This, a thousand times this! I actually felt the same way about HK-51. You don't NEED HK-51 at all, your existing companions can do a perfectly adequate job. If people were so adamant that there should be no PvP element, no one was FORCING them to enter Outlaw's Den. The way I see it, HK was a reward for players who embrace the entirety of the game. Update 1.7 looks to be along the same lines, and I personally am looking forward to it!

This is so true! Excellent point! If one wanted to ONLY do PvP, there are ways that they can do so without ever engaging a single mob (well, once they reach level 10 anyway). By the same token, if you absolutely do not want to engage in PvP, you can simply not go to Ilum. It is entirely your decision! Personally, the absolute most fun I ever had in this game was on Ilum, when large groups would contest the middle section of the PvP area. Of course, that also accounts for the most boring times too... Who remembers running around in circle on your speeder racing your compatriots for armaments, hoping beyond hope that some brave (and stupid) soul from the opposing faction would turn up so you could get a kill?

Lucas had originally wanted to put in one of the Rhakghould Event Green/Black crystals, but the technology in 1977 wouldn't let him do it. Thankfully he seems to have forgotten in his various "revisions," and with any luck the wise folks at Disney will keep it out of his hands from now on...

I couldn't agree more with THIS post! My main since early access is a Sentinel, and I've stuck with her from the early days when everyone claimed they were underpowered, through 1.2 when the NERF SENT/MARA threads began. There are times when I feel like the overpowered God-class you read about on the forums... And there are times when I feel like I'm made of tissue paper. Team skill and composition is everything!

They've always reminded me of fallopian tubes. After all, nothing says bad*** more than sporting female reproductive organs as your insignia. It's practically daring someone to call you a P***y.

I would ask why she wants to be republic. If it's that she doesn't want to be a bad guy... Play for the Empire and make light side choices. Or you can get over the stories and let her choose

Wow, I figured 5 minutes was enough to iron out any inconsistencies in my own performance, but your numbers suggest I should either do more tests or go for longer! Will post more after some more tests, but probably won't remod again... At 15k to remove a single mod, it starts adding up!

Update: Ran another five minutes oh the Ops dummy in my PvP gear, and got 1457 DPS.

I've been running with mostly Power augments, and decided to run a few tests on my ship's combat dummy. Each test was 5 minutes long, and I popped Inspiration once per test (except one where I forgot, which I note below). Here are my results: PVE TESTS ON OPERATIONS DUMMY: Mix of Rakata, Campaign, Black Hole. Test 1: 11 Power Augs, 3 Strength Augs. Total DPS: 1471 Test 2: 8 Power Augs, 6 Strength Augs. Total DPS: 1424 (BUT forgot Inspiration. Whoops!) Test 3: 14 Power Augs, 0 Strenght Augs. Total DPS: 1541 In this final configuration, my stats were 1777 Strength, 1227 Power. My mainhand hits for 993-1155, Force Bonus is 1004.8, Crit is 26.43%, and Crit Multiplier is 78.37%. PVP TESTS ON WARZONE DUMMY: Mix of War Hero, Battlemaster (because I can't stand the War Hero belt!) Test 1: 12 Power Augs, 2 Strength Augs. Total DPS: 1625 Test 2: 14 Power Augs, 0 Strength Augs. Total DPS: 1672 (BUT got a little distracted by Guildchat, which threw off my concentration and rotation for a few seconds!) In this final configuration, my stats were 1520 Strength, 1090 Power. My mainhand hits for 907-1069, Force Bonus is 926.9, Crit is 26.95%, and Crit Multiplier is 72.88%. You can show me all the math you want... I think I'll stick with my Power Augments! At least for me, they're clearly the way to go. Even switching two of them out made a noticeable difference! (By the way, can someone illuminate the difference between the Warzone and Operations Dummies? It would be interesting to run this test with my PVP gear on the Ops Dummy, just to compare... Perhaps tomorrow!)

This is an excellent point, and I for one think they should change it to something like 50%. Perhaps put it on some sort of cooldown timer as well?

I sure wish that the Unify Colors option were just a tad more user friendly. Some suggestions would be: 1) Retain the individual settings for each armor piece (ideal, but probably not practical) 2) Give us the option (in preferences) to make it ON by default instead of OFF 3) Add a command like /unifycolors that would act like the toggle switch in the UI. I could program an appropriate macro on my Logitech G13 I think it's a great feature, but I find it a pain to do repeatedly when switching from PvP te PvE gear!

Guess what they're up again

A little off-topic, but I was wondering what tool you're using to analyze your combat log. I've been using TORTOOLS.COM, but it doesn't break it down by abilities like this... Looks quite useful!

May I humbly submit that fresh 50's are not only dying because of their gear, but because they are, in fact, still learning to play the game? I know that the difference in my skill level between when I first hit 50 almost two months ago and now is huge. Yes, I have better gear now, but I've also studied (i.e. read guides and forums), gotten smarter about my use of defensive cooldowns, gotten more strategic about who I attack and when I attack them (as well as more and more situationally aware of the match around me), talked to the other players of my class who were doing better as well as good players of other classes to learn what THEY were doing, adjusted my keybindings and WHERE on my toolbars things were located to keep certain abilities more visible, rolled and played different classes to better understand them... All after I turned 50. I had all the basics down when I first hit 50, but I'm pretty sure that if I could go back in time and go 1v1 against MYSELF with completely equal gear, I would completely devastate Fresh-50-Me every time.

Is it really that bad? I'm tempted to buy a set, set aside my champ/battlemaster pieces for a day and see if I can really notice the difference.