F2Ps have a chance to crit although its so low it will almost never happen. BIOWare should be ashamed of themselves for making it this way. They have watered down crafting so much with the cartel junk that its barely worth pursuing until end game. Also by the time you would have crit even on pay 2 play you easily out level the stuff. The low-crit, might as well say no-crit is the only reason I have a sub currently. If they would sell the higher or should I say normal crit chance in the market with the CC's. I would have bought it.

If you had to choose between your armor or weapon + focus which of the 2 has the biggest impact on your characters skills? I guess what I am saying if you were a healer or an assassin type character and you stripped the character naked would the armor give you high stats overall or would the weapon+focus do this?

^^^This is exactly the reason. Not to say getting HK-51 is hard is just I hate to have to wait till 50.

Lets say I start a new character and join him to my current legacy that has the unlock for hk-51. I pay the cartel monies or credits to get hk-51. I then transfer this character to another server and move him to a different legacy does hk-51 unlock on that legacy?

I still think the CC's cost is insane. HK-51 is super useful compared to this Ewok pet. His one shot ability has made fights so much easier when leveling. What I don't get is if they want to make money why price this so high? Personally I wont be getting it until the price goes down. As far as the legacy lvl 40 thing its stupid. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to sit at home all day and play this game from their mom's basement. Some of us have lives, wives, jobs and pets. While I do have characters at the level cap, I do play 4 other MMO's so star wars is not always the one I play with what little free time I have.

Here is my take on crafting in this game. Starting out I began playing this game back in March of last year and played it off and on. My previous MMOs where Aion, Rift, Tera, EQ2, COH/COV and Lineage II. So that gives me a pretty good idea on how its supposed to be done in an MMO. There is a clear disconnect how the players see the game and the devs see the game in terms of crafting. First off its way harder than it should be at least for the lower levels when there are fewer companions. Believe me this is not a case of "I want it NOA!!!" because I have crafted epic weapons in Aion and anyone who has played that game knows how time consuming that can be. As it stands there is absolutely no reason to craft except for personal enjoyment and the infinite reuse consumables. There is little if any benefit stat wise to craft. The stats need to be significantly higher for epic gear to be, you know, epic. Why is it broken? You can get comparable equipment while leveling from the commendations, at end game the best stuff is from raids and flash points which leaves crafters out in the cold. It takes companions too long to bring back mats and they arent even worth the time in most cases. Recipes are in all the wrong places. Everything related to a craft should stay with that craft. Yeah I get we need to trade stuff but with stuff being all over the place trade rarely happens. For instance it wasnt until yesterday that I realized that there were blue recipes for Artifice for crystals that give the power stat. I didnt see this recipe at all from treasure hunting. It was from investigation. Why is it there when the primary way to get the mats and recipes are in Treasure Hunting? It makes no freaking sense. Same goes with the augment recipes and mats being in slicing. I could go with the mats being a slicing only thing but the recipes need to stick to missions which match the craft better. What else needs to be fixed is how you need mods for lightsabers and weapons. Mods should be craftable by the craft they go to, as well as enhancements. All of the weapons for arms tech that are wisdom/strength items need to be moved to artifice. Lower the minimum level for all orange/purple moddable gear. Make the armoring/hilt/barrel determine the level. Meaning we should be able to delevel all gear if we wanted. This would be great for HK-51 since if you get him is practically naked at lower levels. Lastly what I would fix is the freaking gathering missions with the whole too many gift missions and not enough metals thing. Its highly annoying to have to switch zones/log off just to refresh the list. We are already facing a time penalty with waiting on the companion to come back but its even worse for once you add all the zone loading just to get the mission. Thats my $0.02 on crafting in this game.

I started a new toon recently and I am leveling with Hk-51. So far its been pretty fast once I got him purpled out. I cant wait till I can start getting more gear for him. On my lvl 54 character I am also preferring hk-51. No need to worry about healing or tanking in most cases cuz the stuff dies so fast. I just wish flashpoints dropped droid gear.

where on Corascant has this I been looking for a while now and don't see this vendor any where?

After a long break from the game I started back playing my Assassin and now It seems like I am always out of force. I remember I had to do a forced respec do to points being refunded. Something with the powers changed and I could not get my build to what it was before. Now I am always out of force. So do I need to change my build to something else? If so what do you suggest for Tank Spec and DPS spec.

For this specific companion I notice when you get him at lower levels he is completely naked. I just wanted to know whats the best or should I say which way would give him the most stats. Orange gear with purple mods or purple gear that's part specific?

Aion currently does this too. That crafting system was setup such that you had a 20% chance to proc. In order to force a proc you had to craft like 200+ of an item that cant proc thats from the same tier of that item you want to proc so that the streak breaker forces the next 2 crafts to proc. This works for most items up to gold status. I have not tried it beyond that because the crafting costs to do such are too expensive. In most cases it was cheaper to craft 200+ ingots of something because you could turn around and re-use those same ingots in another craft later on.

Vette does this too but you can buy a customization to get around the issue and make her naked. I hope they fix Ashara in a future update.

I hate it I been trying to get her naked since I first got her. If anyone knows how to make her body suit go away please enlighten me.

I disagree with this a lot. This borked crafting system forces you to make alts to make everything just to make it useable. If there was not so much overlap I would agree with you. To me in almost all cases its significantly cheaper to farm the mats on my own than to buy from the over priced market. Yes this is factoring time being worth credits. You have a significant problem whenever the cost of the mats bought off the broker cost more than it does for the final products sell price. Also if everything you needed to make the finish product was in the craft I would enjoy this system a lot more. Artifice should not need cybertech just to make a custom light saber complete. Just as armstech should not need artifice to complete its custom weapons. I think its fine for synthweaving and armortech to make the custom shells however all this crap being faction and archtype specific really puts a damper on choice in this game. The social gear is not all that either aside from the slave girl outfits. Fix for this game would be to allow going forward Artifice and Armstech to make all it needs for its weapons. Cybertech would make all it needs for the custom outfit shells that Synthweaving and Armortech make. For augments they would be item specific. If it goes to a lightsaber an artifice has to make it, the kit and the augment itself. If its synthweaving the same goes for that as well. Lastly all Rakata crafted gear is bind on account so you can move it to alts. This gives those who want to work on that stuff a reason to instead of just being worthless.

My system meets or exceeds the minimum requirements in all categories but it takes forever and a day to load. In some cases it never loads and I have to close the client and try again. I was wondering if playing on a Solid State drive would it make a difference on load times If you already have a quad core system with 8 gb of ram?