Why is Bioware so silent on major gear issues from 5.10?

It takes players who develop the spreadsheets a lot of time. Reading them takes minimal time. This isn't Advanced Euclidean Geometry to comprehend. And, for the record, I don't consider the spreadsheets gospel -- only a tool. But you make it sound like we are slaves to the spreadsheet, which I am not. But even if I were, it would have zero impact on the players you are championing. To wit...

It took me a whopping 30 seconds to look at their hard work and understand alacrity breakpoints.

It required zero seconds to figure out that in certain instances accuracy was a wasted stat.

Your statement that casuals will enjoy the benefit of optimization is complete rubbish because they are not, in fact, optimized. They may not care, but they didn't before. It's like having the church tell me I now have to do 1000 additional Hail Mary's before I can kiss a girl. Given that I have no interest in kissing girls, the new penalty is meaningless. Some people, however, like to kiss girls (let freedom ring!) but now have to jump through extra hoops, timely hoops -- despite the fact they will ultimately reach that goal.

WHICH RENDERS YOUR PVE BALANCING ARGUMENT MOOT.

Dasty

The irony of this is they can't even do simple right. I mean the gearing system is a conglomeration of different gearing systems, it's not one bit fluid or simple.

Yet they have dumbed down so many other things and removed the little details of the game that made it special.

Like level syncing. This had good intentions but it wrecked all the individual flashpoints by removing their really fun and interesting class specific loots and gears that the bosses dropped. Now, you get some generic blue or purple non-moddable piece that you can get anywhere at that same level. It's just bland and unimaginative.

Companions that can solo heroic mobs. Making all companions equal to one another with no specialties to them, like how Mako was a healer, and Kaliyo was a tank. They homogenized them all! All the minute detailed dev work done on these original pieces of art totally gutted and yanked out for the sake of simplicity and in some cases to please some players who cried that they couldn't use their favorite companion due to it not being good at filling a specific role. They also removed companion gearing then, too. Some people like this move, while others miss the customization gearing a companion added.

The whole point is by simplifying the game they have removed a lot of the fun factor from it.

By locking in mods, that just adds one more layer of wrecking a part of the game that made it unique and special as well as fun.

I am not a spreadsheet kind of guy, but I still like to have the option of creating a stat line on my toons via movable mods and enhancements. It used to be like fixing up a hot rod with custom parts to get different performance out of it. This was fun! One time I made a JC that had alacrity on every piece I could equip on him. Every mod, ear, implant, augments, etc. I did it just for the fun of it. Now, if you wanted to monkey around like that, it would take you months to accrue the parts.

Simplifying a game especially when it once was more dynamic isn't good for the game, no matter how convenient it is for the game company. All they have done is damaged art imo.

Thank you for your opinion.

Thats a very simple way to look at it. Each player feels differently about every change based on how it impacts their personal situation.

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ABsolutely.

But when we've gone from 200+ servers to just 6 the ONLY conclusion that can be arrived at is that on balance those changes have been negative in their outcome.

That is they have ticked off many, many times more players than they have benefited.

The math don't lie.


All The Best

but you cant link the reason for the reduction of servers to a specific era.

Specific implant required,already have it on my char,also rep and 3 crystals but i cant buy masterwork version of that same *********** implant -.-

That's true. But we can link the reasons for the reduction of servers to a specific era.