Thank you, this makes the different gearing paths easy to understand, I'm saving this video for later. What I don't like is the various different item qualities, as green 320 gear has the same stats as blue or purple 320 gear. Unless I'm misunderstanding something
You forgot to mentioned that it’s not just a simple swap of gear but you need vast number of tokens to upgrade along with the previous piece. so you have to run tons of ops to disassemble the drop pieces of gear to get Catalysts and run dailies to farm Daily Resource matrix
I actually did mention that you swap it along with other things that drop in operations/flashpoitns, etc. At that time, I didn't realize about the daily comms only dropping while doing daily content. Probably because they weren't as obviously named as they are now. What were they back then? Acquatic Resourec Matrix if I recall correctly.
A lot of help thanks, but what on earth should the gear path be? Do I get 326 conquest, then 324 FP, then 326 mmfp, seems a bit off. It just seems there's no sensible path for people who mainly play solo but do some FPs
So what about crafting then? So I can't make any gear now that's on par with what is the new top tier item rating level gear? What a slap in the face. I guess my F*ck you right back to them is I won't play the game anymore. I'm totally done with the clowns running this game. How many times since launch have they reversed course completely on systems and screwed a large portion of the player base? This isn't the first time and my guess is it won't be the last. It wasn't my main game anyhow...but I had played enough to have 25 or so top level toons. Worked my butt off in the crafting system to be able to make the highest item rating end game gear. So what...all that work now going forward is for nothing? I only ever play with a sub because I think their free to play is a joke....so yeah....not spending another dime of real world money for them to screw me over.
@@scottswenson383 Crafting has become a joke, unless you're crafting augments or bio stuff it's completely pointless now. I spent ages collecting materials, creating items, deconstructing those items, so I could eventually grind my way to 306 upgrades, only for it all to be made totally worthless. The least they could do is raise the crew skill levels to 800 and give us the option to craft 320+ gear. To add insult to injury I can only get the best gear by grinding MM ops, which I find to be boring after doing them a few times.
@@ultrademigod Yup...I did the same in order to craft what is now worthless gear. The people who make that game can go *$#@ themselves. Not playing again much less putting another dime of real world money into it. I have other things I can do. Its a waste of time playing SWTOR...on a whim they will just invalidate the time and effort you put into the game. No additional crafting, no upgrade system like we have in Star Trek Online to upgrade existing gear if the level cap goes up. Nothing....just a middle finger to people who chose to work their asses off in their crafting system as opposed to raiding.
6.0 gearing was rubbish. I maxed out 6 toons with full 306 gear and purple augs with set bonuses without doing anything other than the turkey shoot on makeb and the occasional EV SM. Boring. As. Fuck. Logon, get epics. Lame. this gear system is much nicer. I actually want to improve and raid on my toons now rather than just wander through ez mode content.
So to get the best gear you have to be an Operations player ... This is why I liked the gear system before 7.0 ... because I can't find anyone who wants me to join their raid teams... and when they do they don't want me to go cause I'm not familiar with the fights. "To get the best gear, you have to do the hardest content, except when you can't get to the hardest content because guilds gate-keep their raid teams"
In my experience, raiding communities and teams all over the place are desperate for new players to join their teams. Hell, my guild has 5 raid teams, and is constantly needing fills. If someone came along who had the talent and drive to be a progression raider and would show up often, any one of those teams would happily replace one of their underperformers, or people who don't show up consistently with the person who is always there. What I've noticed over the years is that there is a certain subset of people who do not want to have their play judged, they don't want to be held accountable, they aren't willing spend the hours practicing on the dummy, watching and researching fight videos, etc. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't look down on those people, I totally get the idea of just having a game to play, and not wanting to turn it into a job. But then why complain about not getting gear that is meant to allow the players are willing to do those things, to then achieve higher things. That is literally the purpose of raiding. Kill the boss to get the gear, so you can kill a harder boss and get better gear so you can kill a harder boss so you can get better gear, ad infinitum. There are other games out there where that is literally the entire game. Monster Hunter World for example. All that being said, if you truly want to get into raiding, and you're willing to do the work it takes to perform at the level required to down bosses, come find me on Satele Shan, I have a raid team with a couple open slots.
