Cosmic Exploration - Great for DoH, Stressful and Unpleasant for DoL

[LGraf1]

I'm an omnicrafter/harvester on main, I get it and understand etc.

What has me confused is the whole "not high enough level" I ran into on an alt's mining leveling. I had the correct gear on, both sides, however it was not high enough. I needed 72. I gained a level, put on another new piece, hit 72 but then was given 79 instantly as the new "not high enough" level. EDIT: ILVL not level, apologies

I don't understand. Are we supposed to do these in HQ gear? If so, they WHY are NQ gear sold at the moonbase vendor? No matter how high you are NQ wise, it's still going to be too low according to the Cosmic Exploration.

My daughter's toon is in HQ L96 gear, both sides, even she ran into that "too low" factor doing missions set to her level.

It's making leveling my new alt's mining rather difficult. After failing 11 missions due to just not being fast enough or bad spots in terrain I went back to usual leveling of leves back down. In the time it took to run leves and story quests, I had over 12 levels gained.

Am I wrong in assuming that you were supposed to be able TO level in the Cosmic Exploration? Or am I mistaken in that this is just something to keep end game DoH/DoL's busy until the next expac?

[Daralii]

I'm an omnicrafter/harvester on main, I get it and understand etc.

What has me confused is the whole "not high enough level" I ran into on an alt's mining leveling. I had the correct gear on, both sides, however it was not high enough. I needed 72. I gained a level, put on another new piece, hit 72 but then was given 79 instantly as the new "not high enough" level. EDIT: ILVL not level, apologies

I don't understand. Are we supposed to do these in HQ gear? If so, they WHY are NQ gear sold at the moonbase vendor? No matter how high you are NQ wise, it's still going to be too low according to the Cosmic Exploration.

My daughter's toon is in HQ L96 gear, both sides, even she ran into that "too low" factor doing missions set to her level.

It's making leveling my new alt's mining rather difficult. After failing 11 missions due to just not being fast enough or bad spots in terrain I went back to usual leveling of leves back down. In the time it took to run leves and story quests, I had over 12 levels gained.

Am I wrong in assuming that you were supposed to be able TO level in the Cosmic Exploration? Or am I mistaken in that this is just something to keep end game DoH/DoL's busy until the next expac?

The warning telling you to buy from the base vendor is completely nonsensical, yes. I had it pop up on FSH at 91 or 92 while wearing scrip gear and 90 HQ accessories, but the vendor gear will only start narrowly edging it out at 97.