So, question here. Will Battle Readiness have any effect at all on the threat generated by Combat Technique? Would be cool if it increased the threat proc by 100%. Also, I'm not too happy about the change to Harnessed Shadows. I don't doubt that it'll be better, but I rather enjoyed being able to give myself some 'passive regeneration' in longer fights. My ideal solution would have been to put some damage reduction on the Harnessed Shadows stacks themselves, so the player has to decide whether it would be worthwhile to lose them for some health or keep them, instead of just "build three, throw, build three, throw", but whatever. At least the mit buff lasts long enough to allow for some flexibility there.

I haven't tested anything with this, but it seems like this would then have the unattractive side effect of making Cartel armor much cheaper to repair, since it sells to a vendor for one credit. While I doubt this was their intention, I suspect they will have many more unhappy people around if true (to reiterate, I didn't test this). As an aside, back in the old days of repair costs, costs were determined by percent repaired, not a flat rate per durability point. This meant that it cost the same to go from 40 to 80 durability (for light armor) as it did to go from 60 to 120 durability (for heavy) - ie, light armor wearers had to repair more often, for the same price. While I don't really raid anymore, it would be unfortunate if the increased repair costs made this an issue again.