Okay, so in this Friday's Q&A, we got a tidbit of information on how the gear is going to scale from Patch 1.2 onwards (I assume, from reading inbetween the lines).
It's going to go like this:
Crit crafted Orange gear
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Commendation/token gear
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Other gear.
Now, I'm sure a lot of people won't have problems with this, but it grinds my gears. I, personally, find crafting infuriating, and do not like to base a lot of my game time mindlessly working away at it. I've never really bothered with crafting in general, but it's only my opinion, like I've said, and I understand why some people might like it. What annoys me is how this crafted gear is going to dominate my character now, unless I invest a -lot- of credits into the next gear. The fact that gear being crafted gets you better gear than tokens makes the farming of tokens obsolete in the first place.
The Q&A is here, please post any thoughts ^^
http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-march-2nd-2012