Battlemaster Commendations

You can only get Battlemaster Gear Bags from the Warzone and Ilum Dailies/Weeklies. You can't use them unless you are valor 60. You cannot buy these like you can the Champion Gear Bags.

I understand this is probably getting confusing, so I will try to simplify it. This is the strategy I use to acquire the gear. I went right for the bags and didn't bother buying any blue pieces.

Assuming you are level 50:

Save up 800 Warzone Commendations. You can get these from completing Warzones.
Go to the PvP vendor, either in a Warzone or on the Fleet. Use 600 of your Warzone Commendations to purchase 200 Mercenary Commendations
(Note: You can also roam around Outlaw's Den on Tatooine to get Mercenary Commendations from chests in the zone)
After you have 200 Warzone Commendations and 200 Mercenary Commendations you can buy a Champion Gear Bag

Now that you have your first box. Open it up! You'll either get 3 Centurion Commendations or 1 Centurion Commendation and an Unassembled Champion Piece.

Now you can start gearing up. Use the Centurion Commendations to buy pieces you need or want as soon as possible, and hope you get lucky and get some Champion pieces.

I personally used my Centurion Commendations to replace poor pieces of gear I had such as low level greens first, and relied on luck to replace the gear I had that wasn't terrible (Such as orange modifiable items with epic mods)

You also get either Champion Gear Bags or Battlemaster Gear Bags from Warzone and Ilum weeklies/dailies.

After you get to valor rank 60, you can start picking the Battlemaster Gear Bags from the Warzone and Ilum PvP dailies/weeklies and repeat the above process except with Champion Commendations and Battlemaster Unassembled pieces.

I didn't think I would need to vent about this with the change made... but about 10 Battlemaster boxes in and not a single Commendation and yet I will need several for an item/weapon, whoever is getting good luck to balance my bad... I hate you!

Congratulations on your champion commendations sir.

Thanks dude, I have 78 of them sitting in my inventory with nothing to use them on.

I feel the RNG pain.. If anyone played end game AION I relate this to that. From what I've read.

I'm only 24, so I'm glad I still have a ways to go.. Perhaps they'll change it by the time I get there. If the RNG like this is as bad as Fenris/Miragents pants craft in AION I'm gonna quit before trying.

RNG is always terrible.