I agree, they no longer serve a purpose in my eyes, the only reason they needed to be visable pre 7.0 was so that you knew when to refresh them, since they are now permanent there is little reason to have them other than to 'flex' that you have them all.

Actually, this is not just a upscale, it is also a variant that players have been asking for, for years. This version has the jetpack that the prior item didn't. Maybe they should not have used the same names but they are different.

Australian's tend to use the US servers do they not? I'm thinking staggered reset times per server region, so a 6am is time for EU servers and a more convenient timing for the US ones, I mean there isn't anything that says they all need to reset at exactly the same time.

I want this removed also, it's one of the reasons I stopped playing, it forces me to rush through content which I don't want to do, at bare minimum they need to change the reset timer so that its not in the middle of the day here in the UK and that it resets say 6-7am.

Me also, to me it was probably the only thing Bioware got right for 7.0.

They are not fine , they are new useless. Doing a heroic mission on Taris yesterday every group has 4-5 silvers and maybe a good, class has no hard stun all the silvers can use channeled abilities, don't have enough interrupts and level 50 khem is not doing any healing so I'm also having to go through my DCD, if I survive I then have to wait nearly a minute for these abilities to come off cool down otherwise I have nothing for the next group of silvers.

You are right, a lot about 7.0 seems to be the Devs asking us to trust them, it's not our job to give this game the benefit of doubt, it's their job to sell it to us and at that they have done a terrible job, this is the 10th anniversary for crying out loud and they have given us almost the square root of nothing, no road map and it seems no direction.

I have been debating this question myself recently, it seems when I log it I find as much to annoy me as what I find fun, nerfed stats make lower levels tedious, useless companions make heroics more tedious then they need to be, clunky gearing system that only work if you spam certain content otherwise I am lucky if I get enough matrix to upgrade 1 320 piece per week, still not enough Tech frags for my second legendary and I can forget upgrading any of them any time soon. We haven't even got to things like resetting dailes and weeklies. The 10th anniversary was supposed to be a celebration, but it feels anything but.

This 1,000x changes like this are why I have stopped playing and have gone back to play Mass Effect Andromeda of all things.

I understand what he means, they, just like I do use the fog as a indication to where I have not been and where potential quests may be. Only by completely uncovering the map each time can I be certain I have found every quest on a planet. Any such legacy map would have to be completely optional as many people play the same way.

There did used to be way more Comms in the game previously than now (remember planetary Comms for each individual planet?), The stupid thing is that previous dev teams decided that it was two complicated and messy and started consolidating them, the current team seem to be making mistakes that previous teams already realised was not right.

It's not necessarily the Comms that is the true issue, I easily reached the comm cap because unless i spend my playtime farming heroics etc I have a matrix shortage.

Well in my case it was preventing me from collecting my galactic seasons reward, because I was at cap it wouldn't let me take either of the two rewards is subscriber and free ones.

And when they are done they will just leave again. catering to that group of people is pointless.

Completely, my main is only at 320 for most things which I bought outright, I have the Comms for upgrades (basically permanently at the cap) but without farming weeklies I am short on the aquatic matrix stuff you need, let alone only having a single legendary implant as I am short on tech fragments which I used to get in abundance and now that is slow going. Solo gearing is nothing but a middle finger in 7.0

Maybe not, but it is the Devs who decide what to do with those resources, nobody was asking for a new gearing system, the removal of modded gear, legendary implants, daily/weekly resets, changes to rotations etc.

Well good for you, as a solo player I am nowhere near, my max cap because unless I want to waste my time farming content for my limited game time I don't have the matrix to upgrade anything often, also only one of two legendary implants because I don't have tech frags either. 7.0 is a complete mess for me in terms of gearing.

Bioware tried to nerf companions once before and I need up reverting back to 90% of what they had before because it was evident that companions AI simply isn't good enough, they always needed to OP healing to cover up for their own inadequacy. yeah leaving 110% at 110% is more preferable, as sync does weird things, like on the fleet I am just under the cap but then go to like early planets where suddenly I have 115%+ accuracy why? The extra 5% is useless.

I agree, swtorista has put out 3 videos about the gearing system, anything that needs several videos is a wreck.

I agree, fact is we are one month in and we are still on 7.0.1, players deserve to know when the next major update is, not the next patch but 7.1 when the next chunk of content is released. But of course Bioware will not want to do that because when they see 7.1 won't be for another several months players will unsubscribe.

I completely agree, these should not fall under the standard reset rules, my character has gotten to the point where she is supposed to start nar shaddaa' bonus series, now I am not sure if I can complete today so I might as well not evenog into the game today. Is that what Bioware really want?

Things were so much better wh n everyone could get the same irating gear doing the content they liked.

Agreed, the current way it is shown tells us absolutely nothing about our characters stat split so is useless to all.

Bioware recently had the opportunity to do exactly this and declined to include it with the new collectors edition, which I think would have been a good seller if it included access to the vendor. It has been asked for, in and off during the years by different people and I doubt they will ever give us access to a upgrade.

Completely agree, love the helmet but hate the sound, I would also include weapon sound tunings in this suggestion too as there are a few weapons I like the look of but hate the way they actually sound.