It's because initially Assassins used Strenght just like Marauders, they changed our main stat but forgot to update the gear.

If what you say is true they should remove the Master Loot option from the menu, but since it's there it's supposed to be able to be used, and it's not cause the random loot assignments stay. So in that same thought, exiting the area is allowed aswell otherwise they wouldnt let you do it.

Stop telling other people what to do tbh. we still run EV normal each week to gear up new people since HM and NM share the same lockout and normal doesnt, getting more columi legs while i have Rakata already while the new guy in his blue legs would love them just sucks. It doesnt matter if he could get better by running dailies for 2 days, hell normal EV is easier then most hard mode flashpoints for new 50's.

Have gotten 5 belts sofar (3x light 2x heavy) from Rich level 5 Lockboxes (treasure hunting) Would still like to find some bracers somewhere, but they are very absent from the AH on this server.

I dont believe this to be true though, my normal group consist of an Assassin tank (me) a Sorc or Merc healer, Marauder DPS and a Sorc dps. We've been doing 2/3 hard modes a night for almost 2 weeks now and besides 1 pair of columni bracers everything has been BH/Agent gear while most of the times i'm the storyowner.

Take a look at this thread: http://sithwarrior.com/forums/Thread-May-The-Force-Be-With-You-managing-the-Sith-Assassin-s-Jedi-Shadow-s-resources and yeah it's safe.

It varies, I'm using a mix of Andronikus, Ashara, Xalek and Telos depending on situation (if you can determine that up front) Telos for heavy elites/champions otherwise a dps companion.

Well it was definately bugged, ran 3 abundant grade 6 gem quests after today's patch and both yielded Corusca gems again. So it appears to be solved.

It's not just not displaying as far as i can tell i havnt gotten any in a week of running Abundant grade 6 gemstone missions, have none left whatsoever and the prioce for them on the GTN keeps rising steadily. Best i get are Lorrdian Gemstones. So either i'm SoL or it's bugged.

Normally if you cancel a craft you get your materials back however Biometric Crystal Alloys disappear when you do this. Found out whne i started making a +def lightsaber instead of a dps one .... cancelled it out and got all mats back exept the alloys. If it's working as intended thats fine but i dont think it was known anywhere beforehand else i'd have never cancelled the job.

Yay namecalling, PvE server yes, because my guild moved there. Woundt have minded a pvp server this time around, but thats solved by just ticking pvp on after leaving town, not seen much action yet though most players just go on with what they were doing.

You find it fun i find it annoying, quest givers gone, vendors gone. The capital worlds are low level having no pvp there is good. Your just another one of the people that wants to gank lowbies and calls that world pvp. World pvp, sure can be everywhere and i'm all for that. But let low players/starters keep their peace so they dont get turned off on a game because some max level corpse camped them from the get go.

Almost impossible to fall behind, i didnt do any of the heroic 2/4 man quests up untill Alderaan and only did 1 Black Talon ever and still was on level up untill Belsavis.

Tell that to Xalek ..... he force leaps (charge) like the best of us (http://www.torhead.com/ability/3wyu5VF)

I have gotten a few belts from Rich Lock Box Missions, level 5 Treasure Hunting, not encountered any bracers yet.