I mostly go 1-15 with rank 1, 15-20 with rank 2 and then mix of rank 5 blue/purple.

I will wait and see. It might be better, but it also can be as bad as it is now. They didnt say what drop chance will be from "other" bosses. And how many Tokens you will need to change one piece of gear on vendor. If it will be like 10% chance to drop from boss and you will need 20 Token for one exchange, than no thanks.

Dont forget that you will stil need Command Tokens from Crates to be able to change Unassembled Gear piece to assembled one. And we dont know how many Tokens will be needed for one Gear piece exchange. Lately i am expecting only the worst.

This exactly. Without any info, your post is almost useless and noone can answer or help you.

If you want to compare to XP boost. There are important differences: 1. You get a lot of XP boosts though game standard story chapters. I still have several bound in my cargo hold on several max lvl characters. 2. XP boosts only work for limited time. (Until you get to max level) CXP boost works indefinitely. They are direct increase to chance to get character geared faster by doing same content in same amount of time and same amount of skill. I am mad because i pay for sub, so why i should pay more to have all GEARING benefits the game offer? For some who counter with you get free CC you can use them. It is not even close to valid. Since you get like 9h of boost from your free CC.

How much you pay?

New and good repeatable stuff is for keeping people longer in game. Random chance to get random piece of gear once a while is clearly not that. Main problem with new system is that there is no feel of satisfaction when you archive something. When you kill operation boss and he drops nothing or when you finish flashpoint and get no reward for finishing. It is like you level character to max level and then you have to level him one more, but now only SOME of game activities will give you experience not all of them.

It is very clooooose to pay to win. Why should we pay more if we want to get gear faster, when we already pay full time subscription. It is like now you would get from each last boss in operation one additional token if you pay some CC. Or you would get more crystals from PvP if you pay some CC. They are sources of gear after all, just like command crates. Exactly this. It is horrible idea. Excellent idea would be remove these and add 20% toggle able boost to all subscribers.

I read that there will be 12-13 different gear sets per command crate. Is it 12-13 sets per one gear lvl or is it 12-13 sets across all gear levels? By gear lvl i mean 216, 220, 224 etc.

Ohh so swtor will be free while i will grind gear? Thanks for the new informations, in that case it will be awesome. Sarcasm off. If you play as preferred/f2p you will get nothing. So no it is not free since you can farm CXP only if you pay them => you spend time and money to get into same state as you are now before expansion, because there will be no new content that require BiS gear only the old one. It is simple. Now people who are geared and want to Raid or PvP have gear and do what they want. After expansion these people have to grind gear for no idea how long to be able to do same thing as they did before expansion. There is NOTHING new for them (except maybe few more abilities and class changes, but it is not expansion). So these people have right to be pisses, because this expansion gives them NOTHING but BLOCK them for some time from the same content they can do now.

This exactly. A lot of raiders dont do operation specially for Bis gear, but do it for he fun and operation itself. Our guild raid few times a week. We are not near best raiders in game and we dont claim to be. We managed to beat most of nim/hms, but we still miss some scalps. So imagine our situation, we have whole group of people geared in best gear (simply because we cant do it without that gear) you can get and we are learning and practicing mechanics on not defeated bosses so we could one day beat them and feel the accomplishment. Now they introduce new level and new gear system with pretty much no new group content. So we have to stop our tries and start to gear our toons once more. (to get to same place as before expansion) Eventually we will have almost whole team geared, but one will have bad luck and will not be getting gear he need. Rest of the group will not be able to help him in any way than praying and will have to wait and wait and wait until RNG finally give him his blessing. (While in current system you could go into operation with friends a simply give the gear that drops to person who needed it most) Right now no one have real data to know how long gearing will take. But most people are afraid of RNG because the situation i said above can happen with it and there is nothing you can do to increase your chance (to get gear you need) with it.

1. Ops group loose one player, they find new one with skill but they cant help him to gear to do content with them. 2. Only same advanced class Alts are sorted, you cant help get set items for any different class. 3. Once you gear the char in top gear, all additional gear he get is almost like waste, so they simply discourage you to play on him after that

Just to sum it, P2W means exactly what it says you have to Pay To Win. In SWGOH you cant get to top PvP ranks without paying a lot of money (no subscription), no mater how good you are or how long you play.

You dont have to explain this system cons to me. I fully believe it will be VERY BAD. I used to get gear with my guild raiding group where we share loot and gave it to people who needed it most or had worst luck, which now will be impossible. But as i said in my last post (follow up from the one you respond). "HOPE is the only thing we got right now."

I believe you and think it will be as you say, but HOPE is only thing we got right now. BTW: Vendor and raid gear has nothing similar, except item rating. Vendor gear was always endurance heavy => mostly useless for DPS or HEAL classes.

I really really hope, that by meaning not set bonus they mean one of the non set bonus items = MH/OH/Ear/Imp/Relic. If we will get any "set bonus piece of gear" without set bonus, it will be inexcusable in my opinion.

I really hope, that by meaning not set bonus they mean one of the non set bonus items = MH/OH/Ear/Imp/Relic. If we will get any "set bonus piece of gear" without set bonus, i think it will only make people to leave even faster.

I think with command crates. Advanced class change has even lover chance to be implemented. Because it would make grinding gear faster. You could get to max CXP on lets say sage, and then change to shadow and start to farm max gear for him without need to go though lover tiers. So dont have any hope guys.

Gloves are still good option, imagine if you will be getting implants or earpieces all the time

No you cant replay original story-lines. Sorry.

Interesting options bit this one is not valid. Since in chapters you are forced to use certain companions and get all of them to higher ranks is expensive and contra-productive.

Well this statement is false, go check by yourself properly. Because lvl 5 gifts from fleet vendor for 10 crystals are NOT PURPLE but PINK. PURPLE lvl 6 gifts from Odessen will give you more influence from 30 rank upwards.

He did not exploited by himself, he only sold items when they were selling. I also got a lot of money (not as much as others), when i saw prices skyrocket. Single packs i used to sell for 350k were selling for 1 mil or more. I agree it was a bit strange, but in that time i never saw any official info about exploit. So i went in wave with others, why should i sell x times cheaper than others, when people were buying it for much higher prices.

Tell me any way you can get 27 500 credits for one Radiant Crystal. I would love to know. Right now best way to spend radiant crystals is to buy Dark Matter Catalyst and sell it on GTN. On my server they were selling for 500k one for 300 crystals to buy. With conversion you get 450k or 300 crystals, so nothing changes for most of us.

Even if they do, it is better to buy gifts now, because they sell on GTN for twice or more than you get from conversion. If the conversion will be same, you will dont loose and if it will be worse you will win. I dont believe that they will cost less.