So we all know that planetary comms got switched to basics at 3x. When I started a new alt I noticed that a quest that used to give 1 planetary also gave 1 basic and the prices of comm gear in older planets remained the same. I'm assuming this is intended but wouldn't this give a pretty big disparity in gearing capacity between a new character thats just starting and an older one who already had characters with large comm reserves? I mean that people with old characters already have huge advantages in gearing new characters since their comm count got bumped yet the prices remained the same. Shouldn't either the rewards or the prices of older planetary gear have been scaled to at least balance it?

But what if say I decide to skip 55 content and jump straight to 55-60? Given people's experience with the transition to 2.0 (remember that I never played 2.0) is it likely that I need to be geared in tiered 55 to survive 55-60? Basically if I can survive levelling 55-60 and start gearing for 60 without doing 55 group content. In theory of course since 3.0 isn't out but I'm planning to go straight to it and skip 2.0 content so I'm just planning based on your experiences in 2.0. In other words, if in theory doing the endgame content of 2.0 would be required to survive the transition to 3.0.

So I played swtor for a few months back in mid 2012 and quit after getting 4 chars to 50 due to medical school. I haven't played in more than 2 years and only just decided to come back since I now have more free time and with 3.0 coming up. I also decided to start from zero by... well deleting my chars and work from the ground up. Since I never played 2.0 and starting new with 3.0 less than a month away I was reading stories of how some people had problems transitioning in 50-55 gear wise and will probably face that in 55-60, how hard would it for a relatively fresh player go straight from 1-60 levelling on nothing but drops and crafted greens before doing proper gearing for endgame? Assuming I skip 50 and 55 group content.