60k repair bill!

You do realize you make no sense, correct? It doesn't matter where they got the legacy gear - either through credits or through drops. The point is that repairing legacy gear is extremely costly at the moment.

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Oh I do understand the issue. And I'm trying to be nice about it. But ~ Some people are too lazy to have fun.

"The content is Soooo hard that I can't eat my icecream & play a game at the same time."
"I want everything that drops in the 16man Ops ~ without having to be friendly"
"I wanna be able to do everything right NAO, unsub, & go back to my FPS game until the next patch"

If you can't afford the repair bills you're not participating in anything besides what the GF has to offer. If that's all you came for - you may as well quit now. If that's all your going to contribute to the success of the other players in your groups ~ I'm not surprised you feel that everything is a grind.

Success in this game comes from playing as a group. The drops are improved, and your gear doesn't get damaged as quickly. Have ONE daily night a month where you and 3 other people "raid" the dailies as a team & you'll accumulate the credits to finance a whole lot of HM FPs & SM OPs. Putting together a group to do this with is not difficult, and you'll make some new friends everytime you do it.

There are numerous solutions to the "I haz no credits problem" ~ and none of them require much commitment of time or friendliness.
1) If you are subbed & have a security key - you can buy an armor set from the CC shop every other month & then GTN the pieces for 300K to 500K.
2) do 30 minutes worth of space mission dailies for about 45K
3) do 30 minutes worth of dailies for about 60K ~ after modable gear drops are vendered on the GTN
4) sell crafted stuff on the GTN for a fair price & make 45K every day with 10min of effort
5) do HM FPs without wiping & vender the drops.
6) do SM False Emperor in green gear drops & vender the drops from the FP.

1 & 4 ~ require almost no effort at all
2 ~ the solution for antisocial mysanthropes
3 & 6 ~ go blazing fast with a group of geared players
5 ~ should be everyone's primary goal when they queue in GF

Some of these things can be done simultaneously. Set companions to run short crew missions before doing a space daily? Run 5 crew missions everytime you see "return to mission terminal" pop up as the next mission objective?

If those credit sources are not fast enough for you - gear up for the heroic space missions & sell the mats from the grade 8 crafting box you'll get every week. 1 heroic space mission per day ~ 4 to 7min per day = 50K to 300K each week. (you must actually list the STABs for a price where they will sell)

The real issue here is how BW let this sort of whining result in the following bad things.
1) loss of the repair credit sink ~ inflated the price of everything on the GTN ~ making it useless to new players
2) HM bosses getting nerfed ~ contributed to complaints that the content wasn't challenging enough
3) Allowing "safe paths" through FPs ~ when the trash drops & extra boss drops will cover your repair costs
4) Putting BMAs in CC packs ~ they went from being a drop worth 25K to being worth less than 5K overnight
5) Free Tionese gear ~ when earning it was part of what made HM's fun & taught the skill for HM's & OPs
6) Augment Kits ~ Inflated the gear gap between established & newer players, reinforced the belief that gear> skill & cooperation.


If you still have a problem with the new repair cost ~
1) put your mods in some cheap shells from low level heroics & SM FPs that will take you no time to solo with a geared 50.
2) focus on getting at least one toon into a position to be a real credit farm.
3) subscribe so you have more options for earning credits
3) quit playing the game

...oh forget it. I'm done with these illogical peons.

You do realize that the only modable legacy gear came from....

1) events - where a ton of credits were earned ~ and the gear was bought with event comms from completing those missions, or by grinding the hell out of the event currency.
2) the legacy vender on the capital world where the pieces are bought with massive amounts of credits

So at some point they either had a PILE of credits or did some serious grinding..... The OP is complaining that they misspent their time/credits. Whose fault is that?

Pointless. Edited, cause I'm done arguing with this person.

If you've had modable legacy gear drop ~ pics or it didn't happen

None of the legacy gear bought with the legacy tokens that drop are suitable for engame content. And nobody is going to rack up 60K in repair bills before they hit the endgame.

People seem to be missing the big picture...

This is a game. Games are supposed to be fun. Grinding the same old crap day in and day out isn't fun. But every answer here has been to grind more dailies.

It really isn't about how easy credits are to get. I'd rather do things I enjoy than spend 5 hours a week grinding out dailies just to cover repair costs.

I also find it hilarious that some people think this game requires any skill. All it requires is learning a fights mechanics and executing them near flawlessly. If repair costs are too high for people who play casually or who only enjoy Ops to push their skill to the next level through HM's or NiM's the game will lose players. Many people learn best by doing and if you make the doing too expensive then you remove any interest in doing.

It doesn't take much to push people away from a game. Boredom is not the thing you want to be responsible for killing your player base and I can't think of anything more boring than endless grinding of dailies.

Yeah difficult to argue with the truth, but meh, you all still keep trying.

I'm with you there.

Imagine if you had to milk the cown and scratch make your own ice cream just to enjoy, when we have commercial businesses for that.....makes us lazy I suppose when we buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's.