guide is a bit outdated. or convoluted. the trick with 7.0 is spending your crates. and then pvp upgrading... ding 80. get 320 greens from conq vendor, start legend implant quest. Do/max out GSF weekly, each weekly is 1k tech frags, 50 ish thyrassian token, and a thyrassian chest (pvp currency/chest) x 3 weeklies. means 3k. tech frags 150 thy tokens, 3 thy chests. A combination of farming the heroics, maybe doing some vet FP get your gear to any pathway of 324 greens. pop a thyrassian crate to get a 326 purple gear. If you farm GSF weekly on multiple toons, something like 260 thy tokens and like 55 ARMs is 1 pvp item from start to finish purple 326. If you're at 322, popping a vet FP crate will bump up one item to 324. or can farm a lot of ARMS to upgrade to 324/326 greens from the conq vendor. cheese farming Nim op bosses like nath seems to be the way people are cheating their way to higher than 326 purples. WB weekly spam is a decent way to get a chunk of ARMS but fast heroic farming is the bulk/easiest method to get them in large numbers. with new patch. just do the 25 arm weeklys for the H zones on the outlying planets. it's like 100 ARMS from those zones. and a bit extra for individual missions. ...once you get 1 character to 326 greens, vet FP boxes will create 326 greens, which are legacy bound, can just give an alt a full suit of 326 greens. and then any thyrassian crate they open will upgrade to a 326 purple for their spec.
@@Xillin yeah... but you sort of make it convoluted presenting it as this step system that's rigid or forced. when in actuality, you can interface with the system quite simply, and achieve a gear standing that's perfectly fine for 99.9% of content with relative ease. sure... if you present it as, here's a half dozen types of content each with a seemingly arbitrary range of gear that can be obtained, and imply you have to do it in some order, or are locked into a staged system... it feels convoluted. but if you present it as. take these 2-3 steps to achieve gearing, use this step to funnel effortless gear to alts. It presents as a simple and rather painless system. and seeing as GSF is so heavily pushed at the moment, it feels like something that may get nerfed after a month or two. So... better just to give people the straightest point from A (320 greens) to B (326 purples)
A couple of things I noticed: green 326 still means nothing in heroics where there is scaling, as they have changed the scaling and now you are significantly weaker than you were pre 7.0 doing the same content. Blue flashpoint gear has a chance to drop from veteran fps as well, which is very nice and I hope it's not a bug. Edit: Also I've found that getting a full 326 purple is actually the easiest. Just do gsf weeklies which progress even if you lose the match. Already have full 326 purple sets.
Thanks for the feedback Katerina. Purple 326 PvP gear is definitely the easiest to get. I've found the green 326 with augments makes heroics and such pretty easy myself. And yeah, I've gotten some blue stuff from vet FPs.
@@Xillin Heroics are still pretty easy with my main Jedi Knight, but I found it really hard* for my operative for example. It's hit or miss. But I've still noticed a significant increase in difficulty, if only in the fact that heroics take longer now.
Awesome video thanks. Question though, what's the difference between the gear? Does it not work in other content or is it just pure stats? So for pvp would Rakata 330 be BiS or does it stay the blue 326 pvp gear?
Thanks so much for watching. For the PvE gear, the difference will be stat distribution, with better distribution being on the higher quality pieces. Those pieces also have more overall stat. For PvP, there is no accuracy, as it's not needed in PvP, so that gear is a little different. But you can still take purple 326 PvP gear into NiM raids and be perfectly viable. It's mostly about what content you choose to do acquire and level up the gear.
wait so just how much worse is 326 conquest gear? I was gonna get that stuff all upgraded and atleast purp augments and start doing harder raid content?
Flashpoint gear upgrades make me want to jump straight into a volcano. Each FP run gets you 10-20 Decurion isotope stabilizers. You know how much you need to upgrade one gear piece, 1500! No, I did not add a zero
MM Flashpoint weekly gives lots more. Plus, deconstructing gear you get from both VM and MM FPs gives those stabilizers too. But yes, it's a longer grind than the others. But also puts you on par with VM Raiders, which is a decent tradeoff I think.
Just got back from a long break. Aren't there armoring mods, mod and enhangement on the new gear? If not, then you have to lose a lot of stats / accu, crit, power and so on. For can not see anything higher than 306 mod's, armoring on action house
So this expansion was rushed out the door, they didn't have time to fully finish it. So, right now the mods/enhancements, etc. aren't in the game for top level gear. Supposedly they will be coming back with update 7.1. So the choice is to keep your old gear, or get this new stuff and just wait.
