What is the purpose changing the character sheet item level tooltips?

If it actually reduces the number of people queuing for content they're nowhere geared for, then I'll happily live with the annoyance.

The choice of what to reduce I could get behind. They needed to condense the numbers somehow though.

I would wager that they have some sort of plan on condensing these numbers and they wanted to avoid as much of a *****torm as possible by not dropping it all at once (just look at how much drama a freaking tooltip is causing)

Yes, Captain Obvious, the number 6 beats the number 5, that's brilliant.

A lvl 20 character with Mod(50), is it properly geared ? slighly undergeared ? Or is it trash ?

Is for example item rating 80 good for level 43 character or should I replace it? How I can know if it's within 5 levels from character's level without ctrl+rclick? You do realize that there's not enough planetary comm's to upgrade mods every time you level up?

As I've written before give it some time and you'll learn.
I need this time as well so stop trying to prove your point with the nonsense of "do you already know everything new and every facette of it?"

Do it every 4-8 levels that suffices.
(You can't even upgrade your mods every time you level up through planetary comms because the vendors only sell a new tier every 2nd level )

That's still ~80 planetary comms (~40 per level) every time next item rating is available. That's only for your own character, now think about gearing your companion too.

I've leveled enough chars to know when to upgrade my and my companions gear pretty well.

Quest Rewards typically offer companion gear.

This. I welcome the change, though it will certainly take a little bit to get used to.

Mmm

I really appreciate what BIOWARE intended to do with the upgrade, but frankly, I wish they woul dhave simplified it to were armor level would have been preserved and made to match the actual level of the player.

For example a level 50player would want to wear level 50 armor it could be green, blue or purple 50s.

When you get to 55, it gets a bit tricky for you have the old level 66, 69, 72 and 78. and PvP sets

I would think 66 would be green, blue and purple, the 69s would have a silver coloring, 72 gold coloring, and 78 Red coloring

thus a dreadforge piece of armor would read: Level 55 in red coloring.

The number values, while I can associate with the quality of gear mods, really does not mean much to me, for instance I see 180, which I know is level 78, or mod 34, but really what does the 180 specifically means? is the 180 the addition of the plusses of the mod itself? I imagine it has some kind of rational explanation, but it eludes me at this time. Same is with the mod 34, what is the significance of 34, does this mean there are 33 lower capable mods?

Hugs

Sue