Orange Gear, Epic Loot and all the Shouting

Answer my question please.

If the idea is to allow you to wear any piece of gear by swapping out mods so you have the same stats, then why have *some* customizable gear have a higher threshold of stats? If you give players two pieces of gear to choose from. One piece has 28 more of any stat of their choosing but doesn't look how they like and the other piece has 28 less stats but looks how they want, chances are, hardcore or casual, that player will choose the item with more stats. Now instead of 1 piece you have 6. (head, chest, legs, feet, bracers, belt, weapon) So instead of 28 less stats you now have 168 less stats. Negative 168 is quite a bit of power loss. Do you really think a person will choose a look over 168 stat points? The answer is no.

So do you really think the system coming out with some customizable gear with higher stat thresholds is actually a good idea and not counter productive towards their goal of letting people wear what they want?

PS I just want to add I like the idea of being able to take mods out of raid and pvp items and being able to put them in any piece of gear. What I don't like is the idea of some customizable gear having a higher threshold than other customizable gear because players will be forced to go with the gear with higher stats and it makes all non crit crafted custom gear worthless.

There's been some shouting on this forum I've heard over the upcoming ideas for orange gear becoming more readily available, mostly through crafting.

Not only that I've heard that the greatest wailing and gnashing of teeth has been over the fact that the "epic loot" (raid gear, pvp gear, etc) Will itsel be considered orange gear. It's mods, armoring, barrels crystals, etc will be able to be removed and put onto other orange gear along with set bonuses.

For those carrying on cranky about this change, consdier that you're complaining in the wrong direction. These items must still be gained through the effort of raiding or pvp matches. Someone still has to put in that effort and then the additional effort or in game money spent on crafting or buying the orange gear they can put all these modules in.
If your complaint is about being able to see if someone is geared enough at a glance then perhaps what you should be requesting is a little 'i' icon or something that can be clicked over a selected target that will preform the same function as the Inspect option. Yes this will take more effort and time, but that small amount of time spent to absolutely inspect someone will benefit many other players at the same time, so we ask that you please give u a few moments and effort so the rest of us can enjoy character appearances while we also try to raid very hard for you.

Raiding or PVP, as you see it, is all about effort and strain. The effort of examining each member of your raid or pvp group is an additional strain. Shouldn't it prove if you check everyone how hard you work in your raid or pvp group?

For those who are in support of this kind of change, we need to see you more on the forums, giving good, thoughtful and above all curteous responses in support of this change. As Bioware/EA, like every other company, responds only to metrics we have to provide enough response data for them to move a change we like through to development.

tl;dr versyon:
You wanted a game that wasn't exactly like WoW, so stop shouting down every different than WoW change that comes along

Why not just have the bosses drop mods

Except the hardcore raider will additionally have to craft an obscene amount of orange items for each slot in order to get a Mastercraft procc, which translates into +28 to whatever stat he desires. Per item slot.

Raiders will have to put alot more effort into gearing than casuals, on top of actually doing the raiding.

Not compeltly a bad idea, but good looking gear could drop as well. It may seem silly to you but there are a lot of people who would enjoy looking their own particular way instead of how raid gear defines how they must look.

Otherwise every raid become a formal dance, every PVP match becomes a buisness work day. C'mon guys, embrace casuall fridays

The only thing I don't like about it is the way augment slots are handled.

It sucks that you're actually FORCED to opt into the system due to needing the open aug slot. There should be some npc that will add an aug slot to an item for a high price (or crafted items that add an aug slot to an item that take expensive mats, either is fine with me).

If it was relatively expensive to do, it'd still be desirable to grab the moddable orange items from crafters instead but at least if you wanted to have the look of your original gear you could do so.

Okay but wouldnt it be a better idea to have a system that is something like this:

Have epic armoring WITH SET BONUS's drop off of each boss, or maybe you could also buy these epic armorings from commendations. But keep epic loot drops from raids and flashpoints the way they are, with only mods and enhancements being moddable.

It just gives bioware an excuse to be lazy with their loot tables and keep it the way it currently is. Think about how loot works in PVE end game right now. HM Fp's drop the same loot as normal ops and some of the same loot from HM Ops as well. Commendations vendors als give you that exact same loot. 16 man raids also give you the same loot as 8 man raids(which is also the same loot you get from comm vendors and HM FPS), and nightmare mode gives the same loot as hard mode Ops.

Doesnt that sound really lazy to you, this new system gives them an excuse to just keep on doing that

There are a dozen differen types of orange type gear appearnces so there will not likely be any kind clones wandering about. Much less so than anything you'd see at the high end today anyway. I can agree that the extra audment slot could be something left out since it makes that particualr kind of orange gear nearly mandatory. However just because there's this possible flaw doesn't mean the idea as a whole needs to be shut down as most hard core people seem to be trying to do.