For some reason, I have a set of all of the Armormech crafted armors that I had Graggory make a long time ago, and then store in his cargo bay. For some reason, he ran out of room, and I sent them all to Galation to store. As I recently deleted Galation, I sent them all to Johhn, my banker, to store. But what in the world do I want all of these for, and why did I make them anyway? Realistically, most of them look kind of dumb, and many of them are in fact almost identical to other armors out there.
https://swtorista.com/articles/swtor-armormech-crafting-guide/
They're also variable depending on the faction, unlike the stuff you buy from the adaptive armor vendor, for example. So if I make a Terenthium Onslaught armor to let my character be a Han Solo lookalike, something that I did in fact do with my old Luukke playthrough, my first smuggler, there's other good options out there that I could have used instead. Playing as a smuggler on Coruscant means that you'll get slightly recolored versions of almost the exact same armor set (minus the dumb beanie), or you can buy them now from the Coruscant planetary vendor. The drops are bind on pickup, but the planetary vendor pieces are legacy bound and wearable at first level instead of tenth, like the crafted one (the earliest you can wear a crafted set, by the way.) The cartel market Interstellar privateer is also almost identical to the crafted piece, except without a hat and a very slight difference to the vest that you probably don't even notice unless you really look hard for it, and of course, the cheap RD-07A Spider set on the Fleet is also legacy bound and wearable at first level, and costs very little. Although it has colors more like the Coruscant armor than the Terenthium. I tend to have used the Spider set frequently, and dyed it with a craftable dye as my most common approach.
Regardless, my point is that the crafted armor set doesn't really offer me anything that I need. So why am I holding on to it?
A few of the higher level stuff is better. I really have always liked the Imperial Vandinite Asylum helmet, although I don't care for the rest of the armor set. But why am I holding on to an entire armor set for one piece that, if I wanted another one, I could make again pretty quick? Why not just trash, or sell, or whatever, the sets, free up my cargo hold (not that I'm using it for anything, but still) and not even hold on to these anymore? After maybe going through them and deciding if I want to build any outfits with pieces of them, since I've already got them made, and all? Another thought is that maybe I'd create characters that used these pieces the way some of my characters have used a progression of crafted weapons, i.e., as soon as I'm high enough level to use them, I'd put them on! When I switched them out, I'd create outfits out of the old ones.
It's not the most elegant solution, and I don't know that I like the armors enough to want to do that, but it's somewhat intriguing nonetheless. If I do do this, I'm thinking about making a girl smuggler and using the Onslaught sets or a girl bounty hunter for the Asylum sets. Swtorista made a couple of videos about smuggler armors and bounty hunters armors you can craft where she modeled those series specifically on a Mirialan girl, and... I kinda like them. Maybe enough to even do that. Plus, I really haven't experienced the girl voice actors much.
Of course, what's maybe an easier alternative is to throw these sets on to my companions of various characters. I often don't really give a ton of thought to what they wear, and just grab something out of collections without giving it much thought. This might be a good way to use these pieces a little more smartly. But, of course, that's something like twenty companions across various characters; not sure that I can really use them all. But maybe it's better than most of the alternatives.
In addition to maybe a girl character, maybe a big fat character who I play for laughs would work too, and he can wear some of these armors. I dunno. I guess I'm just noodling around with ideas. No idea yet what—if anything—I want to do with these pieces that I made.
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