Please (PLEASE) make the gear items that drop from Command Crates generic -- like a universal token. Even better, make that token bind-to-legacy! We could then take that token to the appropriate Fleet vendor to purchase an item, similar to upgrading an item to the next-higher tier today. This would remove the issue of getting dup/triplicates and also help with gearing alts.

YES!!! Generic (not slot-specific) tokens would avoid the duplicate issue, and would also enable easier gearing of alts. Appealing to multiple playstyles.

Reading several ideas from across the forums, the following mix seems like it might appeal to a large number of people. No system will appeal to 100% of the user base, but this would remove the RNGesus aspect the large majority of us have come to despise. Upon reaching a GC Tier, the 1st and then every "decade"/10th Command Crate you open will contain a bind-to-legacy "Gear Token" which can be redeemed for any piece of BiS (at that level) gear. This would require accumulating 131 levels past where the tier begins; however, you would be guaranteed to have all 14 slots populated with BiS after completing that grind with no duplicates. Any levels you grind above that could be used to gear alts. In the current system, this is pretty comparable to leveling from 181 to 310. If you make that grind, it seems reasonable that you'd have a full set. Also, we probably only need three grades of gear within a tier. Adding the legendary gear seems to have complicated things and generated a lot of frustration (every time I get a 240 piece, I wish it was a 236 that could be upgraded). When you get a purple 240 now, it's not really BiS so it feels like a 2nd place ribbon, or a participation trophy.

I just tested the following in my stronghold... - Collected from Perfect Upari node, received: 5x Enigmatic Artifact Fragments and 4x Ruusan Crystals - Collected from the Enriched Durasteel node, received: 5x Farium and 5x Molytex These are currently Grade-8 mats in 4.x, so I wouldn't necessarily say there's zero use (great for making war supplies).

Some of the nodes I already had placed in my stronghold (prior to the changes) are currently yielding Grade-8 mats. Specifically, the Perfect Upari Crystal Formation and Enriched Durasteel Cache are yielding Grade-8. I didn't find a Bioanalysis node for Grade-8 though.

For the Gathering Lockbox you get for achieving your conquest goal each week, it appears these still do not contain Grade-9 nodes. Has anyone gotten a Grade-9 node yet? I'm wondering if BW will update lockboxes to include the current items. Possibly they need to create a deco version of the nodes?

With one Revan statue, you can unlock it for your legacy in Collections. If you have a lot of toons, Revan becomes a free reclaim instead of purchasing the droid multiple times @ 350k each. The statue is a few million on my server (nowhere near the 20M on your server). I would suspect prices will drop further due to the current CM sales.

As a previous poster suggested, please just set each HM space mission to a [WEEKLY]. That seems to be more convenient, wouldn't penalize anyone, and keeps the same limits on weekly attainable reward cap... but with much less confusion or room for interpretation. I travel almost every week, and my work laptop is too underpowered to complete the missions. I have been logging in every day to collect each mission and then doing them all on weekends when at home on my gaming PC. Please don't change the mechanics of this causing some folks to miss out on 71% (5/7) of the missions after investing in the grade-7 items.

Darth Bob

On my Jugg, I went with Biochem/Bioanalysis/Diplomacy and am very happy with it. Med kits & stims that are not consumed on-use are handy, and they've saved my arse more than once. Also, look at the 400-level recipes on the training vendors to get an idea of what will be most beneficial to your playstyle in end-game.