Why is there a weekly cap exactly?? Arbitrary gating per week? And who is this benefitting? And if they need to be present, then why are the weekly caps so damn low!!! FP gear upgrade costs 170-205 FP-1's, 100+ more than ANY OTHER gear upgrade. Do we get more FP-1 comms that we can carry? Yep - 2500, vs 999 for the others. Oh wait, but the weekly cap is STILL 999? EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OTHERS? So we can upgrade like 2 pieces of gear each week? ***!! How is this not wrong?

So in order to upgrade to 330, after I hit the FP-1 weekly cap, I have to try to get a 330 green conquest to force a 330 blue drop in MMFP, otherwise I can never get to a blue 330. This is the ONLY way once the cap hits. So how do we get 330 conquest weapons for example? Either buy it at the vendor and upgrade FIVE TIMES, or get it to drop from the conquest crates so that it starts at 326. Ok so how can we get the weapon to drop from it? Oh that's right conquest crates do NOT upgrade the lowest piece, so it's completely random which piece you get. Literally hours of RNG daily conquest crates / or GSF crates to get incredibly lucky to get the piece you need, or just wait until next week to upgrade 2 pieces of 326 blue.

Bioware, you actually are doing a decent job with this game, but come on. Please actually get some MMO players to guide this decision making. You tried to reduce RNG, but you did NOT. It is 100% still there because the non-RNG upgrading is way too time consuming and way too expensive, and arbitrarily gated behind worthless, exceedingly low weekly caps.

It's quite slow to do it like that but it's entirely up to you.

You have weekly upgrade boxes for:

VM fp up to 330 green

MM fp up to 330 blue

PVP up to 328 purple

GSF up to 328 purple

Then you have every weekly operation mission granting an upgrade crate up to 330 green/blue/purple depending on sm/vm/mm

Then you can transfer the same set of gear to an alt and do as many weekly upgrade boxes on that as you like.

Then after running out of alts for weekly upgrade crates you can think about spending currency.

The boxes are not RNG, they will upgrade your lowest piece. You can use this to guarantee that X item is upgraded to the colour you want.