I will say that as a primary solo player who occasionally does the odd verteran flashpoint with friends, this gearing system feels like the least rewarding systems with a VERY unpleasant grind. At this point, I'm really only playing to complete my season then maybe knock around on a few alts. Since I honestly "don't need" the higher gear, then I'll just hit max level, get my 320 gear and be done with it. Very unhappy with what they've done to gearing this "expansion."
If you're only doing solo content and vet fps, you're fine. But yes I agree the gearing system is overly complicated. But more so for people doing all content. People just doing solo don't really have anything to worry about. Just have fun and don't think about about this crypto currency madness style of gearing.
@@HiddenPalm ... but it isn't fun, MMO's work according to a carrot and stick system... but this time there is no carrot. There is no gear, there is no goal, there is no reason to play the content we've basically played for the last 10 years ... over and over ... No solo player is 'worried' about the gear, because it is completely irrelevant, but that also means there is no reason to play the game in the first place.
@@rhaycen4122 I'm confused. Maybe were miscommunicating. If youre a solo mode only player that means you haven't done any of the endgame. Or any warzones. Or any Galactic Starfighter. Or any flashpoints with the actual as intended mechanics, same for Uprisings. Or any Open world PVP. Or any of the Operations. Not even the story mode Operations. A solo content only player hasn't done any of this stuff, which to me is the majority of the game. I would be bored out of my mind too in an massive Multiplayer Online environment if I restricted myself only doing the solo content. I'm not judging you. You should play however you feel like playing. But don't tell yourself you've been doing the same thing for ten years if you haven't done the main content of an MMO. It's an MMORPG not an RPG.
I did the hardest content several times in the game, maxed my gear, got golden gear and upgraded my sets, I am so happy my sets are now worthless because they decided upgrading gear is now not viable and I am thrilled to see a lvl 80 in full green be higher gearscore than me, perfect.
@@AlexTheGamer97 GW2, ESO prove you wrong, even if you were right(which you are not) they did not need to change gearing to a stupid non upgradable system, stop making excuses for mediocre game design
I’m primarily a pve player, but I will occassionally do other content. However, I’m not liking the fact that I have to stop wearing my modifiable armor and go back to armor with stats again just to upgrade my armor rating. In my opinion it would be better to make higher mods, armorring and enhancements than it is to make players wear armor with stats already attached.
@@Swtorista well it takes away a players sense of control over their character. Before you could make your character the way you wanted and put in mods with the stat you like the most. With this update tho with all the stat caps on most content in the game and gear already having stats there most of the time is stats u don't want.. it feels like BW is forcing their idea for how characters should be down our throats. Players no longer have a sense of control of their character...
Neither the premise, the look or the execution of this gearing system attracts or entices me to give a hoot. I miss augments, i miss gear set bonuses. perhaps its the old wow mentality but it made working on your equipment more concise to the goal you wanted to achieve instead of climbing item level rankings. Edit: that said. good video.
With the exception of tank gear, you're right. It's stats are tilted to power and mastery BUT the stat balance overall, as purple 326, is superior still. The only gear worth augmenting is 326 pvp before NiM ops. Augments fix all inequities, and NiM ops drops are bis. But in truth, there's no point to gearing at all unless a person is doing warzones. All non veteran and NiM Ops content is comfortably doable in augmented conquest 326. I just have a hangup wearing greens at max level. Bothers me.
While confusing at first as a returning player, now that i have my main in 326 Purple Thyrsian gear, it's really nice to gear alts quickly. I don't really have a guild that does operations as i just returned to the game, but I've been able to get all my Master Mode Flashpoint weeklies done each week, and you can use that 326 gear on alts. I also have a set of 324 gear that i use to fish for specific pieces when I'm opening the PvP boxes.
It has to be said - GSF suffers a lot from idle leeching on my server atm - ironically as much as it suffered from the first round of Galactic Seasons. But it's true - GSF is the fastest way for especially solo players to get upgraded IR numbers. PVP gear seems to have less endurance and more mastery/power stat points than Decurion stuff
I dropped swtor since the expansion, but still enjoy your videos. Will probably be back next year when more content will be available and catch-up mechanics on gear implemented. Really disliked the ability pruning, the gear change, the almost non-existing story. I feel all new MMO's want to become grindy mobile games for retention metrics, yet all they do is push people away. Oh well, keep up the great vids. Cheers!
As someone who started playing last expansion, I just got to start playing operations, mostly everyone I was playing with were veterans and wanted to teach me because I was pretty good for a new player, 22k parse all the good fun stuff. I logged back on when the expansion released and everyone is taking a break from the game, they didn't like how grindy and micromanaged the game has become. With other games like eldin ring, escape from tarkov, swotr has become more of a paid second job. I just find it easier last patch to level multiple characters. 50-80-hour grind to get the best gear on one character is brutal especially if you have 3 or 4 alts.
Yeah but the best gear most people will get is 326 Item rating gear, so if you focus your efforts on just one character you can get your gear in just 3 weeks.
Thanks (as always) for the very clear and helpful video. Unfortunately it just confirms my hunch that I'm not going to bother upgrading any of my gear from 306... not worth the hassle anymore... I guess I'll take the easy to acquire 320 but that's it, not upgrading anything or paying attention to this crazy currency system.
grind.. grind... grind... oh did I mention Grind? This has become a step backwards... back to when we had Aim for troopers, Wisdom for Sages... Strength for Jedi... and Cunning for Smugglers... Hopefully they realize and makes some changes. It is still fun to storyline but requires too much time to stay maxed out..
conquest is it for me no friends and i never use group finder in the distant past when did try group finder i was clueless and people got mad at me so i stopped trying thanks swtorista for helping me your videos are always a real help to me
Aww, I'm sorry! Have you tried a doing content with a guild? I've found people are sooo much more understanding and if your guild does FPs or Ops the pace is typically much slower (at least with my guild). Also if people are willing to go on discord and explain the mechs that's the easiest way to learn them.
Quite frankly, they can keep the new gearing system, and they can keep the game now. I use to love SWTOR, but now it makes you do things I will never do to get it. Way to much grinding now, and as a casual player doesn't make sense to me to continue. Not going to play the same content over and over for scraps.
Don't think about gearing too much so long as you know how it works. Just have fun. Run with a guild. Your friends will eventually drag you to and walk you through more challenging content as soon as they think you're ready. Just have fun.
TDLR version of what I did (simplified): buy 320 gear once you hit level 80. Then farm the gsf weeklies every week until you get to 326 (make this faster by also upgrading the conquest gear before 326). If done on multiple characters and with smart switching of gear, time required is drastically reduced. You can also just use currencies to upgrade pieces if you can't bother to only improve the irating from boxes. Upgrading pvp gear is surprisingly easy. So at the end of the game, at least getting to 326 purple (with 330 legendary implants) is very doable for solo players (gsf is very 'light' pvp, as you still progress the weekly even if you lose the match)
I will add, for those like me, people who have had the game since the beginning playing on and off since, 7.0 was a bit confusing. I appreciate the time you put into videos, without I’d probably go mad. Simple things like class quests and figuring out where you are can be rough. I have a Sith Assassin/Sorcerer who just completed chapter 3 in the class quest. It seems that is the only character who has completed their class quests. Even the one level 80 I have hasn’t completed the class quests. My level 80 has 10 or more companions, but the Sith only had 3 companions for the longest time. So color me confused. I also don’t get some of the rotations I have found around the web, but it made it more confusing.
