Crafted PvP Gear

With Patch 1.2 players are now able to craft Battlemaster and War Hero PvP gear. When you craft it there will be no Mods, Armorings or anything like that in it but you will be able to add them later as you see fit. At first glance the crafted PvP gear looks exactly the same as the gear you would be able to buy from the vendor for Warzone Commendations. Worse in fact considering you'd have to buy the other gear anyway for the mods/armoring etc etc. However if you inspect it closely you will notice it isn't worse at all to craft it. In fact it is much, much better.

If you at all familiar with crafting items you will know about critting a crafted item which adds an Augment slot into the outcome. This Augment slot isn't available to you from just buying the PvP gear which means the only way you will be able to get it is by critting a crafted piece of PvP gear. Are you catching on now? Of course the PvP gear you get from the vendor is still great and extremely powerful but if you really want to maximize your character's stats getting a piece of gear with an Augment slot in it will be a must.

Only the set pieces of PvP Gear can be crafted so you won't have to worry about going out of your way to get every single piece ever crafted, just 5. If you don't have the required crew skill to craft them yourself don't worry as they can be purchased from the Auction House. However, depending on your server buying these items could be extremely expensive.