yea vendor will be removed in 1.2, so i'm assuming they're gonna plan to give us patterns that give +50 crystals or such? would make sense, or else It seems everybody that has artifice might as well just drop it and take Biochem since it seems only useful crew skill, plus saves you creds for stims/medkits that u can just use and buy the crystals from a vendor lol.

Ok so not sure if anybody else is aware yet, but currently Bioware thought it smart to add a vendor in game that sells everything from Blue, Green, Red, now as well as Purple for 100/250k and White crystals (for 1-2.5mil) that all give +41 stats... then they offer the old rare magenta schematic for 250k to artifice.... Now is it just me or is it a bit messed that anybody can now buy crystals BETTER than any artifice can make for only 100-250k creds? They completely made our crew skill obsolete since currently there are no other good things out of artifice besides maybe the trinkets or starter sabers for fresh 50's. Just looking for others to place feedback and see if I'm the only one disappointed about this or am missing something to it. Personally I feel it should be the other way around, give artifice the ability to craft the +41 crystals of all colors, and sell the 31/33 to all others. Or else refund all those that took artifice the 500k-1mil creds they wasted to get epic crystals that everybody can now buy off vendor. Why not make a vendor to sell all rakata stims, or the tionese/columi epic craftables out of ops schematics >.> It really doesn't make much sense to me.

should be able to make an Op's group?? at least I saw an option on there for one as a group leader.