I havent played this game for years, shows because of how long it is taking me to update the darn game, lol. I am interested in seeing all the new changes that have occurred.
Does anyone actually think this gearing system is an improvement, people legitimately suggesting running gsf which they don't enjoy sums it up perfectly. I love swtor, but I think now might be the time to quit for a while
Agree,all years,time and effort,not to mention cartel weapons we've collected that we cant use,gearing is worst I ever seen,it sucks balls.For Real,I see no improvement,like we are forced to do stuff we dont like to have highest gear....
No. It's terrible. I cancelled my subscription after getting tired of being forced to grind the same 10 -year-old content over and over every day, for hours every day. I never got to do anything fun, I was just grinding the exact same heroics every day, and occasionally losing a few matches of GSF. Really sad to see a game I once loved so much be treated like this by its developers.
Swtorista! Thank you so much! This is gold for new player like me. Little lost how to gear up, i have a little bit now with your tutorials thank you so much❤
Do I "need" optimized mod-able gear to functionally complete the content I usually do these days? No. What I do need is a reason to keep paying for SWTOR. What does 7.0 have? New storyline; minimal. New GSF scenarios; no. New PvP; no. New crafting; no. New race; no. New class; no. Performance improvements that could make open world PvP enjoyable; no. They didn't even release the much ballyhooed new operation, the only one of the items I listed so far that I have no interest in, but still somehow; no. I didn't functionally "need" optimized mod-able gear in previous patches either, but at least it gave me something I found interesting to do. Building my gear was content for me, when delivery of everything else was lacking.
looks like youre gonna have to do content like operations. so in a way, you are doing new content for your subscription. time to leave your stronghold.
@@flashgamer1275 Looks like I didn't make my point clear. 7.0 has very little new stuff to do, including no new operations. BioWare may think it's doing most players a favor that they don't have to mod their gear, but they haven't given us much else TO DO.
@@rathchain3287 No shit, sherlock. The gear itself is the content. Sad as that is. Get on PTS and test R-4 Anomaly if you have done every piece of content already. There is a vendor with BiS 330s that cost 1 credit each. The point of locking the gear behind operations is because 99% of people have never done that content before, even though there is no new content. It's literally the only thing "new" to the people who sit AFK on fleet all day arguing about politics and GTN inflation.
well i got maxed 326 pvp gear took only 78 to 79 hours in 3 weeks and half but without modding it doesnt feel fun plus the ability nerf suck hard for some classes i miss 6,0 when it was rewards for all vs now rewards for ops players .
Hehe yeah. I think some classes got hit harder than others in terms of ability pruning. My main is a sage, so things didn't change too much. But my sentinel had to make tough choices lol. 😅
@@anteprs7908 I think we're all a bit sceptical change, whether good/bad/ or neutral. I agree the new gearing system is a bit silly (why don't SM or Vet mode ops give better gear?), but I don't think it was as bad as it seemed like it could have been. Perhaps the ability prune will allow for cool new abilities in the future, too!
Thanks for the video! I was waiting for it before I even touched the new gearing system, and my head is still spinning lol. Unfortunately, they really over complicated this, not to mention the transition from min/maxed lvl 75 to lvl 76 is awful. Also don't like renown being gone.
Cheers! I wish I could have gotten it out sooner but after I finished recording and I had 30+ minutes of audio I felt a lot less bad lol! I miss renown too.
I've only been playing two months now. This is so damn helpful. Just got to legacy of the sith. Thanks for this. I was just able to get my first legendary implant because of your guide
10 days in the new gearing system and I still dont get this system. There is no point of complicating it that much. Adding the dissappointing ui in the equation it feels as if they fired all the ux designing team. The game is still good since I havent even played the 10% of its stories but I wont even bother with gearing until they change it.
They need to make some adjustments to the currency acquisition process or just reduce the cost. I never seem to have enough ARM. I do every daily/weekly/heroic multiple times, and I never seem to have enough of them to buy upgrades. I am currently running conquest on a half dozen alts and only gearing one or two characters at a time, and it's taking FOR FREAKING EVER! They need to either reduce the ARM cost per item or provide more viable ways to obtain mass quantities of them.
@@GreenFalcon926 I know. I think the most frustrating part for me is that other currencies are overflowing and going to waste, while I try to grind out more ARMs. I guess if they want the grind to take longer, then at least give us alternatives for spending excess Medals of Commendation.
How is this gearing system better than mods? It's overly confusing to the point of players needing pictures and videos to explain the baffling thing to others. That's convoluted and completely unnecessary and yet for some reason, it's being called a good thing (by some people, not Swotorista).
I can do all past content with the 320 gear you basically obtain on day 1 after you hit level 80. Since to get to 80 you do what little current content there is, with mostly 306 gear on, there is absolutely no _need_ to get anything beyond that 320 gear as a mostly solo player. So except for getting to level 100 for season 2, I'll unsubscribe one I hit 100 and I'll come back in 2 years orso when maybe there is enough new content to keep me entertained for more than 2 hours.
How does someone who does only solo content even know about SWTORista? Anyhow, you are missing out on some really cool and fun mechanics in Veteran Operations and Master mode flashpoints. I feel like those modes are the actual way that content was made to be played as intended. And Galactic Starfighter is extremely fun. It takes about a week or two of dedicated GSF playing to get the hang of it. And if you play Warzones as an objective hunter really increases your chances of winning. And the experience and feeling you get from out thinking players in it is just as exciting as winning a really challenging Chess match. Just have fun challenging yourself, reading class guides, studying your ability tree and coming up with creative ways to use the set bonuses from your Legendary Implants. You'll find the gear upgrades come naturally without even worrying about it. Don't rush or focus on hear upgrades. Just have fun, but challenge your self. Every week try to learn something new.
This gearing system is incredibly grindy and unrewarding not to mention complicated. I'm sure casual players have hours to spend on plotting out and figuring out ways to get cool stuff. And the fact that good gear isn't necessary doesn't mean anything - what is the point of playing? There is no new content at all, only new gear or rather new ways of getting new gear. Everything being normalised only means that you need to grind match your performance before 7.0. The only reason I play at all is the galactic season and that's just sad.
I have 8 alts all in the best gear pre 7.0 but since going through the ridiculously bad so called "expansion" I have only had the patience to bother to gear up one to any decent level and since then I have not bothered to log in for almost 2 weeks now. The gearing system is terrible, the UI horrific. I don't think this game is worth my subscription money anymore and I say this as someone who has been playing for the last 10 years. It's tragic but if this is the level of effort BW puts in these days then it might be time to hang up my sabers, at least for a while in the hope they fix things but I don't hold out much hope.
As a newer player that can't make time for group content but still loves SW I'm sad lol.... Ty for the your knowledge..... Green Solo gear isn't worth my time in playing. Off to another game I guess
Thanks for the guide as usual! I find it kind of weird that the GSF track allows you to get 326 purple gear and was/is that intentional? I'm guessing they really want more people actually playing GSF so offering this 'free' (like you said you don't even need wins) way to get some nice high end gear.
thanks for explaining. also, ever feel useless, there are 320 rated Master OP gear, yeah....expecting people to do MM OP in 320...lol. also, why the hell story operation gear tops at 322, which is considerably worse than Veteran FP, while story OP is much harder
I believe the reason they have 320 master op gear, is incase someone goes in there with shit gear, maybe being carried or something, there is upgrades for them in there, instead of going directly to 330 or something.
