Yes, if you take a level 10 orange chest and you remove all mods, enhancements and armor pieces, and you do the same with a lev 30 one (providing they are both the same class L-M-H) you'll see there is no difference except for the looks.

Lol, some people are hilarious ... if they could, they would buy a max level character with the game just to get there fast

Same story with every MMO that come's out, months upfront everyone can't wait to start playing, 4 weeks after launch a bunch of people start's spamming the forums about why they will probably quit. Mostly because their expectations aren't realistic. It's is really not that hard, if you don't like it, you are free to leave, just don't make a big fuss about it. When you buy a coffee somewhere and you don't like the taste, you just don't go there anymore. Or are you going to put an add in the local newspaper about it ...

Well it only "put's you in combat" if you break stealth, to loot or attack another target. So you can't slip back into stealth unless you whack the CC-ed target (or pop Cloaking Screen). If you walk away while the target is CC-ed and you are far enough when it wears off, you also loose aggro. Still whatever reason they have to change it this way, I tend to find it a bit overtuned, but that's my personal view on it I always felt, the slip-in, steal what you need and slip-out, part of the Operative class (spy stuff and all).

Agreed, however would have been nice to be a bit more clear on the forums about when (if possible) and how long downtime will be ...

Now this is exactly what I needed, thanks a lot mate !