Actual wall of text so I didn't bother to read more than first 3 sentences, but are you actually high or just a troll? That's legit what everyone did with 320 green conquest gear the very first day of 7.0? Went with full 8 man group & blasted through SM like always with 320 no augments(who the hell would even augment such gear, massive waste lol) & farming it on multiple toons. I'm sorry but there it's literally not possible that you're not a troll. It's literally zero issues to clear them with 320 gear in SM :rak_02:

why do you say false? he is completely correct, can we stop confusing ppl by trying to believe you have any clue?:rak_02:

If their goal was to change stats based on that level then losing such stats & not transfer it over from maximum level(like on fleet) is reasonable cuz u wouldn't reach those stats at those level if it should represent equal stats based on the gear you would get around those levels/planets. The Tatooine Acc is wonky. If that's not the case then they just broke the scaling but any content below level 80 the scaling doesn't matter cuz all the solo content is beyond faceroll anyway with or without a companion even. So it's not breaking the game.

If the vast majority of the player base find 7.0 a massive let down, flawed & problematic in various aspects then it's not a good "expansion" no matter your own personal opinion, because if it was a good release then there wouldn't be such insane amount of much negative reactions.

It is true that several MMO's do have crafting to get top gear but there is also a lot(most of the bigger ones) that doesn't have it but their respective community doesn't complain as strongly as SWTOR casuals do when it comes to accessibility to highest gear. Cuz they know that they don't need it so they don't care equally much. They should do crafting more interesting tho. It's mostly useless atm. You make some augments & biochem stuff but that's practically it.

That's just a lot of nonsense in a wall of text i didn't even care to read through most of it. I've played eve online for years. I even used 7 accounts for multibox farm & was partly controlling a major 0.0 alliance. So just more assumptions being kicked from you xD The sad thing is how you are seeing 7.0 major grind cuz it's not & locking items behind ops content is reasonable. Imagine complaining ^^ You just need to level up your game. Cuz gearing in this game is fast. If u can't do nim or even try to do it then you don't need the gear so no reason to complain. Just Up Your Game I did farm my gear from conquest, then MM flashpoints & pvp weekly to reach 326 asap then swapping over to Nim opses.You were done quite fast. Just find some friends & spam stuff for a little bit then you're literally done with any form of farm in a week or two & never have to bother with it until next set of gear but again if u don't do the hardest content the gear is not needed for you. Just try to cry a little bit less

Even now with the cap. A companion provides sufficient output especially from a healing perspective to do any solo content. I made a test run to just run all heroics & some other solo content with a level 1 companion & surprise? It was still incredibly easy. Removing the cap is ridiculous. Personally I don't care if there is a cap or not because it doesn't affect me what so ever but from a lot of peoples view here is that they want to be able to literally go afk while a companion does the work for them. That sounds stupidly boring & making the entire concept of doing any content themselves.

That is the biggest issue yes I agree. The lack of content is beyond silly. They release new "expansion" & creates an illusion that gearing is supposed to be the new great content. It's trash. It doesn't make any difference from 6.0 tho where everyone just spammed Hammerstation or red reaper until they got maximum gear so you repeated old content there too.

Doesn't require that much time as you may think. Just in kill bosses out, swap toon & repeat. You can do 1-4, 1-2 clears in 1-1.5hrs. Per toon. In the end tho if you don't do nim you don't need the gear anyway.

Small examples: World of Warcraft requires Mythic raid to get top bis gear & high key mythic dungeons. Final Fantasy requires Savage Raids for BIS gear. Guild Wars 2 requires some raid material for Legendary items. List goes on so no MMO's did not remove that nor will they. SWTOR is a more casual game true but it's still an MMO game. Grind will always exist. If it didn't then they can just add a vendor to give you what ever you want with 0 credits even titles & mounts if u don't want to do any work to get them. It's just swtor casuals who complain & complain about gear & it's accessibility for it. Even for crafters they need to perform a grind to get their respective materials to craft what ever they want. You just want everything for free with no effort involved. Your mentality is based on a Singleplayer game perspective not a mmo game but even in singleplayer games several form of grinds exist & is practically unavoidable. 7.0 have issues, quite a lot of them but the gearing isn't really one of them.

I had full rakata gear & both my implants at 330 after first week was done. I did DF Nim 1-4 & SNV 1-2 Nim on multiple toons in Nim. 7 toons the first week. That's a total of 42 bosses.The ONLY thing that"blocked me" to get exactly full 330 but only had 2 pieces left was the limitation of the resources, catalysts/matrices to upgrade it. But the second new week started I de-constructed left over gear & I was practically available to upgrade last pieces at the very start of second week. To get tech fragments just go do ranked pvp. It gives you 2000 fragments for 2 wins only on the weekly that you can repeat 3 times per week per toon. Just find 3 more friends & win games. That's 2k fragments in like 5-15min if u win your games. GSF is also a really fast option. I also started the expansion with 11k fragment cap & could practically buy both implants instantly. After you have full 330 on one toon/spec then getting 330 in other roles takes no time since you get 330 drops for other loot discipline by just swapping it to w/e u want. So maybe be more effective instead.

You need to use more toons than 1-2 if u want to get full gear & this game provides the fastest/easiest way to level up more toons & all gear is legacy so ez pz. Ah rip that is frustrating indeed but you will get it soon! Actually to get Legendary gear in GW2 you need to complete objectives in raids. I've cleared everything there. You can get ascended gear but not legendary gear outside raids. Equal stats but not the same items. It's a L2P issue in the end not a gear issue, may sound "elitst" idk nor do i care but it's the truth.

Interesting story. No if you don't do Nim content u don't need the gear. That simple Only other place where it is "required" is ranked PVP which is weird that they don't get access to any 330 gear beside doing nim ops. There is a different between "I want the gear" & "I need the gear". It's only in SWTOR where ppl really complain about access to gear & it's mostly casuals who do. The gearing is not a problem if u do it on multiple toons, This game is also the gentles game to use more toons & fastest when it comes to level up more toons compared to any other MMO as well. Limited mmo experience, that's cute. I've just cleared all raids in swtor, GW2, Most in FFXIV on highest difficulties & most in WOW including several world firsts & top 10 kills . Been actively doing MMO raiding for quite many years(unfortunately) but yeah "limited" indeed. It's probably you who's experience in high end mmo content that's limited

The "average" player doesn't need the gear & you don't need the gear if you don't do that kind of content. Simple. Every MMO have top gear locked behind the hardest content. So lets move on from this nonsense. And actually some people have full Rakata gear with Nefra farms only & have full 330 Rakata gear so what are you on about?

This is an MMO game. Every MMO have a form of grind. If you dont' want grind then don't play this type of game. This is very common and normal, including that this game barely even have any grind to get maximum gear. Getting maximum gear goes way way faster & is way less time consuming than any other MMO so lets stop complaining about that part because it doesn't take a lot of time at all. You can legit get full 330 gear in ONE week. No other MMO game can provide you BIS gear in that short amount of time nor does that require you to play that much, especially not at the release of a new "expansion". They have massive amount of flaws with this release but the time to get gear is not one of the issues.