It's a gold eyeball salvage thread

I'm up to 127 after Monday and I feel RICH.

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

Disagree.

As much I love to blame the community for most things, no one deserved this.

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:
Agree - this is ridiculous to have to farm two pieces of gear for a gear piece of the level it is. Stun guns are bad enough.

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

While I wouldn't object to these being added back in to raid rewards, having them strip all the different salvage types is far superior than when raid rewards included all the crap I have 5000+ of. That gold eyeball salvage took a hit in the process of improving raid rewards overall is a price I am willing to pay.

And while I don't have the 2k+ I had a year or more ago, I'll say the same thing I said back then. The salvage isn't the bottleneck. You get a number of these every week from challenges. The real bottleneck is the prototype you need to farm to match them up with. By the time you can farm 50 prototypes you've probably gotten the 60 salvage from the challenges anyway. (If your spending crystals to get prototypes enmass, then yes you will need to farm/spend crystals to get enough salvage too - but that is true for a number of high level gear pieces).

"Fanatic;c-2007849" wrote:

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:
Agree - this is ridiculous to have to farm two pieces of gear for a gear piece of the level it is. Stun guns are bad enough.

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

While I wouldn't object to these being added back in to raid rewards, having them strip all the different salvage types is far superior than when raid rewards included all the crap I have 5000+ of. That gold eyeball salvage took a hit in the process of improving raid rewards overall is a price I am willing to pay.

And while I don't have the 2k+ I had a year or more ago, I'll say the same thing I said back then. The salvage isn't the bottleneck. You get a number of these every week from challenges. The real bottleneck is the prototype you need to farm to match them up with. By the time you can farm 50 prototypes you've probably gotten the 60 salvage from the challenges anyway. (If your spending crystals to get prototypes enmass, then yes you will need to farm/spend crystals to get enough salvage too - but that is true for a number of high level gear pieces).

hey did not improve the tank rewards. If you think they have, you haven't actually been doing the raid. I finish top three every raid and 90% of the gear is garbage. They removed some trash, and also removed the eyeballs we need a ton of. And the net result was a big negative, because most of the time we just get different trash than the trash they removed.

Also, the sheer number of gold eyeballs that are needed for good toons makes the prototype vs challenge argument irrelevant.

"TVF;c-2007852" wrote:

"Fanatic;c-2007849" wrote:

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:
Agree - this is ridiculous to have to farm two pieces of gear for a gear piece of the level it is. Stun guns are bad enough.

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

While I wouldn't object to these being added back in to raid rewards, having them strip all the different salvage types is far superior than when raid rewards included all the crap I have 5000+ of. That gold eyeball salvage took a hit in the process of improving raid rewards overall is a price I am willing to pay.

And while I don't have the 2k+ I had a year or more ago, I'll say the same thing I said back then. The salvage isn't the bottleneck. You get a number of these every week from challenges. The real bottleneck is the prototype you need to farm to match them up with. By the time you can farm 50 prototypes you've probably gotten the 60 salvage from the challenges anyway. (If your spending crystals to get prototypes enmass, then yes you will need to farm/spend crystals to get enough salvage too - but that is true for a number of high level gear pieces).

hey did not improve the tank rewards. If you think they have, you haven't actually been doing the raid. I finish top three every raid and 90% of the gear is garbage. They removed some trash, and also removed the eyeballs we need a ton of. And the net result was a big negative, because most of the time we just get different trash than the trash they removed.

Also, the sheer number of gold eyeballs that are needed for good toons makes the prototype vs challenge argument irrelevant.

is there any data for those claims?

"leef;c-2007855" wrote:

"TVF;c-2007852" wrote:

"Fanatic;c-2007849" wrote:

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:
Agree - this is ridiculous to have to farm two pieces of gear for a gear piece of the level it is. Stun guns are bad enough.

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

While I wouldn't object to these being added back in to raid rewards, having them strip all the different salvage types is far superior than when raid rewards included all the crap I have 5000+ of. That gold eyeball salvage took a hit in the process of improving raid rewards overall is a price I am willing to pay.

And while I don't have the 2k+ I had a year or more ago, I'll say the same thing I said back then. The salvage isn't the bottleneck. You get a number of these every week from challenges. The real bottleneck is the prototype you need to farm to match them up with. By the time you can farm 50 prototypes you've probably gotten the 60 salvage from the challenges anyway. (If your spending crystals to get prototypes enmass, then yes you will need to farm/spend crystals to get enough salvage too - but that is true for a number of high level gear pieces).

hey did not improve the tank rewards. If you think they have, you haven't actually been doing the raid. I finish top three every raid and 90% of the gear is garbage. They removed some trash, and also removed the eyeballs we need a ton of. And the net result was a big negative, because most of the time we just get different trash than the trash they removed.

Also, the sheer number of gold eyeballs that are needed for good toons makes the prototype vs challenge argument irrelevant.

is there any data for those claims?

Yes. I just checked my data and it's actually 89% garbage. Garbage being defined as any piece I have more than 500 of.

Heck with you people who have thousands of these!

I have -250 and still need em on all these guys!

"TVF;c-2007852" wrote:

"Fanatic;c-2007849" wrote:

"Slaveen;c-2007830" wrote:
Agree - this is ridiculous to have to farm two pieces of gear for a gear piece of the level it is. Stun guns are bad enough.

The community is to blame for asking CG to remove it from raid rewards, but still - CG, PLEASE address this.

While I wouldn't object to these being added back in to raid rewards, having them strip all the different salvage types is far superior than when raid rewards included all the crap I have 5000+ of. That gold eyeball salvage took a hit in the process of improving raid rewards overall is a price I am willing to pay.

And while I don't have the 2k+ I had a year or more ago, I'll say the same thing I said back then. The salvage isn't the bottleneck. You get a number of these every week from challenges. The real bottleneck is the prototype you need to farm to match them up with. By the time you can farm 50 prototypes you've probably gotten the 60 salvage from the challenges anyway. (If your spending crystals to get prototypes enmass, then yes you will need to farm/spend crystals to get enough salvage too - but that is true for a number of high level gear pieces).

hey did not improve the tank rewards. If you think they have, you haven't actually been doing the raid. I finish top three every raid and 90% of the gear is garbage. They removed some trash, and also removed the eyeballs we need a ton of. And the net result was a big negative, because most of the time we just get different trash than the trash they removed.

Also, the sheer number of gold eyeballs that are needed for good toons makes the prototype vs challenge argument irrelevant.

/shrug. The change was made across all raids, the fact that the difference between the "good" gear from tank raid and the "bad" gear from tank raid are pretty much equal in value... But if you'd rather challenge gear return to sith/pit so you can get gold eyeballs from tank so it can be like the good old days?

And your obviously doing something wrong if you are having no problems getting plenty of prototypes but have a shortage of salvage :)

@Fanatic let's see your gg. We can pretty much always tell who has trouble with these and who doesn't just by a roster check.

I’ve never posted about having too much golden eyeball salvage, but I do wonder...

I’ve always had upwards of 2000 gold eyeball salvage, while almost never having more than 50 black eyeball salvage. Since both are required for the same gear piece, and one is far more abundant than the other, I’m curious how you guys ever managed to get that much of the black eyeball salvage that you’d run out of the gold?