Carbanti's, Stun Gun's and Cuffs.

so, yeah, from a players perspective, it would be nice to get more of the gear we actually need, but its not going to happen because a LOT of ppl will pay the 1400 crystals to get them in shipments, i bet that gear is the majority of ea's income, so i doubt it will change...

And the funniest, when I have 1400 Crystals saved, the gear goes away for days from shipments, and when I have like 200 crystals it shows up refresh after refresh.

"Dark_Helmet_85;c-1139963" wrote:
And the funniest, when I have 1400 Crystals saved, the gear goes away for days from shipments, and when I have like 200 crystals it shows up refresh after refresh.

the game knows what you want!

Im also convinced that there is mechanic in the game that lowers the drop rate when you are about to get enough for an upgrade

Just remembered now, we still have the gear12 to go, maybe even more, it's an endless road.

I don't know why people get upset about gear. I remember when credits were an issue. That was a real crunch.. Even Carbantis cannot compare. Just be thankful that we get gear in random events now. No reason to rag on the devs, when they are clearly making things better a little at a time.

The problem is that the game rewards from dailies and challenges are still thinking of the new starter. One three star training droid for a level 85 player as someone brought up yesterday? I don't even waste a sim ticket on the Training Droid challenge, and that gives me more and at higher levels.

It should be level based, these current rewards are fine for the early levels, but when you hit 20-30 it should be increased, then upped again for 30-40 etc.

There's far too much "New starter" content and maybe that's the devs thinking this game wouldn't be this popular as they certainly haven't planned for the current state. This is evidenced by having hundreds of pieces of lower level gear items.

A few suggestions summarised from this thread and others:

• Daily rewards need to be player level orientated. (A level 12 player receives a 3* Training Droid, A level 82 player receives a 7* Training Droid for eg.
  
• An extra tier of challenges to include harder to obtain gear.
  
• A new Heist for gear
  
• Improved Raid gear drops
  
• A shop that sells ALL gear items ALL the time that are available for purchase with either trade-in, credits, crystals or your soul. For eg, Mk3 Holoprojector, retails at 300 crystals. Much more cost effective buying them as you would spend way more than 300 on refreshes trying to farm 20 pieces. Guess what happens when I need one, I have to wait 3-4 days for it to return to the store, after which I've either forgotten who needs it or someone else needs one as well, or they release a new character and its like, "Oooh! Piece of candy!"
  

Hopefully when g12 drops, cuffs and carbanti's will be more attainable, only to be replaced with some even harder to obtain gold gear... It never ends...

"2findaz;c-1139975" wrote:

"Dark_Helmet_85;c-1139963" wrote:
And the funniest, when I have 1400 Crystals saved, the gear goes away for days from shipments, and when I have like 200 crystals it shows up refresh after refresh.

the game knows what you want!

Im also convinced that there is mechanic in the game that lowers the drop rate when you are about to get enough for an upgrade

I am willing to pay sometimes but in the shop I get only stuff I definitely do not need or I might need in some far future if I ever get what I want. Today, before and after morning refresh, there is a Type 4 Stun gun on offer, only 1400 crystals. Everyone has Hundreds or Thousands of Type 4 stun guns. And it really costs the same amount of crystals like the Type 5 thing.

There is a problem with gear supply: what is offered when and to whom is random and absolutely inefficient for everyone, including CG.

"2findaz;c-1139884" wrote:
I just want to know where i should farm stun cuffs. Anyplace I farm them has a horrible drop rate. More than a few times I have refreshed my energy twice and didnt get one stun cuff

I buy all of mine from Fleet shipments. I can easily get a full set in about a week if I have good RNG. Now they haven't shown up in a couple days and my Kenobi needs 150 of them :(

"nite0wl29;c-1140271" wrote:

"2findaz;c-1139884" wrote:
I just want to know where i should farm stun cuffs. Anyplace I farm them has a horrible drop rate. More than a few times I have refreshed my energy twice and didnt get one stun cuff

I buy all of mine from Fleet shipments. I can easily get a full set in about a week if I have good RNG. Now they haven't shown up in a couple days and my Kenobi needs 150 of them :(

XD I'm the same with guns now... Thrawn needs 150 and there wasn't even one refresh of them in the ship store ever since the event started.

It's getting ridiculous with this gear now...I've said it many times and will say it again - the thing that bugs me the most is the MK3 Holoprojector.....Back in the day when the max level was 60/70 the max Gear was G8 (and rarely G9) and the Holoprojectors were the gear wall to induce spending. Currently however we are at G11 (with G12 looming in the background) and yet the Mk3 Holoprojector is still a gear wall which is ridiculous. 95% of the heroes in the game need at least 1, and most of them need multiple on multiple gear levels (and I'm not even going to mention the dumbfounding case with Magmatrooper who needs 3 MK3 Holoprojectors to go from G7 to G8 :smiley: ). And on top of that, besides by itself, the Mk3 holoprojector is used in at least 2 (at the top of my head) other types of Gear....it just makes no sense. I don't have the will to be upset about Guns and Cuffs and Carbantis because It takes me so long to get to worry about them.

It's cool though how half my roster lights up like a Christmas tree when I finally manage to collect a full piece of either. :smiley: I really enjoy watching the videos of all the youtubers here but I honestly cringe when they review a character and don't include Stun Cuffs and Stun Guns as "Raid Gear", because in my eyes they are raid exclusive gear. :smiley:

• I saw some good ideas here about scaling the rewards in daily challenges based on player level and am wondering why hasn't this been done yet. Or maybe just rotate the gear on a monthly basis - put Mk3 Holoprojectors, Mk5 Syringes, Mk8 Weapons mods, Mk2 Bacta Gel, Mk3 Comlinks and some new blue and green gear as well.
  
• Why is the rip-off of a Mk4 Stun Gun for 1400 crystals still a thing in shipments? I currently have 3254 salvage for it - can I maybe trade it in for crystals? Or for the same amount of Stun cuff salvage, seeing as they are at the same price in shipments?
  
• Why was the change in guild store made so that raid gear is only available as 2 salvage for 800 currency?
  
• Why can't we request most tank gear in guild exchange - It's not like we could get more than 2 salvage anyway?
  
• Why are raid rewards still broken - I get that they have to be random but it just doesn't make sense that in the last 2 months I haven't gotten a single Mk4 Comlink prototype but have over 400 Nubian Scanners? And why are we still getting challenge gear in Tank raids?
  
• Why not introduce a Gear heist of some sorts? We're not asking to be drowning in gear but to be able to feel like we're making progress would be good. You introduced the Credit heist when there was a huge credit wall, and then reworked it and made it even better to get rid of the problem - now we are not overflowing with cash and maxed out characters but we have enough for everyone to steadily follow their plan. Same could be done for gear.
  
• Gear shop - we have a shard shop - why not one for gear. With the appropriate exchange rate it could be a really nice addition to the game.
  

And anyway, maybe when (if) this new game mode comes it will ease the gear crunch, but it should not be used to blind us and leave all the other current problems with gear unresolved.