Looking through GTN I noticed that grade 8 materials often have the same price as 4/5 grade (800-1000 credits for one piece) Are there more profitable materials that can be collected? It is difficult to collect several million for a new armor with such a small income. I also have Inheritance Mainhand Weapon Construction Kit, is there a place where I can use it?

Looking through GTN I noticed that grade 8 materials often have the same price as 4/5 grade (800-1000 credits for one piece) Are there more profitable materials that can be collected? It is difficult to collect several million for a new armor with such a small income. I also have Inheritance Mainhand Weapon Construction Kit, is there a place where I can use it?

In general, you don't need to pay millions for armour unless you just want to participate in Fashion Wars: The Old Catwalk. The stuff on the GTN that players have priced at millions is no better, *as*armour*, than the stuff you can buy from the Adaptive Gear Vendor on the Fleet for a few thousand credits in total. It's priced so high merely for the rarity and the looks.

 

EDIT: I say the above not to discourage you from saving credits to buy those sets, but to dispel any illusions you might have about their practical gameplay value. END-EDIT.

 

Gathering materials is not a particularly time-efficient way of acquiring credits. Run through a set of Heroic missions for the planets where you are high enough in level (use the Ctrl+G Activities panel to be sent to the Heroic Mission terminal on the planet where you can pick up the missions, then use the Heroic Transport buttons on the on-screen mission log to go to the missions themselves), and you'll get far more credits (per hour) than you can get by gathering materials.

 

The Inheritance Mainhand Weapon Construction Kit is a relic of the days when medium-level fixed-stats weapons were actually a useful thing, and they have never been upgraded since then(1). If you want to buy one, go to the vendors on your faction's capital world:

* On Coruscant, on the plaza in front of the Senate Tower, near the left-hand (facing toward the tower) entrance to the commercial district under the plaza.

* On Dromund Kaas, at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the commercial district in eastern Kaas City.

 

There's one vendor for each base class (Trooper, Jedi Knight, Jedi Consular, Smuggler on the Republic side, etc.).

 

(1) When I got my first kit, in 2013 around the time when Rise of the Hutt Cartel (2.0) came out and raised the max level from 50 to 55, I was immediately struck by the oddness of these things. It seems so ... useless ... to have a special weapon like that when you can't ever upgrade it.

Edited January 14, 2019 by SteveTheCynic

I will try this "heroic rush" and see how much I can earn. I have one more question about the plot of the planet Iokath so SPOILER ALERT. At Iokath, we make a decision whether to join the Empire or the Republic. Will I be able to recruit Elara Dorn by playing as trooper and joining the Empire?

I will try this "heroic rush" and see how much I can earn. I have one more question about the plot of the planet Iokath so SPOILER ALERT. At Iokath, we make a decision whether to join the Empire or the Republic. Will I be able to recruit Elara Dorn by playing as trooper and joining the Empire?

As far as I know, no, she won't join you if you back the Empire(1). There are other things you must not do during the course of KotFE if you want to recruit her, notably two specific dark-side decisions (described in the spoiler box):

 

 

There's another one where she will probably walk off and leave you if you do it, but it happens at the end of Chapter XIII of KotFE:

 

 

(1) Pretty much the same whether you are a Republicist who backs the Empire "against type", or if you are an Imperial who remains loyal. The same applies later, at the beginning of Jedi Under Siege (you make a separate and final decision then, and this decision dos not have to match the decision on Iokath *or* the decision at the end of Nathema Conspiracy):

 

 

On lowbie planets, the base damage of a gold weapon is always higher than anything purple. So, while your crit and power or shield or whatever will be higher with a higher level weapon, your inheritance level 33 weapon beats your level 70 246 purple weapon by a factor of roughly 10 % extra damage per hit.

 

I still use them on planets under level 35 if toons don't have level 70 gold weapons. Especially on both capitals and Nar Shaddaa...

Edited January 17, 2019 by BenduKundalini

What is difference between Plasmatech/Tactics. My last play as trooper was before "new skill tree" so I'm not up to date.