It's good that there is SW RPG in making. I would rather play proper solo RPG than this.

Only reason to slow down prog is that they don't have plans for the future. How it will go with next expansion. Reset or remove. What they have been doing for past years, removing and replacing it with other system seems more likely.

Thats not RNG. That is how every competitive FPS clan, prog raid team etc. works. Like every even semi-pro sports team works. They have trials or look for a certain person to be in their team. If one doesn't want to work towards it they don't get that spot. Some guilds are glorified chat rooms as you say but those guilds just want to be that way. Just for social aspect. Others that come from bit more competitive background can find those teams that suit for them.

It's much better choice to leave and stop paying. Otherwise BW might think people are supporting their bad system.

Like reputation grinds and their rep vendors. Enough reputation, better stuff to buy from vendor.

Well that "in time" is just too late. They would have been made those kind of system in place BEFORE launching RNG gearing. There was no RNG involved in finding a guild of your needs or for your play style. You just had to little bit of work to find that right one. And when you finally found one, you just had to make sure you can keep up with that group. Wiping countless hours for nim bosses or farming those hm bosses for gear for WHOLE GROUP. Not a single guild group I played with left one person not get gear. Everyone got one piece before they could get second piece and so on. We geared as a group. And if/when we got new group member, if they didn't have enough gear, we geared that person so we could continue with progression.

It was only complicated for people who couldn't read or don't understand what they are reading.

It has nothing to do with "exclusive" raid gear. It has nothing to do with grinding. It has everything to do with RNG. I wouldn't mind if GC would be like those reputation grinds like Gree with vendors that sell gear. Or if those boxes would only drop gear. Also one thing. What happens with this system in next expansion? Reset for everyone or being removed and replaced with something else.

14 crates and one offhand.

This might be most accurate guess.

People used to do hard stuff to get good gear. Then was mistake called highlighted Ops which allowed bis gear to be handed out like candy from EV/KP. Now there is even bigger mistake with RNG. Gearing would be better if there was a reputation vendor or some sort, where you can buy the piece you want. And put gear drops to HM and Nim bosses. This way casuals and solo players can grind their gear and HM/Nim raiders can get their gear from bosses. Everybody wins.

Howabout you work for those cool and rare mounts like the rest of players. They are not rare or cool if they are handed out as sub reward.

Just changed 3 month reoccurring sub to one month. If there is no improvements on GC, rng gearing, content drought and horrible lag that keeps making game unplayable I'm out after being sub since launch.

Nah, Its only BW's fault creating a system and not thinking thru how players play that system. I said many times before it went live that people would just farm elites to gain cxp. And it's BW's fault that they didn't balance GC to match different play styles. This system is doomed from the start. In next expansion they might have to remove it or reset everyone's progress and if they reset it It' will be same s**tstorm that they created with removing DvL achievements. Bw has already nice trackrecord of bringing new systems and then ignoring them in next expansion.

Every box I opened so far had nothing useful. Few uprisings and 9 chapters doesn't make it up for that lame command system.

That might be because pvp seems to be fastest way to grind CXP. So you can get lot of people that just spend time in wz to farm CXP.

Crystal ball told that in next expansion they will either reset everyone's command rank or abandon this whole rng reward system.

They are adding booster for CXP in CM so they can get more money on top of subscriptions.

I would rather wait another year with pretty much nothing to do than have 5.0.

You probably can get enhancements and mods from GTN / crafters but otherwise gear comes from those RNG boxes.

Great! Maybe they will fill that spot what was left when tens of guilds quit after 4.0 and more will when 5.0 is live.

Nim is still harder even with bis than Sm ops undergeared.

People asked free roam space pve and got space pvp. Actually don't remember anyone ask monthly story chapters and old content to be relevant in level cap. People asked more class stories, new group content and new events. Updates to legacy system and new daily areas and planets. BW has been taking too long to introduce features players asked, some of those features are nothing people asked and after short time they are just abandoned.

More ranks -> more boxes to drop -> more rolls to get that piece you are still missing. Dat RNG.

Those CXP boxes should only drop schematics and Tier gear, no green and blue crap.