Great vid !! Still not too sure what to make of this gearing system. I am too used to customising with armouring, mods, enhancements...etc. Currently, I am unable to use my long time staff hilt, The Shadowsaber. Acquired it soon after launch and had been using it ALL ten years till now, where it silently sits in my storage...waiting.
lol! welcome to 80. if you are serious about gearing there's been some nice developments here swtorista.com/articles/level-80-solo-gearing-in-swtor-7-1/ since this vid.
@@Swtorista oh yeah I watched this video too. What's the big difference between using this technique to buy mods versus upgrading conquest/flashpoint gear? Is it purely to sage time of are there other benefits?
They should have exactly 2 Modes, pvp and pve. And you should be able to play pvp with pve gear and there shoul be rewards you need from both modes to maximize gear.
Not to mention they also many times nerf classes but they do it based off of one game mode whether it be PVP or PVE however that nerf Still effects all aspects of the game. They need to separate PVE and PVP completely.
I got my 326 doing alot of GsF but please if you do that, don't just go afk or Purposely give the other team a win just cuz you're there for your gear. It's really annoying.
Yes please play! The game has some mechanics that prevent you form totally AFKing, but please just actually play. you don't have to play well, just try lol.
@@Swtorista i just wish i didn't have to deal with the try hards bashing me for not being up to their level. certainly doesn't make me want to try very hard if my efforts just get me a stress headache.
welp since i avoid doing operations that's option is out lol. tho i should consider getting better gear and upgrading for my characters but i'm kinda happy with the current gear i got right now lol
Holy grind, Batman! Thank you for reminding me why I quit this game in the first place....twice. As someone who had played this game as a founder, the grind back then was tedious. Now it just looks mind-numbing and soul-crushing. At least the gear way back in the day looked a lot nicer. It's just bland now and unimaginative. This game now has a worse grind than WoW....and that's saying something. You video is very informative and well done.
Honestly the WoW comment isnt saying shit, WoW has been hyper casual mediocre grind for like a year or two now lmao... you can easily snag over 12 level capped characters and gear them decently in less than 2 months...you level 3-5 times an hour ffs lmfao... and thats later on when your 40-50/60...
Can you create a video about how bad things are for the community with 7.0 right now people are not happy and it's not all bells and whistles might be good to show how upset people are.
@@MsaneGaming well they did not replace it with anything, so what's the point of removing it? It was better to have it then not have anything different at all.
As a casual and occasional player, this new gear progression system is really turning me off. The gear progression of Onslaught was much better in my opinion and very friendly to new players.
So i played this a couple years ago, do i have to pay for anything if i want to play? i once logged in after 2 years or so and was the only person on the entire server. But as it seems they make the same mistakes they made back then and primarily what made me quit was the split into pve and pvp gear which completely destroyed the game in my opinion, you had to commit to either pvp or pve because qeue times of doom. The sad thing was that the game was actually fun
Its true SWTORista has the number one voice of them all. And I follow all of them. The funny thing is, SWTORista knows this all too well. Nothing like increasing ones gaming wisdom under the guidance of a confident woman with a guideful voice.
New system is great. Horizontal progression of the previous patches was unrewarding and too easy. This is one of the only reasons I'm returning. Thank you for this info. 💖
Thanks. All helpful info. Is there a qualifier on effort vs reward in the solo track? How much more effective is each level of gear? Hmm, I don't even know how you'd choose the qualifier? Time taken to take down a mob of 4 silver elite? Well, if there is a way, I know you can do it. Is the result of the grind gong to be noticeable to a solo player, is my real question. My impression is that a lot of solo players are not grinders. Also, what about the treasurehunting mission boxes. Do they still drop level-appropriate gear? That might be a source of currency when/if you crunch it. Update on my main. I found out about the implant quest and level 320 gear this week. Sad, I know. Just happened to skip that video of yours somehow. I used less than 10% of my fleet commendations to upgrade everything to 320. This has made a small change to the game, for me. Also, n00b question, what do I do with the gold coloured gear that drops randomly. Like Level 8 gear. Just crunch it? If you chuck all the mods and augments, is it better than 320 green? The new Conquest system is working OK. I've made some credits on the AH selling components used to gain weekly's, so that's fun. Thanks and cheers.
@@Swtorista Thank you. I have 2 I support on Patreon and you are one because your content is so spot on. I sure wish you could make high level gear. Even if it was a mighty quest and grind, that would be cool. Something for the solo players. Maybe a new colour too. Like orange maybe?!>
Thank you for explaining how different tiers of gearing work. Can you clarify something for me to make sure I understand it correctly? Let's say I choose to grind only 1 tier of gear to its max, let's say by grinding VM Flashpoints to get its max gear possible "Green Elite Decurion of IR 324." Then, I switch from playing VM Flashpoints to VM Operations so does it mean next piece of gear dropped from VM Ops will be "Blue Columi IR 324?"Basically equivalent item rating of what I already had equipped. So then if I continue grinding VM Ops, I will progress from "Columi 324 > Columi 326" (max gear possible at VM Ops tier), right? And finally with that VM Ops gear, go into MM Ops, where next item dropped will be "Rakata 324 Purple gear", which I can grind from IR 324 > all the way to IR 330. Do I understand that progression correctly?
Could you please assist by answering these questions for me. The answers may well also assist others. I understand that certain caches we receive are guaranteed to drop a piece of gear that is at least equal to that currently equipped. However, if I for example have a character that has level 326 Deception gear equipped, and select my loot Discipline as Hatred which is currently 320 should those caches drop a piece of 320 or 326 gear? Similarly if I had a character that has 326 gear in one class, for example Assassin, and select my loot discipline as one of the options for another class such as one of the Sorcerer styles which is currently 320, should I receive either 320 or 326 gear? Many thanks
Luckily, I enjoy PVP haha and turning on some rocking toons and blasting through the dailies I have them all ranked for completion by a stealther, and just do the 4s and 5s, super, super fast.
Sort of. It seems at least the very basic gear might not be as good as top tier from last expansion. I don't know beyond that though, I haven't number crunched.
@@Swtorista Ah alright. I'm not sure either, mainly because I haven't kept up to date with my gear. I've only used the level 75 shop, and the um vendor that gives random higher mods.
Presumably 320 will have higher stat values than 306.. but since we lost mods, you can't put points where they are needed so 306 may very well be better if correctly tailored relative to 320 with set stats you can't adjust. Then there's the level sync mess which nerfs the crap out of all of our stats completely removing incentive to gear up for most content. On top of that, the level sync doesn't even scale in any predictable manner so you'd have to adjust your stats for every planet to get the percentages where they should be again. Besides that, I think some people misunderstood one of the Dev blog posts that said 316=306 or something along those lines, but I'm pretty sure they meant adjusted for the new level 80 and rebalanced gear, not that 316 was literally the same as 306, but rather 316 on a level 80 was = 306 on a level 75 (when 75 was still max level).
@@saintless So basically players think it doesn't matter if using 306, since mods can be set on old gear. Cause it might be better then 320? I should test that out, and see if that is true. I don't really use armor drops unless I can mod them, so I'm not even sure I'll use 320 yet until tested first. Mainly I just want to see if this is true.
