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[SWTOR] Reverse Engineering

It's all RNG. You could RE 3 greens and get the 3 blue recipies.... or you could RE 100 greens and get none if you were really unlucky. I'm not sure what the chances are.

Now.. if you are a tank, you RE the green you want until you get the Redoubt blue. Once you get it. (It may come first, or last, or whatever, but you don't need the other two patterns if you get this first), you RE the blue redoubt pattern, until you get the purple Veracity (pure tanking) pattern. You may get others along the way, but you don't need them, so you just keep going until you get the one you want.

Finally, once you have the purple pattern, you craft it and your done! (Or.. if your a masochist, you keep making the purple veracity pattern until you get a critical craft so the epic has an agument slot).

reply to Fettuccine
Not sure if it's different for the level 50 stuff, but my main's artifice RE'd 41 green might hilt 22's before learning the blue recipe, and I've RE'd 8 blues with no purple recipe. Same with color crystals, took me 38 red crit crystals to learn the blue quality recipe. Though with artifice you're already crafting a specific, crystal, hilt or enhancement so there's no randomness to what blue recipe you get, it's just the blue version of the green recipe.

reply to Fettuccine
Yeah... this is just for weapons and armor, implants, etc. I believe mods, enhancements, crystals and hilts don't have all those options.. just one.

i.e. a green 22 hilt turns to a blue 22 hilt then turns to a purple 22 hilt.

reply to bTU
yeah ive went through at least 15 blue level 22 resolve hilts and still no purple pattern yet, frustrating.

So many credits wasted...

reply to Fettuccine
One thing to note also. Make sure when you are crafting any type armor, that you are using the appropriate companion that gets the increased Synthweaving +critical chance.

reply to Fettuccine

wow the comments and that chart helps alot! thanks!

reply to Slydermv

Yep, this is the reason I have orange color crystals in my lightsabers, so many TH missions I have grade 6 yellow and orange gemstones coming out of my ears. Not sure if they RE to a purple pattern though. Anyone know or should I just start trying?

Yeah... I think only items you craft can be RE to get higher patterns. Drops and such can't.

Orange and yellow color crystls are crafted by artifice, in fact they start off as blue quality, so no green recipes to have to RE first. I was just wondering if anyone knew if these could be RE'ed to get a purple recipe. It might save a lot if you don't mind orange or yellow lightsabers instead of red, blue or green.

reply to Fettuccine
An alternative is to stop wasting money crafting and go PVP for a whole -- you'll end up with even more money and far better gear.

reply to Fettuccine
If you can craft it, it can be RE'd into blue/purple. Even recipes that start as blue can be RE'd to purple.

No doubt RE is expensive, I skipped at lot of it while leveling up since you replace gear so quickly. At level 50 though since credits are so easy to get I've gone back and RE'd alot and have a bunch of purple patterns.

reply to Fettuccine
I think i have Tehuno's luck. Last night i must have RE'd one of my redoubt pieces 14 times but never got the purple. It was a lower level item thank god and i had plenty of mats so i can try again tonight however assuming you can re every piece of gear, its kind of crazy just how long it takes. This process can def be very frustrating. I swear im only doing slicing and treasure hunting on my next alt.

reply to Fettuccine
I wonder if the fact EA actively promotes reverse engineering in their games will affect their future chances of winning DMCA cases

reply to Fettuccine
I had to do another 5 last night to get my purple resolve hilt 22, so 20 RE's total.
Now trying to get purple battle 22 enhancement, i pray it dosent take as long.