“Turbine dev #1: How can we compete against SWTOR? Our players are leaving. What do they have that we don’t?
Turbine dev #2: Lightsabers, obviously.
Turbine dev #1: We need to make our Legendary Items more like lightsabers.
Lead Designer: Power crystals. We can do this. Plus, we can sell premium crystals in the store for cash. Let’s make it happen.”
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I can only hope that eventually they’ll screw up the LI system so bad that they’ll scrap it and start over. The system is such a grind that it’s ridiculous to call the items legendary. Nothing is legendary when you have nearly a dozen of them clogging your inventory.