@@o0Sazie0o just guessing, but yeah. Saw some other comments on reddit today regarding pvp matches specifically where 306 is working better than level 80 gear due to how bolster is working so it may be reference to that as well.. haven't investigated.
As someone who plays solo 99% of the time, and has been subbed since launch.... This is the absolute most TRASH gearing system they've done to date. In 6.x I managed to get 6 characters in full 306 augmented set piece gear, and a lot alts at least at a 300ir. And I did it all playing content I enjoyed when I wanted. Now, since 7.0 I've not logged on in almost 3 weeks as this new grind isn't worth it for a bunch of static gear. I'm legit considering cancelling my sub at this point.
I'm curious what percentage of current players actually even do Vet/Master ops these days. And I mean the full ops, not just hammer spamming the first boss for the loot.
For most players the hard part isn't the op itself but all the hurdles it takes to even get into one... first you have to be a subscriber, then you have to find a bunch of players that you cannot really find through matchmaking and then there's also a chance those players will kick you for being undergeared... so it's like what's the point? Honestly I've never understood why raids are even still a thing in gaming barely anyone plays them.
I'm baffled why they changed the gear system. It was perfect before. This new version is grindy, too complex, confusing, and unrewarding. I was planning to come back to the game with the new expansion, but I think I'll skip it.
Oh I also have a question: are the stats the same as long as the color of the gear is the same? For example, a blue FP 326 gear would have the same exact stats as a blue OP 326 gear?
I think the new gearing system is a way to get people to do PVP, Operations, Fladpoints, and Heriocs more. I think the new currency is completely useless. Plus, I noticed a lot bugs in the new expansion. The old system is still better.
I’m a preferred player, and I bought something off the cartel market and tried to give it to my friend, but it said that the item is bound. Looked it up on RUclips and found nothing on it, how do I fix this?
Bound items like a box can still hold items that are on a purchase timer, once the time expires they're free to be traded or sold. it's a precaution to not flood the in-game economy i suppose. just open whatever is in the box, leave it on your character bank or inventory for a day to two days and it will be yours to give away. and yes, its obnoxious design.
@@Noxims47314 yeah because I didn’t know what it meant when it said this item will be bounded to you permanently so I was like whatever then I put it on and now I can’t trade it
@@Noxims47314 I even tried to get a copy of it from cartel market but it said it was bonded still and there’s no timer for it being bound so now I think it’s permanent
Does pvp gear in this game have the same secondary attribute types as pve gear? Or does it roll with some kind of weird pvp only stat like some other games?
what nightmare the gearing system has become, and having too regear your character totally again because of the second playstyle you choose is for me the biggest reason to stop playing
6.0 - Equip whatever has higher item rating, in other words, equip whatever has an up arrow. 7.0 - Get a masters degree, watch 1 hour guides, read 3 books to understand how it works. Yea Bioware, you failed.
Swtorista: You can see how far up your conquest level is out of the 100,000 a week by going here. Me: *Checks.* 635,000 of 100,000. Well okay then. I guess I've done waaaaay too much this week. :P If only all that rolled over and applied the following week, I could take 6 weeks off and not do anything.
I will say that as a primary solo player who occasionally does the odd verteran flashpoint with friends, this gearing system feels like the least rewarding systems with a VERY unpleasant grind. At this point, I'm really only playing to complete my season then maybe knock around on a few alts. Since I honestly "don't need" the higher gear, then I'll just hit max level, get my 320 gear and be done with it. Very unhappy with what they've done to gearing this "expansion."
not to mention the gear vanishes if you open the crates.
If you're only doing solo content and vet fps, you're fine.
But yes I agree the gearing system is overly complicated. But more so for people doing all content. People just doing solo don't really have anything to worry about. Just have fun and don't think about about this crypto currency madness style of gearing.
@@HiddenPalm ... but it isn't fun, MMO's work according to a carrot and stick system... but this time there is no carrot. There is no gear, there is no goal, there is no reason to play the content we've basically played for the last 10 years ... over and over ...
No solo player is 'worried' about the gear, because it is completely irrelevant, but that also means there is no reason to play the game in the first place.
AMEN
@@rhaycen4122 I'm confused. Maybe were miscommunicating.
If youre a solo mode only player that means you haven't done any of the endgame. Or any warzones. Or any Galactic Starfighter. Or any flashpoints with the actual as intended mechanics, same for Uprisings. Or any Open world PVP. Or any of the Operations. Not even the story mode Operations.
A solo content only player hasn't done any of this stuff, which to me is the majority of the game. I would be bored out of my mind too in an massive Multiplayer Online environment if I restricted myself only doing the solo content.
I'm not judging you. You should play however you feel like playing. But don't tell yourself you've been doing the same thing for ten years if you haven't done the main content of an MMO. It's an MMORPG not an RPG.
I cheered at 4:25 when the spaghetti graphic made its wonderful official debut. Thank you for making it :)
SPGHHETTIEITELUYOLYLOO!
I did the hardest content several times in the game, maxed my gear, got golden gear and upgraded my sets, I am so happy my sets are now worthless because they decided upgrading gear is now not viable and I am thrilled to see a lvl 80 in full green be higher gearscore than me, perfect.
It’s an MMO, you should expect your gear to be worse as new expansions drop. It’s how they get people to play new content
@@AlexTheGamer97 GW2, ESO prove you wrong, even if you were right(which you are not) they did not need to change gearing to a stupid non upgradable system, stop making excuses for mediocre game design
I’m primarily a pve player, but I will occassionally do other content. However, I’m not liking the fact that I have to stop wearing my modifiable armor and go back to armor with stats again just to upgrade my armor rating. In my opinion it would be better to make higher mods, armorring and enhancements than it is to make players wear armor with stats already attached.
I think a lot of players are not fans of the switch to non-moddable gear, even though technically it should make life simpler.
@@Swtorista well it takes away a players sense of control over their character. Before you could make your character the way you wanted and put in mods with the stat you like the most. With this update tho with all the stat caps on most content in the game and gear already having stats there most of the time is stats u don't want.. it feels like BW is forcing their idea for how characters should be down our throats. Players no longer have a sense of control of their character...
CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - What’s the Best Gear? Item-Rating and Color Quality
4:36 - Legendary Implants
4:59 - Conquest (Solo)
8:08 - Gearing Up Alts (Solo)
9:02 - Deconstructing Gear
10:19 - Flashpoints
11:13 - Veteran Flashpoints
13:15 - Master Mode Flashpoints
15:03 - Operations
15:22 - Story Mode Operations
17:36 - Veteran Mode Operations
19:52 - Master Mode Operations
21:50 - PvP & GSF
25:28 - Augments
25:39 - Min-Maxing
26:56 - outro
Thank you so much Zahk!
Neither the premise, the look or the execution of this gearing system attracts or entices me to give a hoot.
I miss augments, i miss gear set bonuses. perhaps its the old wow mentality but it made working on your equipment more concise to the goal you wanted to achieve instead of climbing item level rankings.
Edit: that said. good video.
With the exception of tank gear, you're right. It's stats are tilted to power and mastery BUT the stat balance overall, as purple 326, is superior still. The only gear worth augmenting is 326 pvp before NiM ops. Augments fix all inequities, and NiM ops drops are bis.
But in truth, there's no point to gearing at all unless a person is doing warzones. All non veteran and NiM Ops content is comfortably doable in augmented conquest 326.
