Gearing Changes coming in Update 7.5.1

Hey Community!

As we continue through the Legacy of the Sith expansion, we want to make further adjustments to improve the experience of our gear progression. Patch 7.5.1 will contain adjustments to increase reward choice and give more opportunities for progression.

More Choice in your Rewards
To help players progress towards Artifact gear, we’re going to increase the choice of rewards from missions. Players will be able to choose between the Upgrade Caches or more currency.

• Veteran Flashpoint Weekly missions will reward an Elite Decurion Upgrade Cache or an additional 130 FP-1 Stabilizers.
• Master Flashpoint Weekly missions will reward a Supreme Decurion Upgrade Cache or an additional 310 FP-1 Stabilizers.
• Daily and Heroic Area missions will reward a Noble Decurion Distribution Chest or 25 FP-1 Stabilizers.
• Story Operations Weekly missions will reward a Tionese Upgrade Cache or 70 OP-1 Catalysts.

More Opportunities to Get Stronger
We want to support players making more progress each week. We’re going to increase the amount of times our [WEEKLY] Missions can be completed and increase the weekly progress caps on our progression currency.

• Flashpoint Weekly missions can be completed 4 times per week
• Daily and Heroic missions can be completed 3 times per week
• Story Operations missions can be completed 4 timer per week

We’ll also be increasing the availability of Operations missions, allowing more choice in which Operation you run each week.

• Operation weekly mission rotating eligibility has been removed. All [WEEKLY] missions are now available from the Operations Terminal on the Fleet ships.

Weekly Progress currency caps will be increased to go along with these changes.

• FP-1 Stabilizer will have a Weekly Progress cap of 4,000 (up from 3,000)
• OP-1 Catalyst will have a Weekly Progress cap of 3,000 (up from 2,000)

Trade for Better Rewards
Along with the choice for currency instead of Upgrade Caches, we’re going to be adding a way for players to convert their Upgrade Caches to better gear.

• Trade 3 Elite Decurion Upgrade Cache and credits for 1 Supreme Decurion Upgrade Cache
• Trade 3 Supreme Decurion Upgrade Cache and credits for 1 Rakata Upgrade Cache
• Trade 3 Tionese Upgrade Cache and credits for 1 Columi Upgrade Cache
• Trade 3 Columi Upgrade Cache and credits for 1 Rakata Upgrade Cache

As always, we’ll continue to monitor feedback around gearing and itemization!

Catch you later, I have to gear up for the new Lair Boss!

Bryant Wood | Systems Designer

Source

Hey everyone,

Following up on some questions we saw floating around after the stream.

Gearing progression – original post

What about PvP weeklies and currencies? Can we exchange them for the other currencies as well?

• The changes to gearing that are detailed in Bryant’s post primarily focused on progression through Flashpoints. We are working on further improvements that would touch upon PvP and Operations, but they will be included in a future update. That said, we did want to add one additional change based on feedback and one clarification for 7.5.1 changes:
  • We will lower the amount of OP-1 Catalysts when choosing extra tokens over the Tionese Upgrade Cache
  • 3 Supreme Decurion Upgrade Cache will convert to 1 Columi Upgrade Cache, not 1 Rakata Upgrade Cache

Will caches stack? 

• This is a function we looked into, however due to some technical limitations, the caches cannot stack.

Any chance of making Hyde and Zeek unlocks on your Legacy instead of individual characters?

• There are no plans to make Hyde and Zeek unlocks on your Legacy.

“Story Operations missions can be completed 4 times per week”. What about Veteran Mode? 

• Due to the Weekly Operation Lockout for Veteran Mode, the Veteran Mode Weekly can only be completed 1x per week.