Haha I feel the pain too man.
For the first time since I started playing this game in Nov, I had the idea of quitting.
Why?
Well I'm quite a hardcore quasi-F2P player and generally do quite fine in Arena.
Today I got my ass whipped by some guy who I regularly beat.
He was rocking a team of average toons (Dooku lead) but ALL at GEAR 9.
3/5 of those toons needed a Furnace, so I guess his RNG has been really good since the update?
But why?! Why are people who put in so much time, spent money and love the game getting shafted by this "gear wall"?
I mean you gave Aurodium Packs to whales, its the same logic.
Please, some sanity to this gear farming...
