Hurray! The new... REGEARING!

BioWARE heard all those dozens of posters that complained how it's been too long since we had to regear! About how stimulating it is to supply 14 Augments and 14 Kits for each alt! How absolutely starved we were for running up the crafting from 500 to WOW! 550!!!! How underpowered we've felt lately, and how desperately in need of higher level gear for the content!

What's next?! Oh, I know! Going to level 70, by scaling back the power of each character to slightly below where they were at 65 with a Utility point... wait for it!!! Every TWELVE levels, not TEN!

Way to go, BioWARE! That's the kind of new content we all were clamoring for here!

Two regearing a year is not ENOUGH! IT gotta be 3 or better even - 5! With every new 30 min chapter!

That takes the cake. Absolutely.

You don't get it, bro. We asked for new endgame content for so long, and EA finally answered our desperate call! Not only that, but they improved on the model!

Everybody knows that true endgame is getting new levels of gear. Running Ops was just boring, tedious waste of time on this glorious quest for loot. But not anymore! Now we can get new tier of gear without it! We don't need ops anymore - just give us more gear!

I'm used to this bit of lameness, but this timing doesn't even pass the laugh test.

wth's it for? More stale SF or old content runs?

I didn't watch the stream, only read the summary which was ambiguous as to whether the new crafting max would up the level of augments (e.g. make mk 9 the new max) or just move mk 8 to the new crafting limit.

If you watched it was the new augment level definitive or are they just moving the goal post on the existing one?

Dulfy did, and what she said is:

Crafting Update (coming with Chapter X)

Skill increase to 550
New craftable gear and mods (item rating 208). Existing crafting gear will be bumped up 4 levels each.
This will affect the augment MK levels (you will need to be 550 to craft the max level ones)
Old appearance will be coming back – War Hero stuff etc.
New materials
Mission re-organization
More info coming before end of Jan. It will be a very long forum post.

Yeah, I was going off the Dulfy summary. It just said craft the max level ones not what they actually are.

Not to be a doomsayer but if I have to re-gear my augs again (across nine toons) I think I will be taking a break for a while until it settles....like say until chapter 16 is out the door.

I just don't see how introducing new level cap and new materials to craft MK-8s and Augments 40 is at all justifiable use of developer's time. If they do that, they might as well close the company down, because it does not have any value-added. To anyone.

New level at least introduces money sink and throws a bone to the crafters that still cry about the Conquests.

I don't disagree but this is the same company who, as you noted, upped the level cap and took away an existing utility point that you had to earn back (not to mention some chunk of your companions).

I'm hoping their stupidity works to my advantage this time.

Ah, you mean that this is actually because the new materials will now be locked on Odessen so we can't pick them on Yavin, so it forces us to grind more alts through that fabulously infinitely replayable KotFE story?! Because locking the vendors behind a legacy unlock for the alts that you dared to stay away from KotFE on was not enough?

This thread is squarely in the 10/10 territory!