I've been throwing looted gear into all those legacy bays freed up by the new crafting materials inventory and as I log my various crafters in I deconstruct items appropriate to them (implants for biochem, guns for arms,etc) and I get jawa junk as a result. I never get enough, even from 20 items) to buy ONE grade 11 mat from a vendor which I think is annoying. I also never get any actual materials. I accidentally threw a synthweave type armor into my armormech's decon window and I got the normal jawa garbage AND a few tech fragments. I've since tried this on all six crafters, if a deconstructed item is a type made by a crafter I receive a small amount of jawa stuff only, if it can't be made I receive jawa stuff and tech fragments. There's no variation and I've now deconstructed hundreds of items in the 268-300 range. Well there is one type of variation. If I remove a slotted item from a piece of gear that brings the rating down to grade 10 and under I will get a few low grade materials. Even if it's a lightsaber with two 300 lvl items and an empty slot I'll get desh or something equally discouraging. If I decon something I've actually crafted in an attempt to learn an advanced blueprint I get all sorts of grade 11 materials back that never went into the crafted item to begin with. Not in great quantities but it has me wondering... Is this working as intended?

I'm having the same problem, anyone know how to fix it? Clearly it isn't happening for everyone. I had a similar issue with vet mode that I didn't even notice until I realized I started getting rewards after I completed the fp on story mode.

I toggled the new fp on because I wasn't getting the group finder reward since on my characters it is toggled off by default. I am watching the filter for MM right now and after about a minute it goes from 25/25 to 24/25 all by itself and opening the filter shows Objective Meridian is off. This was happening on vet mode group finder on any character I started the new content with until that character actually ran the flashpoint as part of the story. The veteran mode issue seems to have resolved itself.

Those are the issues I find unacceptable. People (particularly new players, if any exist) are going to get to 600, see the insane 500k cost to increase their skills and then see the isotope requirements, absolutely flip out and never look at crew skills again. Is it possible isotopes are dropping like candy now? If getting to 75 took time and people had a few months to accumulate credits then maybe there might be some point in the direction this seems to be heading but an hour and a half after the servers came up on Tuesday I saw guildies hitting 75, even I got my first character to 75 soon after that. It seems to me this punishes new people and merely annoys old timers. Like you, I am not interested in playing and paying for games developed and maintained by people who don't seem to actually play their own stuff. In my limited experience even when devs are active as players they don't play the way "normal" people play. They're in the most active, powerful guilds surrounded by sycophantic fans and never experience their own game the way the majority of the players do. Dara O'Briain did a hilarious, profanity laced bit on video games that sums things up. I try to be supportive, I try to understand why changes are made and I try to cope and adjust. That street goes two ways though, our options as players are outgrowing the age of unresponsive megacorps.

I'm too old for guild drama, I'm 50. How that happened I don't know, last I checked I was 18 but there it is. What I'm really looking for is a guild large enough to get lost in where I am definitely NOT one of a handful of core members. I play a lot, probably too much and I really don't enjoy being the only person online for most of the day. I have a massive social anxiety disorder so it'll take me awhile to warm up. So yeah... old, crotchety and weird... and those are my strong points. However if you have room for a village idiot who frequently finds new and ridiculous ways to die then I'm your guy. Seriously though, I don't want a job. Online gaming is my primary form of entertainment so I like to be able to have fun while I'm doing it. And while I've played almost everything I keep coming back to SWTOR. I realize I'm not really doing a good job of selling myself as a potential member, but I am reliable and I will help in any way I can.