"Streamlined leveling"...

community, you do realize its is 1 month left til the expansion right...

how you gain influence and such on companions in KotFE (note i didnt' say in 4.0, i.e the 60-65 story) will probably be more conversation/action based and less on arbitrary gifts (decisions matter) what happens in KotFE stays in KotFE and outside of the story you're class will still work primarily like it does now (same companions).

what exactly are you going to prep for? are you suddenly going to amass large quantities of certain mats?

.... I just personally think that some people THINK they need this information to properly handle the transition. your time budget is spent on current content, its value lies in what you get out of it now.

..... i still dont' understand what you would need to "budget" your time for?

.... I suspect as they get closer to launch they WILL give us some additional information as to not drastically upset the current economy.

I won't know the answer to that until I receive the information that I am waiting for. But if I do decided to build up my stock of certain mats, then I would prefer to have more time to decide if doing so make sense to me, and to come up with a number in my head of how many I might want to accumulate.
if a mat is removed, expect it to be replaced with a current available mat and have the schematic cost change to reflect this, as an example there will only be one type of level 5 artifact not two, remove the unnecessary ones that give little value, same with metals and compounds. and in general missions will return only one type of the items, not both, so schematic cost will be adjusted


You are of course free to THINK what you want, but like I said before I prefer (not need) to have more information so that I can decide how to use my time.

For instance, if current mats will be useful in the coming expansion then I might choose to spend more time doing dailies so that I can collect mats. At the same time, I because I enjoy PvP, I would also like accumulate warzone comms so that I have what I need in order properly contribute to matches when I do level up to 65. So I am left with wanting to know what changes are happening so that I can set goals and budget my time in order to achieve those goals. mats will have the same use they have now, the less than 60 content is not changing. new mats will be available for the new tier of crafting, all crafting nodes will return level appropriate mats rather than specific ones to make gathering mats easier as you level.

Now this concept of planning and then acting on those plans may be foreign to you, or maybe you just don't have the same desire to put that much thought into what you do, and that's ok. But I ask again that you do not trivialize my desire to do so.



That's ok, you don't have to.



I don't typically sell items on the GTN and almost never by off of it.

What I do is craft items that are useful to me and my guild mates, and to that end I would like to be prepared for the changes so that as we do advance our characters to level 65 we are able to enter flashpoints and operations with gear that is appropriate to the content that we choose to do. see above as the crafting items will not change its not liek they are removing crafting outright, just changing what is required to do the crafting. anything at the higher levels will be new mats and new schematics, the current system is just removing redundant types of mats to make it easier to collect and craft.

That means that I will be doing a lot of crafting in order to gear my toons and to help others in gearing theirs. none of that is changing, just making it easier to collect and make things by removing unnecessary mats at certain levels

If you don't understand why someone like me would want to do that then so be it. Just know that those are my plans, and I would appreciate knowing more about what changes are being made so that I can prepare for them as much as I am able to.

new mats will be available for the new tier of crafting

all crafting nodes will return level appropriate mats rather than specific ones to make gathering mats easier as you level.

You certain about that? Certain information seems to point to the opposite. And if that's true then that means that instead of not bothering with gathering the current materials (which I had stopped bothering with when they initially announced the expansion) then I should actually be actively gathering the mats still since they'll still be useful.



This causes potential issues with gathering lower level mats. I'm very interested in how they plan to deal with that. And if their implementation makes gathering low level mats difficult then I should be gathering those now too while I still can easily.

And stuff like this is the point. We don't know what's changing. They haven't really said any of what's happening with it.

These are good questions! We are working on a blog which will talk about what streamlined leveling means for Fallen Empire. My hope is to get it out sometime next week and we can talk through any unanswered questions then. Thanks everyone.

-eric

I don't dismiss the wanting of more information, I just don't think its as big of an issue as it some are making it out to be.

That information has a material difference on how I'm spending my time. Either I'm wasting time gathering mats that will be useless at the new level, or I'm wasting opportunities to loot materials that will still be important. Similarly for old mats too, I'm either wasting time stocking up on old mats that will be just as easy/easier to acquire come the expansion, or I'm wasting an opportunity to get those mats now before they get harder to get.

It's the same reason that people will not bother buying SoR, because it's about to become free in a month. It's the same reason why people stop augmenting their gear because it's about to become outdated in a month. It's the same reason why people stop spending comms because they'll be able to purchase better gear with it in a month. The information is important and it affects what we do now in order to better prepare for what's happening. Getting the most out of their time and money is important to (some) people.