They won't, unless people start again leaving in masses like 5.0. Then we might get a live streaming for damage control. Good old EA. The fact that you can't buy MH/OH with masterwork shards and that mods and enchartments are bound to specific pieces of gear should tell you everything you need to know. They really want you to waste your time doing content that you may not enjoy and they want to bump cartel market sales. Everything we see is by design. They purposely try to screw you. In the end it all comes down to this : it's a gamble from their part for a potentially one last cash crab. Most likely 6.0 is some light years away if it ever comes. I mean, if Anthem flops, its rip.

Lol. What part of "i don't want to grind pve everyday in order to play pvp" don't you still get m9? What the heck. I would think you are a troll if you didn't put so much effort in this... 10 weeks of pve grind to gear up for pvp. Kek.

Lmao that post you quoted m9. So i have to burn my mind doing endless heroics on Ossus, doing 40 MM Fp's too (10 alts x 4MM) just to be able to gear 2 and a half alts after..2,5 months...for pvp! On top of that, i will have to buy MH/OH for all of them from GTN plus some mods and enchartments for a few hundred millions credits. Mk...

How about no. Bolster is meant to be a catch up mechanic and not a gear substitute. It doesn't even work the way you think it does. For example, tertiary stats are bolstered in a weird and suboptimal way, force and tech damage from MH/OH do not get bolstered optimally either. Why are we trying to reinvent the wheel here? The solution is simple : reintroduce expertise and be done with all the problems.

Anything less than 200 rating gave you 1936 expertise while anything above it gave you less...for obvious reasons, stat pool increase duh. Casuals never knew much about the game, what kind of argument is that? I remember sentinels equipping aim cause they thought it increased accuracy and they would aim better lol. Are you implying that the old gearing method was complicated and the one we have now and the one that's coming will be more simple???? Lmao.

Just stop. Separate gear sets always worked fine in this game. Casuals always played pvp even without pvp gear. Bolster gave them 1936 expertise in their gear opposed to 2018 that a pvp gear set had. The difference back then was that even a casual could have a full set of pvp gear in a couple of weeks and be competitive. Queues were never slow on Red Eclipse where i played. Never. Also lowbies were a thing too. The game was more healthy back then. Lastly, can we stop pretending that you don't need 2 sets of gear now? I mean, for pve you need 110 % accuracy so you need to swap 1-2 pieces of gear anyway. The amount of time that you needed to get a full pvp set back in the days is a fraction of the time that you need get 2 different pieces of gear with unassembled components today. So...why having 2 separate gear sets is a bad thing again?

Maybe disable nagle's algorithm. You can do it manually in registry or with TCPOptimizer. You can actually experiment with a lot of stuff with TCPOptimizer which may or may not help with the issues you see. Other things to watch : Windows power plan must be set to maximum performance. Disable full screen optimization for swtor.exe. Close as many windows telemetry services as you can. Again you can do it manually or there is a little progrram called spybot (dont let the name scare you). Edit : Disabling HPET in BIOS helped me with microshuttering but that's a hit or miss. Some people see improvement while others don't. You can always enable it back anytime you want. I would also reccomend another programm callled timer resolution, see if that helps.

The devs said that the fastest way to get the gear will be to run MM gods and craft. The second fastest way will be to buy it with credits. Keep ignoring it though because it serves your purpose of defending this poorly implemented gearing method. What pvpers want, excluding separate pvp gear, is to be able to get the new gear as fast as everyone else by playing pvp only. That will not be the case with the new gear. Got it now?

/facepalm It is completely illogical. In fact it throws min-maxing out of the window. Please don't comment if you don't understand how gearing and min-maxing works only to defend the studio.

Why...do you...use colours...mate? Also... http://i.imgur.com/BrJ7UyM.jpg

http://www.swtor.com/blog/pvp-economy-and-ranked-rewards-restructure-game-update-3.3 Let that sink in. Until they fix the mess that 5.x gearing is and reintroduce separate PVP gear, they must make any new gear accessible to pvpers at the same rate with MM players. Plus this gear must be accessible by playing PVP. Not gated behind any kind of story or any stupid reputation grind, pve weeklies (lol) and other...smelly things .

https://imgur.com/gallery/3Vv2G6v Dast in the wind.

