With 1.2 coming up, a change in commendation collecting?

[Aryuken]

Hey,

Sorry if this is a subject beaten to death, but I feel like I've climbed a mountain only to see an escalator at the top! I've followed advice to get a champion bag, put it in my cargo bay, then proceeded to play through warzones exchanging WZ commendations for Merc commendations, losing 66% of my WZ commendations b/c of the trade value to get 1k of each. Finally have 1 bag and 1k Wz and Merc and feeling good, just leveling up. Now I've read that champion gear is out and getting gear will cost only WZ commendations and my Merc commendations can be traded for a loss of 66% of their value! I guess I'm wondering whether I should just start acquiring gear (centurion i guess) with my merc commendations and hang on to my wz commendations...

[Dangles]

Good question, I've been thinking the same thing. I'm upset they're pulling the champ gear since I'm a shadow and those white robes are so sweet looking.

[stavmar]

This is quite disconcerting, those of us that don't level so fast really are at a disadvantage sometimes.

[Naxy]

Overall you are going to gain. In 1.2 you can buy decent PvP gear for credits, instead of how it is now. I think it is a good change.

[Xophenex]

I feel the same way I'm about to hit 50 and I saved everything up but I don't think they will take out away if you already have it.they said its getting discontinued.

[vtine]

The new system coming in is making me sad. I've been cranking WZ's for the last week to try and finally get valor 60 for the Battlemaster gear, and now itll come down to just buying all the pieces with WZ comms.

Sad face

[Izod]

Overall you are going to gain. In 1.2 you can buy decent PvP gear for credits, instead of how it is now. I think it is a good change.

This. And you'll also be able to buy BM gear with WZ comms. Gearing in 1.2 will be far quicker than it was in 1.x. You'll be fully competitive in a week if you grind out the comms. Granted my alts feel a bit shafted that they are effectively losing their Merc Comms, but they'll also be able to ding 50 into full BM gear by buying it along the way - so in a lot of ways it's better for them. I only see a couple of people who really suffer here - Battlemasters+ who haven't been able to get full BM gear yet due to RNG; and toons that are just about to ding 50 who haven't been able to buy BM gear along the way like upcoming toons will be able to do. The latter of the two really isn't at that much of a disadvantage since recruit gear can be bought and if you're 1000/1000 you'll still be able to get a couple of pieces of BM gear at 50.

[Naxy]

One of the quite sane threads on the SWTOR.com forum (yes, I was surprised too) argued that PvP will be more about skill and team work, and less winning through superior gear. Which I think is a good thing for the game. When something changes in an MMO it isn't always easy to please everyone. This change makes for longevity, which I like.

[Cadika]

That's also something I look forward to with the ranked warzones. Not having the gear=ganked and quick right now. Even being a tank I barely get more than 5 medals a match because I spend so often staring at my corpse as a ungeared lvl 50.
Being able to run dailies and "gear up" then collect enough cash to purchase the gear to be competitive will be interesting to see how the dynamic changes

[Izod]

One of the quite sane threads on the SWTOR.com forum (yes, I was surprised too) argued that PvP will be more about skill and team work, and less winning through superior gear. Which I think is a good thing for the game. When something changes in an MMO it isn't always easy to please everyone. This change makes for longevity, which I like.

Yes, I'm thrilled that the "Rated" gear doesn't have any stat differences over the "Unrated" War Hero gear. It never made sense to me that someone with a higher rating should get better gear - it just widens the gap. Now everyone works equally for the gear, those with higher ratings get the gear quicker and with a unique color, but in the end it washes out.