Just make sure you always use your Tumult

Anchorhead is alive and well on the East Coast.

Deceptive Power, in the Deception Tree, will increase it to 110 Force. That's about all you'll get. Requires 11 points in Deception.

After buying 2 white and 2 purple crystals, as well as a speeder and the other 2 magenta schematics I am still a multi-millionaire. Made the majority of my credits cutting or selling +33 power magenta crystals pre 1.1.5 I have a stock of crystals ready for when they take the vendor away.

You are correct, and no problemo. With the base stats on the relics plus the augments that I add, the loss of stats from the matrix cube is minor. Essentially I lose the Crit from the matrix, but that can be made up elsewhere.

Agreed, and I was not trying to say it was. It is far better than any blue relic you can get from LS/DS or Treasure Hunting, and even competes with some of the relics from HM and NiM.

Well all 4 are different and you can equip 2 at a time. So why not increase your stats with aug slots on all 4? When DPSing, I use the Crit/Surge and Power relics together, both with +28 Willpower augments. When tanking, I use the Shield Rating/Absorb and Defense relics together, both with +28 Endurance augments. So whether I am DPS or Tank, there is a +56 increase to either my Willpower or Endurance, not too shabby imo. Not to mention that as long as you have 2 different relics equipped, they can both be used just 20 seconds apart. Not the full 2 mins as if you had the same 2 relics equipped.

I am all for this. It would give me something more to sell, now that my Magenta crystals have dropped in price so much.

Does this take into consideration that you can use the Crit/Surge relic and then 20 seconds later use the Power relic? I think that would greatly increase the amount of damage from the "click relics" I burn both of my "click relics" (crit/surge and then 20 seconds later power) on all 3 phases of SOA. It's great

Only the SAME relic shares a cooldown of 2 minutes. If you equip one of each, they are just on the standard 20 second cooldown. *edit to correct my first statement from 1 to 2 minutes.

I crit on all 4 of my relics, crit/surge, power, shield/absorb and def. Some happened right away, others took many more attempts. My final tanking relic took 35 attempts, yes that's 35 BCAs... However, I would not vendor the relics that do not crit. It is possible to get BCAs back from REing them.

The Artifice crafted Rakata relics are BIS imo. I have the crit/surge and power for dps and the shield/absorb and def for tanking. All 4 with aug slots.

That chart does not apply to crafting crystals. There are not 3 different "specs" for crystals. Artifice gets crit and endurance for now. I imagine more will be added in 1.2

I am a 31/0/10 Assassin tank for our guild. We are 10/10 NiM 8Man. I previously was Deception DPS. I have full Rakata for DPS and my full Columi for tanking. I have no troubles with threat when our BH's and even Snipers go all out, blowing cooldowns and our Mara pops Blood Thirst. No problems. I think a mistake a lot of tanks are making is always using their Taunts in their rotations. Generally I start with one, I use wither whenever it is up and off the mobs, Discharge, Force Lightening, etc. Taunt is only used when I see a mob leave me and head to someone else. However, I can generally pull that mob back with just a wither or discharge, unless someone is FF on the wrong target. I do not think any class needs a misdirection ability. It would make all the work I am doing managing the boss utterly useless. I think you need to work more on how your tank is handling the fight rather than trying to find ways to drop your threat. Have you tried having your tank put his guard on you to reduce your threat generation? Yes you would have to be a bit closer to him and whatever you are fighting, but it may help. *edit for spelling correction.

Not to defend the fact that both of these missions can be bugged, I find that if I am unable to do them and there are 2 Ilums active on my server, I switch to the second instance and they work right away.