I just have a hangup wearing greens at max level. Bothers me.
While confusing at first as a returning player, now that i have my main in 326 Purple Thyrsian gear, it's really nice to gear alts quickly. I don't really have a guild that does operations as i just returned to the game, but I've been able to get all my Master Mode Flashpoint weeklies done each week, and you can use that 326 gear on alts. I also have a set of 324 gear that i use to fish for specific pieces when I'm opening the PvP boxes.
Yes! Gearing alts seems pretty friendly. Loadouts helps too!
It has to be said - GSF suffers a lot from idle leeching on my server atm - ironically as much as it suffered from the first round of Galactic Seasons.
But it's true - GSF is the fastest way for especially solo players to get upgraded IR numbers. PVP gear seems to have less endurance and more mastery/power stat points than Decurion stuff
I dropped swtor since the expansion, but still enjoy your videos. Will probably be back next year when more content will be available and catch-up mechanics on gear implemented. Really disliked the ability pruning, the gear change, the almost non-existing story. I feel all new MMO's want to become grindy mobile games for retention metrics, yet all they do is push people away. Oh well, keep up the great vids. Cheers!
there wont be much content. the game goes into maintanence mode since biowere gave the game away
As someone who started playing last expansion, I just got to start playing operations, mostly everyone I was playing with were veterans and wanted to teach me because I was pretty good for a new player, 22k parse all the good fun stuff. I logged back on when the expansion released and everyone is taking a break from the game, they didn't like how grindy and micromanaged the game has become. With other games like eldin ring, escape from tarkov, swotr has become more of a paid second job. I just find it easier last patch to level multiple characters. 50-80-hour grind to get the best gear on one character is brutal especially if you have 3 or 4 alts.
Yeah but the best gear most people will get is 326 Item rating gear, so if you focus your efforts on just one character you can get your gear in just 3 weeks.
@@Zivuzx less than that. Im at 65 hours in the last 2 weeks and i have 2 characters in 326 and one almost done
@@sorenhygh3975 good job then, all of my characters are 326 now.
@@Zivuzx multiple characters from the same "role" (heals, damage, tank) are not a problem, once you have one done
@@RSProduxx yeah exactly when you get to 326 item rating you can either move your gear between your characters or just get 326 drops from bosses.
Thanks (as always) for the very clear and helpful video. Unfortunately it just confirms my hunch that I'm not going to bother upgrading any of my gear from 306... not worth the hassle anymore... I guess I'll take the easy to acquire 320 but that's it, not upgrading anything or paying attention to this crazy currency system.
grind.. grind... grind... oh did I mention Grind? This has become a step backwards... back to when we had Aim for troopers, Wisdom for Sages... Strength for Jedi... and Cunning for Smugglers... Hopefully they realize and makes some changes. It is still fun to storyline but requires too much time to stay maxed out..
Was really looking forward to this video! Thanks so much for the breakdown!
cheers! i was looking forward to getting it out
conquest is it for me no friends and i never use group finder in the distant past when did try group finder i was clueless and people got mad at me so i stopped trying thanks swtorista for helping me your videos are always a real help to me
Aww, I'm sorry! Have you tried a doing content with a guild? I've found people are sooo much more understanding and if your guild does FPs or Ops the pace is typically much slower (at least with my guild). Also if people are willing to go on discord and explain the mechs that's the easiest way to learn them.
Quite frankly, they can keep the new gearing system, and they can keep the game now. I use to love SWTOR, but now it makes you do things I will never do to get it. Way to much grinding now, and as a casual player doesn't make sense to me to continue. Not going to play the same content over and over for scraps.
Grinding happens every time there is a level cap increase. It doesn't seem to me to be more or less than previous.
@@joonswhatever7262 it worst since 6,0 gear was simple and ez progress
@@anteprs7908 They made it easier later on in 6.0. At release it was hard just like now.
Don't think about gearing too much so long as you know how it works. Just have fun. Run with a guild. Your friends will eventually drag you to and walk you through more challenging content as soon as they think you're ready. Just have fun.
@@HiddenPalm most of us are solo players hahahahaha i run a one man guild .And 6.0 was a bit hard but overall it rewarded all .
TDLR version of what I did (simplified): buy 320 gear once you hit level 80. Then farm the gsf weeklies every week until you get to 326 (make this faster by also upgrading the conquest gear before 326). If done on multiple characters and with smart switching of gear, time required is drastically reduced. You can also just use currencies to upgrade pieces if you can't bother to only improve the irating from boxes. Upgrading pvp gear is surprisingly easy.
So at the end of the game, at least getting to 326 purple (with 330 legendary implants) is very doable for solo players (gsf is very 'light' pvp, as you still progress the weekly even if you lose the match)
I will add, for those like me, people who have had the game since the beginning playing on and off since, 7.0 was a bit confusing. I appreciate the time you put into videos, without I’d probably go mad. Simple things like class quests and figuring out where you are can be rough. I have a Sith Assassin/Sorcerer who just completed chapter 3 in the class quest. It seems that is the only character who has completed their class quests. Even the one level 80 I have hasn’t completed the class quests.
My level 80 has 10 or more companions, but the Sith only had 3 companions for the longest time. So color me confused.
I also don’t get some of the rotations I have found around the web, but it made it more confusing.
Thanks for the video. Now I understand how I was able to get a purple ear piece up to 330 when I haven't done any master ops.
Yes! It's such an odd one
Yahoo a video that explains it where I understand what to do!!! Thank you so much!!! Much love and respect,may the force serve you well.
My goodness, you have made the most convoluted subject understandable. Great work and thank you for all that you do for the community.
Cheers! Heads up the currency names changed this week, but it all still works the same.
I havent played this game for years, shows because of how long it is taking me to update the darn game, lol. I am interested in seeing all the new changes that have occurred.
have fun!
If you download through Steam, it will auto update in the background. Pretty convenient.
Does anyone actually think this gearing system is an improvement, people legitimately suggesting running gsf which they don't enjoy sums it up perfectly.
I love swtor, but I think now might be the time to quit for a while
Agree,all years,time and effort,not to mention cartel weapons we've collected that we cant use,gearing is worst I ever seen,it sucks balls.For Real,I see no improvement,like we are forced to do stuff we dont like to have highest gear....
they wanted to "motivate" people to play content they normally don´t enjoy ... I doubt that really works... I know for me it doesn´t...
Literally no one thinks it is..
Gearing and the skill "progression tree".. are literally the worst
No. It's terrible. I cancelled my subscription after getting tired of being forced to grind the same 10 -year-old content over and over every day, for hours every day. I never got to do anything fun, I was just grinding the exact same heroics every day, and occasionally losing a few matches of GSF. Really sad to see a game I once loved so much be treated like this by its developers.
I have been waiting so hard for this video. Tysm!
cheers me too!
Thank you for the video guide, as someone who casually comes back to the game every few weeks this is really vexing. Changed so much
Omggg thank youuu! Just when I was looking for a comperhensive guide on how to gear at level 80 you have come to my rescue:)
Swtorista! Thank you so much! This is gold for new player like me. Little lost how to gear up, i have a little bit now with your tutorials thank you so much❤
Do I "need" optimized mod-able gear to functionally complete the content I usually do these days? No.
