Is there a gear imbalance/crunch, similar to the previous credit crunch?

"Neo2551;867534" wrote:
There have been a lot of discussion, it is not that we need gear or that we should get rid of gear grind, the point is there are too many bottleneck in gear, too many useless gear and the lack of sense of progression in gear farming: you basically farm the same node for months, and you never see the end.

Nobody complained about ability mats, because they made it well: each challenge gave an additional tier and increased the quantity of the previous reward. We asked for the same logic for gear.

Totally concur. I thought a nice way to change this would tone have new toons need more of that gear that we have 1000s of. Even if it's not an op toon- get some other toons in gw and cantina and make them stacked with all that gear we have just laying around. OR be able to create salvage gear through them. But I would be so afraid to look at the exchange right between them.