I can only speak for Investigation as a Crew Skill, but what I've been seeing is that the drop rate for these new schematics (I seem to get weapons, synthweaving and artiface schems) seems to be way too high. I get several of them per day, on just a few mission cycles. I'd have thought that as a blue quality recipe, it would be much rarer.

 

They've gotten so numerous that they're now selling on the GTN for only 500 credits per schematic (about the same amount of credits as killing a pack of mobs at my level!). If the intent for them was that they're so readily available, then why not just put them on the trainer, instead of as blue level drops from a mission. They're just taking up inventory space at this point.

 

Thanks!

More than likely the schematics you're talking about are NOT new.

the 4 new orange weapon schematics for artifice are dropping from companion gift missions with alarming frequency. It's the same story, the schematics are actually worth as much to the medical droid as they are on the GTN.