Solution to gear crunch:

"pchen3082;884032" wrote:
heroic raids helps, but not enough.

Fixed*

"pchen3082;884032" wrote:
Finish 1st in arena.

*fixed.

"pchen3082;884032" wrote:
heroic raids, problem solved.

Hardly, there is an extreme bottleneck on even low level gear, which should be softened as they increase the grind with new tiers, plus mk4 laptops and holo projectors are not available in heroic raids.

@pchen3082 heroic raids don't give out holo projectors or mk 4 laptops. Pay attention.

@Olddumper @pchen3082 so you're both declaring that you've got plenty of gear from raids and arena? Hmm I rank top ranks constantly and I'm still hurting for certain items. I want both of your great rng

"Jnbentzel81;884044" wrote:
@Olddumper @pchen3082 so you're both declaring that you've got plenty of gear from raids and arena? Hmm I rank top ranks constantly and I'm still hurting for certain items. I want both of your great rng

I don't think there is a gear crunch right now. I think CG has gotten to a point. Where mods gear credits and squads are all pretty balanced. Which is great, now they just need to clean everything up.

"Mvnson;884054" wrote:

"Olddumper;884051" wrote:

"Jnbentzel81;884044" wrote:
@Olddumper @pchen3082 so you're both declaring that you've got plenty of gear from raids and arena? Hmm I rank top ranks constantly and I'm still hurting for certain items. I want both of your great rng

I don't think there is a gear crunch right now. I think CG has gotten to a point. Where mods gear credits and squads are all pretty balanced. Which is great, now they just need to clean everything up.

I would LOVE to see you back up this statement with a link to your swgoh.gg profile so we can see how you solved the gear dilemma. But you won't, there will be some "excuse" why this isn't possible...

https://swgoh.gg/u/olddumper/

My profile isn't synced to my payout so those placements are from some other time zone I haven't bothered to switch. I guess it's possible to get it to pull at your payout but I haven't done that. It probably wouldn't change much either since I'm not always on at payout.

"Mvnson;884084" wrote:
So, yeah I agree with drugs. You only have 15 toons at g10-11.

Did you know there's a gear needed link?

https://swgoh.gg/u/olddumper/gear-needed/

48 mk8 biotech
32 stun guns
24 stun cuffs

That's just scratching the surface of what's needed at "current gear level" and that's just today, with toons have, there will be more.... and more....

I have 30 toons at g10-11 so you can basically double those numbers. That's a huge effing hole dude.

It's obvious that you're a very hardcore F2p player. Taking the time every single day for top payout has earned you thousands of more crystals than probably 95% of the player base and you've bought the little bit of gear you have on g10-11. Seriously, just because your comfortable playing a small portion of the game focused solely on arena doesn't make the gear situation balanced at all.

My guess is that you are the same type of person that thinks printing more money makes everybody richer.

"Mvnson;884106" wrote:
Ok Lord Keynes, please explain how increasing the amount of available toons, increasing the number of toons required to compete in GW, tourneys and raids without increasing the rate of gear acquisition is balanced?

Don't be ridiculous, you know darned well that there's a gear crunch and it's unreasonable.

I believed there used to be a credit crunch because it halted all other aspects of the game. You couldn't level toons which meant you couldn't gear toons. You couldn't upgrade mods and you couldn't star toons.

I don't think the same is true with gear. I don't think there are piles of players sitting around saying, "Man I have so many level 85 7* toons with a full set of mods with 10 plus speed secondaries and zeta's. If only they weren't all gear 6." Gear isn't that crunched that it is ruining the game. Unless you spend your guild currency, fleet currency and crystals all on gear you have other options open.