well who cares if people use them if you only want to get to 450 Still I have managed to flick a few through GTN at around 20K

Pretty sure there is 1 or 2 dye modules that get you over the hump, that and the vanguard sabers and yeah then the 28's. I did 450 from 400 easily so if you have everything possible check your crew skills for any of the items that have a yellow circle as opposed to blank ( green might mean slightly less gain in the art, not sure as not at home to double check ).

Color Crystals also make Dye Modules and you need quite a lot for those. With only 1 colour crystal mission per archaeology tier and you won't always get the colour crystal mission at all they can be hard to get . I find those damn 3rd tier colour crystals the hardest to find. Probably need them elsewhere too but Dye Modules are the main place I use them on.

I noticed this issue last week with the x2 exp and expressed similar concern on the chat and people usually say "well thats the RNG for you" but truly you tend to get a feel for the statistics of purple drops etc. and notice when something changes if it's something you do all the time. Anyway I notice, like you, that again this seems to be happening and again it's during the x2 weekend. I wonder then if they nerf it during the x2 weekends for some reason or the RNG around rare finds isn't a pure roll but coded in a way that it takes into consideration all the other people running similar missions as well? Just a thought as there is something odd going on and I'm sure like last week come tomorrow I will start hitting more crits again.