They must have stealth fixed this because it won't let me drop my current cube into my cargo hold.

yep i cant do it can only use 1 so the people useing 2 will they be fixed so they can only use 1.

i have made a request in the last days, asking if its possible to have 2 matrix cubes , so i can use the one i want if i dps or tank.

This is the answer

"I have received your transmission regarding Matrix Cube

I would like to inform you that you can only have two Matrix Cubes at the same time. Its either the same or not.

Please do not hesitate to contact us again if there is anything further we can help you with."

so its possible to have 2 but only use 1 or what does that mean now ? And if you can have 2 how to get em? last time i tried i couldnt make another and the cargo hold thing doesnt work.

This is almost a month old thread but for the value of any other new player who stumbles across this thread from a google search like I did. I will confirm you can only have one.

The Matrix Cube is now a mission item which can be equipped, but not stored in the cargo hold. I'm guessing that this was the mid week server downtime around the time of previous posts that was to fix "game-breaking item duplication" issues.

not really so game breaking that you had to interupt my play time at 3 am my time and the west coasters at midnight for a second time that week. just sayin.

Like you, when I was trying to figure out why I could not craft a second cube, Google pointed me to this thread.

It is a shame that Bioware made the change to prevent you from storing these in your cargo hold. Seems like that does a pretty good job of preventing you from having more than one equipped at a time.

FWIW, my guild is starting Ops this weekend. We are fairly casual and don't have attendance requirements. That means that I may be asked to tank or dps on any given night. I don't have the playtime to get two 50s up to level cap and geared up to fill each role. Now, if I need to switch roles, I need to respec, get my alternate gear, go to Coruscant, get to the Jedi Temple, switch out my relic, and finally get back to the Op entrance.

That last step just seems unnecessarily punitive to me.

Agreed, not meaning to go off topic, but while people will compare this game to WoW, I will say, Bioware needed to see what made WoW great. A way of switching spec was introduced into WoW a long time ago and why its not in place in this game is baffling.

In regards to the cube, what angers me most is that with my new char, level 34 Gunslinger, I cannot make a level 32 matrix cube for him. I need to get a green shard, which guess what? Is only obtainable on a level 41+ planet. Meaning I get a group to escort me there, or I level up to the required level, at which point I may as well hold fire and made the level 50 one.

Come on Bioware, think!

Agreed, not meaning to go off topic, but while people will compare this game to WoW, I will say, Bioware needed to see what made WoW great. A way of switching spec was introduced into WoW a long time ago and why its not in place in this game is baffling.

 

 

Come on Bioware, think!

You are baffled because:

... it wasn't introduced into Wow until far after release.

... Bioware is currently working on it, have stated since beta they will offer it and is coming relatively soon.

... you haven't read the memo's.

You are baffled because:

 

... it wasn't introduced into Wow until far after release.

But a long time before this game was released..

... you haven't read the memo's.

It's not in the game NOW, which was my point.

Monkey - there is a green shard on Taris (although, if you need two green shards, you will have to wait until level 41-ish).

Also, the fact that they are going to implement dual specs means that they should lessen the restrictions on making multiple cubes (i.e., allow them to be stored in your cargo hold).

You can 'test the waters' wiithout your matrix cube. You do not need whatever benefits it offers to figure out if you want to fill this role or that.

The cost is also not crippling.

But why did you wait for 50? Was it just you deciding that it was easier to level up with a DPS spec but that a tank or heal spec would be more useful for you at 50?

Then pay the price for the convenience of being able to level as a DPS spec but getting to play as a tank or healer at endgame.

That gunslinger may not have to 'worry' about paying to disassemble a matrix cube, but they also do not have the luxury of picking between DPS and anything else as a group role.

If you do not want to pay to disassemble the thing, then do not assemble it in any way other than the one that you are sure that you are going to use.

Plenty of relics that you can choose to slot instead, and you can play the game just fine with them.

