Why are the best crafted items are so weak?

I wish they'd go back and put actual solo modes into all the FPs. I still can't figure out why Directive 7 got one, but Lost Island didn't.

I've seen a game where excellent items can be crafted and other excellent items can only be obtained by either pvp or pve endgame content. And the bis... is a combo of these. And it is wonderful. but it is *not* this game.

Yet, anyway. They're messing around with other core systems, after all.

Well, that argument doesn't hold water.

Even if you are running Ops you don't NEED BiS Gear - you could make up for not having that gear by just learning to play better.

But no, some people feel all entitled and want a short cut.

See what I did there....


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So the people already capable of clearing the leading edge progression content are the ones that need things made easier?

That makes no sense at all...


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At the bleeding edge (NiM content) people speak of advancing in ops boss by boss, and then doing speed runs. The highest end gear grind always seemed to me to be one part habit and one part tradition, but I don't progression raid. TEC has recently opened my eyes to why that might be appealing, but not for the gear grind, but for the thrill of victory (I'm not getting better gear through TEC than what I already have).

If you arent doing OPs, there is no reason to have 224s. nothing else in the game requires anything near that level of gear. there is also the HUGE shortcut of being able to transfer left over/extra pieces between characters with legacy gear.

Also, being able to craft the best gear in the game would devalue the time and effort people have to put in to get it, you dont deserve the best gear for no work, especially when you have no need for it

Three strategic resource matrices (i.e. complete your personal conquest goal three times) and ten exotic isotope stabilizers (a hard mode flashpoint usually drops two, of which you have a fair chance of getting one), is not exactly nothing.

And that is after you reverse engineered your way to the recipe, for which you need to burn a strategic resource matrix and fourteen exotic isotope stabilizers without getting anything vut the recipe for it. And that is per item. If you do that once you can craft that one item. (Alright, with Eternal Championship it became easier to acquire exotic isotope stabilizers, as long as you don't run out of characters to do the weeklies.)

I am perfectly fine with having special rewards for operations, but it frustrates me when people act like crafting was nothing. And it isn't like you were able to craft even the second best PvE gear that way. The best and the second best gear is exclusive to operations. 220 operations gear is still better than crafted 220 gear. (Even though with some gear the difference is bigger than others... as discussed earlier, weapons are a viable alternative, not quite as good, but not much worse either, relics are considerably worse)

The Exarch drops EIS in Heroic Star Fortresses; and you can buy them with common crystals. The only source I know of for SRMs is conquest, though. It's still a lot of effort on a per-piece basis; involving playing the game a fair bit, if just as a solo

You can buy them with with 25 glowing data crystals... and a star fortress usually takes longer than a hard mode flashpoint. Well, depending on which it is. Hammer Station is faster than soloing a heroic star fortress, Kaon Under Siege isn't. The by far easiest way to get them is Eternal Championship. You get three for a weekly run, and that takes less time than a heroic star fortress or a flashpoint.