Problem with crit crafting orange gear and removing purple mods.

Crafted gear should be the best gear.

Not if it looks like s*** Goodwill threw away. Go play Republic and tell me how awesome looking gear they have.

Personally, I think the current endgame models are about the worst looking stuff in the entire game.

That said, if what we get is a limited selection of craftable oranges as the best option, that still doesn't impress me.

Every skin in the game should have a craftable orange option, imo.

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.

I'd like for there to be an increasing crit chance on gear crits the longer you go without critting. Something that doesn't have you crafting and vendoring 50 of the same orange item just to get an augment proc.

Dude. this is nothing but a great change. Think about it - orange gear lets players modify the way they want to look, but only have the mods YOU can get. If a player wants to use his/her raid gear they can still do that too. On the note of augments, not everyone will be able full sets of that stuff - If I was crafting critted gear that looked awesome you bet there would be a price tag. It will stimulate the economy as well.

There is really no negative, at all from this change. I'm not sure why the OP thinks so.

1) You still need to get the gear to get the mods. Some people may still prefer the look of the gear. Essentially, this just makes it so ALL gear is mod gear. Pick what you like the look of.

4)It doesn't make orange BEST, it makes it equal.

I refuse to use the crap crafted gear. Even if it gimps me, I won't wear it.

The entire point of the orange gear was supposed to be choosing how you look; it was intended to be a replacement for an appearance tab (which is what Bioware should have gone with in the first place).

Now we're just being railroaded from one fixed costume into another. This is no improvement.

Fire whoever is making these decisions, Bioware. It's time for this idiot to taste the harsh reality of unemployment in 2012.