Merrin S1 locked behind g12?

"yolkywareagle;c-2414924" wrote:
The way i look at this is that CG doesn’t want newcomers. g12 is hard when you first start, and you are struggling to get to gear 5. i remember unlocking boba fett for the first time and under his contract i saw “unlocks at gear level VIII.” I thought: hell naw. i’m never gonna get there. so if i were new and saw that gear unlocks at g12 i would freak out and think this game is pay to play only and there is no way to get anywhere.

And yet we have toons locked behind r8 and a ship gated behind r9. CG have always ramped up the gating of toons. Hell, conquest toons are effectively gated behind 4m GP. This is nothing new and I don’t see why it’s any worse than what they’ve done before.