December Producer Livestream Wrap-up

Can you clarify what command tokens are a little more? Are they used exclusively for Op/Pvp gear? Or do they have other uses? Can we trade them in / disintegrate them for CXP?

That might work for a main, but the thing about progression raiding is many run through content with multiple alts. I'm also expecting the valor requirement to be rather high (70+) to prevent raiders from skipping Master Mode Operations.

BioWare is essentially making gear progression work as they did previously in both systems. The main difference is that it's the same gear, so PvPers are going to gear faster due to the nature of gear being the same. In other words, there is an incentive for doing all endgame content and not just focusing on one aspect.

I watched the stream, and they were pretty clear on this, so I will answer for you.

Command tokens are just a currency. You cannot disintegrate them or convert them to CXP in any way. Unassembled tier N (N=1, 2, 3) gear piece + tokens (amount TBD) = tier N gear piece.

I though the gear come from them Boxes ?! So what give.....

Translation... we are moving from single grind to DOUBLE grind. Grind crates for tokens, and grind OPs for a chance to roll on an unassembled gear piece. Depending on the costs at the vendor, this may be better or worse..... very much TBD.

The vendor path is a good one as it provides certainty of effort (since you can see on the vendor in advance what you need). However it really should be a reputation style vendor in my view, where GC level progressively unlocks access to purchase specific items. Double grinding makes little sense, unless they significantly reduce the GC grind and no indications of this so far.

SWTOR Dev Team.

Why do you insist on reinventing the wheel?
It feels like you are doing far more work than you need to do by trying to, yet again, create a new gearing system...

Here's how you gear up alts. Run operations on your main, get unassembled drops. Use tokens from any character + unassembled pieces, take them to vendor, get piece. Pull armor / mod / enh from that piece, put it in a legacy gear piece, send to alt.

Alternatively, run warzones on your main. Get unassembled components. Turn unassembled components into vendor and get unassembled gear piece. Turn in unassembled gear piece + tokens in to vendor, get gear piece. Once again do the legacy gear thing to send stuff to your alt.

If you refuse to do any pvp or ops, then yes: you will have to endure the RNG grind as it is right now.

For me, I'm quite happy. Good solution, BW. It's certainly not as easy to get pvp gear as it was in 4.0, but beggars can't be choosers I guess. This is enough to keep me subbed.

Hey Eric,

Will the following bugs be fixed in Game Update 5.1?

1. Class Stances are doubling on certain classes.

2. GSF is not rewarding levelling XP or credits above level 65.

Thank You,
~ Eudoxia

Gear still drops randomly in crates. Ops are just a way to guarantee pieces you want.

So....the PVE still grind ? So what did they change ? add more gear in OP and PVP ?