Please go back to the old Armour numbering system

You apparently missed what I was saying. Purple is not always superior to blue nor blue always superior to green. Higher level was frequently not superior to the lower level item you already had.

In my view, a system that was assigning the same number to items of different power levels was flawed. Stating that "almost no one understands" is shown to be untrue based solely on the responses in this thread alone.

Yes, purple item lvl 21 is better than blue item 23. But it's a negligible difference. Just as negligible as it would be two blues 23. What matters is that being those item lvl you know beyond any doubt you're golden for lowbie Athiss

The main thing about the previous system is that you press "C" and with 1 second glance at your gear you knew exactly what was going on and what needed upgrading.

Yes, the gear rating system is good for those rare ocassions and only if you are OCD about. But it's a bad one for the vast majority of situations while leveling.
If it has to be one thing only, then I rather have a system that is good, simple, fast and effective for like what, 90, 95, 99 % of actual cases than one that is good for those exceptions but is always an annoying endeavour dealing with it. A bad trade.

Like I said. You actually can't come up with a compelling argument, so you fall back on the old faithful of insults and snide comments. Too bad. You used to be able to debate.

I've already explained the new (actually been in the game forever) system is far superior because it simply uses I level, like the game was designed. I don't need any more reason than that and if you insist on clinging to a system that was redundant and non intuitive, that's not my problem.

Unless they add an option, the system is here to stay and you should buck up and worry about more important things.

You can keep sticking your fingers in your ears and pretending that one system isn't better (and cleaner and more consistent) than two but that's not going to help your argument any.

This simply comes down to human resistance to change. People don't like change and they will fight it tooth and nail, even when the change makes perfect logical sense.

It's why unions still exist and laws aren't updated to reflect the current times we live in. People are stubborn and usually very resistant to change.

I just wish THIS rating system would be more logical in and of itself. There internal logic of how rating is calculated is inconsistent.

Item Rating = Item Level * 2 + Quality Modifier

Quality modifier is 6 for greens, 16 for blues, and 24 for purples.

Item Level is the what the old tooltip displayed, not the level required to equip.

I've no argument that the system was redundant. There were 3 ways of numbering mod and such. Simplifying it is definitely desirable.

When you say, "a system that was redundant and non intuitive" are you referring to all 3 naming methods collectively?

Because the one removed (level of the mod matching the required level to use) was in fact MARVELOUSLY intuitive. Are you really saying you had a hard time understanding it?

No doubt.

Is this what you think my argument is? It isn't.

You're painting with a very broad brush, here.

Can you find the myriad of posts complaining when the UI was made customizable? How about when the Group Finder added a "return to previous destination" after the mission was over? Or searching by primary stat to the GTN?

Some changes are well received. Others less so.

My biggest lament is that the rating system doesn't have any clear correlation to required level. I've actually spent time trying to figure out the "formula" for how rating is calculated, and I couldn't come up with any consistent method.

Once you reach end-game, everyone's level is the same, so rating vs level is irrelevant. But < 50, it would be nice to have a rating system that had a more obvious relationship to required level. It's merely a lack of convenience. That is all that is missing. Convenience.

Can you see that?

I guess mousing over is too hard? That's how I always did it. Required level? Its right there on the mod. That never went away. I always looked at required level. I never did it any other way.

If you're in game right now, and you have a <50 toon with orange gear, do the following:

1. Open your character sheet.
2. Mouse over the orange gear.
3. What is the required level of that mod?