I had my Centurion/Champion set and had to trade it all for that crappy Recruit set. I was able to keep up with most of the people on my server, but now I am dying left and right. It's as if the patch threw a lot of us in the water, and didn't even throw us a life saver.
I am a Merc healer, but I may as well not even heal because my heals don't do crap anymore. I'm lucky to get a 2k crit now, and before I was able to crit for almost 3k. I might as well PvP naked because I just have no survivability now.
You gave previous Battlemasters the option to upgrade, but then you give the rest of us a down grade? Was it your intentions to separate us even further? It wouldn't be so bad, I guess, if everyone was working towards that War Hero set.. But we already have people in full War Hero pounding away at us "Recruits"... I complain because before I was doing pretty good, but now I can't even survive to save my own life.. let alone my team's. It's just discouraging