I've seen alot of threads about this but no official response, i wonder if it will get fixed?
Currently all social gear is light armor.
I know, everyone can equip that, but armor mods scale different on light armor then on medium/heavy, making light armor a horrible choice for classes other then Consular+Inquisitor.
Theres a few easy ways to fix it (as suggested by players in other threads):
-Copy the social sets 3 times making versions for medium and heavy armor of same set.
-Make light armor scale same as heavy armor if equiped by heavyarmor type class.
-Add new sets, heavy looking armor thats heavy and medium looking armor thats medium
Offcourse option 1 and 2 are less favorable cause most people dont like to see heavy armor types in a dancer suit.. (although some light social armor currently does look medium/heavy, tuskenraider/imperial trooper)
About option 3 ive seen the following:
From reading other threads i found out beta actually had loads more social gear on social vendors including medium and heavy armor sets (including cool TIEfighter and Mandolorian sets ), that explains why ive seen venders that sell nothing i guess.. Why was this taken out?
Its horrible that 2 classes can wear cool looking gear they can buy for cheap and be just as good in as in other gear while the other classes have to get rares and a whole lot less choice.
Also it makes it quite pointles to farm Social points for any non-lightarmor class since all you get for them is light armor!
Can we expect to see this bug corrected anytime soon??