@@Xillin Think ill wait and see :) but still farm matz for new gear , just in case hehe if I switch to the new gear, I am missing about 200 power for each piece of gear compared to the old one. The only thing I get more from the new is health, but I probably lose a lot of power, so I can not see the benefit of the new gear
@@sisigs4820 Yes they have done a lot of shit :) But have they not raised "Cap" now in the last patch, or level, so you do not die constantly now when doing heroic daily quest. Deleted the game eventually when my otherwise reasonably well geared bounty hunter died all the time, my healer companion could not keep me alive at all. But think that with the last patch, they changed back to what it was before they did shit in it
@@svingarm9283 I saw that as well in the patch notes but from what I can tell I don't see what exactly they raised. If they did raise anything it was like a couple of notches and that was it... and if that's their defintion of "raising the cap" so players feel "more powerful" they clearly don't understand how the stats work in the game because there's literally no difference...
Hi, I want to ask, I already have Full 326 purple from PVP (Thrysian) from my Mara DPS Spec, then I choose Juggernaut as Secondary Skill and set Tank Immortal as spec, then I play GSF weekly, and get the box Thrysian rewards, will it get straight 326 purple gear the Bulwark For Tank Spec, or the box give me back to 316 green the initial start. Thanks
If you have full 326 you will get random peices of 326 tank gear. If you equip one piece of 318 or lower gear, it will force it to drop that specific piece, butit will be 320. Which is better, if up to you.
Great video that makes it easy to understand for people. Yet in the back of my mind is just "Well this is great but not only will they keep changing this all throughout 7.0 but they'll probably overhaul and change everything again with the 8.0 update and it will all be meaningless again so what's the point?" I mean they changed it from 5.0 in 6.0 to make it "simplier" for everybody and then with 7.0 they did this so who knows what they'll do with 8.0.
I am not a casual player by any means, and I put plenty of time in the storylines, PvP, FPs, and even heroics, but there are two parts of the game I do not enjoy. Ranked PvP(which is frankly toxic) and Ops(which is just a bunch WB style fights in one long FP) are not for me, but now they are trying to force me to do them if I want the best gear in game. This is a big FU to those of us who don't like Ops. I guess I'll be spamming Eternity Vault until I've got the Rakata gear, then cancelling my subscription.
You said some bosses in hm have a chance to drop rakata accessories? That wrong, all of them do and its not a chance its guaranteed a rakata piece if the drop an accessory. Armor and weapons will always be blue drops and accessories will always be purple in hard mode ops.
Be aware that if u try to grind for 330s by killing nefra nim, but you are underperforming a lot, there is a high chance that ppl will ignore you. so go an learn how to play you class again. also 330s is not the best gear in the game! your best in slot gear is a personal thing. rakata gear is scaled very badly. So even with 320s conquest gear, you can have better stats than 330s with 77s augments. Also there is a problem with gear for tanks. you gain lifepoints, but lose defensive rating, shield and absorb. So for some players it is more easy to play 326 columi or surpreme gear than 330s rakata, at the moment. So actually try to find some ppl with different gear and ask them to come to your content for some testing amd compare stats, to find the best gear for you. because it is not always rakata or purple at all.
Getting better gear no longer seems as fun anymore cause of all the caps. How is it my character feels weaker at 326 the he was at 306? They need to raise the caps.
They simply took the worst parts of previous expasions and brought them back, but now with more grind... The previous system was perfect they just needed to change the set bonus, but noooo, they have to keep people playing, even if it's tedious.
The new gearing system is awful. I don't mind working and earning things, but good goddamn this new system is way too grindy, especially with the caps on mats needed to upgrade.
Yeah, it's an attempt to appease both sides, and as usual when you try to appease everyone, you end up making everyone mad. Best I can tell you is do GSF weekly over and over on all characters. If you have 3-4 level 80s, you can be in full purple 326 in a few days.
This system actually works quite well with alts. Because drops are based on average gear score. Get one character in 326 gear, then gear that drops everywhere willl be 326. Then just shuffle it around to your many characters.
