Problem with crit crafting orange gear and removing purple mods.

At least in this instance, incorrect.

Orange gear will be able to crit.. meaning it will have an augment socket. Meaning - +28 to a stat of your choice, making it always better than raid-drop gear, which doesnt have augment slots.

This. This cannot be reiterated enough.

That would be one more step towards ideal as that would open up all of the current oranges that are only obtainable via drops or commendations, but still leaves out a lot of appearances exclusive to greens and blues.

I haven't read the entire thread, but something occurred to me. As of this time, I don't really see any place to put the set bonus on orange gear. Maybe they're going to treat the set bonus as an augment, thus making orange gear exactly the same as raid obtained gear, with the requirement that you need to crit the orange gear craft to have the ability to put the set bonuses on. Plus, y'know, actually having to raid in the first place to get the gear to strip the mods out of.

I'm really not seeing a problem here.

Let me clarify it for you then, look at your teir armor/weapon (pve or pvp) notice anything missing? like I dunno an armor mod, hilt barrel? They are there, you just can't see/remove them(you could in beta but min/maxers were getting stats above what BW thought was healthy) Coincedently that is also where the set bonuses reside.
What one can do once change is implemented; is remove armor mod from tier armor and toss in orange gear no probs right? well what if that orange gear was crit crafted (means it has an aug slot)?

At this point the armor is no longer a purely "social" change you can actually improve stats significantely 5x28=140 add another 28 if you get a crit crafted orange weap. basically rakata stim equivelant(which people loved so much they whined about em on forums for weeks)

The few people who don't mind the look of their tier armor will QQ because you just made it obsolete(to them anyway)

1.QQ incoming = Screwz U BW U just mad my Rakrta/BM geear usleess!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The problem comes in sooner or later groups for the under geared will be even more difficult to find as we'll now have another check mark for pugs: Ah man sorry your not high enough HP, wearing greens, you got no augs /kick)

2. QQ incoming NOBDOIES GRPS WITH MEZ

Some people who are not Armortech sitting on crap tons of credits no skin off their backs if they gotta drop 6 mil cr for 5 pieces and a weap. Some people who are not armor tech won't be as lucky/fortunate/foresited to have that kinda cash laying around.

3.QQ incoming ICant' ufford my raid guilds Requirments BW U DIE
3.a QQ alternatevly I can't afford/find the social look I want because it happnes to be the quickest turnaround mats vs selling point for armormechs

The reasons BW removed taking arm/hilts/barrles outta purples hasn't changed; min/maxers achieving unintended stat increases; so look for a nerf at some point. Based on trends so far my guess is to make crit crafted oranges BOP to crafter who maintains a 400 armorteech/synth ect rating to wear, which leads me my next point...

All the people who whined and moaned about biochem being OP will now have a new stump to preach about AM/synth= enjoy the love incoming fellas

I LOVE THIS COMMENT. Why doesn't every single post involve threatening to cancel their subscriptions? As if you'll think it'll sway someone's opinion in any conceivable way.

People are totally overblowing this, as craftable oranges only cover five slots total; three armor (head/chest/legs) and mainhand/offhand (offhand only applies to four advanced classes).

As I stated above the 5x28=140 (168if you include crit weap) stat increase is no more/less OP than the biochem rakata stim but look how well that went over. sY I'm glad my mains 400 bio, alts 400 ArmorM, other 400 Arms

now I can add that 140/168 to my rakata stim buff*grin*

No problem here. Move along.

It's 4x max for most classes, 5x max for four ACs, and yes those include weapons.

You can already grind out as many or more augment slots in end-game gear.

Like I said, lots of overreaction in this thread.