will orange gear become obsolete with 1.2?

More gear than what they 'said' was every piece of non moddable gear having a moddable version... which they clearly dont.

This is medium.

I would like something like that fully slottable, with the ability for a crafter to give me a consumable to add an augment slot to each piece (rather than having my armor that dropped in the world be gimped b/c now only the critted stuff is better...this way, the crafters are in demand even more b/c they can make augment slot adder consumables).

Make it so!

Yes i know it is, which is why I said he was confusing as he was saying that was how it is NOW.

rather the one type of crafter that can do it would be ? as opposed to the two types that they are giving crit moddable stuff to ? to add to the 2 others which already have crit moddables ?

This + crafters making consumable augment slot applications to existing armor = everything, ever, in the universe, is something awesome to wear.

If you want to look like a Fox NFL robot, you can. Luke in his IV white toga? All the way until level 1,000? You betcha! Inspiration and Indignation didn't come with an augment slot? No problem, buy a consumable from the GTN and add one!

Oops, mistype.

Meant Orange gear, and Patch 1.2 for purple (When the slots get unlocked).

Sorry for the confusion.

That makes it all clear then he he, yeah I got quite confused with what you were trying to say now it makes sense LOL.

These and other concerns are why we begged since before beta for a simple easy unobtrusive social tab; no mess no fuss no QQ. Instead whats likely gonna happen is min maxers are gonna figure out how to eek the most of the system; what they eek out is (going by the track record to date i assume from lack of internal testing) gonna be higher/better/more used than BW intended. BW will then proceed to nerf/remove/adjust whatever combo it was. And we'll all be back here in 3 mo. complaining about people looking the same again.

I don't think crits are frequent enough that non-crafter-orange gear will be obsolete. Even at level 50, it's probably going to take a while and cost a fortune to get all critted orange. Level Character unless they are armortech or synthweaving probably won't be able to afford it.

I know that in all the crafting, I've done. I have only seen one crit.

Not sure what you are saying, but (weapons aside) you got:

AC
Mod
Enh

That's an OJ. I think 'everything' that is (again, not weapons) made by crafters that is 'armor' should have those. They should come filled with stuff that add up to whatever level they are currently at so they aren't just shells. You can then replace those with whatever you want.

I think, like they are planning, they should be able to make crit version that also have an augment slot.

Now, I think they should be able to 'reverse engineer' the critted item into a 'consumable that will add an augment slot to any existing piece of armor'. One use. I could then buy one of these from a crafter and add it, say, to an Indignation Chestguard (so that OJ that drops in the world is somehow not sub standard).

Finally, I think that 'all' armor should be slottable. Now, whether that means they 'add' slottable versions of all armor to the world or not is moot. Really, there should be no reason for 'green' or 'blue' or 'oj' armor. There should be shells, all fully slottable. Crafters can make 'em, they drop in the world. Crafters can create ones with augment slots, they can 'also' create consumables so you can apply them to existing armor (that obviously don't already have an augment slot).

Then if you feel the need to 'color' things to tell how awesome they are, color the things you put in the mod and augment slots. Green, blue, purple, orange, banana, whatever.

I guess that's about it.