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New player - best cartel market items


Serrgiul

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Hi, I am a new player. I am a bit confused in terms of the cartel market. Can the items be transferred from one character to another? Which items are ' best value'? There are some nice looking armour sets, do they carry stats or are they just outfit?

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In no particular order.

 

* Cartel Market Items mostly are merely visual, only Weapon Color Crystals and Companions would have stats.

 

* As long as they're still packed in their box, they can be claimed from the Item Stash by any character. Once claimed, they're bound to that character and cannot be transferred. However, they can be unlocked for all characters on an account in the Collections by an expenditure of Cartel Coins.

 

* 'Best Value'... if you define that by most powerful, there is no 'most powerful' item in the Cartel Market, it's all a matter of taste ultimately. If by 'best value' you mean the highest gain for lowest cost, there's various sets that combine armor sets and weapons or mounts (or both!) for a cheaper price than the items would be individually.

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I am a bit confused in terms of the cartel market. Can the items be transferred from one character to another? Which items are ' best value'? There are some nice looking armour sets, do they carry stats or are they just outfit?

Generally speaking, when you buy armor and weapons (and some other things like mounts and pets) they are bound to the purchaser (or the character that "claims" them from the Market), for a certain length of time. After the timer runs out, you can sell them on the GTN or use them yourself. Once you equip them, they go into Collections (tab on the left of the Inventory pane) and within Collections you can pay a CC fee to unlock the item so it becomes available to all your characters. Once it is unlocked you can pull unlimited numbers out of Collections.

Most items in the Cartel Market are just cosmetic. The only "best value" is whatever appeals most to you at the price you are willing to pay.

The armor and weapons are mostly just empty "shells" into which you can put your own mods (armoring, mod, & enhancement). In a few cases, the shells come with some lower level mods which can be replaced/upgraded.

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