Please go back to the old Armour numbering system

It is a better system as a higher rating will always be better from a stat budget perspective than a lower rating, regardless of the quality / color of the item. The old system only made sense pre-50 and only when comparing items of the same quality / color.

It also lets them add the same rating levels to all gear, which will allow for the ability to average the gear rating a player has across a gear set, and hopefully lead to things like having the Group Finder use the average rating to display / determine if a player can queue for certain content (no more 55s in HMs with gear from Belsavis).

It can be a bit confusing when leveling as you can't just eyeball your gear and see you have mods that are ten levels behind, though you can still easily compare what is available on the vendors with what you have equipped, and you can still 'open' the shell if you really must see the level requirement of the mods you are using.

Bad idea, because greens and purples of the same item level are vastly different.

Exactly this. "Oh, I'm level 35 now. I can buy 88-rated stuff from the comms vendor. The weakest stuff I'm wearing is 72...should I replace it?" It doesn't matter than the 88 rated stuff is level 35, and the 72 requires level 27, because knowing the levels doesn't tell you about the relative strength of the gear.

If item level were important, we'd have all just been buying greens off the vendors/GTN for credits for the last 2 years.

Only because we are used to an older one - in my opinion better and simpler. But it`s not the end of the world, I`d think.

I do everything by I level. Not sure why you dont. Time to catch up.

Signed. Roll back to previous system. It was a pointless change.

I guess you've resorted to petty sniping to make up for a lack of a compelling point.

Noooooo

I think this new system will just give people more reasons to kick other people from leveling FPs for "being undergeared". Remember that this already happens in level 55 tactical FPs.

All of the references to this new system being confusing for leveling is absurd.

When you are leveling and greens or blue drops do you look at the item # (whatever system is being used ) and make a decision based on that? Of course not. Would you put on a green level 32 in place for your blue level 29 that has better stats? Of course not. When leveling you burn through gear and only look to see if it is an improvement to your stats, not if it has a higher level rating. It is the stats that matter, not some rating/level. If it is modable pieces you have always looked to see if the individual parts will be an upgrade. That has not changed either.

For end game the new system is superior. The item level was meaningless since all it said was the mod part that was the highest number in that piece. The new system gives a more complete picture of the overall power of that piece of gear.