Yeah and it's completely irrelevant that 87% of all War Hero people are there due to Ilum exploits? They should of course keep on being rewarded for exploiting broken systems, and the gap should never close.

Hey, hunters are the hardest class to play efficiently in WoW, don't bash them

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=224675 It's DEFINITELY not random. The OP here is just another guy posting the same topic/ problem, but there have been tens of them, and I can say from my own experience (20+ HM runs, so not a small sample) and from the experience of others, it's just STATISTICALLY impossible. You can definitely get reproducible drops in 85% of cases if running with the same premade group. And the trend seems to be you will usually get drops for the class NOT present in the group - and not randomly, but in literally 85% or so of cases, from ALL bosses, not just the Columi drops. I can literally do 3 HM's in a row with my group, and we'll get 95% Smuggler 5% Trooper gear. I figured we just might be incredibly unlucky etc etc so I started following this forum, and after a few days I can now safely conclude something is indeed wrong.

If you got nothing smart to say, don't say anything at all.

So I guess loot is completely broken unless you have a "perfect" setup, meaning 1 of each class. What's the situation if you run like that, any info?

OP is definitely correct. I've seen plenty of such topics, and I can vouch for it from my own experience. It DEFINITELY has to do with group composition, in a way the game basically chooses what type of gear is least useful for the group, and drops that 85% of the time. Very broken. My HM group consisted of 2x Guardian, 1x Commando, 1x Sage. Did around 20 HM together. 75% of all drops were Smuggler, with some Trooper and the odd Sage. Just 1 JK drop from all those, with 2 guardians in group. My Doc is full PvE epic geared, just from winning Greed rolls, while my Guardian has 1 Tionese piece, bought from COmmendations. No wonder I rerolled.

Exactly my situation Saw 1 drop for JK in ~16 runs, lost the roll for it. My Doc is completely epic geared (and just from Greed rolls, mind you), with Rusk having more PvE epics than me too.

My HM Group was 2x Guardian, Trooper and Consular; we got Smuggler loot 95% of the time, literally. Like, do a HM Esseles and get Smuggler gear on all bosses. Do something else, get Smuggler loot everywhere except on 1 boss. Literally Smuggler gear all around with an odd exception every now and then. And this is based on 20ish runs, not that small a number. So I think your theory is probably correct for normal mode/ low lvl FP's - did a Hammer the other day on my smuggler, had 3 consulars in group, got 3 consular drops + 1 smuggler drop, but in HM's it stops applying. Fact. And it's NOT normal RNG. Fact. If you run with the same group all the time, you'll get reproducible results from each boss 95% of the time.

PvP Champion gear is easy to get and more than viable for Hardmode raids, so you'd prolly be best off just doing that for the moment. HM FP's are broken.

I have been having the same issue, not with raids but with HM Flashpoints. And not only me, it seems to be very common. Take a look at this topic, http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=156471 Basically it seems to drop gear for classes not in the group 80% of the time. Or it depends on the group leader class or something, but it's DEFINITELY not RNG and it's completely broken.

My loot statistics so far... Did 16 HM's. Saw 2 Consular Tokens, 1 Knight token, 4 trooper Token and 9 Smuggler tokens. WITH NO SMUGGLERS EVER PRESENT IN THE GROUP. You know what that means? It drops more than all other classes combined. Just did an Esseles run and EVERY boss drooped a smuggler item, and the group consisted of 2x JK, Trooper and Consular. Loot is so broken I can't even begin to explain it. And it's pretty gamebreaking imo, I've been doing HM's 2-3 per day in the last 2 weeks, and got 1 item from drops (Justice saber from HK 47) and 1 item from commendations... Seriously? Meanwhile, I got full Champion PvP set from doing BG dailies/ weeklies. This *NEEDS* to be fixed. Also the auto-assigned loot in Raids, that gives duplicates to 1 player, when another player needs it, and doesn't take the item's stats into account at all, etc. I just can't believe a major studio like Bioware can make such huge mistakes and broken systems.

I don't get why it chooses 1 person who gets all the items from that raid. ALL the items, seriously? Not even some kind of Round Robin? It's just completely broken and I don't see how it can work, even for PUG's. Right now if you don't get an item from first boss, you may as well just leave the raid cause you won't get anything from the rest of the bosses either.

I seriously don't understand this loot system either, whichever way I look at it. Yesterday my guild cleared the first 4 bosses of EV on Normal, there was me (dps guardian), tank guardian, and a sentinel in the raid. The other guardian got 3 token (Columi gear) items and 3 Heavy armor items, while me and sentinel got nothing. The sad thing is the other guardian already had most of those items, and he got duplicates, with no way to change who gets items and no way to trade them to one of us. This is just too retarded and I consider it a game breaking bug/mechanic which enraged me so much I am thinking about cancelling my subscription. I would really like some explanation on this loot system, to me it just seems too retarded to be real.

/signed This is not only the most awful armor in the game, it might just be the worst armor I ever saw in ANY game. Especially for a Jedi.

I agree, that's just a totally pointless mechanic.