Question
Pink Lightsabers are freaking awesome, and the +33 to [Stat] isn't bad either. However, these crystals seem to be incredibly rare - one just sold on my server for two million credits!
How do I get one?
Answer
Step One: Get the Pattern.
This step is primarily for people who have Artificing as one of their crew skills. Others will need to find someone who can do the craft on commission for them (this is exceptionally difficult and will cost you a tidy sum, for reasons that will be detailed), or get an artificing friend to help them out with this step. In order to learn to craft the Advanced Magenta Resonating, Intrepidity, or Lethal Crystal, you'll first need to get an Ops group together to take down a world boss, on either Hoth or Belsavis. These are level 50 bosses, which respawn relatively often (think hours, not days), and shouldn't be too difficult for a full and competent group, but they aren't complete pushovers, so be sure to bring your A-Game. If you think this part is a pain, then just wait for step two...
Step Two: Get Wet.
Most of the Materials for the Magenta Crystal are 'easy' to get - standard crafting components provided by the Archaeology and Treasure Hunting tradeskills, and easily availiable from the GTN if you have the credits but not the skills.
The Magenta Adegan Crystal however, is not so simple. The first step to acquiring it is to head to Tattooine, and specifically, to the Jundland region, where you'll want to look for a Moisture Vaporator. These are big metal tower lookin' things. The region is marked on the map below:
At the base of some of these towers, you'll find a clickable Water Access Panel. Clicking on this will give you the buff Refreshed and Sustained.
Note: Not all Vaporators have a clickable panel. If you can't find one, keep looking. There are clickable panels all over Tatooine, but in the experience of my guildmates, Jundland was the most dense.
Step Three: Get Cold.
(Alternate: Step Three: Get High.)
Now that you've gotten water from Tattooine, it's time to go freeze it on Hoth.
Specifically, you'll want to head to the Highmount Ridge region, just north of the Imperial base at Leth Outpost. I've marked it below:
What you want to do here is climb the mountain. Once you've reached a certain height, your water buff from Tattooine will be removed, and replaced with a new one - Extreme Altitude.
More importantly, you'll now have Pure Shockfrozen Water in your inventory.
Step Four: Who You Gonna Call?
Now that you've got your Ice, it's time to kill a ghost.
From Hoth, we head to Ilum, where you'll want to visit the Eastern Ice Shelf, located to the west of the Imperial and Republic Waystations. Again, you can see the map below, along with both waystations marked for convenience:
At the Ice Shelf, what you're looking for is a Depleted White Adegan Crystal. It looks like a typical crystal gathering node, and when you click on it will summon a Force Ghost. This is a level 50 boss mob, with about 200k HP - and it hits fairly hard. You'll probably need a full group including both a tank and healer. If you can handle level 50 Flashpoints, you should be able to handle this ghost. Once he's defeated, anyone in your group with the Pure Shockfrozen Water in their inventory should be able to click on the corpse to turn it into a Magenta Adegan Crystal.
Congratulations! You now have all the mats for your Magenta Lightsaber Crystal!
Step Five: Get Pink!
Now it's just a matter of crafting the crystal! There's one notable catch here though - that Magenta Adegan Crystal you just went to all that trouble to produce? It's unique. So the person crafting your new Fabulous Pink Saber Crystal can only be working on one job at a time - he can't set a few and log off overnight. And being a high level epic craft skill, it takes a fairly long time to craft each one. So make sure that you either trust your crafter completely, or be able to craft it yourself. Thankfully, a crafter can have a dozen of the base crystals sitting in his mailbox waiting to craft. So setting up a queue is possible. But given the inconvenience involved for the crafter, I'd strongly advise that you compensate them well.
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