Gear from content, not from market!

I am sure this was hashed over but I guess i harbor some rare hope that a dev will see this and actually make something happen.

Why, on God's green earth, is something as ICONIC as the Revan armor set something you get from loot bags??

( Enter, the all illusive and never mentioned Legendary items)

I am so sad that the cool new gear, weapons, and items available in the cartel market are never going to be items you had to actually go out and earn. A quest line to get the Helm of Revan? Awesome. Long chains to have a chance at getting pieces to a full set of cool new armor or lightsaber crystals that took effort (like the magenta) would have been and meant more to the community than bioware turning into a cash hound.

I guess i hoped for better.

The "immerse yourself in the star wars universe" idea has been put out to pasture. Buy your new toys, rookies.

/endrant

Part of what keeps me playing is interesting/cool content to work towards. I don't play swtor to play shopping simulator.

With adaptive armor, and all this cool armor being purchasable, everyone is starting to look the same, regardless of class or achievement. It used to be that you'd see someone running around with a cool new set of armor and thinking that's the look you want, and you had something fun/cool to work towards over the next weeks/months.

Instant gratification gets old fast 'cause it has very shallow worth/achievement.

Huh? Before this everyone looked like in end-game pvp or pve gear. At least this gives more options for those people. Before, in our guild, every sorc and marauder looked like each other. Now, thankfully, there's some that stick with their endgame Dreadguard look, and others decided to wear completely different outfits from the Cartel Market.

I don't see everyone running around with Revean masks or Nil's mask. I see some, but not many. What's wrong with diversity?

I am so sad that the cool new gear, weapons, and items available in the cartel market are never going to be items you had to actually go out and earn. A quest line to get the Helm of Revan? Awesome. Long chains to have a chance at getting pieces to a full set of cool new armor or lightsaber crystals that took effort (like the magenta) would have been and meant more to the community than bioware turning into a cash hound.

I guess i hoped for better.

The "immerse yourself in the star wars universe" idea has been put out to pasture. Buy your new toys, rookies.

/endrant

Yes, it's PvP stuff, considering as to how it came with a PvP related content patch. Once we see new PvE content patches, we'll see new PvE gear along with it. There's already images of what the new endgame PvE gear will look like floating around the web, have a quick search I'd say.

And as for cartel gear being nicer, that's all highly subjective. Some pieces look like crap, some look good. That goes for both the cartel market as well as the ingame rewards. For example the latest cartel market sith raider set, looks butt ugly. I'd by far prefer the dread guard war leader over it.