I think it's ok to do OPS and FPS to get gear, but! CONTENT GATES are a STUPID way of doing that, the player should choose how they will gear up, those that like OPS can do it, FPS same, PVP same, but you cant obligate people to do X type of event or game mode if they DONT WANT! Let players play as they want, this makes us do everything even if we don't like or don't want. I like PVP, FPS, I'm against this mentality of obligating players to do something to get something locked behind X activity. It's a game, we should get everything just by playing whatever we want, can take longer yeah ok I can live with that. But the player should choose not the Devs. Content gates are the bad side of SWTOR and any MMO. This new gear system just spits in the face of every casual player, every random player, or new player that wants to play just for fun, but still, be able to face top-end content, and YES have the top end gear, what bunch of crap coming from the Devs. 6.0 was far the best time in SWTOR. Now even FPS we can't do it freely, only the ones THEY CHOOSE for us. What load of crap. Same with the weekly mission. Devs are blind and deaf about what players ask, the PTS was full of things that players told it was bad, wrong, and still, it's on the live game, so what gives?
I respectfully disagree. Casual/less talented/time constrained players can still play the game, get good gear and faceroll the content they play. Hardcore, raid focused players need higher end gear to keep pushing the next difficulty of bosses. It also gives those players something to strive for. 6.0 was a huge slap in the face to the hardcore community, and MANY of them left over it. Something most hardcores don't get, is that game companies need casuals by the tens of thousands to keep the game afloat. However, something that casuals don't get, is that it is the hardcores who form the communities that the casuals fall into and play the game for. It's symbiotic, you need both. So you have to appease both. This gearing system, while not perfect by any stretch, is an attempt to appease both sides. For the record, totally agree regarding them limiting flashoints we can do. That part is stupid, and is tantamount to killing an ant with a nuke. Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@@Xillin I can see your point of view; and being at best a “casual+” player I’m not predisposed to enlisting to an arduous trek to get the best gear regardless of the requisite content one needs to play in order to get it. However; what I find perplexing and ultimately annoying is the inability to craft anything that could bridge the gap between aforementioned casual and hardcore gamers. As a player who has invested notable time and effort in crafting to suddenly see my efforts shit down completely is aggravating. I don’t mind there being top-level gear for each play style (Solo, FP, OP, etc.); reserved for the hardcore sect willing to pursue it. I do mind that my older legendary adaptive gear is suddenly rendered completely useless outside of cosmetic pursuits; which doesn’t interest me.
They've already said that mod, enchancements, and armoring for current endgame gear will be back in 7.1 I think they just rushed this xpac. As far as crafting goes, I think crafting should be tied into the endgame gear loop. Instead of the item itself dropping, it should drop mats that crafters can then use along with other mats to make gear. And it would be even better if there was some RNG involved allowing for an endless pursuit of better gear with better start distribution.
It doesnt make sense how a casual player should be able to just hop into a MM operation because they earned the gear doing heroic runs and story mode quests and vet fps with their friends. That makes zero sense. The gearing system isn't perfect but if you wanna get the best gear in the game you have to go above being a casual player. Earning it in the hardest content is probably what makes the most sense. The lower gear is still more than enough to run solo content and run flashpoints with your pals. The only people I feel are getting fucked by this gearing system is PVPers because you know people are gonna be running pvp with rakata gear and its going to fuck up the power balance.
I've watched a few videos about gearing in 7.0. This one here was by far the easiest to understand and more informative as well. Cheers man!
Thanks!
This is actually very helpful, reading it online was a lot harder to understand.
Thank you, this makes the different gearing paths easy to understand, I'm saving this video for later. What I don't like is the various different item qualities, as green 320 gear has the same stats as blue or purple 320 gear. Unless I'm misunderstanding something
0:02 Hahahha i'm Ramprasad call for DPS for EV HM .... Nice video!
Hah! Thanks for watching. I hope that EV went well.
You forgot to mentioned that it’s not just a simple swap of gear but you need vast number of tokens to upgrade along with the previous piece. so you have to run tons of ops to disassemble the drop pieces of gear to get Catalysts and run dailies to farm Daily Resource matrix
I actually did mention that you swap it along with other things that drop in operations/flashpoitns, etc. At that time, I didn't realize about the daily comms only dropping while doing daily content. Probably because they weren't as obviously named as they are now. What were they back then? Acquatic Resourec Matrix if I recall correctly.
