Why do fresh 50's have the same gear as me

This is PVP not dueling, you can't expect everything to be, ready set go.

I mean come on, what kind of world do you live in where that's what you're after?

You're right! Continuing to punish players with obscene gear grinds and RNG is the best thing they can do to retain customers, and draw in new ones!

o wait...

A lot of people have left because of these changes, thats why WZ's are longer queues, because no one wants to play your carebear game. Thats why you' casuals are crying for server merges because your 'view' of the game and how it should be pushed all the good players to other games. Wonder why the GTN sucks now? No high end players farming or crafting gear for the masses because they're gone.

My account expires the 21st I believe, I actually only came back to play around with a few friends because of the plague event. Nineteen of my friends accounts will expire this week (my guild) because of these changes, so enjoy what you have left to play, looks like all the players who can do anything have gone Galt =).

I wish BM gear was that quick and easy to get so that I didn't have to try and keep any more 13k HP team members alive. Today the republic queues on my server were swarmed with undergeared players, it made it a nightmare. I'm happy with decent gear being quick to get while really good gear (WH with customised mods in augmented oranges) is slow and expensive.

You have any idea how you sound? This IS PvP and to have truly competitive PvP the gear should be of the same level. When you have one group vastly outgearing the other it is no longer PvP.

look I woke up early in the morning to play mario kart on illum for my gear in addition to solo-queue grinding warzones. i paid for my crappy champ gear with time and effort and some boredom. I have no problems with people getting recruit gear, and I don't have problems with people grinding out BM gear relatively quickly.

What I do have a problem with is a pvp environment where only the no-lifers can be considered great players.

The valor system to begin with was an awful idea for gear req. Titles are fine for it.

I can make up statistics too. . . . fuzzDONTEVENTRIP is wrong 99% of the time

Had to quote this. So hilarious and true.

The problem with PvP gear progression right now is mostly due to the fact that they left out Ranked WZs. The new PvP gear was balanced around the idea that most War Hero geared players would be playing ranked and most recruit geared players would not. By cutting this out at the last minute, yet not changing the gear stats, you basically dump all players into the same pool, something that I don't think was intended (at least, not en mass like it is now). Sure, you'd have your occasional WH geared guy in a non-ranked, but I don't think this would be the norm.

The simple fact is, the system in place right now is NOT working as intended, as the INTENT was to have a different rank of WZs for most higher geared players. So yes, the gear balance is out of whack, but that doesn't mean the system is broken.......its just not complete yet (which is a whole different QQ thread).

I'm in full recruit gear and getting obliterated in WZs........but I do not expect BioWare to change the gear grind to cater to me...........I EXPECT them to get Ranked WZs perfected and launched ASAP so the system they designed can work correctly.