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Lower the cost of War Hero and other Higher end gear.

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Lower the cost of War Hero and other Higher end gear.

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DarthDeimos
08.20.2012 , 05:46 AM | #1
I did the math for how many warzone comms it would take to buy the full set of warhero gear. It totaled around 75k. Divide that by 140 comms per win ( my average ) and it totals to 500 games. A bit rediculous. Now, we're not counting the times that a player would not do so well or it is just a plain loss with 8 medal requirement earned. I would imagine it would be somewhere from 700-800 warzones if it was straight losses. On average a player can do four warzones (assuming that each Warzone lasts the average 15 minutes). If a player grinds warzones for eight hours (the hardcore gamer with no life), that will be 32 warzones in one day - on average. Which in effect will take him seventeen weeks to complete the required amount of commendations to have his gear. 17 weeks is four months and one week. There are dailies and weeklies to assist in shortening the time. But... These numbers alone.. really?

Haters gonna hate and probably say I am whining. These folks prolly already have their War Hero gear. But think of it this way... Do you wanna do this entire grind over again once there is a new season - each season? Or each level cap that is raised? Gonna compare to WoW here - it didnt take me nearly as long to get my arena gear...

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Masarko
08.20.2012 , 05:49 AM | #2
Go play ranked instead.
You get more ranked comms by losing than you do by winning a normal anyway.

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WrykilX
08.20.2012 , 05:52 AM | #3
Quote: Originally Posted by DarthDeimos View Post
I did the math for how many warzone comms it would take to buy the full set of warhero gear. It totaled around 75k. Divide that by 140 comms per win ( my average ) and it totals to 500 games. A bit rediculous. Now, we're not counting the times that a player would not do so well or it is just a plain loss with 8 medal requirement earned. I would imagine it would be somewhere from 700-800 warzones if it was straight losses. On average a player can do four warzones (assuming that each Warzone lasts the average 15 minutes). If a player grinds warzones for eight hours (the hardcore gamer with no life), that will be 32 warzones in one day - on average. Which in effect will take him seventeen weeks to complete the required amount of commendations to have his gear. 17 weeks is four months and one week. There are dailies and weeklies to assist in shortening the time. But... These numbers alone.. really?

Haters gonna hate and probably say I am whining. These folks prolly already have their War Hero gear. But think of it this way... Do you wanna do this entire grind over again once there is a new season - each season? Or each level cap that is raised? Gonna compare to WoW here - it didnt take me nearly as long to get my arena gear...
Suck it up. Everyone else earned their War Hero gear and you can too! Why do you think you're special and should be allowed to bypass the hardships that everyone else in the game had to endure? We got through it and so can you!

The "Gimme Gimme Now!" sense of entitlement among people today is hilarious.

Did I cover everything?

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anstalt
08.20.2012 , 05:56 AM | #4
I say just reduce the cost of augmenting gear

That way, people will be more willing to augment recruit and bm gear which will significantly close the gear gap. Fully augmented BM gear is nearly as good as WH
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haliy
08.20.2012 , 05:57 AM | #5
shorten'd version of what everyone else said, No
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Yun_Gemstone
08.20.2012 , 06:01 AM | #6
When the next set of PvP gear becomes available, you will probably gather the current War Hero set in about a week. Just don't PvP until then

Do you see me complaining about Battlemaster gear? I hit Valor 60 back when Warzones gave pitiful ammount of it, didn't exploit Ilum and grinded the BM tokens bag by bag after bag and so on and so on. Now everyone gets in a casual week what took me months. But its ok

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DarthDeimos
08.20.2012 , 06:03 AM | #7
Quote: Originally Posted by Yun_Gemstone View Post
When the next set of PvP gear becomes available, you will probably gather the current War Hero set in about a week. Just don't PvP until then

Do you see me complaining about Battlemaster gear? I hit Valor 60 back when Warzones gave pitiful ammount of it, didn't exploit Ilum and grinded the BM tokens bag by bag after bag and so on and so on. Now everyone gets in a casual week what took me months. But its ok
Yup, that's how I earned my BM gear too. Just saying that now this process seems to take longer than it did when you had to grind for BM tokens

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WaldoA
08.20.2012 , 06:09 AM | #8
They need to do something about the gear, right now fresh 50s going into PvP is just a disgrace, you die so easily to people in fully augmented WH all the time and there's no enjoyment whatsoever.

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cycao
08.20.2012 , 06:11 AM | #9
Its not that bad to get the gear. With the option to do ranked warzones for ranked comms it is better than what some people had to go with getting the gear on dead servers with 45-60 min+ queue times and some had it worse than that.

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Masarko
08.20.2012 , 06:13 AM | #10
Quote: Originally Posted by WaldoA View Post
They need to do something about the gear, right now fresh 50s going into PvP is just a disgrace, you die so easily to people in fully augmented WH all the time and there's no enjoyment whatsoever.
Pretty much been like that for a long time.
I agree with you, there should be a valor bracket in my opinion but not if were not getting cross server ques.