I have been a long time and active supporter and of the game and I love so much about it. Usually I happily take things as they come in game and work with it, even if I might have done things differently. I have never posted in the Dev Tracker Forums before, but the gearing issue has prompted me. It makes sense to me not to give gear away for nothing, but rather to work for the different pieces through the various methods available. That said, binding the mods and enhancements is a difficult choice for players. As others have mentioned it limits our freedom to adapt our characters with the balance of stats we desire. Some of my main characters are balanced the way I want them with mods, enhancements, and augments. I am a professional and have other real life obligations, so I make do with the time I have to play. When a bound modification is thrown into the mix it is a point of frustration, because I cannot easily mix and match what I have for the right balance I want. Further, given the fact that the new crystal gear tokens only trickle in, this imbalance will persist for many more weeks on each character I have the time to play. While I know you developers love the game too, sometimes it's decisions like this that could mistakenly give the impression that you do not play or at least that you have the luxury of not grinding like the rest of us. So overall, thank you for everything you have created in game for us including this awesome new planet, but I would encourage you to consider well the reasonability of bound gear mods.

Hello Samms, Actually you sound like a great fit. Some of us are exactly where you are. We love to learn and teach op content, which is mostly done on Fridays. Search elders or celsfalia in game!

Hello! The best times to be certain to catch one of us is 8-10 PDT There will be a lot of us Friday night.

One day when I was exploring the temple ruins on Coruscant with an alt., I saw a message in general chat. It was our first Guildmaster recruiting new mature members. Though I did not respond, I was very intrigued. A few days later I was passing through on my main character and this time I replied. Joining Elders changed the way I played the game, opening up for me a whole new dimension SWTOR. It is because of the wonderful people in the guild and our other friends that my gameplay transitioned from KOTOR 3 to an actual MMOG, from soloing so much content to consistently playing in groups, from having no hope of ever understanding the endgame experience to playing operations and gaining the highest tier gear, and much more. Today I serve the guild as its Third Guildmaster and I love playing the game with such, kind, helpful, and friendly people. Their patience with me helped me to have more fun in the game and to learn a lot about how to play. Additionally, as a woman I find this a fun and safe place to be. There are many more of us in game then general chat would have you believe. Though I have made my fair share of corrections to childish remarks on the fleet or in a group, so often we are silently present. Our guild has a large percentage of mature, professional women who are very vocal in guild chat and even on Discord. I appreciate that in Elders we play as equals and are treated with respect.