What I do need is a reason to keep paying for SWTOR. What does 7.0 have? New storyline; minimal. New GSF scenarios; no. New PvP; no. New crafting; no. New race; no. New class; no. Performance improvements that could make open world PvP enjoyable; no. They didn't even release the much ballyhooed new operation, the only one of the items I listed so far that I have no interest in, but still somehow; no.
I didn't functionally "need" optimized mod-able gear in previous patches either, but at least it gave me something I found interesting to do. Building my gear was content for me, when delivery of everything else was lacking.
Exactly!
looks like youre gonna have to do content like operations. so in a way, you are doing new content for your subscription. time to leave your stronghold.
@@flashgamer1275 nobody want to do ops
@@flashgamer1275 Looks like I didn't make my point clear. 7.0 has very little new stuff to do, including no new operations. BioWare may think it's doing most players a favor that they don't have to mod their gear, but they haven't given us much else TO DO.
@@rathchain3287 No shit, sherlock. The gear itself is the content. Sad as that is. Get on PTS and test R-4 Anomaly if you have done every piece of content already. There is a vendor with BiS 330s that cost 1 credit each. The point of locking the gear behind operations is because 99% of people have never done that content before, even though there is no new content. It's literally the only thing "new" to the people who sit AFK on fleet all day arguing about politics and GTN inflation.
well i got maxed 326 pvp gear took only 78 to 79 hours in 3 weeks and half but without modding it doesnt feel fun plus the ability nerf suck hard for some classes i miss 6,0 when it was rewards for all vs now rewards for ops players .
Hehe yeah. I think some classes got hit harder than others in terms of ability pruning. My main is a sage, so things didn't change too much. But my sentinel had to make tough choices lol. 😅
@@advena996 choices that wherent needed
@@anteprs7908 I think we're all a bit sceptical change, whether good/bad/ or neutral. I agree the new gearing system is a bit silly (why don't SM or Vet mode ops give better gear?), but I don't think it was as bad as it seemed like it could have been. Perhaps the ability prune will allow for cool new abilities in the future, too!
@@advena996 well the issue is they made classes bad sentinel was never top dps at least combat spec but it was always good in defence and desent stuns
@@anteprs7908 that's a good point. Hopefully they'll do some balancing as the expansion continues.
GREAT explanation video ty so much.
The gear grind in this game got me like 😵💫
Thanks for the video! I was waiting for it before I even touched the new gearing system, and my head is still spinning lol. Unfortunately, they really over complicated this, not to mention the transition from min/maxed lvl 75 to lvl 76 is awful. Also don't like renown being gone.
Cheers! I wish I could have gotten it out sooner but after I finished recording and I had 30+ minutes of audio I felt a lot less bad lol! I miss renown too.
I've only been playing two months now. This is so damn helpful. Just got to legacy of the sith. Thanks for this. I was just able to get my first legendary implant because of your guide
cheers welcome to endgame!
10 days in the new gearing system and I still dont get this system. There is no point of complicating it that much. Adding the dissappointing ui in the equation it feels as if they fired all the ux designing team. The game is still good since I havent even played the 10% of its stories but I wont even bother with gearing until they change it.
gearing is only important once you reach max level and start doing veteran+ stuff. you have time :P
They need to make some adjustments to the currency acquisition process or just reduce the cost.
I never seem to have enough ARM.
I do every daily/weekly/heroic multiple times, and I never seem to have enough of them to buy upgrades. I am currently running conquest on a half dozen alts and only gearing one or two characters at a time, and it's taking FOR FREAKING EVER!
They need to either reduce the ARM cost per item or provide more viable ways to obtain mass quantities of them.
I doubt they will. They want you to keep coming back to grind for gear. Frustrating I know.
@@GreenFalcon926 I know. I think the most frustrating part for me is that other currencies are overflowing and going to waste, while I try to grind out more ARMs.
I guess if they want the grind to take longer, then at least give us alternatives for spending excess Medals of Commendation.
Thanks a lot for your videos. It has helped me a lot !!
Good info, easy to listen to voice, thumbs up.
cheers! Heads up since this video, they changed the names of the currencies - they will have the same icon tho!
Subbed. Great explanation.
cheers!
How is this gearing system better than mods? It's overly confusing to the point of players needing pictures and videos to explain the baffling thing to others. That's convoluted and completely unnecessary and yet for some reason, it's being called a good thing (by some people, not Swotorista).
I dont understand how they went from a system that has only what... 1 or 2 currencies to.... 6? 7? Idk I lost count
I can do all past content with the 320 gear you basically obtain on day 1 after you hit level 80. Since to get to 80 you do what little current content there is, with mostly 306 gear on, there is absolutely no _need_ to get anything beyond that 320 gear as a mostly solo player. So except for getting to level 100 for season 2, I'll unsubscribe one I hit 100 and I'll come back in 2 years orso when maybe there is enough new content to keep me entertained for more than 2 hours.
Yep! No "MUST" gear up for more players.
How does someone who does only solo content even know about SWTORista?
Anyhow, you are missing out on some really cool and fun mechanics in Veteran Operations and Master mode flashpoints. I feel like those modes are the actual way that content was made to be played as intended. And Galactic Starfighter is extremely fun. It takes about a week or two of dedicated GSF playing to get the hang of it. And if you play Warzones as an objective hunter really increases your chances of winning. And the experience and feeling you get from out thinking players in it is just as exciting as winning a really challenging Chess match.
Just have fun challenging yourself, reading class guides, studying your ability tree and coming up with creative ways to use the set bonuses from your Legendary Implants. You'll find the gear upgrades come naturally without even worrying about it. Don't rush or focus on hear upgrades. Just have fun, but challenge your self. Every week try to learn something new.
@@HiddenPalm Just let them play the way they want my guy.
@@HiddenPalm SWTORista is Legendary!
@@username1660 That's what I'm saying, my guy. Just have fun.
This gearing system is incredibly grindy and unrewarding not to mention complicated. I'm sure casual players have hours to spend on plotting out and figuring out ways to get cool stuff. And the fact that good gear isn't necessary doesn't mean anything - what is the point of playing? There is no new content at all, only new gear or rather new ways of getting new gear. Everything being normalised only means that you need to grind match your performance before 7.0. The only reason I play at all is the galactic season and that's just sad.
I have 8 alts all in the best gear pre 7.0 but since going through the ridiculously bad so called "expansion" I have only had the patience to bother to gear up one to any decent level and since then I have not bothered to log in for almost 2 weeks now. The gearing system is terrible, the UI horrific. I don't think this game is worth my subscription money anymore and I say this as someone who has been playing for the last 10 years.
It's tragic but if this is the level of effort BW puts in these days then it might be time to hang up my sabers, at least for a while in the hope they fix things but I don't hold out much hope.
completely agree
I regreat for resubbing....
Yup. I've been playing since the official launch of the game and I'll be cancelling my subscription and taking a long, possibly indefinite, break.
As a newer player that can't make time for group content but still loves SW I'm sad lol.... Ty for the your knowledge..... Green Solo gear isn't worth my time in playing. Off to another game I guess
you can run somw fp in master mode solo
You do get thyrsian catalysts from playing. It's like 1 or 3 based on whether or not you win.
Thanks for the guide as usual! I find it kind of weird that the GSF track allows you to get 326 purple gear and was/is that intentional? I'm guessing they really want more people actually playing GSF so offering this 'free' (like you said you don't even need wins) way to get some nice high end gear.