A lot of help thanks, but what on earth should the gear path be? Do I get 326 conquest, then 324 FP, then 326 mmfp, seems a bit off. It just seems there's no sensible path for people who mainly play solo but do some FPs
Yep, I plan on releasing another video very soon explaining this.
You can get easy purple 326 pvp gear. You must farm conquest Gear 326 and than you do pvp and then you get out of the creates 326 purple pvp gear.
6.0 was the best gearing this is jut a fuck you to the solo and causal playerbase.
So what about crafting then? So I can't make any gear now that's on par with what is the new top tier item rating level gear? What a slap in the face. I guess my F*ck you right back to them is I won't play the game anymore. I'm totally done with the clowns running this game. How many times since launch have they reversed course completely on systems and screwed a large portion of the player base? This isn't the first time and my guess is it won't be the last. It wasn't my main game anyhow...but I had played enough to have 25 or so top level toons. Worked my butt off in the crafting system to be able to make the highest item rating end game gear. So what...all that work now going forward is for nothing? I only ever play with a sub because I think their free to play is a joke....so yeah....not spending another dime of real world money for them to screw me over.
@@scottswenson383 nope sadly
@@scottswenson383 Crafting has become a joke, unless you're crafting augments or bio stuff it's completely pointless now.
I spent ages collecting materials, creating items, deconstructing those items, so I could eventually grind my way to 306 upgrades, only for it all to be made totally worthless.
The least they could do is raise the crew skill levels to 800 and give us the option to craft 320+ gear.
To add insult to injury I can only get the best gear by grinding MM ops, which I find to be boring after doing them a few times.
@@ultrademigod Yup...I did the same in order to craft what is now worthless gear. The people who make that game can go *$#@ themselves. Not playing again much less putting another dime of real world money into it. I have other things I can do. Its a waste of time playing SWTOR...on a whim they will just invalidate the time and effort you put into the game. No additional crafting, no upgrade system like we have in Star Trek Online to upgrade existing gear if the level cap goes up. Nothing....just a middle finger to people who chose to work their asses off in their crafting system as opposed to raiding.
6.0 gearing was rubbish. I maxed out 6 toons with full 306 gear and purple augs with set bonuses without doing anything other than the turkey shoot on makeb and the occasional EV SM. Boring. As. Fuck. Logon, get epics. Lame. this gear system is much nicer. I actually want to improve and raid on my toons now rather than just wander through ez mode content.
So to get the best gear you have to be an Operations player ... This is why I liked the gear system before 7.0 ... because I can't find anyone who wants me to join their raid teams... and when they do they don't want me to go cause I'm not familiar with the fights.
"To get the best gear, you have to do the hardest content, except when you can't get to the hardest content because guilds gate-keep their raid teams"
In my experience, raiding communities and teams all over the place are desperate for new players to join their teams. Hell, my guild has 5 raid teams, and is constantly needing fills. If someone came along who had the talent and drive to be a progression raider and would show up often, any one of those teams would happily replace one of their underperformers, or people who don't show up consistently with the person who is always there. What I've noticed over the years is that there is a certain subset of people who do not want to have their play judged, they don't want to be held accountable, they aren't willing spend the hours practicing on the dummy, watching and researching fight videos, etc. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't look down on those people, I totally get the idea of just having a game to play, and not wanting to turn it into a job. But then why complain about not getting gear that is meant to allow the players are willing to do those things, to then achieve higher things. That is literally the purpose of raiding. Kill the boss to get the gear, so you can kill a harder boss and get better gear so you can kill a harder boss so you can get better gear, ad infinitum. There are other games out there where that is literally the entire game. Monster Hunter World for example.
All that being said, if you truly want to get into raiding, and you're willing to do the work it takes to perform at the level required to down bosses, come find me on Satele Shan, I have a raid team with a couple open slots.
@@Xillin I'm a Star Forge main, so that sucks..
You can always transfer 1 toon.
