I just got an Anarchy blaster myself today, paid the CC to unlock so I could have a pair of them. I equipped them both on my Slinger and saw the same annoying glitch. Like one of the other posters said, I equipped Anarchy in offhand and Mischief in mainhand and the glitch rarely happens. (I got lucky and got Mischief ages back, but I don't like it as much with that huge scope...) I wish the devs would fix that glitch, 'cause the holster effect is really slick looking. When it works.

I am still slogging my way through early tier 3 (GCL ~220) and I noticed that the mix of "trash" seems higher post-5.3 and post-5.3a compared to what I was getting earlier in tier 3. I got two 242 legendary set pieces and a 242 implant between GCL181-200 and have only gotten one purple set piece between GCL 201-~220. The rest has been filler I've disintegrated. I would like BioWare Austin to review command crate logs for disintegrations and take steps to remove those items from the RNG tables.

Eric, Maybe I missed it in the eight pages of replies, but I see the Pub/Imp affection achievement titles are changing to kills... If we already unlocked the titles with affection are those titles being taken away? I tend to always use the same companion. Often that's because of Heal vs. DPS/Tank (which we have added flexibility in 4.0) but it's also due to the banter with that particular companion. I'd rather not have to kill 1,000 enemies on each of the companions I don't prioritize. (Malavai Quinn is a traitorous snake!)

I haven't seen that myself -- not that I'm checking -- but if other big internet properties are having issues, perhaps it is Bioware's service provider? Where do they host? Their own datacenter? Or someplace like Amazon?

...Clearly something is seriously wrong for the servers to have been offline for 12+ hours total. I was getting pretty frustrated by how slow Harbinger was behaving, especially when in the Nar Shaddaa SH. Doors took 3-5 seconds to open -- worse when editing hooks. GTN took 5-10 seconds to display results. Mail often displayed no results even though there were unread mail. Even opening the crew mission window took a long time. I'm glad they are looking into it. And even though 12+ hours of downtime is really annoying I'm glad they finally started to dig in and figure out what's happening.

Besides, VZN and ATT both reimburse me for protracted downtime -- especially ATT. U-verse internet offline for more than an hour and I get a prorated discount on my bill. Same for U-verse TV. That said...

While this is a seriously annoying bug, as a dev myself, I so not see this as game breaking. Yes, annoying as all h***. But not broken, per se. The Darkness on Ilum bonus never firing for me... now that's a breaking bug. As for why it's going to end up taking four weeks to patch in another zero to the Binary Star rep...? THAT I just do not understand. Removing rep altogether is, I suspect, a much more complex patch -- especially if they never coded a "no cap" code path in the first place.

I'd bet money on it. I'm sure every patch goes through some sort of dev/QA process. Doesn't mean QA fails to catch every little bug, of course...

I have yet to even see yellow... L18 almost L19 on Taris. Can't even get yellow crafting crystals through archeaology. I'd love to see orange or silver cyrstals, too. But alas...

When you hover your cursor over the archaeology item, it lists skill level required below the name. In Coruscant, for example, Embriam (?) at the Jedi Temple requires L55. Artifact Fragments in the Works require L25.