I think it was intentional to be able to gear up thru pvp but I don't know if it was a goal to have everyone funnel into GSF lol!
big fan of your work
cheers!!
@@Swtorista way to go !
Thanks alot! This really helped! :)
thanks for explaining. also, ever feel useless, there are 320 rated Master OP gear, yeah....expecting people to do MM OP in 320...lol. also, why the hell story operation gear tops at 322, which is considerably worse than Veteran FP, while story OP is much harder
I believe the reason they have 320 master op gear, is incase someone goes in there with shit gear, maybe being carried or something, there is upgrades for them in there, instead of going directly to 330 or something.
Great vid !! Still not too sure what to make of this gearing system. I am too used to customising with armouring, mods, enhancements...etc. Currently, I am unable to use my long time staff hilt, The Shadowsaber. Acquired it soon after launch and had been using it ALL ten years till now, where it silently sits in my storage...waiting.
The algorithm is watching me. I just hit lvl 80 on my first character and I get suggested this video
lol! welcome to 80. if you are serious about gearing there's been some nice developments here swtorista.com/articles/level-80-solo-gearing-in-swtor-7-1/ since this vid.
@@Swtorista oh yeah I watched this video too. What's the big difference between using this technique to buy mods versus upgrading conquest/flashpoint gear? Is it purely to sage time of are there other benefits?
I hate the fact that this 30 min video has to be made. Gearing in an mmo has no business being so convoluted.
Way better than the Ossus grind.
How does Gearing work? It doesn't. Haha
They should have exactly 2 Modes, pvp and pve. And you should be able to play pvp with pve gear and there shoul be rewards you need from both modes to maximize gear.
Not to mention they also many times nerf classes but they do it based off of one game mode whether it be PVP or PVE however that nerf Still effects all aspects of the game. They need to separate PVE and PVP completely.
this gearing system is ****ing awful lmao
thank you for all the work you do, i'd be lost in the sauce otherwise
I actually wanted to return to SWTOR until I saw the changes to the gearing system
Thanks for the guide!
I got my 326 doing alot of GsF but please if you do that, don't just go afk or Purposely give the other team a win just cuz you're there for your gear. It's really annoying.
Yes please play!
The game has some mechanics that prevent you form totally AFKing, but please just actually play. you don't have to play well, just try lol.
@@Swtorista i just wish i didn't have to deal with the try hards bashing me for not being up to their level. certainly doesn't make me want to try very hard if my efforts just get me a stress headache.
Do you have a video on skills for the new update? I am coming back to the game and need a refresher.
not yet! I am keeping my eyes on merlynswtor.com
welp since i avoid doing operations that's option is out lol. tho i should consider getting better gear and upgrading for my characters but i'm kinda happy with the current gear i got right now lol
I'm gonna update this game, i miss it too much. Been 2 years since I've played
Holy grind, Batman!
Thank you for reminding me why I quit this game in the first place....twice. As someone who had played this game as a founder, the grind back then was tedious. Now it just looks mind-numbing and soul-crushing. At least the gear way back in the day looked a lot nicer. It's just bland now and unimaginative. This game now has a worse grind than WoW....and that's saying something.
You video is very informative and well done.
Honestly the WoW comment isnt saying shit, WoW has been hyper casual mediocre grind for like a year or two now lmao... you can easily snag over 12 level capped characters and gear them decently in less than 2 months...you level 3-5 times an hour ffs lmfao... and thats later on when your 40-50/60...
Can you create a video about how bad things are for the community with 7.0 right now people are not happy and it's not all bells and whistles might be good to show how upset people are.
Hello if you want to hear the bad parts you could check out Podcast ep 18. I mostly create guide videos, not opinion ones.
19:40 What is that b-roll footage?! lol
That's me disassembling all my gear for the video lol.
anyway good vid can wait to see a new skill rework vid in a couple years
It's like having a second job you have to pay for, the 'update' really sucked all the fun out of the game.
They should just bring back Renown 😮💨
@@gabrielk.8523 hell no it took a decade even with boosts to level up.
@@MsaneGaming At least Renown encouraged you to participate in all forms of content. The fact that 7.0 prioritizes Heroics over Ops is ridiculous.
@@MsaneGaming well they did not replace it with anything, so what's the point of removing it? It was better to have it then not have anything different at all.
23:03 Don't mind me just standing there, confused over the new Gear. i just started playing again o.O
If you complete weekly heroics on a lowbie tool you still receive a green level 80 case.
oh! That's.. interesting lol
I'm saving them since the algorithm gives you what you need maybe they will get my toon to 326
As a casual and occasional player, this new gear progression system is really turning me off. The gear progression of Onslaught was much better in my opinion and very friendly to new players.
I think its cute where you said: "You can get PV gear by......"
OH MY lol.
So i played this a couple years ago, do i have to pay for anything if i want to play?
i once logged in after 2 years or so and was the only person on the entire server.
But as it seems they make the same mistakes they made back then and primarily what made me quit was the split into pve and pvp gear which completely destroyed the game in my opinion,
you had to commit to either pvp or pve because qeue times of doom.
The sad thing was that the game was actually fun
i love your voice
Its true SWTORista has the number one voice of them all. And I follow all of them. The funny thing is, SWTORista knows this all too well. Nothing like increasing ones gaming wisdom under the guidance of a confident woman with a guideful voice.
New system is great. Horizontal progression of the previous patches was unrewarding and too easy. This is one of the only reasons I'm returning. Thank you for this info. 💖
Are the stats of each type of gear different like is 326 conquest different to 326 pvp ?
Thanks. All helpful info.
Is there a qualifier on effort vs reward in the solo track? How much more effective is each level of gear? Hmm, I don't even know how you'd choose the qualifier? Time taken to take down a mob of 4 silver elite? Well, if there is a way, I know you can do it.
Is the result of the grind gong to be noticeable to a solo player, is my real question.
My impression is that a lot of solo players are not grinders.
Also, what about the treasurehunting mission boxes. Do they still drop level-appropriate gear? That might be a source of currency when/if you crunch it.
Update on my main.
I found out about the implant quest and level 320 gear this week.
Sad, I know. Just happened to skip that video of yours somehow.
I used less than 10% of my fleet commendations to upgrade everything to 320. This has made a small change to the game, for me.
Also, n00b question, what do I do with the gold coloured gear that drops randomly. Like Level 8 gear. Just crunch it? If you chuck all the mods and augments, is it better than 320 green?
The new Conquest system is working OK. I've made some credits on the AH selling components used to gain weekly's, so that's fun.
Thanks and cheers.
oh no! glad you can at least start the implant quest now.
gold-colored level 8 gear? hm.... not sure what that is...
@@Swtorista Thank you. I have 2 I support on Patreon and you are one because your content is so spot on.
I sure wish you could make high level gear.
Even if it was a mighty quest and grind, that would be cool.
Something for the solo players.
Maybe a new colour too.
