Bag RNG System: Aging Poorly

I just feel like bumping this thread 2-3 times every hour.

But we have gear we can mod. There is no reason to have pvp gear other than what you mentioned. ...and that seems to be creating a huge issue. Oh look, a shiny....

I just bumped an old thread on this but this one seems to be getting a lot more attention. I'm at 55 right now with 3 pieces (relic, implant, boots), yet i see other people in the 30s with a full set. Actually, you could get valor 100 (does it go that high?) with not a single piece of battlemaster gear. You get to wear leveling gear at 100 minus the champion gear you buy with scraps.

See, this is my problem.

You should not need a rabbit's foot for this stuff. People keep playing CoD for years on end because no matter what, that bar is always climbing.

Opening twenty bags for no gear isn't progression. Each bag does not give you a higher and higher chance to get more gear from subsequent bags; they have no effect on the overall drop rate of their fellow bags, so no matter how many you open, you may very well be either equally lucky or equally screwed.

There's no effect. There's no way to say, yes, I am getting closer every day. Yes, each game I play gets me that much nearer to my crazy crazy lightsaber. There's no way. The current system destroys the sense of momentum needed to create insanely hooked-in players like Modern Warfare 2 or even Battlefield have. In our game you can't even swap weapons and start getting new commendations just to shake things up, or swap to your Revolver and go around trying for wheelgun headshots to keep yourself amused.

There's nothing to break the monotony, and without a goal marching steadily closer, you get despair. With despair, you get people going to play other games, lost subs, and sour feelings throughout the community... like my roomie, who likes TOR but is mega pissed that he has five pairs of identical pants. It's going to drive him to quit; I know him well, and I can hear his 'I'm unsubbing' discussion coming down the road. It'll be a few months yet, but this issue -will- drive him to another game.

Or else Diablo will come out and he just won't care about anything but that anymore.

You see the issue here, though? Relying on RNG to grant gear is the worst possible way to do it. You -really- have to let people -progress- instead of just occasionally getting an upgrade.