Well customizing your 190 gear on ziost isn't a problem, for example i had this char at 192 geared already so i gave the zoist comms to my PT, did the missions on the PT as well, the PT got the gears from the missions, and with the zoist comms of both chars, I bought other zoist pieces that had the specifics i wanted to chage and boom, fully customized 190 gear, with the stats I wanted.
The bottom line here is that we will rely even more heavily on our customers either being so rich that they don't care about getting a piece of gear that they are only gonna use from lvl 58-60, or they're too inexperienced or to see it's dumb to buy the 186 stuff.
And yes I'm still making a profit, but is this really how crafting should be?
imo it would be better if the player got to choose 1 schematic for 1 piece or armor with a set bonus or 1 piece of enhancement/hilt/etc and not have the option of getting the gear itself through tokens. (same with elite/ulti comms, being traded for schematics instead of actual gear)
Then players only way of getting the gear would be crafting or trading, making the trade more interesting, and certainly making crafting more productive.
Because at the moment getting aa basically full set of 190 gear takens about an hour or 2 after reaching 60.
Basically 12x through story mode, do shadow of revan and 3~oricon missions and 3-4 FPs ->60->zoist->190 gear for free. gg