I know it's a dead horse, but I want the devs to keep hearing it. The game is moving forward with zeta abilities. New characters. Gear level 12. But we as players haven't been given additional resources to keep up with the scale of growth in the game. We still have the same horrific drop rate for gear. The same gear in challenges, where you get one useful piece to go along with thousands of useless pieces. We have the same amount of finite energy to spend on battles each day.Now with gear level 12, our already thing resources are thinned out even further in order to keep up with the game. We need to farm these random, obscure toons like Lobot to fill TB platoons, but also, here's 5 new kinds of gear that all require 50 salvage pieces to farm. There's no way to keep up and it's exhausting. Officers in our guild are burnt out and angry at getting such small payback from the game for putting in work to keep up with the games growth. Please give us a way to get gear easier or quicker. Quality of life hasn't scaled with the growth of the game. Thank you.

I feel like the only thing they've given us to help is the Guild Event store. Which does help btw, but not nearly enough. I always have all my Guild Event credits spent within 12 hours of the end of the TB. Maybe make a more consistent way to get Guild Event credits and we'd be happy.

I get that but it still doesn't help alleviate the nightmare that is purple gear. Stun guns. Stun cuffs. Carbantis. There's not enough to go around. I have the Phoenix squad, which is needed for TB, sitting there stuck behind a gear wall of carbantis and guns and cuffs. We need rare ships for platoons and zetas to keep up elsewhere, so spending ship currency on purple gear is dumb. The game is bottlenecked.

Gear grind is terrible: the best way to gear is to buy them with crystals. Most new toons need so many carbs and on the same tier. It's sad that we re in such dire straits when talking about gear 8 when gear 12 was just released. I'm not looking for handouts, I'll grind things out, I'll save arena crystals, I'll put some money into the game but all that really does is help one toon. Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.

"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1276593" wrote:Gear grind is terrible: the best way to gear is to buy them with crystals. Most new toons need so many carbs and on the same tier. It's sad that we re in such dire straits when talking about gear 8 when gear 12 was just released. I'm not looking for handouts, I'll grind things out, I'll save arena crystals, I'll put some money into the game but all that really does is help one toon. Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly. +1

Just +1. It starts to be insane. Even by managing resources, you're pressed behind this TB, which wants you to farm Hoth Rebel Soldier and Scout, Captain Han Solo, CUP and Ugnaught for the platoons.

The Gear Grind | EA Forums

cubsfanati136
8 years ago
I feel like the only thing they've given us to help is the Guild Event store. Which does help btw, but not nearly enough. I always have all my Guild Event credits spent within 12 hours of the end of the TB. Maybe make a more consistent way to get Guild Event credits and we'd be happy.
davidjcerv174
8 years ago
I get that but it still doesn't help alleviate the nightmare that is purple gear. Stun guns. Stun cuffs. Carbantis. There's not enough to go around. I have the Phoenix squad, which is needed for TB, sitting there stuck behind a gear wall of carbantis and guns and cuffs. We need rare ships for platoons and zetas to keep up elsewhere, so spending ship currency on purple gear is dumb. The game is bottlenecked.
VeeKnea
8 years ago
Gear grind is terrible: the best way to gear is to buy them with crystals.
Most new toons need so many carbs and on the same tier. It's sad that we re in such dire straits when talking about gear 8 when gear 12 was just released.
I'm not looking for handouts, I'll grind things out, I'll save arena crystals, I'll put some money into the game but all that really does is help one toon. Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.
davidjcerv174
8 years ago
"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1276593" wrote:
Gear grind is terrible: the best way to gear is to buy them with crystals.
Most new toons need so many carbs and on the same tier. It's sad that we re in such dire straits when talking about gear 8 when gear 12 was just released.
I'm not looking for handouts, I'll grind things out, I'll save arena crystals, I'll put some money into the game but all that really does is help one toon. Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.

+1
boulywif
8 years ago
Just +1.
It starts to be insane. Even by managing resources, you're pressed behind this TB, which wants you to farm Hoth Rebel Soldier and Scout, Captain Han Solo, CUP and Ugnaught for the platoons.
WHM_Manic_Cam
8 years ago
I would find the guild event store more helpful if we knew the frequency of TBs and perhaps shorter times between them. You can easily spend the guild event tokens in a few refreshes yet have to wait over a week to get more points with 6 phases at 24 hours.
BrtStlnd
8 years ago
"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1276593" wrote:
Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.

This is the biggest problem. The raids just continually drop garbage gear that no one needs. We need currency from the raids, not box after box of challenge gear.
FierceRevan
8 years ago
"LukeSkiwalker;c-1276599" wrote:
"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1276593" wrote:
Gear grind is terrible: the best way to gear is to buy them with crystals.
Most new toons need so many carbs and on the same tier. It's sad that we re in such dire straits when talking about gear 8 when gear 12 was just released.
I'm not looking for handouts, I'll grind things out, I'll save arena crystals, I'll put some money into the game but all that really does is help one toon. Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.

+1

^ Upvote
x-Niko2018-x
8 years ago
"CAM24;c-1276619" wrote:
I would find the guild event store more helpful if we knew the frequency of TBs and perhaps shorter times between them. You can easily spend the guild event tokens in a few refreshes yet have to wait over a week to get more points with 6 phases at 24 hours.

Well, their original plan is 12h but still once per week, bit too much tho if it's twice per week, should at least double or triple the TB rewards, and tbh buying g11 gears in TB shop is a waste since it's the only source for g12 gears (aside from the TB reward box) and hermit.
VeeKnea
8 years ago
"BrtStlnd;c-1276623" wrote:
"Vinny_Vader_Vedi;c-1276593" wrote:
Rancor and haat rewards in no way drop gear that we need so badly.

This is the biggest problem. The raids just continually drop garbage gear that no one needs. We need currency from the raids, not box after box of challenge gear.

Haat always drops the challenge binoculars for me. It's like they are suppose to be there.