Raid rewards comparison with data

"BubbaFett;c-2420447" wrote:

"NoGodBeforeMyself;c-2420445" wrote:
this is not getting nearly enough traction. as a ~5m gp player in a ~400m gp guild - i estimate going from ~28 aeros/month to ZERO.
that's just aeros. not considering anything else. i don't need to look at anything else.
this is a huge kick in the teeth and completely unacceptable.

I'm not sure why so many folks are concerned about aeros... You can get them from Conquest as well and many of us have a stockpile of them..

Stockpiles run out though - we've seen how this works with CCBs and BWs - no one ever thought we'd be farming white and green gear again, and yet, here we all are, hammering LS 1-C.

Before this change, my guild and I did the work, put in the time, farmed the teams and eventually beat CPit specifically to get access to those Aeros. Now CG wants me to farm different teams to maintain that access. But I already leapt this hurdle - I already hit this threshold - and now, after I've made that investment to lock in those rewards, I have to do something else to keep it. And not only do I have to do something else - but I have to go back to HSTR - a raid that I thought surely we were done with after having had CPit on farm for the last year and a half - and farm that for another X months (or longer?) before we can break even on rewards in the new raid - the whole time STILL not getting those Aeros that were pretty much guaranteed just a little more than a week ago - a guarantee that was bought and paid for with lots of time, lots of gear, lots of relic mats, lots of spreadsheets, and in some cases money.

And sure, nothing is guaranteed in life - but it's not unreasonable for people to assume that doing the work to beat CPit would mean a steady stream of Aero income - that was the whole point of the raid. CPit was the gate.

So I'm currently sitting on about 700 Aeros - That's 35 R8 characters, or 17 R9s. That's ignoring gyrda and IDs which are their own brand of headache - but in the grand scheme of things that's a drop in the bucket. To put that in perspective, we've seen 16 marquee characters in the last 12 months (29 in the last 2 years) - that doesn't include Jabba, Reva, conquest and legendaries which I can't be bothered to count at the moment.

What I'm saying is the loss of Aero income is maybe more significant than it looks. Right this second - sure, NBD, especially if you've been clearing CPit for a while - but eventually, we're going to feel this pain just like we did with CCBs and BWs that no one ever thought we'd run out of.

Sorry for soap-boxing this reply Bubba - you just gave me an opening to throw some light on this for people that may not be thinking about it.