Technohic Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) One thing I have been wondering about if it works is how you can strip mods from your 50 and send them to an alt inside legacy gear; can you do that to another 50? Particularly if you want to level a bunch of alts, do you really have to ever face a huge gear gap? So say I have a level 50 and after getting there, I don't PvP at all, but had the entire time leveling. I take my banked comms and buy the BM or WH gear that I want or can. Maybe in this case, you buy BM because you can get more of it, and enough to get modable gear with set bonuses. So I have one level 50 with a good bit of BM gear. With me so far? So I roll another alt and level them. Banking comms as I go. I hit level 50. Now I buy the war hero gear for the 1st level 50 I made above. Strip the mods. Put them in legacy gear and send that legacy gear to the previous 50 who is sitting in BM and other mod-able gear. I then put the mods in the gear the first level 50 is wearing. Then I roll another alt and repeat as many times as you need, sending the mods when the alt hits 50 to my first level 50. Granted. It would just be the main pieces, but you would wind up with pretty close to what a full set of WH gear would give you. Now, you can take that and augment it, and be fairly competitive on your first 50 while grinding what ever gear you want to go for next to your min-max desire. You could even then turn around and get gear to strip mods and send to your alts. Would that work? I know you could probably get the gear quicker just taking your lumps, but for those entirely against that, or are going to be leveling alts anyway, might be a decent alternative. Edited October 10, 2012 by Technohic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L-RANDLE Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 One thing I have been wondering about if it works is how you can strip mods from your 50 and send them to an alt inside legacy gear; can you do that to another 50? Particularly if you want to level a bunch of alts, do you really have to ever face a huge gear gap? Legacy makes the gear gear gap non-existent. It doesn't matter as long as they are tied to the same legacy.For example, I was pretty much BiS Sage. I started buying BM/WH/BH Guardian items. Those items were BOP, but once you remove them and put them into legacy gear, you can send them to an alt. You have to maintain armoring slot restrictions, but basically there is no limit to the amount of transfers you can do between toons. After 1.4 dropped, I even took my BiS WH Enhancements and sent them to my guardian alt, as they were power/surge heavy. Problems/Workarounds: 1. In my case, the legacy gear was light armor, so I could not instantly wear the legacy gear. So I had to remove them again. I put it in orange gear and I was optimized-unaugmented BM, minus the set bonus, instantly after I hit 50. Keep in mind though that you should get BM replacement items before you start augmenting...... 2. Hilts/Crystals/Barrels/Relics/Implants/Ear are an issue. There is no legacy way to get these type of end-game items. I had to settle for a "daily" LVL22 Purple Hilt (but used mods/enh from legacy as above), but traded up to the WH one in about three days. I had accumulated 400+ daily comms on my Sage, so I bought two Rakata Guardian impants and shipped them to my alt as temporary items since they are BOE. I really was only short an ear piece and relics and offhand. I took a columi BOE ear piece from my guild bank, used my Matrix Cube and bought a Champ relic, and suffered with a shi.tay offhand, but now that offhands are moddable, you can get more BiS legacy mods/enh and fill a tionese/Columi one until you get a WH/BM one. 3. Coin... Again it cost alot of coin to do this I would say I spent over 1M doing this, but after playing in optimized-augmented WH for like 3 months, I refused to go back to recruit gear. I "prep'd" on my main for about a month before I hit 50 on my alt, but the more alts you have, the easier it should be (this was my one and only alt). Hope this helps... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 The money comes around if you send what you make from your alts along. It accumulates around Hoth and on if you don't waste it while leveling. No need to buy speeder training 2 and a speeder for an alt, etc. Then when you get to your 50; dailies bring in the cash pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssfbistimg Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 One thing I have been wondering about if it works is how you can strip mods from your 50 and send them to an alt inside legacy gear; can you do that to another 50? Particularly if you want to level a bunch of alts, do you really have to ever face a huge gear gap? So say I have a level 50 and after getting there, I don't PvP at all, but had the entire time leveling. I take my banked comms and buy the BM or WH gear that I want or can. Maybe in this case, you buy BM because you can get more of it, and enough to get modable gear with set bonuses. So I have one level 50 with a good bit of BM gear. With me so far? So I roll another alt and level them. Banking comms as I go. I hit level 50. Now I buy the war hero gear for the 1st level 50 I made above. Strip the mods. Put them in legacy gear and send that legacy gear to the previous 50 who is sitting in BM and other mod-able gear. I then put the mods in the gear the first level 50 is wearing. Then I roll another alt and repeat as many