Anyone else think that these should be put in game?

Antonio Sadly, I did not choose Banderas as my legacy name. greatest regret of the game, thus far.

Then add a vendor item called repair kit or whatever, that the Armormechs/Synthweavers have to buy in order to repair other people's stuff in the field. The idea is still pretty damn sound.

I get the feeling that faceblast would be as effective (if not moreso) as Backblast. So why not just remove the effect condition from backblast?

No Love for C2-N2? OK, OK, i know, he's pretty much a gimp version of Guss, but he does have one advantage: when you're 10k/10k affection with all your 'real' companions, there's an actual fiscal advantage in sending them on missions 24/7 and settling for the gimp.

with Slicing, you make the money in the long run on your crits (oooh, epic crafting mission) and on the lockboxes you gather while doing your dailies.

I've also seen Level 25 Epic BOE mods drop from hard mode Eternity Vault. I'm wondering if anyone has tried to RE those and learned a schematic.

No. Triple gathering = Slicing, Bioanalysis, Scavenging/Archaeology. For reasons already listed, Bioanalysis is pretty good because Biochem is pretty good. i would venture that Scavenging > Archaeology right now because Artifice is pretty sorry and Scavenging feeds three different crafting professions. Just go about and gather everything you see and send you non-active companions on Slicing lockbox missions.

I would never level up a toon without Slicing. Slicing while leveling is the nuts. Hell, slicing at fifty is still pretty good, especially if you spend a lot of your time doing dailies.

Have you tried to RE and learn the Level 50 mods/armorings that come with ops loot?