I'm sorry, but this is stupid. I'm sorry for the "inconvenience", but be thankful your class HAS the flexibility to switch roles. As a Gunslinger, I cannot become a tank or a healer. My class does not have flexibility. Yours does. I think not having to disassemble and reassemble matrix shards is an extremely small perk to being restricted to one role.

To even everything out and so you all can quit complaining, why not give DPS classes a healing or a tank tree then?

I can kinda deal with only wearing one cube, I can even begrudgingly deal with all the bother of getting a Disassembler Core and then going to remake my cube. What annoyed me was finding I now had a 'Burned Out Disassembler Core' in my inventory, so I have to buy a new one? Putting all these artificial hurdles in my way does not add 'challenge' or depth, it adds frustration and irritation to my experience. A well thought out challenge rewards you with a mountain top sense of accomplishment rather than a 'was this worth it?' feeling of anticlimax caused by loosing sight of the goal in the long winded process.

I can't agree more with this post. The shard/datacron thing is BROKE. The ideology behind it was very, very clever. What a great idea. BUT, F**K a disassembler! That was a horrible idea. The is NO SKILL in getting a disassembler which means there's no fun. Why have something in the game that is NOTHING more than a waste of my time? I play the game to have fun, to to get frustrated over something TOTALLY irrelevant to anything

Another thought is how terribly underpowered the matrix cubes are for level 50. If I'm going to go through all the trouble to get the shards, at least make the relic useful. I really liked the idea of datacrons and shards, but +4 to a stat is a slap in the face for all the work you go through to get some of these.

all you people saying you should pay for making the choice are just butt hurt cuz they made a choice of a pure dps class and dont have flexibility. how about make a choice and play something flexible if your gonna cry about other classes getting something that would end up helping everyone out.

i dont switch back to tank anymore because i dont feel like paying for respecs or switching my matrix cube because i pvp more than i pve. in the end all this does is leave less tanks on fleet to group with.

I think that one way to fix this issue, is rather than have combinations for the cube, just have a set combination that adapts to your class.

In you are in a flashpoint and kill the boss, the loot is based on your class. Maybe a blaster rifle, or a lightsaber. I think you should create a cube with a red, yellow and blue shard and it creates a cube just for you.

Rather than having to wait to find the right colour and then be too low a level to get it meaning you have to wait ages to get a cube while other classes luck out and get one early. As a sith Jugg I got my cube around level 35, as a gunslinger I have to wait until 42+ to get the same level cube because the shard is on a level 41 planet.

It's just frustrating, it's not fun its annoying!

This isn't the proper topic for discussing Sentinels and any issues they may or may not have.

 

That said, I just now tried to put the matrix cube in my cargo hold and it would not let me, ergo I can not craft more than one matrix cube.

 

And in response to the OP, I agree: Allow us to craft as many as we want, but make them unique-equipped (so that you can only have one granting you any kind of bonus at a time), allowing us to switch out which cube is applicable for our current role. It took hours to acquire all the parts, allow us to use what we spent so much time acquiring.

The OP made the point that various hybrid specs or people respec'ing couldn't have more than one cube, suggesting this was somehow unfair. The poster to whom you replied was making the point that a lot of people don't even have an option to respec to a tanking or healing spec or be a dps/tanking or dps/healing hybrid, Sentinel being an example because all their trees are DPS. It was a "I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes till I saw a man who had no feet" point.

You can accept the point or reject it, but it was a valid point to make. Even a "I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes till I saw a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes because, heck, he wasn't going to need them" counter would be better than just dismissing it as not relevant.

That said, if they make it so you cannot craft another item if you have a similar item equipped or in inventory, and you find that you can put it in your bank and get around that restriction, it is almost certainly an unintended mechanic and using it would be exploiting that bug. Using exploits can get you banned. I would be very careful taking about taking adivce from any source telling you how to get around mechanics restricting something you can do in the game.