a GOOD reason NOT to buy Cartel set armor.

I have a nice complete Armor set from Cartel, I want to play in it until I am not playing the game anymore.

However, the idea that once you get better gear, after lvl 50, unless you are willing to wear the ugly junk, you have to spend a small fortune to remove all the mods, to put them in the gear you got from Cartel and to make matters worse, you lose the match set bonuses. The Gear for my Jugg would have made him look like a robot, why in the word would I want that? Looks good on Pierce though… but he won’t be getting any set bonus because the bonus is tied to the warrior class.

My point, a MATCHED set should be a MATCHED set after lvl 50…..So, the people buying from Cartel do not get shafted on bonuses once they get to Tionese, Rakata stuff. Why are those mods not able to transfer the bonus? My wife and I are both annoyed by this, she also has Cartel Armor and feels like she should get the bonus she earned by getting to lvl 50. The Tionese Armor for her, looks like it has wings on the shoulders… lol. Like me, she pulled all the mods and armor and transferred it.

Does this hurt the game for us? Not really, but if we had to wear that ugly stuff, would have hurt immersion to a point I may have stopped playing. I see NO REASON to buy anymore set armor from Cartel, since it has a limited lifespan in the game itself.

Anyway... Others should be fully aware of this before they spend their money....

Either wear the ungly immersion killing gear, or lose the bonuses is the real only option for people like us. I know others do not care, all they care bout is having the best stats for PvP... We want to feel like we are really in the galaxy and how we look MATTERS a great deal.

Buy Campaign Armoring and pop them in your favourite gear, bam, set bonus.

0 / 10

Yup... Play the game, earn the BH comms, or PvP comms, or whatever, and get out fo the Tionese/Rakata clown outfits...

^This.

if you do some FP you end up with Black Hole Commendations. They can be used to get armorings with setbonus on. I would still agree that all set armorings should have setbonus.

Still on most classes you can get the 2 set bonus on ex. head and gloves and then hide headslot. Then work on getting enough BH Coms for the 4 set bonus.

A better reason not the buy the gear is to decrease BW's focus on the Cartel Market, but that might not work and just end up hurting the game instead.

I know about that, but until we get to that point, shold we have to have limits on us until then? I think the point I was making should have been worded differently.

Why buy Cartel stuff and have to suffer at any point in the game?

Better question:

Why should some gear have mods that transfer for set bonus and orthers its tied to the shell?

The devs realized the problem with Tionese - Rakata gear set bonuses being attached to the shells and decided to fix it going forward. I would have preferred if they retroactively moved those bonuses to the armorings, but I doubt that's going to happen this far out.

At the end of the day, the set bonus makes up a very small part of your effectiveness and black hole comms aren't that difficult to obtain. Additionally, I expect RotHC to make Tionese - Rakata gear obsolete anyway.

^ This, but really...is it THAT big a deal to not have set bonuses in your armor? I personally just care about the stats on the mods themselves really, in which the Campaign/BH mods come with great stats and set bonuses. I care about the stats 1st and the bonuses 2nd.