Ah my bad didn't realize that it dropped 72s. That would indeed be stupid. Ah well thanks for the info

I'd certainly hope so. In my opinion it'd make sense for SM to require 72s and HM to require 75s, but given what we got in Dread Fortress that seems highly unlikely. Dread Palace should require higher tiers of gear then Dread Fortress though. we are facing the Dread Masters after all

Thanks for streaming it. Looks pretty cool. Any word on the gear rating required for SM and HM?

I only started playing a few months ago and found DUly's article extremely helpful: http://dulfy.net/2013/04/14/swtor-level-55-endgame-gearing-guide/ Gives a great run down of what gear tiers you can get and how you get them. Also a great guide on all the missions available to collect comms etc. The poster above me did a good job of explaining, this article is just very in-depth. Hope this helps!

This. As inconvenient as it is for most people, at least BW has someone on here right after explaining what went wrong and why they had so much downtime. I also don't think there's anything wrong with them spending so much time trying to fix a problem that could have a large affect on some players. Unfortunately for BW even if they had just said **** it lets just not try to fix it right now people would've also complained that the patch broke the game. I don't necessarily agree with every move BW makes but this is one of those cases where I don't think they necessarily deserve complaints. There was an issue, they tried their hardest to fix it. Sucks that it takes up playing time but at least they're trying to fix problems.

My opinion (and hope) is that they look like placeholders. I mean I like the gold and stuff but the fact is that these sets are all SO similar to each other. The only differences are in the size and the headpieces. The general idea of the armor is cool I think but the different classes are all way too similar.

Oh I'm not saying I personally don't think its reasonable to require 72s for SM if we're talking progression. BUT the general attitude with BW so far seems to be that they want casual players to be able to access SM (hence STORY mode). A casual player has a difficult time getting 72s. And if they didn't require 72s for SM I just couldn't see them jumping to requiring 75s for HM. Again, this isn't something I'm advocating, just something I think likely from their past releases. I do like the idea a poster above had about one op being significantly harder than the other and requiring a higher level of gear. Meaning Dread Fortress requires only 69s for SM and drops 72s while HM requires 72s and drops 75s. BUT then Dread Palace SM requires 72s etc. In my mind, that would require higher gear to even access SM but would still be in-line with BW's policy of casual players being able to access SM of all ops. As much as raiders (I include myself in this group) want harder content, I just don't see BW restricting SM to a high degree, thats all. EDIT: Though I do realize if only Dread Palace HM dropped the new tier, then we wouldn't have a complete set. So basically, I don't think there's any way to predict the new gear requirements. We'll just have to wait and see whats released

Has it been explicitly said that 2.4 will launch with a new tier of gear? All I know is that they said that a new tier of gear would accompany the new operations. To me, it is reasonable that NiM would drop the new tier given past experience. If HM dropped the new tier then it would have to require KD to complete. That just doesn't seem in-line with what we've seen from BW in the past (i.e. HM isn't necessarily accessible to the casual raider, but it is accessible to the casual guild). I just don't see them limiting HM to the very elite guilds that have their raid members decked out in full KD already. To me it seems much more reasonable that SM would require 69s and drop 72s, HM will require 72s and drop 75's, and then NiM (somewhere down the road) requires 75s and drops the new tier. Of course this is all speculation, as we don't know what BW will actually do and I haven't even been on the PTS. It just seems this has been the method they've used in the past.

Bump for UW weaponmaster implants. have mats + tip

Or does anyone know a crafter for the above-mentioned items?

LFC for Underworld Weaponmaster's MK-V or MK-X Package or Underworld Weaponmaster's Device. Either post here or message me in-game on my main, Tekldon.

Looking for a crafter for the UW relic of BA or SA. Either post here or pst to my main, Tekldon.

Oh I understand what you're saying about 69 gear. I agree these FP's are good opportunities to drop more 69 gear and more elite comms. But I still think set bonus should only come from doing the raids. It acts not only as a reward but as an incentive to learn how to play your class in an 8-16m group. I mean hey I'd love to get a set bonus easier but objectively I think it makes sense to require raids to achieve a set bonus. All other 69 gear is available pretty much now to those who don't run ops so you gotta leave something to entice the raiders. Either way, I do like the loot drops in the new czerka missions

Well that'd be silly. I have no problem with Arkanian non-set pieces dropping in FP's but they're far too easy to drop any set piece. Everyone would be geared in 69s after grinding it forever.

Again, I agree that grinding dailies is a pain in the *** but I think this is the way it has to be. If you got trade elites for basics and thus have easier access to isotope-5, i think you would see a lot less people in 72s who have done few HM raids. I'm not an elitest at all, in fact im plenty willing to help undergeared players through heroics or FP's or raids but I do honestly think high tiers of gear should be reserved for hard content. If there is an alternative method to obtain such high level gear, it should be difficult to do (i.e. grinding for isotope). Not to mention trading comms down to get isotope would drastically increase the supply available and thus many who sell it on the GTN would see a HUGE drop in value. Economically and gear-wise I think it makes sense for isotope to be where it is. And beyond isotope, I really see no other purpose for trading comms, except for maybe credits (now that I would get behind)