So my shaak ti is currently still sitting at gear 8 because she requires that particular piece of gear that is needed by toons like padme and malak (cant remember the name but it that rare piece that is needed in 50 count and is somewhat newer). When padme was first unlocked I thought I remembered reading something about why she required such high level gear salvage at lower level was due to a mistake or something. I'll give padme a pass as she was a special event toon but for someone like shaak ti I dont understand the reasoning behind the high gear requirement to go from gear 8 to 9. She was a non event toon and despite being as good as she is why is the gear demand so much? Is this something that will continue for new release toons?

Also i will add there are a few since darth revan that dont have them till the finisher piece. Hux is an example as is greef karga and cara dune

Nauros: To be fair, the Galactic challenges will make it better unless the rewards are complete trash at all levels. This is, indeed, why I'm looking forward to GalChallenges. I mean, it's nice to have something new to do. In fact, let's not undersell that: it's incredibly important. But whether you have anything to do or not, the quests for new characters simply take too long. If we're playing an extra 30 minutes a day, on average, because we have the shiny new GCs, but a 4 month GL farm still takes 3 months and 29 days, that's going to be ridiculously disappointing. We'll be putting in more time, total, to earn those characters if we're playing more per day and it still takes nearly the same number of days to complete the farm/ quest/ event. It's 8 months after LS Geo TB was released and we don't even have characters released that can 4/4 a p4 combat mission with god mods on an r7 toon. Luke and GL Rey are going to make a big difference, and I'm glad I have Rey for that reason, but there's nothing to pair Rey with that can get you 4/4 on p4. This isn't something that we can hope to achieve someday, because we don't know if they'll ever release enough toons for you to put together multiple squads that can get 4/4 on p4. It's entirely possible that will never happen. ...but if it does happen, what it looks like now is that we'll have to go through GL or (at minimum) JKL style quests to get them. I don't know about Rey's ultimate because I've just started that quest a few days ago (it's been a couple weeks since unlock, but I needed to finish t4 and t5), but so far she's taken 5 months and if her squad mates take something similar, then you're talking about 16-20 more months to assemble the team around her that will make finishing a p4 combat mission possible. They haven't even released those toons, but we know it will be 16-20 months if they're anything like the Rey quest (without ultimate). JKL is better, but also not enough to go 4/4 on p4. 4 more JKL toons will likely take about 12 months ... after they're released. All of which is to say, this is not tenable. The GalCChallenges are going to have to bring those times down substantially. That's not to say that they need to bring down the time required for getting GL Rey & Jedi Luke. If you need a character gate, you need a character gate. But having those characters should enable you to finish GCs that dramatically quicken those subsequent quests. We all want something to do, but rewards will play a huge role in whether or not GCs become successful.

You also get good mod slicing mats which lets you farm more mods instead.

"TVF;c-2154869" wrote:You also get good mod slicing mats which lets you farm more mods instead. True! I forgot it. But it’s good too. Thinking about it know I Think that GAC’s rewards are very good. It isn’t one big reward but is a little of lots of good things that combined make a very good reward.

I dont think gear requirements have ever been linked or correlated to the type(or farming location)of a toon, other than age, where some older toons were just introduced with a different (and maybe slightly less) gear requirement.

Are high level gear salvage the new norm for low level toons?

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tvsfrink
6 years ago
"frackme_21;c-2154859" wrote:
"Nauros;c-2154168" wrote:
"Ravens1113;c-2154156" wrote:
No, it will not go away.

Kyro’s were added as another gear chokehold to induce spending by gating newer toons from reaching higher gear levels and for older toons to be gated from reaching g13 (along with the G12 finishers)

The devs won’t alleviate the gear crunch any time soon. They claim they’ve made it better by adding G12 gear to nodes on fleet battles but those drop rates are terrible. There are still bottlenecks from day 1 (stun guns, carbantis) they’ve never made better and have only added onto the issue. Again, don’t expect it to ever get better.

To be fair, the Galactic challenges will make it better unless the rewards are complete trash at all levels. Maybe not much better, but still better.

You know the rewards will be trash. We thought GAC rewards might be useful and they're abysmal.

They're pretty good when you win.
jppc2204
6 years ago
"frackme_21;c-2154859" wrote:
"Nauros;c-2154168" wrote:
"Ravens1113;c-2154156" wrote:
No, it will not go away.

Kyro’s were added as another gear chokehold to induce spending by gating newer toons from reaching higher gear levels and for older toons to be gated from reaching g13 (along with the G12 finishers)

The devs won’t alleviate the gear crunch any time soon. They claim they’ve made it better by adding G12 gear to nodes on fleet battles but those drop rates are terrible. There are still bottlenecks from day 1 (stun guns, carbantis) they’ve never made better and have only added onto the issue. Again, don’t expect it to ever get better.

To be fair, the Galactic challenges will make it better unless the rewards are complete trash at all levels. Maybe not much better, but still better.

You know the rewards will be trash. We thought GAC rewards might be useful and they're abysmal.

Eventhrough GAC’s rewards aren’t THAT good I wouldn’t say it’s bad. If you make to kyber you got a good amount of stunguns (from carbonite to kyber), stuncuffs, zetas, crystals and GET 1 (you can buy some gear with it). And currency to buy kyros. Yeah it takes time, maybe too much time for the “little” rewards but other than In div1 Get kyber is very easy.
tvsfrink
6 years ago
You also get good mod slicing mats which lets you farm more mods instead.
jppc2204
6 years ago
"TVF;c-2154869" wrote:
You also get good mod slicing mats which lets you farm more mods instead.

True! I forgot it. But it’s good too. Thinking about it know I Think that GAC’s rewards are very good. It isn’t one big reward but is a little of lots of good things that combined make a very good reward.

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