In an 8-man ops group, the person who pops inspiration will only give it to those in his group of four. We have it so that all DPS are in a group, but that kind of shafts the healers who could benefit with the 15% healing buff. Is this intended? If so, why in the world?

Completely agree with the OP. We are rushing our new 50s (undergeared, of course) into ops because of the huge disparity between ranged and DPS. The only way we have melee now is if their strength exceeds 1600 after buffs. Pretty unfair. Soa and Karagga show the huge divide the most. Soa more, with all those damned targeted lightning balls and the mind traps that melee have to constantly run to.

While I have no problem running normal EV over and over, it can be seriously off-putting to those who do not get geared out after running it multiple times. While HM FPs are a great alternative (which is what my commando friend has had to resort to), you want to go through the thrill of doing an operation and then getting the loot. Look, I know a lot of people say you should play for fun and not the loot, but loot is half the reason I do ops. If EV had no loot, I'd probably run it once or twice and never again.

Just saw that a thread was opened on this a couple of days ago. Sorry 'bout that!

On normal mode, EV automatically assigns gear to players in the op. Now, I've only run EV twice and I've probably been the luckiest person to do so. Out of the 10 combined boss fights, 9 dropped gear for me. Here's my list: Two Columni pants Columni gloves Two off hand sabers A chest piece A main-hand saber Columni Boots Offset Head Gear As you may have seen, it dropped some gear I already had on. This is pointless when my friend, who's an average geared Trooper with only a couple of purples, has only gotten one relic through each run. And the same one at that. While I'm grateful for the loot I've received (and my guild members hate me for it lol), there are several other members who needed it more than I. Normal mode needs to have round robin set, or master loot. Right now there's nothing one can do about the loot assigned to him/her, even if he/she has it already. It's my understanding that hard mode successfully allows for master loot to be used, which is good news, but normal mode needs to get this fixed.

Sorry to hear that. I was very skeptical at first, but it definitely helps.

I know there are a couple of posts where many have released their frustrations on the collection of the four ratattaki cubes on Belsavis that you need to create the green matrix shard. I found this video and it really helped me. Within three laps I had three already (had one in inventory from when I originally did Belsavis). Took no more than 20 minutes. Hope this helps! Also, if there are other players on the planet (or any other guildies) that have 1-2 cubes, you can form a group and combine your cubes at the final location to get the green shard and make it a little easier!

OK, I need something answered. What are level 12s and 13s doing on Ilum? I'm assuming it's exploiting something with higher level guildies, but what exactly?

Completed HM Battle for Ilum. Bugged on two occasions. Last of which was extremely frustrating. Second boss (Folex or something) was way to OP and would wipe team repeatedly. Had to run past him, wait to die, and spawn again but past him. Final boss fight was OK. But once we beat him, his war chest DID NOT open. ***. I just invested a good chunk of my time in the damn FP. All I get from final boss is 16k money? Most of which was used to recuperate repair costs? Not to mention the daily (Encounter V or something like that) still reads "complete one of these last three flashpoints, even though Battle for Ilum is one of them. It doesn't register that I beat it. They seriously need to address these issues.

So in the auction house I saw prototype purple gear and legendary purple gear. Is legendary purple the rakata armor?

This was a sincere thanks, btw. I re-read it and it sounded sarcastic lol. It was exactly where you all said it was. Cheers.

WOW. I just had to reset it. Thanks for the help, guys.

Scratch that, class log says lvl 32 for the quest. What in the world...

I think it may be Master Sarala I need to speka with, but there's nothing hovering over her head. Same thing goes for everyone in the training area. Think I need to be lvl 36 or something?

**[EXPECTED] SPOILER ALERT** I have just beaten Darth Angral at lvl 35 and I entered a legacy name (though I can't find it anywhere). My class quest is now "A Hero's Rest" and I have to travel to the Republic Fleet. When I get there, however, there is no green icon that marks where I have to go. Nothing pops up or anything. Any idea where I have to go?