@@Xillin cannot afford the CCs to transfer more characters
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guide is a bit outdated. or convoluted. the trick with 7.0 is spending your crates. and then pvp upgrading... ding 80. get 320 greens from conq vendor, start legend implant quest. Do/max out GSF weekly, each weekly is 1k tech frags, 50 ish thyrassian token, and a thyrassian chest (pvp currency/chest) x 3 weeklies. means 3k. tech frags 150 thy tokens, 3 thy chests. A combination of farming the heroics, maybe doing some vet FP get your gear to any pathway of 324 greens. pop a thyrassian crate to get a 326 purple gear. If you farm GSF weekly on multiple toons, something like 260 thy tokens and like 55 ARMs is 1 pvp item from start to finish purple 326. If you're at 322, popping a vet FP crate will bump up one item to 324. or can farm a lot of ARMS to upgrade to 324/326 greens from the conq vendor. cheese farming Nim op bosses like nath seems to be the way people are cheating their way to higher than 326 purples. WB weekly spam is a decent way to get a chunk of ARMS but fast heroic farming is the bulk/easiest method to get them in large numbers. with new patch. just do the 25 arm weeklys for the H zones on the outlying planets. it's like 100 ARMS from those zones. and a bit extra for individual missions. ...once you get 1 character to 326 greens, vet FP boxes will create 326 greens, which are legacy bound, can just give an alt a full suit of 326 greens. and then any thyrassian crate they open will upgrade to a 326 purple for their spec.
This isn't a guide for how to gear up fast and effiecent. It's a guide explaining the stupidly convoluted gearing system of 7.0
@@Xillin yeah... but you sort of make it convoluted presenting it as this step system that's rigid or forced. when in actuality, you can interface with the system quite simply, and achieve a gear standing that's perfectly fine for 99.9% of content with relative ease.
sure... if you present it as, here's a half dozen types of content each with a seemingly arbitrary range of gear that can be obtained, and imply you have to do it in some order, or are locked into a staged system... it feels convoluted.
but if you present it as. take these 2-3 steps to achieve gearing, use this step to funnel effortless gear to alts. It presents as a simple and rather painless system.
and seeing as GSF is so heavily pushed at the moment, it feels like something that may get nerfed after a month or two. So... better just to give people the straightest point from A (320 greens) to B (326 purples)
Thank you. Your comment covered exactly what I needed!
A couple of things I noticed: green 326 still means nothing in heroics where there is scaling, as they have changed the scaling and now you are significantly weaker than you were pre 7.0 doing the same content.
Blue flashpoint gear has a chance to drop from veteran fps as well, which is very nice and I hope it's not a bug.
Edit: Also I've found that getting a full 326 purple is actually the easiest. Just do gsf weeklies which progress even if you lose the match. Already have full 326 purple sets.
Thanks for the feedback Katerina. Purple 326 PvP gear is definitely the easiest to get. I've found the green 326 with augments makes heroics and such pretty easy myself. And yeah, I've gotten some blue stuff from vet FPs.
@@Xillin Heroics are still pretty easy with my main Jedi Knight, but I found it really hard* for my operative for example. It's hit or miss. But I've still noticed a significant increase in difficulty, if only in the fact that heroics take longer now.
Yeah I do the same I had on my char 326 conquest Gear green and now I have 326 purple pvp gear in 3 days.
@@marv98 Yeah, feels really nice to be decked out in purple doesn't it hahah
@@katerinaFM yeah it's true and it's so easy to do it.
Nicely done.. making simple what is really messed up in game. Thank you
Awesome video man, you really made it easy to understand tyvm
Awesome video thanks. Question though, what's the difference between the gear? Does it not work in other content or is it just pure stats? So for pvp would Rakata 330 be BiS or does it stay the blue 326 pvp gear?
Thanks so much for watching. For the PvE gear, the difference will be stat distribution, with better distribution being on the higher quality pieces. Those pieces also have more overall stat. For PvP, there is no accuracy, as it's not needed in PvP, so that gear is a little different. But you can still take purple 326 PvP gear into NiM raids and be perfectly viable. It's mostly about what content you choose to do acquire and level up the gear.
Noble decurion can go up to 326 but elite decurion only 324... how does that make sense?
wait so just how much worse is 326 conquest gear? I was gonna get that stuff all upgraded and atleast purp augments and start doing harder raid content?
Flashpoint gear upgrades make me want to jump straight into a volcano. Each FP run gets you 10-20 Decurion isotope stabilizers. You know how much you need to upgrade one gear piece, 1500! No, I did not add a zero
MM Flashpoint weekly gives lots more. Plus, deconstructing gear you get from both VM and MM FPs gives those stabilizers too. But yes, it's a longer grind than the others. But also puts you on par with VM Raiders, which is a decent tradeoff I think.
Just got back from a long break.
Aren't there armoring mods, mod and enhangement on the new gear?
