No, You May Not Roll on Items for Another Class and Strip Out the Mods

How could you not find better gear? If you have orange items you can buy mods from the vendor for either credits or commendations.

If you are using blues/greens... There's plenty of those you can find doing PvE missions.

There is no possible way the gear you found at lvl 35 is superior to the stuff you can get at lvl 50 from the various vendors and mission rewards.

I think it's possible that you're misreading his post.

2 things.

1. Your server AH may not match his.

2. Maybe he's talking about the fact that he can't find better LOOKING orange pieces.

You're really wrapped around this "Someone rolled greed and then someone with a different set of priorities rolled need" thing, aren't you? Please, show us on the doll which slot the bad loot ninja took from you...

Seriously - if you're this worried about it, discuss it with the group. Everyone had been advocating that since about post 2 of the last thread, 1900 or so responses ago. Or once it happens, say "Hey, we seem to have a disconnect on what we're needing for here, can we take a sec to clear it up?"

If it's a misunderstanding on what qualifies as "need", then that can be cleared up through communication. If you're trying to impose your playstyle to define "need", then that's a problem.

No, I want better stats and better looking gear. Currently my character looks like he escaped from X-Men or is secret cousin of Spiderman.

no, it's quite possible to hit 50 and still have mid 30s relics at least, and there are a few other slots that you might miss if you skip out on portions of a planet.

I did that on a couple occasions: I skipped big portions because I had vastly outleveled the planet. It happens if you pvp much.

(1) is very true, but I doubt it's THAT big a difference. And as has been pointed out by others, planetary commendations are also a viable source of mods. I cannot imagine how someone could end up with mods in their gear that are 15 levels behind, with no options to upgrade.

As for (2), I'm going off his mention of running hard modes - if he's concerned about looks, difficulty is really irrelevant. I think it's plenty important to like your look, obviously, and fully support trying to upgrade for looks, but I don't think normal/hard modes are relevant to that. So, I'm assuming it's a capability issue.

We never stated it trumps it. Just that some people prioritize it over stats. And that you have no right to tell them their prioritization is wrong and force them to abandon the reason they may play the game because you disagree with it.

I'm seeing some reports of very dead AH's

Actually mods are kind of weird in the 30s. The ones you can get from commendations are pretty meh for some specs (say, a tank); mine wound up 10 levels behind or so..

Going for better-looking gear is just fine if you haven't found a look you like yet. The major points of appearance are head/shoulders/chest/legs. Shoulders are part of the chest piece. I've been using the same orange chest piece since Tattooine, and the same head piece since Hoth. In both cases they dropped off mobs in the world (not even off quest bosses). I was fortunate. I didn't like the skirt look, so I went to the GTN and bought orange leggings, then slotted them with mods I needed. I recently got some orange boots I liked that had better upgrades, so I equipped 'em. Once again, a world drop.

What does this mean? It means that in large part, at this point I'm only likely to roll on stuff in Flashpoints to equip my companions, or if they have mods I want in an orange or purple. Either way, I'm still the one who determines the priorities which direct my loot rolls, and no other player. I earned that right by helping to defeat the boss.

Actually mods I use are 47+.