Problem with crit crafting orange gear and removing purple mods.

Georg Zoeller: Absolutely. With the upcoming Game Update 1.2, we are adding endgame crafting for all professions. This includes augment crafting, the ability to crit-craft custom (orange) gear with augment slots, new endgame schematics, new color crystals, expanded and improved research and reverse engineering and much more (we're up to 4 pages of crew skill related patch notes in 1.2. alone)

Combined with new features such as the ability to extract base-mods from purple items (including the set bonus) and the improved color matching feature, crafters of all professions will find themselves in a lot of demand once the update hits


So, correct me if im wrong, but dont these changes essentially make orange crafted gear the best in the game? Why bother with my PvP or PvE gear when i can i just remove all the mods and set bonus, and put them in a piece of orange gear that now also has an augment slot for extra stats? In fact, why bother having PvP or PvE gear at all then? You might as well just give people a set of mods instead of a piece of gear, because EVERYONE that is atleast semi interested in min/maxing will be using orange gear.

I thought the goal was to make Crafting viable and competitive not make it the best gear. If this is indeed the case i find this an extremely stupid change. Quite frankly while i am not one to come to the forums throwing around threats should this indeed be the case i have no intention of renewing my subscription.

Georg Zoeller: Absolutely. With the upcoming Game Update 1.2, we are adding endgame crafting for all professions. This includes augment crafting, the ability to crit-craft custom (orange) gear with augment slots, new endgame schematics, new color crystals, expanded and improved research and reverse engineering and much more (we're up to 4 pages of crew skill related patch notes in 1.2. alone)

Combined with new features such as the ability to extract base-mods from purple items (including the set bonus) and the improved color matching feature, crafters of all professions will find themselves in a lot of demand once the update hits


So, correct me if im wrong, but dont these changes essentially make orange crafted gear the best in the game? Why bother with my PvP or PvE gear when i can i just remove all the mods and set bonus, and put them in a piece of orange gear that now also has an augment slot for extra stats? In fact, why bother having PvP or PvE gear at all then? You might as well just give people a set of mods instead of a piece of gear, because EVERYONE that is atleast semi interested in min/maxing will be using orange gear.

I thought the goal was to make Crafting viable and competitive not make it the best gear. If this is indeed the case i find this an extremely stupid change. Quite frankly while i am not one to come to the forums throwing around threats should this indeed be the case i have no intention of renewing my subscription.

1. Except you dont pick which look you like best, because the orange gear will have extra stats every time due to having an additional mod slot in the form of an augment slot.

2. And this is the only possible way to add in a money sink? I think not.

4. See 1. Orange crafted gear = extra slot = extra stats = best gear.

So, correct me if im wrong, but dont these changes essentially make orange crafted gear the best in the game? Why bother with my PvP or PvE gear when i can i just remove all the mods and set bonus, and put them in a piece of orange gear that now also has an augment slot for extra stats? In fact, why bother having PvP or PvE gear at all then? You might as well just give people a set of mods instead of a piece of gear, because EVERYONE that is atleast semi interested in min/maxing will be using orange gear.

I thought the goal was to make Crafting viable and competitive not make it the best gear. If this is indeed the case i find this an extremely stupid change. Quite frankly while i am not one to come to the forums throwing around threats should this indeed be the case i have no intention of renewing my subscription.

I'd rather they made it possible to craft something that would ADD an argument slot to any orange gear.

Would be much better.

I'd rather they made it possible to craft something that would ADD an argument slot to any orange gear.

Would be much better.

But it doesn't make it the best gear.

The mods you took from the best gear are what make the orange modded gear the best gear.

Honestly whats the difference in you running a OP's for a purple piece of gear, and running an ops for a purple piece of gear that has the mods you need for the same exact stats?

There really isn't one except the fact that it looks different and has an augment slot.

Raids are still needed you still have to get the mods, and no crafting is actually something that is going to be in full swing because people want that augment slot.

So they basically made it win win.

Crafters win because they can now craft gear that actually means something (augment) and sell them/use them.

And raiders will need to raid for the mod's to put in the gear so its a PVE win as well.

Or did you somehow think that the orange crafted gear magically came with all the slots premodded.... and really have no clue how the system would even work?

TBH this thread is pretty ignorant.

Perhaps because a system in which you aquire a piece of gear, only to immediately cannablize its mods and then proceed to completely disgard said piece of gear so that you can place them into a crafted piece of gear is ridiculously cumbersome and stupid.

Again, why bother giving people gear for PvP or Pve at all if its just going to be discarded the moment you get it? Moreover, this new system is completely counter to the idea of wearing the armor set you like best because only the orange crafted gear will be used unless they add every armor model in the form of crafted orange gear.