It's amazing how this even got released. So many people called this as soon as the change was announced a week or so back.

Yup. I'm sure fun playing Imp v Imp Huttball for eternity. That's the only PvP there will be left at the rate this is going.

Of course a class that can make Mods for moddable armour is going to be more effecient at beefing up their levelling armour. But when you can make armour for slots that doesn't have moddable armour with the chance for it to have augment slots in then you're the one who starts laughing. Honestly at low skill I really wouldn't bother with reverse engineering for procs because you can quite easilly replace the armor. But some of the blue non-moddable slot armour pieces are better than the stuff you get from flashpoints/heroic quests (name the bracers) - if you want to make money off of people who want to deck their character out in BiS whilst levelling then reverse engineering will come into play. But seriously you can just chain craft and vendor things and have a pretty substantial source of income at lower levels. That and at 400 you can pretty much (after 2 hardmode flashpoints if you get the alloys) make an epic belt and waist that is on par with the top tier vendor raid gear. What does your cybertech friend get at 400 that's useful top-end at 50?

The ability with the really long cast time that kills you instantly if he finishes casting. Interrupt it. The stuff that does moderate damage - let it through, if your finding he gets your health down too quick, use force wave to interrupt a couple of the non-lethal ones. I died once, figured out that I need to interrupt the really long one that one shot me - interrupted it everytime, profit. If you really still can't do it then ask for someone to tag along with you. But believe me if Vivicar is causing you problems then the end boss on Corellia will make you cry. Master your interrupts now. (oh I did it as Shadow too - I honestly can't see how you can find it hard as Sage with healing abilities on top of an interrupt)

Not sure what game you're playing - when levelling a warzone gives you about 3-5k credits and give the queues you are likely to only get a couple done in a 30 minute window (especially if you get huttball everytime). So adding grinding on top of that... that's way more than 30 minutes work. Unless of course you're talking about max level - but I doubt the slicing nerfs were really aimed at income at max level.