If not, then you have to lose a lot of stats / accu, crit, power and so on.
For can not see anything higher than 306 mod's, armoring on action house
So this expansion was rushed out the door, they didn't have time to fully finish it. So, right now the mods/enhancements, etc. aren't in the game for top level gear. Supposedly they will be coming back with update 7.1. So the choice is to keep your old gear, or get this new stuff and just wait.
@@Xillin Think ill wait and see :)
but still farm matz for new gear , just in case hehe
if I switch to the new gear, I am missing about 200 power for each piece of gear compared to the old one.
The only thing I get more from the new is health, but I probably lose a lot of power, so I can not see the benefit of the new gear
@@svingarm9283 your stats aren't gonna matter as much as they used to cause they've severely capped the stats to shit in most content.
@@sisigs4820 Yes they have done a lot of shit :)
But have they not raised "Cap" now in the last patch, or level, so you do not die constantly now when doing heroic daily quest.
Deleted the game eventually when my otherwise reasonably well geared bounty hunter died all the time, my healer companion could not keep me alive at all.
But think that with the last patch, they changed back to what it was before they did shit in it
@@svingarm9283 I saw that as well in the patch notes but from what I can tell I don't see what exactly they raised. If they did raise anything it was like a couple of notches and that was it... and if that's their defintion of "raising the cap" so players feel "more powerful" they clearly don't understand how the stats work in the game because there's literally no difference...
omg, they brought back tio columni and rakata?! lol we're full circle boiz!
Yep, we've come allllll the way back around!
Hi, I want to ask, I already have Full 326 purple from PVP (Thrysian) from my Mara DPS Spec, then I choose Juggernaut as Secondary Skill and set Tank Immortal as spec, then I play GSF weekly, and get the box Thrysian rewards, will it get straight 326 purple gear the Bulwark For Tank Spec, or the box give me back to 316 green the initial start.
Thanks
If you have full 326 you will get random peices of 326 tank gear. If you equip one piece of 318 or lower gear, it will force it to drop that specific piece, butit will be 320. Which is better, if up to you.
@@Xillin thanks bro, I will try it..at least I don't need to start to get the tank gear from pvp start from beginning 316 green pvp thyrsian
Great video that makes it easy to understand for people. Yet in the back of my mind is just "Well this is great but not only will they keep changing this all throughout 7.0 but they'll probably overhaul and change everything again with the 8.0 update and it will all be meaningless again so what's the point?" I mean they changed it from 5.0 in 6.0 to make it "simplier" for everybody and then with 7.0 they did this so who knows what they'll do with 8.0.
Xillin you Scrub! nice vid!
I am not a casual player by any means, and I put plenty of time in the storylines, PvP, FPs, and even heroics, but there are two parts of the game I do not enjoy.
Ranked PvP(which is frankly toxic) and Ops(which is just a bunch WB style fights in one long FP) are not for me, but now they are trying to force me to do them if I want the best gear in game.
This is a big FU to those of us who don't like Ops.
I guess I'll be spamming Eternity Vault until I've got the Rakata gear, then cancelling my subscription.
I feel you. I might explore the GSF option as it seems pretty forgiving. Even if you lose you get progress towards gear.
You said some bosses in hm have a chance to drop rakata accessories? That wrong, all of them do and its not a chance its guaranteed a rakata piece if the drop an accessory.
Armor and weapons will always be blue drops and accessories will always be purple in hard mode ops.
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Be aware that if u try to grind for 330s by killing nefra nim, but you are underperforming a lot, there is a high chance that ppl will ignore you. so go an learn how to play you class again.
also 330s is not the best gear in the game! your best in slot gear is a personal thing. rakata gear is scaled very badly. So even with 320s conquest gear, you can have better stats than 330s with 77s augments. Also there is a problem with gear for tanks. you gain lifepoints, but lose defensive rating, shield and absorb. So for some players it is more easy to play 326 columi or surpreme gear than 330s rakata, at the moment.
So actually try to find some ppl with different gear and ask them to come to your content for some testing amd compare stats, to find the best gear for you. because it is not always rakata or purple at all.
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Getting better gear no longer seems as fun anymore cause of all the caps. How is it my character feels weaker at 326 the he was at 306? They need to raise the caps.
They simply took the worst parts of previous expasions and brought them back, but now with more grind...
