Please look at the gearing system in multiple ways. So far in Swtor we had gearing systems from Operations, PVP with expertise, Command Boxes, and now weekly missions. I honestly dont thing any of these ways to get gear is all that bad. The issue is when you only make it one way. I would suggest making every way possible to grind. Does that mean players will get gear faster? Sure but honestly who cares. It might slow down player to only have one system but the trade off is players enjoying the way they acquire gear. I would put in a gearing system that allows top end gear come from operations, pvp, and command crates. If you want to put in a weekly mission to make players go to your new planet that is fine too. But a lot of different ways is the key. Also please dont put in different gear for PVP and PVE. Making players who enjoy both aspects gearing two sets is painful.

I wouldnt call it false advertising but I would link it to every post that they say they are trying to have better open communication to the player base. This is the benchmark of what not to do. You should never commit to doing something unless you know you can keep good on it. Once you are able to not keep good on your word you should come out with another post to explain why you cant and what communication your going to start having again. This keeps your player base to believe you actually care to let them know whats going on.

Please whatever you do dont bring back separate gears for pve and pvp. That divides the player base. Usually to grind a top level gear it takes awhile to have to grind two gears for one character its painful, for people who enjoy both pvp and pve. My ideas of gearing system should always be available by multiple ways. Always have only 1 set of gear for pvp and pve. 1) Gear that can be purchased through UC- This will be difficult as you have to try to determine the amount of hours it would take for a pvp to buy one piece and a pver to obtain it to try to be fair to both sides. 2) Gear through the command system. This is the best gearing system, because you get cxp for anything you do in game which could reward you a chance for high end gear. This should always be used as a bonus gearing system. Since it would reward the pvpers while they pvp and pver's as they pve. 3) Operations- Should always have a source of high end gear. I would do the latest operation drop the second highest gear in SM and highest gear in HM. I would also do a priority mission that lets you do a random operation in SM to acquire second highest gear and HM to acquire the highest gear. Ex. Right now you would have GOM and Queen drop 252 in SM and 258 in HM. Weekly priority missions would be (think it was 3.0) random operations excluding EV and KP. In SM the operation would drop 25 and HM would drop 258. 4) If you like to install a fourth option of gearing that is relevant with the new content you put out that is fine. Kinda like you did with the crystal gearing system. This will give another option of gearing that makes your new content stay relevant. As long as its with the other gearing systems. Having these different gearing systems doesnt force your players to play a certain way. It gives multiple ways of gearing up. Makes players to continue to enjoy the game they have been enjoying before the new gear came out. It wont force them to play a gearing system that they dont think is entertaining. Those are my thoughts.

With 40 alts I am not sure any gearing system would fit you. I really dont see how the crystal system would be better than the command rank system. In command system you would only need to grind 1 character for each class to command rank 300 and make legacy gears for all your alts to share. This system would be the same way. I cant imagine you would want to spend time doing 40 world bosses groups and 40 weekly missions to earn 2 crystals a week and do it for as long as it would take to level a character to full 258 gear. That sounds horrible. So I would assume you will do the same. Focus on 1 gear for each class and use it through legacy. Only difference is one system is brutally boring and the other system is actually fun. Sure the rng sucks sometimes but at least your playing content you enjoy and not force to playing two weekly quests over and over. Anyone with a lot of alts it only really matters about 1 thing for gearing and thats the ability for legacy gear. Thats what I did for all my alts. I dont have nearly as many as you but I love the command system. I think it was the best gearing system there is. Nothing like working on achievements, pvp, gsf, flashpoints, uprisings, operations, or just roaming around the world killing anything in your way and getting cxp that gives you a chance for the best gear. I also think that this system should always be in place but should work with other systems. For gearing purposes you should not only have one way of getting gear. You should have multiple ways of getting gear. 1) Gear should be obtainable through pvp/gsf ( UC) - Vendor to buy specific gear with UC 2) Gear should be obtainable through Command Crates- New ranks 350 for 252 and 400 for 258 3) Gear should be obtainable through Operations- Priority weekly missions- Random SM drops 252 gear and HM drops 258 gear. 4) Gear should be obtainable through the crystal system- Current system If they would of added all these ways I think people would of had a better outlook on gearing. Make gearing fun by offering multiple ways that people can achieve it instead of one way.

I disagree big time. The probably isnt command system but they way they rolled it out. Command system is a great gearing system but it should always be another way to gear. Command system lets you play the game in many different ways and get cxp and boxes that give you a chance to get the highest gear per your rank. That is an amazing idea. The problem is that it should never be the only way. Operations should also have the ability to get the highest end gear. Pvpers also should have a way to get the highest end gear. This way you could have multi ways of getting the highest end gear. You could pvp, run operations or do anything you want in game.

