Is anyone else finding crew skills becoming less and less useful? I'm leveling so fast that if I complete a few FP's I'm getting better gear and not out-leveling my created gear?

I'm creating this thread...hoping to get some momentum behind getting better farming capabilities for gemstones. It's a time consuming process to run missions to get gemstones and they are an integral part of item creation. I understand that making certain elements difficult / time consuming to obtain in order not to flood the system with the material or items, but this is ridiculous...three hours of missions for a 20 count of grade 7 gemstones.... Thoughts from the crowd welcomed.....

I know this is an old post but i want to reaffirm that there are not heroics on Quesh....which stinks.

What is your rotation? I'm thinking about changing from marksman to engineering based on things I've heard. Yeah, not much on the web on snipers period.

This method definitely works, but you are going to level extremely slowly.

It depends. If you are on your first toon, then I would make sure and do all quests for the planet, including the heroics. You want to do this because you'll want to gathering resourcing for crafting, find all lore and datacrons. Your first toon will likely be a major resource for your next toons that follow, so you'll need to grind it out a little. Once you have your "supply" toon, all my next toons level extremely fast. My second toon was a smuggler / healer. I only did the main line story quests, and supplemented the other XP through warzones. I upgraded my gear to all orange, and used my "supply" toon to provide blue level gear. My third toon was a jedi shadow, but I made the mistake of ignoring pvp warzones and opting for flashpoints and main story line only. I leveled fast, but found that jedi shadows and better for pvp than group flashpoints. Hope this helped.

Agreed. Just buy the mods with planetary coins, i do occasionally check the galatic market in case someone has listed the schematic, but I've been doing that since December of 2011 and still haven't found one.

After reading all of these posts, I would agree that the DPS lvl is less than I expected. At first, I thought cranking up the critical % would help out, which works fine in a pve environment, but I was smashed in pvp. I then tried cranking up the "power" points, and that didn't really work with any of my environments. I have a pretty even shadow dps (crit / power) and he's doing okay. Though its a cool class, probably wouldn't recommend it if you are new to the game and it being your first toon. Any thoughts?

I'm level 45 and started the whole merc contracts and working towards getting him. Not sure if its worth it, but the exp is good, credits are good, and i can run a contract pretty quick, so why not. But you bring up a good point, not sure if its worth it at lvl 55.

I've been with this game since beta and I have to say that I don't think subscribers get enough back from the game to keep paying the subscription.

It has to be through the Cartel Market so they can actually make money from the non-subscription players. I agree, they need to announce some sort of major expansion, or at least mention they are thinking about it.

1.3 is going to up my persepective of this game more than 1.2. The upcoming patch is addressing the elements I find frustrating.

I tried three times today; got to five prisoners, then it bugged out.

Bioware needs to address this as it assists with the game play experience. Jedi Shadow.