I usually get extra Champion pieces and some of them have enhancements / mods for crit / surge. I extract those and replace other gear with them (chest, boots, etc).

To what scale will the future customizable UI allow us to configure the hot keys, mini-map, chat boxes, etc. and when will it be implemented? What is the current status of High-resolution textures being implemented into non-cut scenes?

1) How about adding in perks to equipment that is crafted? Something like modifiers that add: +## Healing +## Damage +% Healing +% Damage I could see the bonuses above being valuable enough to stimulate the crafting community into creating such items. To balance this, these perks would potentially be available on Green crafted items only, not orange. When reverse engineered to blue and purple, the perks listed above don't change (fixed values). 2) Gear that gives bonuses to certain class skills similar to equipping multiple set items. These wouldn't be prioritized over set items because the stats added would be less, but wouldn't require 2 or more pieces to use like set items do for bonuses. Something like: Surgeon's Mask (Helm for Heal specced Scoundrels): Adds +% Healing to Kolto Cloud Aegis Armor (Chest for Tank specced Juggernauts): Adds +% Damage Mitigation and +## Health to Endure Pain Keen Eye (Sniper Rifle for DPS specced Snipers): Adds +% Damage to Series of Shots

Some of the future content seems promising. However, most of the other crafting professions do not have enough unique max skill level items to craft that compare to PvP gear. If the expertise stats from PVP gear would be on a mod/armor/enhancement slot and allow players to remove it and place it into crafted gear, there would be a reason to sell orange crafted gear at end game.

Ajunta Pall still has actively fighting sides, not kill trading - from what I see when I am on. Republic is outnumbered, so we don't have the central point most of the time, but we do all sorts of hit and run, flanking/pincer attacks, and ambushes to help reduce the Empire zerg most efficiently - netting us the valor and dailies done faster.

I'd say a option to skip it would be good. That option should be stated during the ride so people know how to skip.

Umm ...

Thread: How to Get Battlemaster in a Day. Video: Basically, 2 groups in the Battle of Ilum - 1 Empire, 1 Republic - go to a set point and trade kills using Area of Effect attacks. Every 3 minutes, the diminishing returns on kills resets and if each side holds 2-3 points (Base, Southern/Northern, Central), they get +120 valor every kill. With 24 man Ops, you wold earn 120 * 24 = 2880 valor every 3 minutes. This means roughly 1K valor a minute (the same you earn in much longer time in Warzones).

I think there are 4 medals total: 2.5K single heal 5K single heal 75K healed 300K healed

Actually 96 expertise, assuming you had none beforehand would increase you damage by: 2.6% Assuming you had full champion gear except for relics, it would increase damage by: 1.1%

Bioware needs to issue a tool that shows % wise faction balance tiered by character levels. Something like: Level Empire Republic 01-10 30% 70% 11-20 40% 60% 21-30 70% 30% 31-40 40% 60% 41-49 55% 45% 50 75% 25%

It should be relatively easy if all the data is sitting in a SQL database with timestamps. Just parse the date/hour and average valor gain for that date/hour combination. Filter this result on expected hourly valor gain and identify any outliers.

Bioware responded to Ilum PVP issues yesterday in this blog post. http://www.swtor.com/blog/ilum-pvp-issues It seems to be a reasonable explanation. Thanks Bioware.

It is very easy to gear up at 50. There are 2 daily quests and 2 weekly quests that yield 20 champion bags after completing a week's worth. In addition, participating in warzones and earning medals yields warzone commendations as well. After a week, you should be adequately geared to fight other level 50s unless you have really bad luck with champion bags. In addition, try to organize with other players prior to queueing a warzone solo. Others will experience the same on the other side (Republic, if you are Empire) so its a level playing field for the most part.

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