A smuggler needing on willpower gear is ninja looting, the sage however, can still use your stats. He may not be a tank, but at low levels, I usually out level my gear so fast even the tank gear is a vast improvement to what I have. At high levels, the sage should wait for the right stats on their gear, but at low levels, the "right stats" are usually whatever has the highest stats which can be shadow tank gear.

Wow! That is an awesome idea! They should call them commendation, yes, I think that would be a good name for them. I am surprised Bioware didn't come up with that idea already, oh, wait, they did.

Your leader was using master looter. It does prevent ninja looting (Unless the leader is the ninja looter, then it gets a lot worse.) but it also slows down the operation a lot. There are pros and cons to both systems.

If you need a challenge, try shortmaning, if you use voice chat, get rid of it. You could also have some players take off some gear, lots of options to make the current HM content more challenging without making content no one else can do.

Healing is very different than most MMOs, you will get some better heals at higher levels though. Feel free to message @orangefiree if you need help with anything.

Kuat Driveyards flashpoint, that was the one I was thinking of, thanks.

First, I want to say that the space PVP looks really good so far. However I was just curious what else is being added. Mainly, I though I saw something in a post about a new flashpoint but I can't find the post now.

I agree that new content is better, however, it is much quicker for them to simply scale EC up to 55 then to make an entire new operation. For a lot of people, it will be new content anyways since no one runs it anymore. I would also be ok with scaling it up to 55 and making it a solo operation with three companions, but that would take a lot more work probably.

The best solution would be to flag players for PVP if they heal an NPC that is in combat with another player.

And letting that poor, innocent NPC die is any better?

I think a set bonus would be fine for flashpoints that are harder than HM S&V/TFB. If they don't drop that, they would need to drop Oriconian gear, and that is even better than Underworld set bonus items.

I got it from my first HM 55 flashpoint since it was added. I guess I just got lucky.

Wait, they released it early? I didn't think anyone got access until December.

Two operations only takes you 2-3 hours? That is usually how long one operation takes for me, I guess I am getting bad luck.

If they moved your threads to the bug report forum, then the price of PVP gear is probably bugged.