The previous system was perfect they just needed to change the set bonus, but noooo, they have to keep people playing, even if it's tedious.
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can i dress up by doing pvp? i have no interested in pve
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The new gearing system is awful. I don't mind working and earning things, but good goddamn this new system is way too grindy, especially with the caps on mats needed to upgrade.
Yeah, it's an attempt to appease both sides, and as usual when you try to appease everyone, you end up making everyone mad. Best I can tell you is do GSF weekly over and over on all characters. If you have 3-4 level 80s, you can be in full purple 326 in a few days.
Not a big fan of the new gearing system with all my alts lol
This system actually works quite well with alts. Because drops are based on average gear score. Get one character in 326 gear, then gear that drops everywhere willl be 326. Then just shuffle it around to your many characters.
@@Xillin oh ok I thought maybe they all had to upgrade own crap lol that’s good
thanks a lot...now I have it confirmed....this gearing system is redonkulous.
This is the worst gearing system ever
I think it's ok to do OPS and FPS to get gear, but!
CONTENT GATES are a STUPID way of doing that, the player should choose how they will gear up, those that like OPS can do it, FPS same, PVP same, but you cant obligate people to do X type of event or game mode if they DONT WANT! Let players play as they want, this makes us do everything even if we don't like or don't want. I like PVP, FPS, I'm against this mentality of obligating players to do something to get something locked behind X activity. It's a game, we should get everything just by playing whatever we want, can take longer yeah ok I can live with that. But the player should choose not the Devs. Content gates are the bad side of SWTOR and any MMO. This new gear system just spits in the face of every casual player, every random player, or new player that wants to play just for fun, but still, be able to face top-end content, and YES have the top end gear, what bunch of crap coming from the Devs. 6.0 was far the best time in SWTOR. Now even FPS we can't do it freely, only the ones THEY CHOOSE for us. What load of crap. Same with the weekly mission. Devs are blind and deaf about what players ask, the PTS was full of things that players told it was bad, wrong, and still, it's on the live game, so what gives?
I respectfully disagree. Casual/less talented/time constrained players can still play the game, get good gear and faceroll the content they play. Hardcore, raid focused players need higher end gear to keep pushing the next difficulty of bosses. It also gives those players something to strive for. 6.0 was a huge slap in the face to the hardcore community, and MANY of them left over it. Something most hardcores don't get, is that game companies need casuals by the tens of thousands to keep the game afloat. However, something that casuals don't get, is that it is the hardcores who form the communities that the casuals fall into and play the game for. It's symbiotic, you need both. So you have to appease both. This gearing system, while not perfect by any stretch, is an attempt to appease both sides.
For the record, totally agree regarding them limiting flashoints we can do. That part is stupid, and is tantamount to killing an ant with a nuke.
Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
@@Xillin I can see your point of view; and being at best a “casual+” player I’m not predisposed to enlisting to an arduous trek to get the best gear regardless of the requisite content one needs to play in order to get it.
However; what I find perplexing and ultimately annoying is the inability to craft anything that could bridge the gap between aforementioned casual and hardcore gamers. As a player who has invested notable time and effort in crafting to suddenly see my efforts shit down completely is aggravating.
I don’t mind there being top-level gear for each play style (Solo, FP, OP, etc.); reserved for the hardcore sect willing to pursue it. I do mind that my older legendary adaptive gear is suddenly rendered completely useless outside of cosmetic pursuits; which doesn’t interest me.
They've already said that mod, enchancements, and armoring for current endgame gear will be back in 7.1 I think they just rushed this xpac. As far as crafting goes, I think crafting should be tied into the endgame gear loop. Instead of the item itself dropping, it should drop mats that crafters can then use along with other mats to make gear. And it would be even better if there was some RNG involved allowing for an endless pursuit of better gear with better start distribution.
It doesnt make sense how a casual player should be able to just hop into a MM operation because they earned the gear doing heroic runs and story mode quests and vet fps with their friends. That makes zero sense. The gearing system isn't perfect but if you wanna get the best gear in the game you have to go above being a casual player. Earning it in the hardest content is probably what makes the most sense. The lower gear is still more than enough to run solo content and run flashpoints with your pals. The only people I feel are getting fucked by this gearing system is PVPers because you know people are gonna be running pvp with rakata gear and its going to fuck up the power balance.
Dumbest system ever