The problem I see with the gearing system is you limit your players. You learned nothing from the whole command gearing system that you put out over a year ago only to throw it away. The whole point of command system was you were able to enjoy all aspects of the game and be able to get the highest gear. Now you went backwards by limiting the way players can acquire the new gear. I do like having the new planet be a place to acquire the new gear but you dropped the ball by not adding it to the mix you already had. The best thing about the masterwork shards is you get to buy what piece of gear you want. Take that with adding new command ranks 350 that would drop 252 gear and 400 that would drop 258 gear and it would of been almost perfect. To make it perfect you could of added something for the raiders. You could of had a random weekly operation that if you did it in SM that would drop 252 and if you did it in HM it would drop 258. This would of gave your players multiple ways of gearing up. People still would of ran the ossus mission due to getting masterwork shards to choose what gear they want. Its just they would of kept on playing and not being bored because they have to wait to the next week.

I agree. Even though I do agree with most people that you should do it because its fun, however i do think it makes it better when you are rewarded. There currently three different ways to get your BIS gear but I would of added a few more ways. I would of added two new command ranks 350 and 400. Command rank 350 would drop the 252 and 400 would drop 258. This would of kept the command gearing system relevant. Im shocked that they spent over a year on this system and doing tons of revamping it to make it useless. I guess you can still use it to gear up alts and a slim chance of getting 252. I would of also added 252 drops on bosses on the daily GF. This would of made kept the old ops relevant. Last thing I would of did was make a new weekly random HM Ops that the bosses would drop 258. I think back in the day it was called priority ops. This would create a lot more ways of dropping new gear and keeping old ops/command rank relevant. Now it seems like you log in your char. Do two weekly missions for your masterwork data crystal, queen operation and then you wait for a week. Just my take on the new gearing system. .

I believe the fleet does have some determination on the health of the population but its mainly directed to the health of the solo and small guild players. For those that like to run solo or in small guilds they will look at the fleet as their main social hub and hang out there because they are looking for ops/fps or any other group activity. This is why I think you always see the fleet blow up on certain instances like a new expansion or release of a big chapter or a merger. As people come back to try it out the fleet numbers grow because they are looking for groups and are not in bigger guilds. As they tend to get in a bigger guild or they quit the fleet starts to shrink to a smaller average number. At least thats my take on the fleet activity in the past 8 years I played.

I believe the fleet does have some determination on the health of the population but its mainly directed to the health of the solo and small guild players. For those that like to run solo or in small guilds they will look at the fleet as their main social hub and hang out there because they are looking for ops/fps or any other group activity. This is why I think you always see the fleet blow up on certain instances like a new expansion or release of a big chapter or a merger. As people come back to try it out the fleet numbers grow because they are looking for groups and are not in bigger guilds. As they tend to get in a bigger guild or they quit the fleet starts to shrink to a smaller average number. At least thats my take on the fleet activity in the past 8 years I played.

Sorry to hear that but I personally think the new system is soooo easy to gear. I been here since day 1 and have never had top end gear due to not being able to do NIM Ops. Now with new system I have 5 in gear 248 and 3 in 242. I would probably have all my toons in 248 if I didnt take a 3-4 month break due to time availability

Are transfers still 90CC'S?

Yeah fixed it. So that even states how much better the new system now is then before.

It only got better with 5.0 for you. Before 5.0 you had to settle for the highest planet gear or do SM Ops. Now you can buy the highest planet gear and just play and start getting 230 gear once your 70 without doing any ops. If you want you can still do SM ops to gear. Can even probably buy 230 gear cheap on the gtn. Not sure though since I dont use the GTN to buy gear.

I liked it when 5.0 came out and I even like it more with the improvements they made. I enjoy all concepts of the game. I play GSF, PVP, Operations, Daily Heroics, Conquest, collect achievements and more. I been here from launch and never unsubbed due to always creating my own content while I wait for new content to arrive. I have completed a lot of HM Ops and only Nim I ever did was EV/KP. Before 5.0 everything I did except for operations was fun but not rewarding as it gave you no gear towards advancing your character. Its nice to do some heroics and build command pts to obtain a chance to get gear and possibly get capped gear. Pre 5.0 I had 0 chars with capped gear because I didnt run Nims Operations. Now since 5.0 I have 6 toons at command rank 300, 1 toon at 275 and one toon at 250. I have 3 capped toons with gear at 248. Three other toons at command rank 300 are at 246/248 gear. RNG might not be friendly at times but at least you get a chance at loot. Its easy to get 246 gear which is better than ultimate gear since it has a set bonus and ultimate gear was top gear without set bonus. Only difference is now you can obtain 248 gear without doing NIM OPS.

NVM found it.

That is the problem. People want to go back to 5.0 and ***** about the new system but dont realize that before 5.0 many didnt have BIS because not many are able to do NIM Ops. The new system gives the ability to get BIS without doing NIM but they also and should make it just as rare as BIS was before 5.0. So the drops are rare and they should be for 248 gear. Only thing I would suggest is their should be an exchange vendor in case you get the same item. But of course how life is , if its possible to acquire something people will complain if its not easy.

Unfortunately people don't ever look at that. They wanted to keep top ranked gear rare like it was before. So they made the chances of getting the 248 rare. But its easy to be in 246 gear just like it was before 5.0. Only difference now is you dont have to do Nightmare ops to be in top gear but it wont and shouldnt be easy to get top end gear.

