^ this. They already created a lot of balance problems with 6.0 in both group and solo content although 6.0 had less changes than 7.0. Even today, far from everything has been fixed. Given the limited resources that they have, it baffles me to see that they are putting their efforts and money into this kind of unneeded and unwanted changes instead of real new content. Plus we will have to re-level (Hammer Station ad nauseam again?) and re-gear again to be able to continue doing the same old content 😖 Those players who are complaining that there are too many buttons and that they have a hard time doing their rotation, they don’t don’t do hm/nim ops and don’t even need to know their rotation. You don’t even need to know it for flashpoints. I play FFXIV and there are distinct classes and a lot more buttons and menus, yet the game thrives. When the expansion comes up later this year, We will be able to continue playing the old content without having to re-gear. The new gear will be needed only for the new content.

It depends. In my case it is worth more than that. I am either locked out of the game until July 12 as redownloading the game would put me well over my data cap for this month and I would have to incur fees of about $115 if I were to go ahead. Redownloading will also easily take about 25-30 hours and I have the fastest connection available in my area. Not everyone lives in a location where they have access to fast and cheap internet.

It should be a straight reimbursement. I don’t need/want CCs. I had just redownloaded the game due to issues with bitraider and now it would put me over my data cap. Going over the data cap would cost me much more.

Any modifiable blaster rifle can follow you to the end game if you upgrade it as you level up. The rest is purely cosmetic and down to personal preference.

I ended up purging my entire list and starting fresh. There were those unknown legacies but also some of very old entries I had on some toons contained people I play with now. On some days I also sometimes placed people I didn’t want to queue with because they were really bad l, kept popping in gf and I wanted fast clears but they’ve learned to play now and are no longer running like headless chickens. I also suppose that after all the years, some have gained maturity. One evening someone may have been a bit annoying (light trolling only, American politics, or RPers taking too much chat space) on the fleet on one toon but ok at other times. It didn’t matter much when such people ended up on the list of one of 40 toons but when all the lists got merged it changed things. What would be really nice is the possibility to add a comment beside each name, a bit like for the guild roster. I’d like to be able to enter the reason and the date because in some cases I do not mean it to be permanent. A very bad player can get decent in a matter of days, American politics in the chat will hopefully diminish soon, but I have no pity for people calling others names, racist/misogynistic idiots and creepy ERPers that whisper you their sexual fantasies. Still for those people BW should have more active moderation especially since this is a PG-13 game. I tend not to put all the credit spammers there as they don’t last very long and can use up a lot of space.

You don't need those augments, even for NiM. Only "maybe" reason could be ranked pvp and that's it. You can do all MM fp in 270 gear. I think they just wasted the little time and money they have making those augments and I don't intend to waste time and money getting them. I am just selling all the mats I get.

There is no need for 306 gear for MM fp, including Meridian: in fact MM fp are a good way to gear up. Some don't even require a real tank, some can be done with 2 players only, some players can respect and know what they are doing. I don't see the problem with the double role. Maybe have a requirement for having done a certain percentage of vet mode FP legacy wide? I prefer a player in 270 who knows what he is doing to a player in 306 gear running like a headless chicken.

It's not in the notes but it is definitely in the game...why in hell did you reduced the chances to get Versatile armorings/barrels/hilts 80 so much? As if rolling amplifiers wasn't expensive enough already!

On the republic side, he sometimes wanders in the bushes, sometimes he is impossible to find. If that happens switch instances; he seems to consistently show in the pvp instance.

Select the type of story that you prefer, the rest is pretty much just different animations and names for abilities that do exactly the same. I sound the inquisitor storyline more satisfying. Once you know how to play a sorc, you can play a sage and vice versa as the abilities are mirrored. Personally I prefer to shoot lightning (sorc) rather than throwing pebbles (sage) but I play both.

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This at 200%. Not only the grind and the augments are pointless but given the little money and time invested by BW in the game it is even worse. Fix bugs, get rid of level sync which messes up stats in some cases and renders a lot of gear useless and add real new content.

The recruitment method hasn’t changed. Deploying the probes in the tunnels during the event has always been a requirement. The event comes back regularly. Last time was 2 weeks ago.

It is still the same issue: the few people that don't need augments and credits will get mats and sell them for more credits. If BW was looking at a credit sink for those that have too many credits, it misses the target as they will make more credits while everything will suffer from more inflation and new players or those that can't farm this stuff will have trouble getting enough credits to gear up. Vet queen was pretty stupid as only those who had the chance of have a farming group (I did) made tons on money out of it while others spent billions and it was just 2 mats. When 6.0 came out, it allowed me to gear 10 specs perfectly with yellow amplifiers and bis mods in every slot in no time while making more credits selling the new mats and augments while many others are still struggling to get enough credits for one or two toons. These new useless augments will just create bigger discrepancies and encourage gold sellers. I still don't plan on getting any new augments for my toons but rather just sell whatever mats I get from ops. No intent of getting back into ranked with all the toxic people around. Can you fix bugs, scale content properly and add new content instead of spending energy, time and money on useless stuff?

Guess what? most people hate gsf and conquest has nothing to do with it.

