LOL of course they are proud of the soundfile. The storyline with the voice overs are one of the unique, interesting features of this game that offers immersion. So sick and tired of people bashing this game. Does it have problems? Yes. So do ALL other MMOs. Never seen one yet where people where not griping on the forums over one thing or another. But I still enjoy getting out there with an alt and seeing the planets from a new perspective with each class storyline. If you are a hard core pvper, yeah, this may not be the game for you. But then hard core pvpers seem to blow through the games designed for them in a few months anyways.

It would be nice if the RE pattern went +power -> crit, presence, alacrity, accuracy, + crit -> power, presence, alacrity, accuracy, + defense-> shield, presence, absorb, accuracy ( or maybe power). Instead of having + shield and +absorb as possibilities from cirt and power, which make very little sense. You could add in + pvp trait (cannot remember it for the life of me atm) so crafter could make useful pvp armor as well.

When I played Friday morning after the patch I didn't have any problems. Both Heat Sig and targeting lock showed up.

I have been noticing since the change where certain missions where removed from the list of options based on the character's faction (by this I assume they ment Republic/Empire not Light/Dark) that I have been getting a lot more of the missions that reward hypos/medpack/implant components. A few times I have seen 4 of these mission types in one rank, which is pretty horrible. Maybe just my bad luck but I think the Empire had a few bioanalysis missions removed and its messing up the table that generates what is availible.

Well, I don't think there is any way to really know. As far as I understand it, what the number bonus for +critical on mission skills for companions means is unknown, other then bigger would be better. IE, is a +1 the equivalent to +5%, or +2% or some weird modifier to the formula that only Bioware knows? But there is no reason to believe that the companion faction bonus doesn't stack with a companion's innate bonus.

OP is talking about Kaliyo not Temple.

I never see any of the lower level ones for sale. Run the lower level mission and I bet you could make decent bank selling those. I know I would pay good money to be able to make some augments that aren't lvl 41+.

You would have thought they would have linked getting synthweaving schematics with running missions resulting in the cloth while running the metal missions resulted in armortech schematics. Ah well.

UI customizations is fine. I would like to be able to make it where debuffs where bigger for instance. What I don't want to see is all the third party addons that WoW ended up having. Which gave players an advantage, which the game designers then had to make raids harder to compensate for the addons. And the addons broke every time they patched the game. And the adddons could, and did for me, cause file errors that messed up things like keybind settings. So yes to UI customization within the framework of the UI that we have now. No to highly modded/programming keybinds, outside of simple message keybinds.

Yes there is a point in the Agent storyline where that happens. Hoped you didn't just spacebar through it to get past "another one of those annoying" cinematics. I do wonder though, since Kaliyo has disappeared have you had any issues sending companions out on crew missions? I know that at that point in the story line sending out companions can be very buggy if you had anyone out on a mission when the Event occurs.

Not sure how what in the world you mean with this sentence. Changes to marauder and juggernaut trees are "running" this "spec"?

Anyone having luck getting low level (say in the lvl 15 to 30) schematics for armor mods? I see the ones for lvl 49 on the GTN quite frequently but have yet to see one beflow lvl 41ish. I am guessing that they are alternate success to a critical on Underworld Trading while going for metals (or cloth get Will/Str mods) which makes it quite rare for lower lvl characters to get the schematics since they will have a much lower chance at criting not having maxed out faction with the companion. Would running Underworld Trading missions greatly increase the likelyhood of gaining such a schematic?

This is my build as well, although there isn't exactly much choice in a healing build. I do have one question, anyone seen Tox Screen actually clean anything they couldn't just clean with Toxin Scan in PvE? I picked this ability up thinking it would prove useful, but it really doesn't seem to do anything. I do wonder at the description of a lot of debuffs I see that Toxic Scan does not remove. For instance, the Rakghoul debuff that reduces your max health or any armor debuff. Both certainly seem to be "physical" effect but we cannot remove them.

Hmm, but an engineer sniper maybe the way to go for leveling as you gain quite a bit of AoE dps.

Kaliyo has the same trouble all tank companions have - not enough damage mitigation from armor and the shield only gives an average of 5% overall mitigation. She also likes to stay at range unless you turn off her single target ranged attack which means she cannot use most of her AoE taunts. "Gearing" her up won't help much either since at lvl 30ish the gear doesn't have enough +defense + shield to make much of a difference. So, as a sniper what can you do to make Kaliyo more effective? Disable her big ranged attack so she jumps in and starts AoEing to start with. You can reenable it after she has jumped in. Have her attack any strong mobs in a group first. Help her by using your frag grenades to knock down regulars and weaks in the group, this will help more then you would expect. If there is a strong ranged guy and a strong melee in the same group have her attack the ranged and you pull the melee at long range. Use your leg shot as soon as its away from Kaliyo to slow him down, as well as any other snares. If need be let that one beat on you as you help kill the ones with Kaliyo. After they are dead manually use her taunt to get the aggro onto her if you are hurting. Its unforunate that the tank companions where gimped, I have read on these forums they used to have a +60% armor buff when in guard stance but that made them too good, so instead of just reducing that bonus it was entirely removed. Which after lvl 30 or so makes them only useful if you are a healer. Vector, not Victor, is a very strong DPS companion and will probably do you as much good as Kaliyo if you use him to rip up the weaker mobs in a group first. The out of combat heal makes barely surviving a perfectly acceptable tactic in this game, your downtime for healing is mere seconds.