So 100 crates and you got nothing? What is your current gear/rank? If I open 100 crates I always find something useful. Even on my 248 capped toons. Always nice to transfer gear to alts by ripping out mods and legacy gear. Now its even better than before with cxp buffs/item mods. Best yet since this system came out I have not played 1minute doing something I don't want too. New system let me enjoy the game the way I want to play. Before I just waited to get in raids to gear up. Now I log in and do what I want. I have 3 toons command rank 300 and tons of alts between 20-100. I have a legacy 248 dps/tank gear for my alts to help with raiding.

I have always been a big fan of the system. The system can always use tweaks to make it better. I love being able to log into the game and not have to focus on a certain part of the game to get gear. Before 5.0 my gearing consisted of waiting on fleet/guild to hear someone forming a Operation run. Running SM operations over and over to get ultimate coms to get gear. Running EV/KP HM weekly to get gear. I have never had the highest ranked gear set due to ultimate coms/HM ops will only supply the second highest gear. So when 5.0 came out I then had the ability to enjoy other aspects of the game and even acquire the highest set. I am in currently 248 gear in two chars. I can do gsf/conquest/pvp/dailys/story or any other content I feel like having and get crates that drop as a reward. Alts never affected me because before 5.0 i used legacy gear and after 5.0 I use legacy gear. I dont get set bonus because of this but having alts in 248 gear doing SM/HM ops is fine. I dont do Nim Ops so not having a set bonus on my alts is not that major. I find it easier to gear in the new system then the old system. Its not hard to get your characters in second top tier. So from someone who never was in top tier gear before 5.0 and is sitting on two characters with 248 gear set bonus I would say this system is better. Problem is before 5.0 if you didnt do Nim Ops the ability of top gear was not an option. So people didnt complain as second gear wasnt that hard to obtain. Now after 5.0 the new system gives the option to get top gear and its obtainable so everyone wants it and they want it faster. If people looked at the new system like the old system and be happy with the second tier gear(like most people had) and the top gear as a bonus people would enjoy it more often.

I semi agree. First thing they should do is take all rename tokens off the cartel market in case people still dont know about the mergers. Second I would say if anyone used a rename token in the past (insert time frame) they should get a refund.

I sent in a ticket 2.5 days ago and still waiting on response. The amount of effort that guilds put in conquest this is unacceptable for us to have to wait for tickets to fix this issue.

Unfortunately, people are narcissist. They only care about themselves and can’t just be happy to see good things happen to others. If it doesn’t happen to them then nothing should happen at all. I learned to not let other people actions or words affect me or I would be too sad all day long. It’s a shame that people in the world can’t just smile when they oblivious can tell this made someone’s day. Instead they want to say that’s not fair where is my stuff

Thats the problem with all gearing system before 5.0. This is what kills MMO'S is calling stuff end game content which then is the only way to gear. Once you hit top level all other content because useless as people just do OPS to gear up. Which makes all other content obsolete which makes the MMO boring fast. They can only drop new OPS so often to keep people interested in playing. Now 5.0 made everything you do in game end game content as you call it because you have a chance to get gear. This is a great concept in my opinion because now all content has a purpose. Before 5.0 heroics, gsf, chapters, uprisings and flashpoints are all useless content for players who hit top level. Now that is not true which makes this concept an great idea. Pre 5.0 I logged in the character I needed gear for wait on fleet for a raid to spam or see if anyone else is raiding. I would stand and wait........then log out. Now I log in and decide what I have time for and then decide what to do. If no raids are going on I can que for FP/Uprisings and even go run heroics while I wait for them to pop. To me this makes me want to play a lot more as it gives me a chance to get gear to advance my character. In 5.0 it was horrible as this was the only concept way of gearing up. In 5.2 they changed it to what this concept should be used for an extra perk to play all content ingame and get rewarded with a chance to get gear. In my opinion this system needs two more changes to be great. First PVP gearing needs to be changed. As PVP and PVE gearing system is not equal. If you only PVE and only PVP its probably the same as I am sure its easier to grind unassembled components as it is to do NIM OPS. The issue is if you like to do both then the quickest ways is to do HM OPS and pvp to upgrade. So what they need to do is make it very cheap to buy Tiers 1-3 using unassembled components. Tier1-3 price should be = to the amount of time it would be to geared by running HM OPS. I still love the idea to not have expertise as people who like to do both had to gear two different sets. The second thing that would make this system better is that you no longer get 248 legendary gear to drop in creates. Instead you get a legendary schematic that you can turn in with command tokens to purchase any piece of gear from the vendor. This would get rid of the chances of getting doubles. TLDR- Command system is great as it makes all content in game useful since you have a chance to get gear by leveling in command ranks. Still needs improvements.

If you done HM Ops I would suggest farming schematics from their and pvp to upgrade to 248. You can even use your alts. And on your alts do just the daily/weekly to upgrade. You should be able to get a piece of 248 within a week per toon.