You also have to tie that in with the new mats that ranked will drop. That will surely increase overall toxicity but particularly in chat and abuse of legacy ignore. You want more players in ranked? you need active moderation to bring some civility and attractability to it.

That's because everything announced is not worth downloading and testing. It is just numbers - and we all know the effects - save the event.

I am just going to sell any mats I get. No point crafting the new augments. Potential income vs minor effect benefit (some stats are capped and/or need to hit certain levels) and time required make it a no brainer decision. Even if the class benefit would be greater, the required grind is insane. This grind has hit new levels of stupidity. All it is going to achieve is to funnel tons of credits to a tiny group of players that doesn't need any new augments and who will farm the content for credits with the old augments, create more inflation. I suppose that either no one at BW has any notion of economy if they complain about some players sitting on too many credits or they try to utterly favour a few guilds filled with friends while consciously or unconsciously making (the latter is scarier) this game less and less accessible to many, especially new players. I made tons of credtis out of Vet Queen yet it was just for the MH and it required only 2 mats. Farming Vet Queen then gave me the means to make even more money in 6.0+ despite spending billions on various items, including set bonus for various classes for my 40+ toons that new people or casuals struggle to get for a single toon. This is Vet Queen E10 unless many people chose to ignore it... One good thing about 6.0 is that it allowed new people and some former casuals to gear up and face harder content without an endless grind. When groups for HM and NIM (not counting EV and KP) become hard to form (re: lack of real content) you want to open the doors to good new players to join in . The 6.0 gearing system allowed it and it made playing and testing alts fun. If this game had constant new relevant content it might be different but we are grinding the same old stuff over and over as it is now; only fun groups of people and friends are keeping me playing. As for the mats in PVP, notwithstanding the insane required amount, it will just increase the toxicity if they are tied to wins.

You realize that people don't do certain content because they don't like it? I like ops but despise pvp. No amount of conquest points will make me play Warzones or Iokath ever again , Iokath is just awfully boring and PVP is filled with toxic morons. Besides, the new augments mats are just going to increase toxicity. Also currently progging NIM Dxun in 8 and 16 and if you don't complete it, you get very little points despite sometimes spending a lot of time on it or getting some achievements. Compensating with easier content can make up for the lost cq points.

Well they had managed to make conquest fun 6 months ago with a variety of content and regardless of the toon’s level and now they are moving backwards to making it tedious again. It’s a game: it should be fun! The biggest mistake here however is limiting conquest to some planets only: everyone hates waiting for mobs and bosses to respawn. Different and limited planetary objectives for different levels will also limit who you can group with. Why not simply readjust points given to some activities instead of cutting the list of activities? And granting more than 50k conquest points for an activity is pointless anyway. I’ll go back to not caring about conquest. Why always listen to the nerf crowd? Can they find other ways to make adjustments? Cutting content in a game that is already seriously lacking content makes no sense. Spend time on new content and bug fixing instead of nerfing.

You go run them in Master Mode without veteran’s edge and report back... It depends if you raid in story mode as it is essentially hack and slash with very little mechanics and Little to no dps check. Most of them do not even require a full group if people know what they are doing (I think Operator 9 may be the only one requiring a full group?) Veteran mode Karagga’s Palace and Eternity Vault are just glorified story mode ops that don’t even require a full group. Dxun and Gods story mode are even slightly more difficult due to mechanics. Veteran mode have mechanics but most are accessible to pretty much everyone who can follow instructions and decently knows their class. Like don’t be that dps doing 5-7k dps in 306 gear (I have seen a pug do 3.5k recently, which was less than the tanks!!!). Temple of Sacrifice (Revan), Ravagers ( Master Blaster), Gods and Dxun HM are more difficult in terms of mechanics and/or class efficiency (“Hardmare” content). The last boss of Dxun requires dps to maintain close to 20k dps during the fight. Then you have the master mode (nim) legacy ops (and maybe Dxun’s Apex Vanguard 16m hm), Hateful entity and MM Gods and Dxun.

Ops bosses being properly scaled to lvl 75

You must be spamming or there’s something with your behaviour. In 8 years of playing this game it has not happened to me a single time. As others pointed out, don’t be obnoxious and don’t spam your ref link. The latter is annoying and to me you fall in a category similar to the credit spammers and I will immediately report it as spam if I see it. We can’t have people using the chat to spam their ref link. Now, imagine if it becomes a trend... Also, if you see people telling you to stop doing something in chat, listen to them as it probably means that you are about to get reported if you don’t change your behaviour. I think it takes 10 persons to report you each time. If it happens to you 2-3 times a week, it is not a mistake of someone reporting the “innocent” poster.

It is indeed very rare. I used to run vet queen 8m between 3-9 times a week in 5.0 and I only saw him drop once. I was the lucky winner! Sadly, since vet queen no longer provides decent loot or conquest, vet queen groups now seem to be as rare as Lysslo drops used to be as there is no incentive whatsoever to do Vet Queen beyond the achievements. I only ran 16m 2 or 3 times as getting everyone to drop their circles where they should is like herding cats.

Yeah the MM chapters were already quite unbalanced in several locations but now it is worse than ever. As for the walker mission, I compared the hitpoints and damage with what it was previously... the scaling down of the player just doesn’t work: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=975289