Wrong. Purple, from whatever we know has only been found for empire Cyan (not teal), has only been found for republic, though unlike purple I don't know anything of a confirmation that empire should be able to get this. Magenta (pink), we get from the guide which is everywhere on the forum all in all magenta is not purple!

Magenta is not the same as purple, Magenta is a lot closer to pink than it is purple, especially the magenta ingame. Also I'm pretty sure the ingame support should at least know the difference between these two colors, at least I hope so. So stop saying magenta is purple, it's not, also as I asked if it was possible for a republic to get it, I'm sure they'd understand that when I ask like that I know it's possible for imps to get purple in which case it'd be hard to misunderstand which color it is I'm asking about.

I posted in the 'Artifice - Rare Crystal locations and Guides' thread on this forum a confirmation from the ingame support, which confirmed that republic can actually get a purple color crystal. Though as I wrote in that thread, ever since the confirm of the white color crystal from ingame support, we cannot believe everything they say. However, you can not say that it isn't possible to get it either. Edit (post added from the other thread, my own post with pictures of the confirmation):

I'm very glad people like you leave tbh. It means that the rest of the people staying in the match are people I can usually trust to actually fight the fight. Most of the time I'd always encourage people who act like that to leave, because what's the point of them staying in the fight, if they're not actually fighting. Most fights can be turned around if people actually play the match. As a healer sage I have, with 2 parts from full champ gear 15.8k hp (valor rank 47, missing a relic and I've got a centurion main hand wep), when I hit 50 I think I had less than 12k hp even.

I don't really know all the details behind whatever happened to him, nor do I really care, it doesn't change the fact that if people do find the white crystal now, then it has not been found by legitimate means, unless stated that you can find it by the bioware people.

Currently there's no legal way to get a white color crystal, this was confirmed by the mods here on the forums, so until we get a confirmation that you can from those people all white crystals will have been gotten in an 'illegal' fashion.

From operations, I'm not sure about others though, but as of right now the biochem we have in our guild have been unable to actually learn the schematic though. Says invalid to him.

I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. You have to remember that much of the stuff you find on datamine sites like torhead has a lot of stuff which aren't actually in the game. This exactly, take it with a grain of salt. You can extract the pve purple crystals (columi gear), but once you do I'm pretty sure they're already bound to that character and therefore will not be tradeable.

Which is why I myself wrote, that I wasn't sure how much to put into this 'confirmation', mostly because they stated the same thing to other people with the white crystal, the best confirmation would be to get the confirmation stated from a community manager in this thread or something like that. What I'm thinking is if anyone might have leads as to where it could be, if we say it does exist for republic? purely hypothetically ^^ (As I don't want to lead people on a false trail and waste their time unintentionally). But I'll still put up a picture a little later today when I get around to it, just so people can see that we 'might' possibly be able to get it. It's not totally out of the picture, that's mostly what I'm trying to get at EDIT: Added image confirmation from the ingame CS (remember that this does not mean that it's absolutely confirmed that you can get it at this time, if you want reasoning for this, then it comes from the white color crystal confirmation) http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/purplecrystal1.jpg/ http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/442/purplecrystal2.jpg/

You get it from last bosses in hardmode flashpoints.

I wrote an ingame ticket regarding this, and the answer confirmed that it is possible for a republic to get a purple color crystal. I can post a screenshot later when I get online again if you really think you need it. Though considering they said the same for the white color crystal I'm not sure how much to put into this.

Sorcs/Sages don't have the best burst healing, and long term healing isn't all that far from eachother tbh, this is taken from a pve standpoint. I do agree we have the best aoe healing, but it has harsh requirements compared to any other healing effect, especially now, because people need to stand in it to get the healing, and they need to stand there for some time to get it, on top of that it has a long cast time, where many other aoe heals (for example the commando/merc healing spell) are instant cast. All the resource systems are fine enough if you just know what you're doing, if you know what you're doing you're not getting out of anything with any of the resource systems. You also say we have the best preemptive you say and the best bubble? aren't these 2 the same thing? and sure I agree our bubble is very good, very very good in fact, but then I'd rather see a nerf to this than anything else (because clearly this is the most used and best ability we have in our arsenal). Oh and compared to our other abilities if we spam bubble on all people we will go out of force very very quickly.

I'd rather see the initial heal amount taken out of the heal over time effect and then put in as the initial heal, I'd be fine with that, but the initial heal is really what makes the ability really really good, and I'm not kidding. The thing is that without it people NEED to stay in the circle for pretty much the full duration or you've just wasted your time casting it, whereas if you have the initial heal it won't be wasted as much if people just move out of it.

Will be great to see

Indeed, companion quests are blocked by your progression in your class story quest line, but you don't unlock them unless you have the affection level for it.