Did CG really break their promise regarding gear changes?

"MaruMaru;c-2376956" wrote:

"ShaggyB;c-2376955" wrote:

"MaruMaru;c-2376953" wrote:

"ShaggyB;c-2376952" wrote:

"Starslayer;c-2376950" wrote:

"MrRandyWatson;c-2376949" wrote:
you fail to realize that you had to gear up 30 toons when you started but new players need to gear up 250.

You don’t need to gear up 250 instead of 30, you can choose who you gear up in a pool of 250 instead of 50. Congrats, starting now is more fun than it was 7 years ago because you have far more choices in your progression.
On top of that you have much more resources for gear/shards that players had 7 years ago: more assault battles, GC, Conquest, TB, TW, GAC, more raids, more events (galactic bounties and such). And you have double drop on shards that allow you to save energy to farm gear instead, as well as far better gear in daily challenges.
I’m not saying that more gear won’t be nice though. Good thing that Crumb confirmed in the escape podcast that it was coming, even if it’s later than expected.

To play, yes... to get to end game, no.

Im currently gearing everyone to gear 11.... thats my personal goal.

I stop that to farm things like raddus ship requirements and GL requirements....

But yeah to even get those gear 8, 9 and 10s to 11, i need a bunch of stunguns and carbantis.

Older characters dont need the kyro till last gear 12 piece, so thats nice.... but the rest is overwhelming and should not be at this point

You can do the g11 thing if you want to and that's how you enjoy the game. But gotta admit there's no reason game requires for you to do so and that's good resource management.

2 reasons the game does require me to do that.

1. CG constantly forces us to gear the toons we as a community dont have high gear on... pig guard anyone?
2. The end game calls and that is about having the most varied character pool to set on defense and use on offense to get wins in gac.

So while i get at the beginning and middle of the game, gear is best spent on the best characters... there comes a point when one needs to simply to get ahead of panic gearing by having the gear already done.

This then gets you to a point where keeping carbantis on hand in a stock pile is much much easier.

So how do you do it... well you start with characters that arent a total waste. Take your pilots to gear 11. Then to relic 5.

Go to teams that counter gac defense in interesting ways next. Jawas as an example.

Save the junk for last, but eventually know you will relic 5 cup

Neither of those reasons exist immediately though. I have 30 characters below g11 as a day 1 player and simply no reason yet for me to put any extra gear on them beyond g8.

Already cleared g13 reqs for profundity and jabba+some assumed fillers that will get announced. But naturally I get bottlenecked on relic mats and have yet to clear those. That's the more prominent bottleneck for end game players assuming they don't gear stuff just because.