Like orange maybe?!>
Thank you for explaining how different tiers of gearing work. Can you clarify something for me to make sure I understand it correctly? Let's say I choose to grind only 1 tier of gear to its max, let's say by grinding VM Flashpoints to get its max gear possible "Green Elite Decurion of IR 324." Then, I switch from playing VM Flashpoints to VM Operations so does it mean next piece of gear dropped from VM Ops will be "Blue Columi IR 324?"Basically equivalent item rating of what I already had equipped. So then if I continue grinding VM Ops, I will progress from "Columi 324 > Columi 326" (max gear possible at VM Ops tier), right? And finally with that VM Ops gear, go into MM Ops, where next item dropped will be "Rakata 324 Purple gear", which I can grind from IR 324 > all the way to IR 330. Do I understand that progression correctly?
correct Green Elite Decurion of IR 324 > Blue Columi IR 324 from vm ops! i think you've got it all correct.
@@Swtorista thank you for the reply. The new gearing system is pretty confusing to me but your video clarified a lot of it.
So I should just throw my previously augmented gear from cap 75?
We actually hold onto it for the "hardcore gearing" tips on the written version :)
Could you please assist by answering these questions for me. The answers may well also assist others.
I understand that certain caches we receive are guaranteed to drop a piece of gear that is at least equal to that currently equipped.
However, if I for example have a character that has level 326 Deception gear equipped, and select my loot Discipline as Hatred which is currently 320 should those caches drop a piece of 320 or 326 gear?
Similarly if I had a character that has 326 gear in one class, for example Assassin, and select my loot discipline as one of the options for another class such as one of the Sorcerer styles which is currently 320, should I receive either 320 or 326 gear?
Many thanks
I THINK 326 hatred, but i've not tested that much, for both scenarios
@@Swtorista Thanks. :)
Luckily, I enjoy PVP haha and turning on some rocking toons and blasting through the dailies I have them all ranked for completion by a stealther, and just do the 4s and 5s, super, super fast.
Some people are saying the 80 gear isn't worth it for some, because it isn't as good as their older gear. I'm not exactly sure what they mean by that.
Sort of. It seems at least the very basic gear might not be as good as top tier from last expansion. I don't know beyond that though, I haven't number crunched.
@@Swtorista Ah alright. I'm not sure either, mainly because I haven't kept up to date with my gear. I've only used the level 75 shop, and the um vendor that gives random higher mods.
Presumably 320 will have higher stat values than 306.. but since we lost mods, you can't put points where they are needed so 306 may very well be better if correctly tailored relative to 320 with set stats you can't adjust. Then there's the level sync mess which nerfs the crap out of all of our stats completely removing incentive to gear up for most content. On top of that, the level sync doesn't even scale in any predictable manner so you'd have to adjust your stats for every planet to get the percentages where they should be again.
Besides that, I think some people misunderstood one of the Dev blog posts that said 316=306 or something along those lines, but I'm pretty sure they meant adjusted for the new level 80 and rebalanced gear, not that 316 was literally the same as 306, but rather 316 on a level 80 was = 306 on a level 75 (when 75 was still max level).
@@saintless So basically players think it doesn't matter if using 306, since mods can be set on old gear. Cause it might be better then 320? I should test that out, and see if that is true.
I don't really use armor drops unless I can mod them, so I'm not even sure I'll use 320 yet until tested first. Mainly I just want to see if this is true.
@@o0Sazie0o just guessing, but yeah. Saw some other comments on reddit today regarding pvp matches specifically where 306 is working better than level 80 gear due to how bolster is working so it may be reference to that as well.. haven't investigated.
Im sorry i couldnt find your video on legendary implants. Do you have a link?
As someone who plays solo 99% of the time, and has been subbed since launch.... This is the absolute most TRASH gearing system they've done to date. In 6.x I managed to get 6 characters in full 306 augmented set piece gear, and a lot alts at least at a 300ir. And I did it all playing content I enjoyed when I wanted. Now, since 7.0 I've not logged on in almost 3 weeks as this new grind isn't worth it for a bunch of static gear. I'm legit considering cancelling my sub at this point.
Hello. I have a question. How I can upgrade my blaster (or any other weapon) from cartel market to level 320 and higher?
I'm curious what percentage of current players actually even do Vet/Master ops these days. And I mean the full ops, not just hammer spamming the first boss for the loot.
Less then 2 % most ppl hate ops or dont wanna run them
For most players the hard part isn't the op itself but all the hurdles it takes to even get into one... first you have to be a subscriber, then you have to find a bunch of players that you cannot really find through matchmaking and then there's also a chance those players will kick you for being undergeared... so it's like what's the point? Honestly I've never understood why raids are even still a thing in gaming barely anyone plays them.
question, so would it be easier to prog till we get a 326 blue set on mm fp and vet ops combined then head to mm ops?
I'm baffled why they changed the gear system. It was perfect before. This new version is grindy, too complex, confusing, and unrewarding. I was planning to come back to the game with the new expansion, but I think I'll skip it.
Welcome to SWTOR.... SWG Pt 2.. where we completely pull the carpet up every few years and make you start over again and again since our content sucks
Does the same armor also exist from level 60, or does it look the same?
No sorry all this gear is only for level 80.
Oh I also have a question: are the stats the same as long as the color of the gear is the same? For example, a blue FP 326 gear would have the same exact stats as a blue OP 326 gear?
As far as I can tell yes. But I haven't compared them well yet.
I think the new gearing system is a way to get people to do PVP, Operations, Fladpoints, and Heriocs more. I think the new currency is completely useless. Plus, I noticed a lot bugs in the new expansion. The old system is still better.
yeah, why make the gamemodes fun when you can force people into playing them, I guess it is that "bioware magic" we have heard so much about
Why did I resub >.
I’m a preferred player, and I bought something off the cartel market and tried to give it to my friend, but it said that the item is bound. Looked it up on RUclips and found nothing on it, how do I fix this?
Bound items like a box can still hold items that are on a purchase timer, once the time expires they're free to be traded or sold.
it's a precaution to not flood the in-game economy i suppose.
just open whatever is in the box, leave it on your character bank or inventory for a day to two days and it will be yours to give away.
and yes, its obnoxious design.
@@Noxims47314 yeah because I didn’t know what it meant when it said this item will be bounded to you permanently so I was like whatever then I put it on and now I can’t trade it
@@Noxims47314 I even tried to get a copy of it from cartel market but it said it was bonded still and there’s no timer for it being bound so now I think it’s permanent
@@NightWolf198 Equipping it binds it to you yes. permanently.
@@Noxims47314 well that’s just my luck
Does pvp gear in this game have the same secondary attribute types as pve gear? Or does it roll with some kind of weird pvp only stat like some other games?
Nope no special stat!
In the past it used to though.
@@Swtorista awesome, thank you!
Pvp gear has less endurance than decurion gear and more mastery/power - alacrity/accuracy are the same on the same pieces respectively
I don't like the fact that I have to grind old content as soon as I finish the 7.0 content that only lasted an hour.
what nightmare the gearing system has become, and having too regear your character totally again because of the second playstyle you choose is for me the biggest reason to stop playing
I miss the old way of gett8ng gear. I miss classic swtor
6.0 - Equip whatever has higher item rating, in other words, equip whatever has an up arrow.
7.0 - Get a masters degree, watch 1 hour guides, read 3 books to understand how it works.
Yea Bioware, you failed.
And don't forget you have to cure cancer as well! :D
Swtorista: You can see how far up your conquest level is out of the 100,000 a week by going here.
Me: *Checks.* 635,000 of 100,000. Well okay then. I guess I've done waaaaay too much this week. :P If only all that rolled over and applied the following week, I could take 6 weeks off and not do anything.
why my conquest quest reward never give me medals?