Planetary armor sets

I haven't really payed attention to the specialty vendors on the planets all that often. Very few of them have anything that I'm interested in, with the exception of Tatooine, who has a handful of unique weapons that were worth adapting for a few outfits or companions. Imagine my surprise, then, when I found out that with one of the relatively recent updates; 7.1 itself probably, although maybe 7.1.1—because I'd been to the vendors not that long ago—they've added a set of world drop armor associated with the classes to this vendor, and you can buy them, and they're legacy bound and just like the adaptive sets; i.e., not just anyone can necessarily buy them (although in most cases you can) but it looks like anyone can wear most of them without them changing. I've got my non-recording Mirialan agent running around in what used to be a Belsavis smuggler world drop set, or at least part of it. 

While not all of these sets are great; I'd say that like the Alliance Crate sets, they're pretty hit and miss, there are certainly some absolutely great elements that I always saved when I could get them, and used quite a bit, so I'm very happy to have this development. They're not cheap; 200,000 per piece, or 1,400,000 for a whole set if you're so inclined, but then again, in today's SWTOR economy, maybe that's not really all that expensive anymore after all.

I've made a fair number of new outfits for a fair number of characters, with probably more to come as a result of this development. I always finally tossed some of my iffy Alliance Crate pieces that I was still holding on to "just in case" so I could make more room in my legacy bank. I wish, honestly, that I could just keep buying more tabs for it.

I also discovered, kind of by accident, that the legacy vendor armor is no longer locked to just the class it was originally meant for. Say what? I just spent a ton of tech fragments getting some shrewd privateer class armor, only to find that the pieces of the smuggler's exalted could already have been used as is anyway? Sigh.

Anyway, that's a curious surprise and delight unexpected development, on both cases. I know that to many, those are "common" armor pieces and therefore not that exciting, but I don't care (or sometimes even know) how common stuff us, I only know if I look at it and I like it. I've always liked certain pieces of world drop armor, so seeing it become available—at 1st level no less, if you have another character who can broker it for you!—to anyone is really cool.