yeah they are hard but putting the gear in isnt as bad as people make it out to be. I would rather gear Phoenix, BH's and Ewoks to use in other parts of the game then do that slog again of leveling the Vets for JTR. They provide absolutely no use anywhere else. Its just lucky they arent required to be high gear for the event. Most people hate these grinds because it takes them away from grinding the meta toons, im on an old shard so ive given up trying to get to the top of that arena mountain, I think the closest I came was like rank 14 once. Its just too much damn work to get those hard to farm toons, plus pray for god mods on top of it, at least to me.