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

Besides, I don't think the gear gap between battlemaster and war hero (even fully aug'd) is so great.

Pretty sure we'll be able to find 15 other players for a pvp match once x-server hits no matter what happens with the game.

At any rate, no. Prices are fine. Want-it-now generation needs to suck it up

It is if you want to play ranked.

It would be nice if you and others actually address the argument rather than trying to make up that it is all about laziness or 'want it now'.

Address what argument? That some people feel it takes too long to grind out warhero gear? That's not an argument. It's an opinion, and its clearly not shared by most people here. The only argument I've seen in favour of reducing the cost was to protect the medical interests of children. Other than that it's just people saying they dont want to grind that long for their gear.

Yeah, no kidding people wouldnt last 5 minutes in EQ these days... not that it didnt have problems, but incessant whining for instant gratification wasnt one of them.

You'll find my overall point centers around having a balanced approach to grinding. Legacy is suppose to make the grind better. I have found that the XP boost is not making any difference. You should look at posts seeking adjustments as attempts to make things more enjoyable. There is no "commendations" boost to make the pvp grind better.

If its suppose to take 3 months to complete its that design I want to understand and effect change on. Players who enjoy and engage in pvp don't need an incentive to really participate in that. What we have in SWTOR is a disencentive to PVP.

Having gear grinds in PVE is good. It works. You have scaled content. You work your way through and progress on mobs and bosses and gear up. You want a 1 year process to fully gear pve fine by me.

What gear grinds do is discourage PVP participation of gamers who look at a 3 month gear grind to be competitive and opt to not participate and/or not activate or renew a subscription.

Rightly or wrongly the mechanism gives players the impression that unless they pvp for 3 months straight when they log in they will get owned by other players in the warzones. The matching mechanism doesn't protect or slide the players into equal matches so you have fully modded WH against recruit geared players who might have a very low valor rank.

Its turning off subscribers from a very good pvp game. I know there is a sentiment of why bother pvping? I'll just get owned by pre-mades and WH players and farmed. I cannot win so why should I go pvp with you?

The mechanism is greatly improved since the days of RNG bag drops, but still has some issues that don't encourage participation.

My point on the time reduction by changing the conversion ratio is that it allows more people a sense they can complete the process and participate in the PVP endgame. That it is good for the PVP players because it reduces the time stress on us.

For the record I have an RNG geared BM Gunslinger rank 69 and RWZ WH geared Assassin rank 76. I speak from the prospective of already essentially completing the process and a guild leader who'd like to see more players engaged in the pvp end-game.

This is purely your opinion on how games should work and is extremely valid. Many people agree that gear grind should be left to PVE, others disagree. Either way, this particular game uses a gear grind system for PVP and has since launch. At this point, changing it would not only be unfair to those who have spent the time to get what they have, it would be an injustice that would cause most people in full war hero to quit the game. I am not a strong proponent for either system (I'll be in GW2 with no grind this weekend and still playing here as well), but I am strongly against changing the way things are setup this late in the game. If a new tier comes out that is easier obtain that is fine because everyone will be on equal ground when it hits, not spend 2 months getting something only to have everyone else given it in 1 month later on.