This is bizarre, BW create a system based on grinding, then when someone actually grinds BW nerfs it. Do you understand game systems at all BW? Do you not realise in asian grinders, which is what you've based this system on, grinding mobs is what players do?

Thats weird because the odds of that outcome must be really high.

Is there bolster at lvl 70?

Yes this is entirely on their woeful communication. And to think they bend over backwards to avoid negative publicity.

No, shame on Bioware for not giving detail that players clearly wanted and allowing the situation to spin out of control. Right from the first live stream they knew people wanted hard numbers on exactly what we get cxp from and they refused to give them right up until the final live stream.

Play what, old content that has been around for years? We didn't need the gear for 4.0 either so why change it?

Pretty sure all those cxp earners are for doing it once a week. So you will only get the 600/750 once a week.

That was based on only 100 cxp levels, with the increase to 300 the average will obviously blow out.

What about oceanic and asian times?

Why was that a bad thing?

Yeah this is the thing we can't now do some content for a few hours a week and get a reward we basically have to spend the majority of gaming time in swtor, no other games, grinding out old content to actually get decent rewards. The system is ****ed. Also we now have info about actual cxp values and all the blather about hard group content being the best for cxp and reasonable cxp, that is just lies or at the every least disingenuous.

What has replaced Force lightning/TK throw for tank assassins and shadows?

There is not going to be bolster with level 70 pvp

But this is what they are doing with 5.0. They have placed a soft gate of a large grind with the GC system just like f2p games, and they are selling an item to allow players to mitigate the grind. The worst thing is they are doing this in a sub game for the sub players, we pay to access the grind then pay again to mitigate the grind, its price gouging and I don;t know of any other game that has done this.

This is where I am at as well.

Great system, I agree.

On the stream today they confirmed that cxp boosters would definitely be on the Cartel Market.

You clearly don't pvp at least not seriously. PvPer want gear so they are competing on a level playing field. PvP is the mode that is about being relatively equal and enjoying the competition, which we won't get from this sytem. And if you think they're going to adjust the rate of getting BIS set bonus gear down to about say 30 hours I've got this bridge to sell you. I would pvp on 7-8 toons, to compete equally at max level means set bonus on all.

It will probably be more like 450 hours for 1 character then 200 for others given that the 1 hour average per level was said when the cap was 100.

Yep I've said this before, boosters around gearing are a f2p mechanic because they need revenue streams from a game for ongoing funding. Subs are the ongoing funding for a sub game, layering in f2p pay mechanics on top of a sub is just desperate price gouging. I don't know of another sub game that has actually done this before and I regard it as unethical behaviour.

So I specifically asked what activities in pvp earn cxp and all they said was yes you earn cxp in pvp. That wasn't what I asked. Is it only dailies and weeklies or do you get cxp for a win?

Just said on stream that they don't want GC to be legacy wide.

To use their own words, selling power is p2w and something they said they would never do, GC is the way you gain power in 5.0, therefore selling cxp boosters is selling power and p2w. I will also note that in 1 of the earlier live streams they said there would be nothing related to GC sold on the CM. This is showing that to be a complete lie.

Good point, when they made it discipline specific they increased the max GC level. Giving with 1 hand taking with the other.

But this is because BW have marginalised the hard content more and more and completely disrupted the gear progression path that used to exist going from story mode FPs through to nightmare mode Ops.