We honestly just need a gear update period at this point. They've already essentially put the kyrotech bottleneck into game with out getting rid of the stun gun/carbanti/stun cuff bottle neck we run into.
Now on top of that we are running into the issue of running low on salvageable gear. Yes I understand this game is designed to make money. However, they have started pushing the smaller/low level middle spenders to the point where it seems pointless to throw money at the game.
So either you spend a ton of money and get rewarded or spend none and just deal with the current gear bottlenecks that they've created over the years.
Yes the whales and krakens are their main focus. However, those low level and mid level spenders still are enough of the player base that it will end up taking a portion of their bottom line.
I wish I could remember the post from CG so I could go back find it and quote it here but we were told well over a year ago now that a gear update would be coming. To help making a G12 character faster and easier. Since then all we've seen is almost every new toon put into game have to deal with the old and new gear bottlenecks.
Also, there are far to many guilds out there that can't complete the challenge tier rancor raid. The heroic versions of pit/aat/sith raid need to have gear improvements in their rewards. Heroic sith seems to be a good set of gear 1 in 4 times when placing top 5. ( By this I mean I usually get 1 12.5 completed piece once in every 4 heroic sith raids when placing top 5. )
Just in general we need ways of acquiring the G12 and under gear at a much faster rate. I personally see zero point in spending money to get things like Signal data or relic pieces when due to the gear bottleneck I have time to farm the data and then just slowly work on the gear to salvage after their G13 to increase relic levels.
