300k credits lost due to design flaw

you might change your mind when my full rakata Gault is shotting you in the face :P

OT: i would have done 1 piece at a time and realised before wasting all that money.

Fixed that for ya!

Companions are a big part of the reason I don't enjoy this game. Only a couple of them are remotely fun to have around. Namely Vette, Dark Jaesa, Scorpio and 4X. The fact that you rely so completely on them for crafting and soloing/leveling is horrible. This game should be about my character's story, not my character and some ******* that was forced on me. I could understand as a story that you're paired up with someone you don't want to have around, but *every* story? Come on. It makes every character I've leveled feel like a bad buddy cop movie where I'm the guy who doesn't *want* a partner.

For you perhaps. Your preference isn't everyone's.

Same thing for a mostly rakata Ensign Temple. I've clocked her at 700 DPS on the training dummy (550 or so on the OPS).

Well, I did the Columi tank gun first, put it in the orange mod augmented tech staff, and that went just fine. Cost to strip the mods was 100k. Cost to strip the mods out of one piece of armor, going chest to motor, was armor first, 33k. Would not go into motor. So I stopped there, reparted back to Kaliyo at a cost of 100k from techstaff to gun. So I did stop early; it could have been much worse.

But it is still a design flaw nevertheless; they should have added the ability for those parts to go in motors, cores, and sensors. You do know there are pieces of those types that can have an armoring, mod, enhancement, and augment, right? Thing is, Kaliyo, Lord Scourge, and Tanno Vik can get full augmented gear with those pieces because of the armor type. So can every DPS and Healing companion. T7-01, SCORPIO, and M1-4X can't. That reduces their potential substantially, and somewhat screws over everyone playing a knight, an imperial agent, or a trooper, because all other classes can fill out all their companions while you're left one short. I feel cheated on that.

It's not even really about the credits, because that's just a day's worth of dailies. I like my droid's personality much more than I like Kaliyo's. I dumped Kaliyo as soon as I got another companion (which took way too long comparatively for other classes). I can solo every heroic 2+ daily with a fully tricked out Kaliyo, but I was hoping to use SCORPIO instead. Now I just won't be able to because she's always going to be worse than Kaliyo. It could be fixed by allowing Helms to also go in sensor units, chests and legs in motors, gloves and boots in cores, but I seriously doubt they'll address this, ever. Wouldn't be so bad if cybertech could fill in where the raid gear can't, but cybertech is pretty worthless right now in that respect.

So why not buy the "Reflex Armoring 25" or whatever that drops from hardmode EV/KP or I think normal Denova. They often times have more of the primary stat than the armoring in the columi/rakata item, and are BoE with no slot requirement.

I see them on the GTN on my server all the time. In this way, you can still make your droid just as competitive as a normal companion. I also think these armorings are RE-able by Cybertech also making cybertech useful and profitable all in the same go.

No its not.

I like gearing up my companions and I even get my healing companion to heal chasing the shadow now if I cant find a healer.

I disagree, in my opinion it's one of the best things ever to be added to an MMO. Not only is it great for the storyline, but it keeps soloing interesting as you have 5 separate toolsets you can swap in and out of at will.

Gone are the days where you can't solo anything as a tank or healer and levelling up as anything other than a dps being mind-numbingly horrible.

It also gives you a use for all that gear you can't wear, and the crafting system is probably the best out of all MMO's since you can do it while doing other tasks instead of having to stay in a city prospecting or milling for hours on end.

As for max level, there's still an added gear progression for those who want to gear out all their companions to the max. You can give them your hand-me-down gear also so nothing goes to waste. Plus dailies are still considered part of max level content and they help you with this.

THAT is why you ask first. OR just do some damn research facepalm

This could've been avoided if BioWare had made their original statements a bit clearer. From looking at the Q&A from the 27th (http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-april-27th-2012) the mods from pieces prior to 1.2 would not apply to orange sets and moving them out of the initial set armor.

Just cuz YOU think they should have done something doesn't mean they do or the rest of us do. It makes ZERO sense. Sorry bud. It only makes sense that a mod for a chest piece can only work for chest pieces. That's logic buddy, sorry you're pretending to be a vulcan and failed.