Like most are saying, its a step in the right direction, but... By the looks of it this is ONLY for social gear, meaning all that other clothing and armor in the game you might want to wear because it looks nice is still useless. I have several items in my cargo hold I would like to wear or put on my companions but the stats are so bad I wont be able to do that. When you made this game so very dependant on players having the "right" gear in order to play, customization went right out the window... and now the game suffers for it.

you are missing the point

This is just not good enough, if it only works for 2-3% of players who actually have endgame gear there should be a very clear warning that it does NOT work for anything else. Because we were told that we could transfer set bonuses after 1.2 I waited untill it came out, then used all my tokens to get new gear/armoring. After spending my tokens, a ***** fortune ripping the armoring out and getting orange gear that doen't look too bad, I actually got the bonus to transfer. But when I left the zone I was in the bonus disappeared. Then I had to spend a lot of time writing tickets that no one seemed able to answer. When you guys said I could transfer set bonuses after 1.2 on new armoring, I bought new armoring to transfer, I should NOT have to go excavating in the forums for some buried thread saying it doesn't work for most players. Dont know if you realize it, but things like this really rubs people the wrong way. Now go fix it

I will ask for what I think is a better solution. So far I am not impressed with the options to customize your characters in this game.

Please remove the class icons you have put over our character's heads. Or atleast make it only visible within our own group. The icons has done nothing but single out weak targets so they can be ganked in in PvP over and over again. After the icons were implemented playing a support class has become nearly impossible because we have to stand still when healing, have little to no defense and we just got painted a bullseye on our heads. Your opponent dont have to look at the character anymore, just go for the icon.

The mod system would be a nice way to do it if it worked correctly, but it doesn't... - Bonus does not always transfer as it should from armor sets. - There is a very limited variety in armors that can be craftet with augment slots - If/when you find something that actually looks good enough to wear you can't reverse engineer it into something thats worth wearing statwise. And as mentioned by others, I have also found something I'd like my character to wear. The problem is that it does not excist as orange armor / or has no augment slot, its not possible to reverse engineer it into a schematic and the stats are so bad I wouldn't even consider using it. An appearance tab would fix this problem, and dont worry, you would still have to grind your *** off making good enough armor to wear under the appearance if you are planning on doing any combat.