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  1. Kinda what I figured. I really don't see them doing away with the faction system, or allowing cross-faction classes. Just seemed odd that I was given a choice to rejoin the faction that I've always really been a part of, even if the story did deviate from that slightly.
  2. So returning player here - was founder, I come and go; gone for like 3 years this time. Finished up all stories on my fully darkside sorcerer, who of course reclaimed his seat on the council. My question is, is there much of a mechanical difference for the decision to join or not join your former faction? Like, had I chosen to stay independent, would I have access to republic fleet? Or still considered Empire for game mechanics? Logic tells me, that my Sith Inquisitor Sorcerer will always be consider Imperial as far as groups, guilds, and territory go. Just curious if that decision has any *real* impact on game play.
  3. In truth, the only people that need more endurance than their primary stat would be tanks. All healing and dps players/companions should be prioritizing their primary stat (Str/Will/Cunning/Aim depending on class) over endurance.
  4. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but level 50 crafting is largely useless, even after 1.2. The highest enhancements you'll be able to make are those found on the trainer at rank 22 which are rendered completely useless by daily commendations vendors and columi/rakata+ level gear. You *may* be able to learn a schematic for a rank 26 enhancement, but to do this, you must first obtain a piece of Campaign, or Black Hole gear, rip the enhancement out, and break it down for CHANCE to learn the schematic. There are level 50 color crystal schematics available from the daily commendations vendor on Corelia, but since the pre-1.2 vendor was around so long, these are not in high demand because they are equal in stats to what was purchasable. The magenta crystal schematic pattern for +41 stat crystals drops randomly in the Corelia daily area, but again, these are no better mechanically than what was obtained as other crafteds, operations-dropped or pre-1.2 vendor. Lightsabers would have been in high demand if the schematic to make them wasn't so readily available, and the materials required to make them so easy to obtain - I'm lucky to sell an Augmented lightsaber for 100K now (for comparison I sold one for 2.5 million before 1.2 hit). The best hilt you can make is the rank 22 from the vendor, which is again, overshadowed by the daily commendations vendor; the best offhand you can make is for the level 49's, which are decent enough for pre-operations content, but quickly replaced from operations drops.
  5. RE'ing 6 items and getting 2 schematics does NOT make the RE chance 30%. It means that on 2 of those 6 attempts you hit the 20% chance. Each time you perform a reverse engineer attempt, a NEW ROLL that is completely independent of any previous or future rolls is generated to determine your success or failure on THAT ATTEMPT ONLY. Congrats on beating the odds, but it doesnt change the fact that each attempt has it's own 20% chance to hit. As far as to why people want specific patterns, well, some are down right useless. Every time I learn a schematic with Presence stat, I want to put my fist through my monitor. Others are highly sought after due to the stats that come with them, for example, Veracity has both Defense (from starting as Redoubt) and Shield (as a result of becoming Veracity), which are both highly sought after tanking stats. As far as I know, I'm the only one on my server selling the lvl 49 crafted Willpower shield of the Veracity subtype - too bad it's such a crap item that was outdated and overshadowed by previously available Operations-level gear the day they put in the game....
  6. Probably the most clear, concise, and simple answer to this question ever. Should be added to the sticky!
  7. Doesnt matter where you learn the schematic; if you are starting from green, there are 3 blues (crit/overkill/redoubt) for each one, and each of these has 5 purples ***except redoubt which only has 4 in practice (theoretical 5th one is missing). If you start from blue, then you will get Crit/Overkil/Redoubt in purple, which can further be RE'd to ANOTHER purple of the second teir - much more details can be found in the Guide to Reverse Engineering stickied at the top of this forum.
  8. MAGENTA has been confirmed to drop from black hole mobs, NOT PURPLE. Contrary to popular belief, these actually are different colors. Having had the schematics for the +33 magenta crystals almost since launch, and having purchased purple when they were available, I can assure you there are vasty different appearances.
  9. The very first white crystal 'found' was indeed obtained through illegitimate means - these individuals were dealt with and the exploit fixed. For several weeks before 1.2 was released there was a vendor that sold white crystals legitimately for 2.5 million credits. The vendor was removed with the release of 1.2 - all the colors he sold except white are still in the game, but obtained through other means. Purple can be obtained in either PVP or PVE endgame gear, and supposedly crafting, although there are no confirmed reports of how to obtain the schematic. Certain colors should be rare and hard to obtain, it gives us something to work for and sets each of our characters apart. If everyone's running around with purple sabers, it's not so special anymore. How many white, purple or black-core crystals did we ever see in any previous Star Wars lore, including movies, books, cartoons, etc? Even yellow and orange, while considered 'common' in SWTOR, were actually not common in any previous lore. These things are rare and 'unique' to certain characters in most cases; not every Joe Blow and his brother should run around with them. Edit: (warning, speculation!) even though white was removed 'permanently' from the game, I think most of us expect to see it again at some point in a future patch, although there is no telling how long that may be.
  10. Probably a technicality, but the double-bladed saber, while it looks and acts like a 2-handed weapon visually, actually is considered a 1-hand item for purposes of game mechanics. The double-bladed saber does NOT take up both main and off hand slots on your character sheet. Shadows and Assassins can still equip an off-hand item: a focus for dps, or a shield generator for tanking.
  11. There is a very simple reason why you are not finding crafted relics on the GTN - the artifice-crafted relics are Bind on Pickup! You have to be an artificer yourself to make one, and yes they are at rank 400 artificing with a minimum level to use of 50. All level 50 relics are alignment-neutral. Levelling up without a relic really isn't that big of a hinderance.
  12. To reiterate what others have stated, you cannot add Armstech and Cybertech to Amormech - these are all CRAFTING skills, of which you are only allowed one. You may have any combination of GATHERING or MISSION skills, although each crafting skill is designed to work best with a specific combination of gathering and mission skills which can be found in your codex. Having dropped your gathering and mission skill, you will only be able to pick up new mission or gathering skills. You can actually pick up 2 gathering, 2 mission or 1 of each - these are not limitted in the same manner as crafting skills (of which, as you now know, you can only have one). To get either Armstech or Cybertech, you would have to drop Armormech (again, you cannot have more than 1 of these on the same character). And yes, I know I'm being redundant, but this comes up pretty frequently, and I thought it important to state it more than once!
  13. Welcome to a topic of hot debate! There are some reports of them dropping from certain world bosses, but it is unclear if these reports are confusing purple with magenta (which most certainly DOES drop from certain world bosses). Another possibility is from PVP crewskill lockboxes (but this is likely the +expertise version). The bottom line is, we actually don't have a confirmation of where to obtain purple color crystal schematics and anyone that's found one isnt speaking up!
  14. To paraphrase the guide to reverse engineering, there's theoretically 15 different artifact results from each green (in practice there are 14, since 1 of them is missing from the database). Each green can become Critical, Overkill, or Redoubt blues, and each of these can become 5 different purples (with the exception of redoubt which only has 4). After you've learned all 3 blues from the base green, the green will say 'no research available' indicating you've already learned all three of the blues. Upon learning the 5th purple from a given blue, that blue will also have that tag, but the other 2 blues will still be researchable. As long as there is still a schematic you haven't learned from a given item, it should tell you "X% chance to learn schematic" or something to that effect.
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