What level characters are you referring to? While leveling crystal refreshes come every eight levels starting with level seven, the earliest levels crystals can be made for. Some world bosses drop colors not normally available, such as orange. The highest level crystals in the game right now provide +41 increases to critical rate, power, endurance, or resilience for pvp varieties. Artifice can buy schematics for blue, green, red, yellow, and at max levels orange, that increase endurance or critical, power schematics come from investigation. Magenta schematics can be found though they are very rare. Some database sites have crystal lists but they are filled with crystals that were removed during beta(like this one below). The Darth hater list contains colors no longer in the game such as white, and purple/magenta are not available from the crew skill trainer. Torhead also has a database similar to that one but contains just as many errors. http://db.darthhater.com/search.aspx?search_text=crystal#items:0+3+1

JerDragon is right, that event on Tatooine was for a limited time only, about one week, months ago. If it makes you feel better I didn't get the pet for completing that quest as I never found three pieces of the Stardream before it ended. I wanted to find them all without using a spoiler site, but alas, did not. So next event I'm running over to darthhater(or similar site) immediately so I don't lose out.

Just after launch I did Esseles and got the medium armor robe. The first thing I didn't like about it was not being able to set the hood down, after many minutes of fiddling with options. Then I turned the camera to the normal position(character's backside), my reaction to that was NOOO! I have end table *****. As it was my first character, I didn't have any crew skills to make different armor(nor did I know options even existed) so I was stuck with that robe for a long time, wasting planet commendations on armor mods, and making enhancements with artifice. I gathered enough coms on Tatooine(along with more game knowledge) to buy the moddable Smuggler armor, which got rid of the hood, but the big behind was still there. I gave that armor to Doc eventually. Now I have a character progressing in Armormech, and I grab as many orange medium armor schematics as possible. I had set my Sentinel to the side while leveling Sage so now I have my Sage as Cybertech to make mods for my Armormech armors. Currently my Sentinel is wearing the Gunslinger Jacket and Drelliad slacks(the pockets on the bum are so smexy) and the white boots from Light Side vendor, using the color matching feature it all looks very good. Unfortunately my Consular still has to suffer as light armor is all about robes, though I did find one while leveling with a cape that covered the rear end. Dulfy made a good list of orange armors that I go by for making purchases off the GTN. Here is her list: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=466842

After I finished Taris for the first time, I felt I NEVER wanted to hear "Rakghoul" again. For some reason I've grown to like Taris. The world that just about does me in? Balmorra on rep side. It was WAY too long, and the planet after seemed too short(Quesh). I understand the importance of Balmorra but it seemed to have infinite side quest lines, and in my opinion too many levels are spent there. I'd rather do space missions endlessly as opposed to four or five levels on Balmorra. Edit: Forgot favorite. I love Tython. It's a beautiful planet with a long history, and you get to kick the butts of

Fleet <=> Ship, for me it's the quickest way to refresh the mission list. I wish UWT had lock box missions where I might get schematics or useable items, instead of dozens of useless companion missions. Any time I'd take gift missions I'd end up with gifts none of my companions wanted. I wish they'd rework some companions who only "like" a couple categories of gifts to actually "love" something most of the companions are currently "indifferent" to. Or just do away with "indifferent" and change the system to Love>Favorite>Like so people aren't tempted to discard so many types of gifts. That wouldn't help players with max affection with all companions who want to exclude gift missions.

Agreed, going F2P means you expect enough players to stick around to be able to generate income from item shops. Heck it takes a lot of time and money for companies to set up a game to go F2P. I'm going with the announcement being about another Star Wars game entirely.

For a second I thought you were playing System Shock 2.

LOL.........where did you get that idea from? Lucas Arts shut down SWG because they would only allow one MMO to carry their precious brand name at any given time. That means, that if Lucas Arts decides to bank on a MMO with another developer that looks more promising than SWTOR, that SWTOR would be shut down as soon as the new game was ready. SWG bled subs because of the foolish and arrogant decisions made by SOE. "You don't REALLY want in-depth game play, you want our NEW GAME ENHANCEMENTS!" Foolish and arrogant decisions are also being made by BW, including ripping out content that was in beta, that enticed players to buy the game and then find out it was removed the hard way. Just ask Square Enix what happens to an MMO when the producers are given a god complex and compete power over the project instead of listening to alpha/beta testers and players before launch. Add in a completely incompetent publisher in EA and you have a recipe for disaster. To those who are comparing the launch of WoW to SWTOR: What competition did WoW have back then? Barely any if you knew the playing field of MMOs at that time. Blizzard had the time and fan base from previous RTS games to make some mistakes and recover from them. In the here and now, the MMO market is crowded, to draw people away from other games and get them to stay means you have to offer them all the comforts of their other MMO home. If they aren't happy, there are alternative games to play now, unlike years ago. I agree with the OP that the Massively part of this game is missing. Instances everywhere, four person groups, narrow corridors called "planets", the list goes on and on. Plus, when there is a large gathering of people the lag is unbearable. I've played EQ2, LOTRO, WoW, Rift, FF14, and GW, some of those for many years in a row. Never has any MMO felt more restrictive and linear than SWTOR. It should have been single player KOTOR 3.

Wampa - Consular Dewback - Commando Mynock - Gunslinger Bantha - Dancer (yay SWG)

Somewhere I read that +power crystal schems come from Investigation. I've been running a lot of treasure hunting missions and haven't come across one, so it's very possible they drop from crits on other mission skills. Why it would work like that when TH is so integral to Artifice I have no idea.

Stop! Don't spend tons of money and time trying to refresh your mission list, you can do that just by zoning. If you are aboard fleet, take a free shuttle down to Korriban/Hutta or Tython/Ord Mantell and the mission list should update. Or you can relog the character if not aboard fleet and the mission list should update.

I have this bad feeling in the pit of my stomach, like some sort of bait and switch is going on each time a round of subs is about to expire. 1.2 came out just before many three month subs were due. I'm one of those people who has been squeezing all the sources I can on the net for info, yet finding very little. Theories that evaporate and rumors that prove untrue are no substitute for hard fact given by Bioware, and yet they give us nothing. At least make a post telling us something, whether the RE process wasn't ready for the patch, or was never intended, or only works on specific items(and list them). Don't leave the community in the dark Bioware, that just leads to bad feelings among the players, who voice those bad feelings by word of mouth and via the Internet.

Give him cultural artifacts, as pointed out in another thread he gets the biggest affection boost from those artifacts. To the poster who referred to Kira as him, I know Kira isn't the most attractive woman ever but, damn.

I thought I read in another thread where someone acquired a crystal schematic from investigation. Perhaps they were incorrect? Like many I was hoping to have more color crystal choices available while leveling, and I mean new schematics for different colors each interval Artifice can craft them(usually eight levels apart) starting at level seven. Since a large focus of the game is on Legacy and thus playing alts, having more ways to customize will add more interest to leveling those characters. I do hope someday orange/purple/cyan/magenta will be available for early levels, and by early I don't mean mid 30s.

Thanks for the tip. I just assumed that being a droid he would love technology gifts similar to T7, so I threw those at him. Glad to know another type will allow faster affection gains.