So I saw it got nerfed. I can't play for a couple days, so I'm curious as to how bad.

Before I was making 4-8k per box at level 400, now is it now?

Going with Lockbox 2 missions.

Before the update, spending 245 creds on missions, getting almost double that.

Now im getting mid 300s.

Not sure about further up in fairness though.

With the Nodes all working now though, it makes up if you actually go and collect them all.

It's fairly worthless now. The little profit you "may" make is not worth the time.

Well at 400 your companions come back with something 100% of the time, is it down to like 1k per box now or something?

It's down to 20% of where it was.

Check out http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=72970

It's down to 20% of where it was.

 

Check out http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=72970

Unpleasant, it's a little late to pick up a new skill now

Stop running lv1-5 missions and run lv6 missions. The base credit return is low (but still net positive) but you get the artifact lv 340 schematics for missions.

These schematics should make it worth your while to run these missions. As a crafter with Underworld Trading, I am well served to just buy those schematics instead of running mission after mission hoping to crit for purple lv6 mats.

Just something to chew over - you may be able to set up a designated crafter for each mission subskill to direct these to as well.

For those of you interested, I've started a crafting thread looking into the viability of lv6 slicing missions as a way to generate crafting materials in order to determine a base price of the materials themselves. Might be worth your time to read instead of ************ about how the lv2 missions aren't paying out any more.

thread is here:

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=97196