Steam build appears to be missing eula.settings and eualas.version, adding these in from a bacjup i have removed the issue.

To help with gear progression going forward, would it be a good idea to allow for the conversion of SM R-4 operation tokens to Veteran R-4 operation tokens at a level that makes obtaining blue tier 330+ gear attainable to casual players say 8 - 1. i.e., Do 2 SM R-4 operations completely and you can convert the tokens received for a HM upgrade token. The benefits being upgrade path for all to 340, raiders will see a benefit in doing SM R-4 which currently there isn’t, SM R-4 participation would Increasing. Purple 340 gear (R4 Boss tokens) is still left as an achievement for people who clear R-4 HM.

You appear to have removed some Crest's that were earned before 6.0

Some of mine have and some haven't, at first looked like all the chars with a special character in the name haven't got the reward all those with normal alphabet names have, but 3 with normal names haven't got the rewards either

Save your money, despite a promise that it would change for live, it is still time consuming, expensive and utilly pointless for anything other than outfits and biochem & augment. THe steps to craft any gear that would be worthwhile will take you 2 months.

More examples of the complete imbalance between crafting and gear grinding Started Crafting Armourings to see how they had been thought out. Standard Purchased from the Vendor Versatile Armoring which is a Irating of 274 requires 20 Processed Isotopes and 8 Solid resource Matrix with a 20% chance to RE. So 80 Processed Isotopes and 40 Solid resource Matrix later I got to RE to a Blue Armoring Irating 278 with a 10% Chance to RE Single Crafting Cost 20 Isotopes, 8 Solid Resource Matrix 5 Lustrous Grafts (50 Premium Lustrous Crystals & 50 Premium Lustrous Fragments + Veda Cloth) and 3 Premium Syntex Grafts ( 30 Premium Woven Syntex & 30 Premium Data Spikes + Veda Cloth). So withthe 10% RE Chance I should need 10 Blues to get the Purple. I did this and RE'd them to get the Purple with an Irating of 286. At this point i have given up testing anymore on Armourings as the Mats requirement is so great and the time its takeing is so long its pointless. Within 3 Hours of Grinding you would probably have a complete set above this rating the Mats required to make it would take Weeks and weeks to get to Just make 1 286 Armoring. Now please tell me that you have heard what we are saying and something is going to dramatically change soon. Nothing currently is worth crafting on the PTS.

They Currently do not effect Crits or Mission Times

Can we please just go back to a time when I get some ingredients from gathering missions or Nodes I then combine these into a New Item. If i want to craft a green item I use Green Ingredients, if I want to craft a Purple it has some purple ingredients. I do not want to craft an Item, then use that item with some more ingredients to create another item, then use that item with some more ingredients to create the final item. It’s boring, frustrating, longwinded and above all else needlessly complicated. Back in the day when Rakata gear was king, the schema for it was 8 Durasteel, 8 Zal Alloy and 8 Mandalorian Iron. That was it, nice and simple. Sure, the Mandalorian Iron was difficult to get but it wasn’t a list that I needed to have a spreadsheet to work out what I needed to create just 1 item. So please just simplify the Schematics so crafting is simple and understandable.

The Crafting System is just not Working to the extent that despite still being able to get mats relatively easily compared to when it goes live, I can't face creating even the new Augs the work load is so onerous. Critical Aug Blue, Schematic bought from the vendor requires: 1 Prototype Syntex Bonded Cloth (Bonded Attachment), 10 Processed Isotopes, 5 Solid Resource Matrix, 2 Prototype Lustrous Bonded Attachments. Prototype Syntex Boned Attachment requires: 10 Prototype Data Spikes, 3 Premium Syntex Bonded Attachments, 10 Prototype Woven Syntex, 8 Premium Veda Cloth. Prototype Lustrous Bonded Attachments require: 3 Premium Lustrous Attachments, 10 Prototype Lustrous bonded Attachments, 8 Premium Veda Cloth, 10 Prototype Lustrous Crystals. Premium Syntex Bonded Attachment requires: 8 Standard Veda Cloth, 10 Premium Woven Syntex, 10 Premium Data Spikes Premium Lustrous Bonded Attachment requires: 8 standard Veda Cloth, 10 Premium Lustrous Crystals, 10 Premium Lustrous Artifact Frags So to make 1 Blue Crit Augment I need: 252 Various Green Items, 84 Blue Items & 15 Premium Items. In Mission Times on a level 50 Comp a Medium Mission Takes 9.5 mins and yields 20 ish Items so 13 missions assuming some crits to get Blues as well so a mere 2 hours on a level 50 comp doing missions. To try and get the Purple Schematic on a 10% RE Chance 2520 Greens, 840 Blues & 150 Premium. If people can’t be bothered doing crafting on the PTS when stuff is easy to get just think what it will be like on the Live server

Mods acquisition is still a joke, I haven’t had a single 306 rated mod or enhancement drop yet from HM Vet. Drops have included 298 pieces, Shells with mods in ranging from 278 to 304. But no 306 mods so this method to get Mods for you set gear does not work. The other method I tried is buying from Takanna, this currently on individual items Armour, Mod or Enh sort of works but the rng involved for the cost is just plain frustrating when tank pieces drop on a dps. Buy a Main Hand or Off Hand from Takanna and again you are met with frustration. You don’t get a piece equal to your Irating, in fact you are lucky if it contains a single mod that’s at your irating. With the amount of Available options within Mods, Enh, Armour, Barrels and Hilts just make every 306-piece drop be made of 306 mods. RNG can then be if you get a BIS pieces and we can moan about the lack of BIS pieces rather than the complete lack of mods.

My Operative has an Item Rating of 306, went to Takkanna to get new Main Hand and Off Hand and dispite the above statement i recieved a 299 rated MH a 296 Rated MH and a 294 Rated MH. On the plus side none where for a Tank which is what happened when I tried to get a Barrel for the shell I have.

Ho Hum first thing i do is go to Takanna, buy a Unidentified Barrel for my Merc and get a Tank Barrel. These dont appear to be dropping to current spec.

I think / hope you have a miss type in the cost of the new mats from the Jawa Scrap Peddlers. I am aware the prices have gone up across all tiers but the inflation on Grade 11 Mats appears a little excessive. Tier 1 to Tier 10 mats progress nicely at 1 Jawa Junk piece through to 10 Jawa Junk Pieces then when you hit tier 11 Matts the price sky rockets to 200 Jawa Junk Pieces. I hope it’s meant to be 20 at the most. The current costing combined with the quantities needed to craft make this form of mat purchase pointless.

Bump, couldnt agree more

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