times as you need, sending the mods when the alt hits 50 to my first level 50. Granted. It would just be the main pieces, but you would wind up with pretty close to what a full set of WH gear would give you. Now, you can take that and augment it, and be fairly competitive on your first 50 while grinding what ever gear you want to go for next to your min-max desire. You could even then turn around and get gear to strip mods and send to your alts. Would that work? I know you could probably get the gear quicker just taking your lumps, but for those entirely against that, or are going to be leveling alts anyway, might be a decent alternative. im pretty sure the way to get past the supposed gear gap is to... I don't know maybe play PVP and buy gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Beers Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 As of now you need to hand in the BM shell for it's WH counterpart (excluding the MH/OH). You could however just keep buying the MH/OH and putting those mods into legacy gear. So yes with a few alts you can gear up one character much quicker. Those alts would be at a pretty big disadvantage though. Which isn't a problem if you don't plan on PvPing with them, I'm probably going to do this on with my Gunslinger as I don't plan on using him for anything other than PvE once he gets to 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technohic Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 As of now you need to hand in the BM shell for it's WH counterpart (excluding the MH/OH). You could however just keep buying the MH/OH and putting those mods into legacy gear. So yes with a few alts you can gear up one character much quicker. Those alts would be at a pretty big disadvantage though. Which isn't a problem if you don't plan on PvPing with them, I'm probably going to do this on with my Gunslinger as I don't plan on using him for anything other than PvE once he gets to 50. I figured you would buy the BM and then the WH, but maybe it would be more efficient to go straight for the weapons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soljin Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) People have been using the Legacy Gear to Gear their Alts since it was introduced! Especially If you have a toon that is already Max geared...You just purchase what you need and send it over in the Legacy gear...Ranged classes have even a bigger advantage since they have a legacy Weapon from the last "Event" So they can send Barrels to their Alts as well. Melee currently do not have a way to Ship Hilts to their Alts although it was ssaid a Legacy Melee weapon will be introduced @ a later event....Supposedly. Im leveling an Alt right now and Have a Full WH set ready to ship to him...Been thinking I should ship it now before they decide to "Hot Fix" this out of the game. It is an awesome way for established players to gear their alts...So more then likely they will decide its not "Working as intended" and remove it. Downside is you still have to buy all the gear on your Alt for future since you will need the skins to trade up to the next teir....But hey...Atleast you wont get your head beat in trying to get it.... Edited October 10, 2012 by Soljin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L-RANDLE Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) I figured you would buy the BM and then the WH, but maybe it would be more efficient to go straight for the weapons. On the alt, I would go straight to WH weapon if you farmed all the arm/mod/ehn on your main. For BiS at a specific level you need (unless you duel wield): 2 CRY 1 HIL/BAR 8 ARMS (3 of which are not bound to slot) 9 MODS 7 ENHS Buy the BM weapon, strip out the mods/hilt/enh/crystal, trade it in for WH weapon, use the stripped BM weapon stuff elsewhere (buy a moddable offhand). Now you only need your alt to supply: 8 ARMS (3 of which are not bound to slot i.e. BM offhand item from main) 7 MODS 5 ENHS It could mean your main needs to buy 8 different pieces for each slot, but most pieces have a combination that can knock those numbers down a bit (i.e 1 piece could have the BiS ARM/ENH, but not the BiS MOD). In my experience, BiS WH MODS are the toughest because it has main attached and going from BM to WH takes your away from BiS most of the time. ARM/EHN can be obtained from serveral pieces and are pretty even across a specific class, but the BiS WH MOD only exist in like one or two pieces. So it requires some research and a game plan. I farmed BiS BM parts on my main, but every BM purchase I made on my ALT was driven by what piece had the BiS WH mod in it. Since you are "stuck" buying a second BM set anyway, buy the pieces you intend to trade in, swap the BiS BM mods you got from your main, and keep on trucking. You might have to sacrifice a specific set bonus, but really, they are not that much of a gamechanger. Plus if your ALT is the alternate AC, there is not even a ton of work that has to go into it.. Moral: If you did all that, then yeah buy the weapon, and when you are playing your alt, you should be looking to obtain WH ear/implants/relics as they are BOP and can't be "manipulated". That's why I said I did alot of prep work before I got my alt to 50. I chose a few of weeks of gathering (credits/dailies for BH/RAK items) versus a week or two of pure misery in recruit gear. Sorry so long... Edited October 10, 2012 by L-RANDLE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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