Rise of the Hutt Cartel coming April 9th!

[Tbone]

Not sure. I did it in about 20 minutes. I think I fell once at the very beginning trying to get around a beam and that was it. I imagine the shitty part is if you do make a stupid mistake, you have to start all over again. It's definitely worth doing, though.

[Zooey]

After spending yesterday afternoon looking into your reports and doing internal testing, we discovered a couple of things:

1. We were missing an important Patch Note for Game Update 2.0, which I'll be adding to the notes as soon as possible with the information, and I apologize that it was missed.

Crew Skill Missions above level 400 provide rewards as follows:
Moderate and Abundant missions no longer provide Artifact Quality crafting materials.
Bountiful and Rich missions will provide Artifact Quality crafting materials only on a critical success.
Wealthy missions will provide Artifact Quality crafting materials for both normal and critical success.

2. As many of you suspected, there are some bugs associated with Crew Skill Mission rewards above level 400. We're working on them now and will be sure to get them fixed in an upcoming patch. When I know more about when that will actually be, I will let you guys know.:

Slicing is not providing Thermal Regulators at the correct rate.
Slicing Lock Boxes are not providing a sufficient number of credits.
Gathering Crew Skill missions do not provide Premium items at the correct rate.
One of the Bountiful Diplomacy missions is not following the reward rules listed above and may provide Artifact Quality materials from normal successes.

The combination of the bugs above, paired with the fact that the new missions don't yield materials in the same way as the older ones do would understandably lead to confusion around Level 400+ missions. We're sorry for any frustration this may have caused, and I hope to have cleared up your questions.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=6144167#edit6144167

[NoCry]

Thanks for posting this.

[Tbone]

And this is why I've been REing bioanalysis mats to get augment components instead of busting my balls trying to get thermal regulators. Waiting for patch...

[Zooey]

At the time of the writing, I'm up to 16.  I honestly was hoping that they had decided to ramp up the difficulty.  But this is fine as well.

[Strod]

55.

[Tecknik]

If you want some easy Ultimate (12) and Elite (20) comms and you have a level 50-54 character, grab the weekly "Complete 3 Level 55 Hard Mode Flashpoints (Hammer, Athiss, Cademimu or Mandalorian Raiders" mission, and run any three level 50 hard modes.  For now, they are counting towards this weekly.  Assuming it's a bug that will be patched so do it while you can.  Longboard and myself noticed last night after running a HM FP on Moana and Directive (sub-55) that we had 1/3 completed.  We tested by running two more HM FPs.  We were able to finish the weekly and collect comms.

EDIT: We did not run Hammer Station, Athiss, Cademimu or Mando Raiders, just for reference.  So it appears that any HM FP will count.

EDIT#2: We also found out that level 55s can join level 50 FPs.  We had a player drop and when we re-queued, a 55 was thrown in with us.  This could be beneficial information.

[Zooey]

2.0.0b Patch Notes
4/16/2013

Crew Skills

Artifice
Reverse Engineering certain color crystals will no longer provide an error message.
Advanced Crew Skill training is no longer required to Reverse Engineer color crystals of any type.[/list]

PvP

Note: For more details about these changes, please visit this post.

The effect of Bolster on empty item slots has been decreased.
Due to itemization changes,

Expertise has been removed from all War Hero and Elite War Hero pieces except for weapon crystals.[/list]

[Tbone]

Does this patch not fix the slicing crit drop rate?

Also, apparently my white expertise crystals are useless now. Can someone explain to me why the dev recommends not using expertise crystals anymore? And why should I use elite war hero gear and not Arkanian gear if they are removing all expertise?

[Anamodiel]

2.01 will supposedly fix the drop rate, according to the Devs.

[NoCry]

war hero and elite war hero = f@cked;)

[Zooey]

By using previous warhero and elite warhero gear in combination with a few pieces from the new PvP gear, you could out perform beyond their original design for the 2.0 warzones.  

@T: What do you mean the devs recommend not using expertise crystals?

And no, your slicing missions are still fucked.

[Mharz]

And why should I use elite war hero gear and not Arkanian gear if they are removing all expertise?

You should use the best PvE gear you can until you can buy the new tier of PvP gear as a general rule.  You get a certain amount of Expertise for free from Bolster even with PvE gear and since no "old" gear (War Hero, EWH) has Expertise you want to wear your best gear.

The trick is to upgrade carefully to get to max Expertise (2018) while keeping a good amount of primary and secondary stats.

At least that's what I've found so far.

[NoCry]

PVE top tier offhand still have more "expertise" attached to it than an EWH offhand. Sorry but that makes no sense...

[NoCry]

For those of you going from partisan to conq - be sure to strip out the mods, armour etc before trading - you can trade an empty shell partisan for a fully loaded conq.