Three double xp weekends confirmed starting 22 June through to 7th July.

I was aware of the matrix cube but I'll need to read up more on it. Figured it was the only relic option. Thanks.

Exactly as Zero said. The cap for planetary comms is 100 so given you've reached it, there's no reason not to spend at least a few on outfitting a companion as you'll earn them back quick enough. As for which companion to gear, generally your healer is the best bet but if you're playing as a deception assassin a tank like Khem will make it much easier to get your backstabs in.

Looking to roll an agent soon and for once I'd like to play the class and its decisions based on each individual scenarios as opposed to the pure light/dark side approach. Question is, I know this will hurt my ability to pick up relics early in the game as they're (all?) restricted to alignment, so is there anyway I can mitigate this i.e. find relics elsewhere. Also, are there any other downsides to playing a character that whilst not neutral will not be close to Dark/Light V?

Pretty much everything's been covered. Only point I'd add is that Jugg/Guard is similar to WoW's warrior in mechanics/playstyle and Shadows/Assassins are closer to Paladins.

Thought as much but thanks for the info!

The Scalene Leggings (Pants/trousers) that are available from the Gree event and the market are something akin to what I've been looking at for my female shadow. However, I was wondering if there is another piece similar in design (and similar to that worn by Shan) that I can get without dropping 6/7 figure sums of credits/ cartel market coins?

Regarding the stealth issue, there are abilities (such as infiltrate) that allow you to cloak other players even if they're non-stealthers. As far as I'm aware there is no penalty to healing so they may well have been healed via a healer or pickup.

It's already been said about Nar Shaddaa - you shouldn't be heading there until around level 20. As for the runes mission you mentioned that's a Heroic 2 mission which really requires at least one other player. Focus on content for your level and if it's heroic group up with other players. Quests are colour-coded by difficulty: Grey (trivial)-> Green (easy) -> Yellow (around your level) -> Orange (challenging, but still possible) -> Red (will be very difficult). As a general rule though just try and run with other players period - it will make everything easier and faster and you stand to get better loot too.

Almost level 48 and I was hoping those of you who are experienced in the elder game (even with the 2.0 changes) could point out what's the best course of action I should take once I hit 50 to gear my character. I plan to buy RotHC so should I just focus on getting to level 55 and then worry about gear or are there opportunities at level 50 I can take advantage of?

You're probably already aware but just to make sure, you can delete existing crew skills to select other ones (the only limitation is that you cannot have more than 3 total crew skills and only one can be a crafting skill) so you're not stuck with your first selections. Just beware that if you delete Armortech to take Cybertech and decide to return to Armortech your skill will be back at 1.

I have no issue with the cartel market, but it would be nice to have just a few toys thrown the way of subs rather than just waiting for one content update (reserving judgement for 2.2).

Thanks for the info. I'd already factored in the OS and I'll need to fork out for a network card too but that's pretty cheap. I'll upgrade the RAM then as well and, as you said, I can easily upgrade as the years go on, but for right now I'm happy with decent performance compared to my current several minute load screens choopy fps etc

http://www.ukgamingcomputers.co.uk/hemera-custom-gaming-pc-p-99.html Would something like that run it ok? Again, I'm not too bothered about top settings graphics just a smooth experience. I'll give it a look but the laptops very cool for all other purposes and older games so I think I need to bite the bullet and get a desktop.

Not going to lie, with price being the biggest issue I may well give it a go, but I will blame both of you should I cause an explosion. Thanks for the info!