I've played this game since launch. I've weathered every half-baked hair-brained idea the developers have thrown at me. Nothing has made me want to rage quit and uninstall the game more than this. We have to farm shards so we can do certain dailies. That is bad enough. To ad insult to injury if you fail the daily your shards are gone and you have to go farm more to try again. It's not a few shards. It is 300 for one of the minor ones, 600 for the walker. The reward for completing is less then you spent to do it. It makes no fraking sense. I could see spending that to unlock it so you can do it, but to have to pay every time is just stupid. I swear sometimes the devs just sit around a table and say, "how can we piss off our player base this time?" Change this please. Either make it an unlock or drop the cost 90%. Paying 30 crystals is much more reasonable then 300.

Although I feel the whole command level/XP gearing system is an epic fail and should be scraped. The one thing that would make is more acceptable is that the command level be legacy wide. A casual player who only plays for a few hours a day would take forever to level up their character. I have 18 toons on one server alone and have absolutely no desire to level their command. The old system of gearing was enough of a grind as it was. Now you have created a gear grinding system so horrible that once people hit tier 3 they are burnt out and quit the game. I'm sure on paper this gearing system sounded like a good idea. It did to me till after opening crate after crate and getting nothing but crap. We started calling them crates of disappointment. If you are gonna make us keep this stupid system at least make it apply across our account. Thank you.

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Title says it all. Lets make this happen midwest people!