Critable orange gear undermines intent of removable epic base mods

Basically this.

If the intent of the orange gear is to give us the ability to choose our appearance, then implement a friggin' appearance tab. That's all that needs to be done. Instead, Bioware tries again and again to reinvent the wheel, usually with results that are square in shape, and utterly nonfuctioning.

Frankly, I'd like to see whoever came up with latest idea out on the streets. I want them panhandling, drinking from open sewers, and eating garbage. In other words: fire whoever is coming up with these braindead ideas. Fire them now.

They should just made crit give an extra pair of of item your making. Kinda like alchemy in wow when crafting epic gems. It's a nice perk, but not game breaking.

I suppose the idea is that most common folks will just wear non-critted orange or purple stuff from all various sources, and only a few min-maxer will be able to put down 1million+ for a single critted orange item, which I fully expect to be the common price as soon as enough people have found out these are the absolutely only way to get BiS.

Well we will not be able to chose our appearance, as we need to get hold of gear with an augment slot. That said, we are locked to crafted gear. All orange drop gear, without augment slot, will not be desirable.

I came to the exact same realisation myself after hearing they were adding critable customs.
As a Gunslinger I have been collecting custom Armour and Blasters as I progress through the game.
I knew these were good to 50 if I updated them, though there was a grade of progression past which I wouldn't be able to pick my own look.
This didn't bother me firstly because I was yet to reach that level, and secondly BW had said they were going to change it to make them viable.
If this change goes in as it sounds though, then it will make all my collected gear junk compared to a freshly crit crafted orange.
There are many looks that aren't available via crafting, like my current Viper set which are all drop pieces.
Also if they are adding critable oranges for the armourers, then I presume they are doing the same for weapons which already need BoP materials to make and have even fewer looks available.
Still I live in hope that maybe BioWare hasn't explained how this new system will work very well yet, or maybe they do just like giving with one hand whilst taking away with the other.

I honestly have no idea what the OP is trying to say. Someone want to translate in to proper English?

Wasn't Biochem causing issues in PvP?

The OP is complaining that since craftable moddable gear (the gear with mod slots) can crit and have an augment slot as well that everyone will look the same and no one playing the game will use anything but that gear making any other gear useless, basically.

Even if they added augment slotted gear from a vendor that you can buy for 10 credits each I'd still have a problem with it.

I'm not agitated that I'll have to "put extra work" into getting best in slot gear (I've already farmed up a few stacks of mats so when 1.2 comes out I can churn out crit crafted gear and make a lot of dough). The problem I have is that by having sets of customizable gear with a higher threshold of stats, they basically made all flash point, operation, pvp, planet commendation, and planet heroic quest orange gear obsolete because they have lower stat thresholds. When I say obsolete, I mean that you will never see people wearing it or even have a reason to wear it because the threshold of stats will be lower than other customizable gear.

Either make augments like enchanting from other mmos where they can go on all pieces of gear, or make it so crafters can make items that add augment slots that way ALL customizable gear will have the same potential that way we won't be forced to wear certain pieces of gear.

It seems to me that as long as the purple gear the high-end mods are being pulled from are available as crittable orange gear that looks the same, this whole thing is a non-issue. Even if they are not, we are going from one appearance for best-in-slot gear to all the appearances for that class/armor type minus one as the improved BIS. Definitely an upgrade unless you think BIS should come easy.