Let's be honest here. There are two types of farming premades (for the most part). There are guys that play solo ranked and occasionally jump into regs. Realistically you can't excpect them to play for the objectives; it's not in their mentality, it's not their thing...and you can't forbid them to play regs. Then there are these other guys who play the game since forever, the veterans of a sort. Most of these guys cannot be bothered anymore with the objectives and for good reason; they have been doing them for years. If you are a veteran stuck on guarding the objective while other players who can't break 1 k dps are all over the place doing nothing, you will eventually end up with the mindset to not bother wth the objectives anymore. The problem comes from the new players imo. These are the ones that must do the objectives, but they don't. Are you a valor 35, 119 k HP assasin? go to the offnode and guard it, don't go mid, you will be useless there. The game is seven years old, there many guides to wz's and pvp so that a new player can learn about the maps and the objectives, but none of them does. TL;DR Ranked players don't care about objectives and never will, veterans cannot be bothered anymore and new players are not interested to learn.These are the reasons, as far as i can tell, that pvp is so bad.

This new gearing method is problematic, it is a bad system, i wish we had 4.0 gearing system with separate gear for pve and pvp but now, from the moment that this gear can be used in pvp and it will be the best pvp gear as well, then pvpers need this gear too. The amount of mats needed for crafting this gear are insanely high and should be reduced to some degree, but come on, raiders will be making billions from selling this gear on GTN. I am sure they can spare a few millions to buy the pvp mats...that or farm group ranked to get the mats. Every pvper will farm pve content in order to get that gear, pvers will do the same i guess, it's only fair.

I wish these forums had an upvote button .

Top. Kek. Seems to me that you don't understand the new system. You can adsolutely buy the new gear from GTN. They even mentioned that this will be the second faster way to get the new gear. So buying credits from credit farmers will be a very viable way to gear up. Get your facts straight.

I suggest you rewatch the stream.

The new gear will require mats that will drop from different activities. Master mode gods will drop a specific mat that will only drop there, so yeah, you need to do MM gods to get it. Or.....you can buy it on GTN (like all mats), surprise surpise. Bottom line with this new gear method is that if you dont run MM gods and you are not a crafter yourself the fastest way to gear up is with credits via GTN. Using UC to buy the shards will become very expensive the more pieces you buy, it will have a rare limit per character per week and it will require reputation status on top of it. So yeah, buy a hypercrate, sell it on the GTN, gear up, easy af.

You have to grind reputation too on top of everything else.You can't just buy the piece of gear and equip it.This new gearing system is so f****d up, i am out of words.

Hey. I would like to wish you good luck in your attempt to convince him. Spoiler alert : you won't.

Why? Simple answer : cancer is bad.Best change ever made. I have no sympathy for you or your cancer premade. Thanks for your input, move along now.

Why do i need a wealth plan...to obtain a specific gear...that should be obtained...with the currency earned...by doing a certain content (Unassembled components or warzone commendations before 5.0)? Credits should be used for...vanity items and crafted gear (but crafted gear cannot be BiS). Playing the GTN, gathering mats, crafting, doing heroics 24/7, selling CM items...should not be the way that you get BiS gear. Augments were a different story, obviously, because they were always part of crafting only, but recently they got so expensive.They were cheap, worth of a couple of days grind to buy... so there was no need for a...wealth plan. You just played the game as you desired...and with the credits you earned from your gameplay...you could buy the augments. P.S. ...

For like 2 months? It was probably an oversight, aftermath of the whole disaster that led to F2P. Can you remember if this gear had set bonus btw?

Yeah but there was no CM back then.It made it's way into the game when it went F2P, in patch 1.5. There was no way to convert real money into credits.

They could do that, but it would be dumb and they would have no gain. First of all we would have the old problem of raiders having also the best PvP gear.Also, if it will be BoP, the vast majority will have no way to acquire this gear, so there is nothing to grind for.Grinding and keeping us occupied is why they introduce this new tier. If they make it sellable on GTN though and you are no NiM raider yourself ( where the new gear will drop according to them in their recent stream) you have only two ways to get it if you are not wealthy enough to afford it. You either grind the game for credits which means you stay subbed or you buy from CM and convert it to credits. This is a win win situation for them.