Well that is a lot better. I don't know if its good but definitely better. What about ranked?

You get 20 CXP for trash? I've heard you get only 20 CXP for an entire PvP warzone. Thats 16 people for 15-20 minutes #firstworldProblems

INB4 "Forum maintenance DB issues from update. No; we are not trying to censor criticism."

They just geared up skank tank and are now globalling threads.

Has anyone confirmed yet what it is?

Yep. And its about to sh!+ all over this game

Y'all get crafting cause thats the best we're going to get for a long, long, LOOOOOOOOOONNGG time.

You know; if it wasn't for RNG gearing; this would be my favorite update. If bolster works in PVP I suppose it would at least be passable using the set I already have for PVP.

Just goes to show where the devs heads are at. This is an awful thing to have happen and they should at least close dead servers and prompt remaining characters to transfer off for free but they'd rather let people figure it out on their own and pay for it. At least transfers are on sale again, but it's still dirty.

Difference beyond the content dump could also be that this game has not been that. The people playing that are complaining might very well be here rather than WOW because of that reason. I would have thought that MMOs would have learned by now to not try to be like WOW and lose that head to head

I didn't see that. I know they said that stat wise, they are better than greens today in compared to the other tiers of gear. It would be nice if they were though. I basically plan to keep my set armor pieces and just upgrade around them until I get a replacement set piece. Of course; that all depends on what they do to gear with expertise already on it and bolster.

Thinking about it; I'd say it would be best to get to Harbs where the most people are already. If you plan to gear through PVP; you'll probably want to do ranked. Best be where the most people are available to get the queues to pop.

Yes, but not modable green gear. Green, blue, purple, or gold gear. Same sort of mod ability those have now. RNG on which one you get and which piece you get (can be duplicates) and granted every level after 70. There are 300 levels. They say the average time to get a level is 1 hour. You do not get top level gear until level 300. Of course they say the average time is 1 hour per level. Ranked is supposed to reward as much CXP as the highest PVE content but we all know; the speed of that will entirely depend on time in queue waiting for a pop.

Where's the option to wait and see which servers don't die? Personally; I'd like an east coast server but I will just stay on Harbs if I stay at all after the story. Have a feeling that my path forward will be to just queue ranked even though I hate it, and while undergeared to gear up. I'll be so popular I am sure.

Do you PVP? If so; it's the guy stuck with crappy gear. If you raid; it's against pride in bragging rights I guess; on completing the hardest content. Maybe a first accomplishment some day.

This is where we hope that they get bolster right. Should be a little easier without expertise in the way but also; will be harder to tell if you are getting full bolster as we used to look at out total expertise as an indicator. I would also like to know what will become of gear with expertise on it now? I don't expect an answer as I am betting it is another "Why spoil it. You'll have access in 5 days" kind of thing

Follow the lead link in the OP. You can find past recordings in there as well https://www.twitch.tv/swtor

They did their mic drop again. Thats why they like streams rather than forum posts. They only read snippets of a chat, blurt out an answer even if it is incomplete than go about their day. We won't hear a peep out of them until Monday and even then; I am betting we find out on our own what bolster is like. That said; as much as I have hated bolster, it may be the one thing that saves this game for me.

So their plan for everything is to just do it, and they can adjust later. Yeah. Not buying it. Not buying 300 hours to even get to end game gear either.

This is a knee jerk response to people unsubscribing between chapters regardless of rewards they started throwing out trying to get them to stay subbed. Never mind that it was because a lack of any real new content. They figure everyone geared up and was done. So; its an attempt to keep people busy to stay subbed. I think the problem is; they are miscalculating the increased number of people who will decide to stay subbed that wouldn't before versus the number of players that will just quit all together. TBH I don't know; nor can anyone say for sure. I don't find it likely based on where I stand in that I will not chase something I may never achieve in a game where I already need balance changes every now and then to just make things a little interesting for a while; or new PvP content that frankly, has been slow and disappointing when it does come. Hell. For me; I've left brand new games that were fresh and fun because they are grinders and I know I cannot keep up.

I honestly took a step back and thought about it and I can say at its core; the new gearing system is not that much different from classic MMO gearing. RNG loot has been around since MMOs came into existence. The levels are a different delivery. The issue to me is; SWTOR has not been that kind of MMO. To me, it really has been a different kind of experience from the grindier MMOs in that I can jump in and just play the end game content with very little prep time. A little self reflection tells me that I was playing this game not really wanting an MMO. I did it for the Star Wars story and PvP. Someone like me is better off playing single player RPGs with maybe a multiplayer vs mode or maybe a MOBA on the side. I just hope there is a new Star Wars RPG coming out soon. SWTOR itself? They are flipping their target audience really. Away from maybe people like me or similar in mindset that want to cherry pick their content and play at their leisure and seemingly more toward a harder core MMO crowd. I don't think that is a smart move but it's their families that they are feeding. I wish them luck.

I'd take that over RNG grind that you have to PvE to get this decade. Seeing as you can only hear through dailies and weeklies for PVP. Even if I wanted to do all that PVE; the way it stands, I'd either be a lucky one and get a set and roll the unlucky ones; or I'd be the unlucky one getting rolled. Neither sounds like fun.

It always shocks me even without stealth how often you can just run up to the door and plant so long as people are already fighting.

I think the most telling thing is how they talked about having a bunch of blogs and posts to answer questions on the expansion and yet have decided to go silent without so much as even discussing the concerns.

What? This sounds ridiculous but at this point I just can't put it past them. I think I have literally done only 3 heroics and 1 operation in the entire game. I pretty much just do my story and PvP. I guess given that; it probably doesn't matter anyway as they are already making the game a no go for me just in CXP RNG crap.