Figured it out. I forgot about the balance proc to increased MC damage, i was just tossing one MC at the dummy, whereas the ones I was looking at were the instant empowered MC's on his parse. Mine are hitting in that range now, lmao. Also the dps I was looking at was a later parse done by him with better gear apparently. DPS is on par with him so nevermind, sorry to bother everyone. Lol. Carry on.

Hey guys, so I have a question. I figured this is the best place to post it, sorry if it's cluttering or anything. I'm toying around with different specs, seems like both specs give about the same dps on the Ops Dummy. I'm in full 69 with a few 72s gear, all but my relics and earpiece are 66 augmented. I took a couple of blue 66 mods for better accuracy (needed gear to switch from healing to dps, so I bought a few and ripped the mods out, it actually should have been a dps upgrade though because I swapped crit and alacrity/surge for power and accuracy, even though the previous mods were purple 69s, the total stat change was ~ -12 per mod, but again, better stats). AAANYWAY, so I have the correct rotation down, I'm not clipping my DoTs (which shouldn't create a MASSIVE dps drop anyway), I'm running the parse for 5 minutes, and I'm about 300-400 dps below what other sages in similar gear are reporting. I look at their parse pages and somehow with 100 more power and 300 less willpower (I kid you not), their "Mind Crush" initial hits are whacking the dummy for 300 more damage than mine are, non-crit in both cases. Similar abilities are hitting for about the same percentage higher than mine. How the hell am I doing so little damage if my stats are superior by 200? What am I missing here? Stats (buffed, not stimmed/adrenal): WP - 2818 Pow - 894 Sur - 288 (67.61%) Crit - 161 (23.73%) Alac - 151 (2.15%) - trying to get rid of this for dps, at the time there weren't enough pow/acc mods to rip. Acc - 260 (106.75%) - again, trying to increase this. Bonus Damage: 1243.6 Most sages I see have ~2550 WP, 1000 Power, slightly more crit, slightly more surge, about the same accuracy, less alacrity obviously. Why are my abilities hitting for so low, and I'm only doing ~2000 dps, when others in my same area of gear are reporting 2300-2500? I suppose I wasn't hitting my FP and MA, which increased my dps in a second parse by about 25-40, still though, what I'm looking at is the -20ish% to straight damage that I'm seeing. Any ideas guys?

Yeah, I spent 900 cartel coins on the eradicator outfit for my Twi'lek, only to wonder why in the hell the hood wasn't showing up. If she can wear a helmet, why can't she wear a hood? Now the outfit is untradeable, unsellable, and doesn't look nearly as cool as it would on any other species. Hell, if the lekku are that big of a problem, why not just "delete" them when the user is wearing a hood, similar to how they "delete" the hair sprite when any other species wears hoods? It deletes them when she wears the helmet, but the hood is still gone, and the whole thing looks completely ridiculous without the hood. (Thankfully I never bought the helmet, but I was thinking about it until I realized the hood won't ever show up, how disappointing) ANGER, BW either fix this or give me my 900 cartel coins back!

Uh. So. This is what I did, and for some reason it worked. First off I was in windowed, non full-screen mode. I believe this is relatively important actually. I tried a few times, didn't work, stared at the ugly guy doin his thang for like 10 minutes to no avail. Shut down my computer, it installed a random auto-update, booted it back up and tried again, still didn't work. Pissed, I found this forum, saw a bunch of people had the same issue and so I wrote them an in-game ticket. Okay, here's the important part. Right after I wrote the ticket, I clicked on the holoterminal and alt-tabbed to my web-browser. You have to be in windowed mode to do this, or else the game freaks out. Not sure if "non full-screen" mode is important though. I have no idea if I was just lucky, if it was the ticket that I put in, or if it was because I clicked out of the game and wasn't watching the TWO F***ING sentences this freak says for this dialogue (seriously, he says two things and it's over, after a few members of your crew pipe in a sentence or two), or a combination of all of these things. Anyway, try what I did in the order I did it, see if it helps. The Order: Click holoterminal - wait a while, it won't work. Restart your comp and the game. Click again, won't work again. Open up a ticket, submit ticket with a valid description. Click the holoterminal, click out of the game, and look at it in a minute or two. Good luck.