AHHHH, it burns!!! The Recruit gear does nothing!!!

/hug

I feel your pain. It gets better, don't worry!

If you pvp alot while leveling then you should be valor lvl 40 at chr lvl 40.. so you can start trading in for ranked coms at lvl 40. by 50 you should be maxed in both..

3.5k ranked
2k wz

with that you can either buy a couple small WH pieces or just your WH main-hand. i suggest the main-hand, especially if you are mara/sent or merc/gunslinger. this is because you buy the BM main-hand and rip the mods out before trading in for WH version. then plop those mods into an orange off-hand. now you have WH main-hand, BM off-hand, and the rest recruit gear at fresh 50.

by doing this it gives you a decent start.

As far as the in recruit gear, don't worry it doesn't last long.. My op healer was in recruit gear for all of 3 days. by the 4th he was full BM. he just hit 50 a week ago.. and now i've gotten 2 more WH pieces since..lol

There's orange generators (shield or dps)?! Since when?

re-read the last part of the sentence before the one you quoted... i list the specific classes that benefit from it... lol

I have to roll my eyes that there are some people treating this essentially lighthearted thread as some sort of serious criticism on pvp, and leaping in with the snobby, elitist defenses.

/hug to the OP and anyone else going through the recruit grinder right now. I'm doing it too on one of my toons.

If you think recruit gear is bad, try pre 1.2 with fresh 50 green questing gear and 2 pieces of hard grinded centurion. Recruit gear performs fine, I wish people would stop screaming for Bioware to hand them fully augmented WH at level 50.

Then what do you work towards, if not gear?

Fun. Epeen. Vanity items. Mounts. Notoriety. Getting better, skill-wise. Etc.

Works just fine for real skill focused pvp based team games (FPS's)

What you forget is that when you were earning your champ and BM gear everyone else was also. You did not have full teams of best In slot modded augmented gear to fight.

Recruit gear is given out now since their is such a huge jump in expertise with the new gear. So many people have full set of gear that is already fully augmented. On top of that they have already changed mods to make the sets even better. New 50s are facing a much steeper gear differance.

Even BM gear has crappy stats other then endurance. When I put my new BM gear on I lost endurance over my old champ gear. Recruit is even worse then this.

Saying new 50s get recruit for free and so have it easier is rediculous. I'd rather be in blues facing champ then I. Recruit facing full WH modded augmented gear. It is a much larger gap now.

but has yet to work well in an mmo. the mmo crowd is a little different then the fps crowd. the mmo crowd generally wants that uber gear to show they are good and put their time into it.