Shwarzchild Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 From what I can tell we can not trade in previous tier gear for the next tier? That seems unfortunate. So example if I am wearing a 236 earpiece I can not use that earpiece to upgrade to the 242 ear using the current piece along with command tokens? That seems counter intuitive, no? Also, weeklies do not award gear components? That seems like an oversight, no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foambreaker Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) From what I can tell we can not trade in previous tier gear for the next tier? That seems unfortunate. So example if I am wearing a 236 earpiece I can not use that earpiece to upgrade to the 242 ear using the current piece along with command tokens? That seems counter intuitive, no? Also, weeklies do not award gear components? That seems like an oversight, no? That has to be bugged, how can you get the pieces needed to upgrade if the old ones won't work, T1 won't ever drop again for a T2 player. Gear components are only for the elite raiders. Edited January 24, 2017 by Foambreaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shwarzchild Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 That has to be bugged, how can you get the pieces needed to upgrade if the old ones won't work, T1 won't ever drop again for a T2 player. Gear components are only for the elite raiders. I hope it's just a simple bug, or some misunderstanding of where the correct vendor is or something. It would be extremely unreal if you had been lucky enough to grab a 236 piece along the way, but then have to rebuy the 230 version to get the 236 version...that you already have....just to upgrade to the 242 version. That makes no sense. Also, while I do appreciate you responding with your opinion, and help and all that. Gear components drop in GSF/PvP. Not operations so elite raiders don't need to be singled out here. The actual unembarrassed gear pieces (not the components) drop from the last boss of operations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foambreaker Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Opps, sorry got the names of the "ten arms fix" mixed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlasmaJohn Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) The actual unembarrassed gear pieces (not the components) drop from the last boss of operations. Oh they're plenty embarrassed. The 5.x New Gearing Experience has been one disaster after another. Sorry, not sorry Edited January 24, 2017 by PlasmaJohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shwarzchild Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Oh they're plenty embarrassed. The 5.x New Gearing Experience has been one disaster after the next. Sorry, not sorry HA wow. I dropped the ball there. Not even gonna change it. But I am grabbing more coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teclado Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 That has to be bugged, how can you get the pieces needed to upgrade if the old ones won't work, T1 won't ever drop again for a T2 player. Gear components are only for the elite raiders. No, it's not bugged. It's working exactly as they told us it would work. See here: http://dulfy.net/2017/01/23/swtor-patch-5-1-gearing-guide/ You can't turn in a gear piece to get another piece. You need an Unassembled Gear Piece, which can only be attained from two sources: operations drops and warzones (via Unassembled Components). If you want to gear up and you don't want to run operations or warzones, you'll just have to play the RNG Galactic Command Crate game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shwarzchild Posted January 24, 2017 Author Share Posted January 24, 2017 Thanks for the replies, all. I must say. This isn't what I thought it was going to be when I saw it on "paper". On paper it seemed straight forward. Maybe I'm just living in denial-ville or something. It just doesn't seem like, in practice, this is what's necessary to help ease the problems with Galactic Command gearing. For instance not being able to turn in pieces you already have to upgrade is nonsense (in my opinion). Not having weeklies grant gear components seems like nonsense again. At the end of the day the problems with galactic command (i.e the loot tables are far too large, there's too many levels of gear involved at too many different "colors") aren't eased at all with this. It's just....meh...looks good on paper...doesn't look nearly as good in practice. It's sloppier than I imagined it was going to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRMM Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Actually you can turn in your gear pieces at PvP vendors with Unassembled Components to get a new token. PvE gear never had a direct path for upgrades like this, so I guess they didn't provide it here either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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