Hi

 

got confused by some purchase yesterday : Purchased Marauder's vest on GTN, orange opened for Armoring, Mod, Enhancement. I previously had a Purple Prototype Gladiator Chestguard with following stats :

 

Gladiator purple :

- 461 armor (rating 76)

- Mod 28, Advanced guardian Mod 11 (+15 strength, +17 endurance)

- Enhancement 28 , Advanced Raded Enhancement 11 (+13 endurance, + 19 power)

 

because I just had a bit cash ahead, I wanted to try to pull out the mod from the Purple gladiator and put them into the Orange Maruader's vest. I know this is usually not profitable to remove mod, cost too mush, but this is not my question.

 

My question is on the result of this operation. I ended up with a Marauder Orange that was lower than the purple item (after switching the same mod). I was of course disappointed and removed them and put them back to the purple item.

 

So here is my question : I thought that the Orange items are opened and level with you. In that case, they should be as strong as the purple in some case no ? Or is it because the purple item already had some pre stats that make it better than the orange item ?

 

Second question : The rating of the Marauder's vest was 6. Is it the case of all Orange item (without modification or item) or is there higher based rating for Orange item ?

 

Thanks

Orange weapons and armor scale with the Hilt, Barrel or Armoring you put in them. Mods, Enhancements and Augments do not affect this.

I think some purples are better than oranges due to base stats, yes, but it's possible to have oranges that are better than purples if you have all purple mods of same or close level as you, for example. Although maybe not better than all purples... they vary a lot.

 

Also all oranges of the same armor type (light/medium/heavy) have the same base armor regardless of armor equip level - the only difference is appearance and item modifications.

Orange weapons and armor scale with the Hilt, Barrel or Armoring you put in them. Mods, Enhancements and Augments do not affect this.

 

This. The 'pre stats' you see in purple item is actually purple armoring of appropriate grade that can't be removed from the item. Eg: rating 124 purple (req lvl 49 or 50) with mod/enhancement removed will have exactly the same stats as an orange item with rank 22 purple armoring

Edited February 17, 2012 by tenehuini

Also once upon a time you could upgrade your purple modables later(basiclly making them purple - orange) with a new armor slot but that got taken out quite a few patches ago so we could all look more like clones.

rating doesnt matter. you can pretty much completely ignore it. its all about itemization and how it effects you. i recommend you do a bit of research and find out what stats you want to shoot for and focus on those.

So let me try to understand this. In my case as a synth weaver with the orange patterns for light armor lower robes (they have like 7 armor unmodded), there are no highe level patterns for these slots? So are these good recipes? Or can I expect to find better orange recipes later?

What do you mean by better recipes? Orange gear of the appropriate type all have the same base armor stat (IE level 10 orange light is the same as level 49 orange light). The only differences are looks and level requirement.

Thank you! That answers my question. So in essence if I like the appearance of my level 10 orange craft able, I can keept it comparable to any drops quest items an purples by replacing the mods and slots periodically.

 

Good to know, but the game itself doesnt clearly explain this.

 

Thank you again!

That's correct though keep in mind the armoring/barrel/hilt mods improve every 2 levels (enhancement and mods are every 4) so gear as you wish. I have a level 40 sage alt who still sports her social gear from Coruscant.

thanks for the answers all.

 

some direct answers below :

 

- @sadistic : I did not know, thanks for that

 

- @Jehenna : guess u right, that was probably the case with my purple item. Too bad, I loved the look of my orange item but do not want to sacrifice too many stats for visual appearance.

 

- @livnthedream : ok noted for rating. Though in my case, armor stats and Endurance / Strengths were way higher with the purple (should have taken screenshot...)

 

- @Gillon and Rixxart : I had actually the same question. Now confirmed, all orange item have the same base stats right ? In that case, is there any way to "calculate or estimate" the orange stats armor and others before you put in the mods ? Any formula there ?

 

Thanks