This guide will explain how the new statless Fitted Gear works in SWTOR, what are its use cases, limitations, and how to recognize it in-game.
What is Fitted Gear
Since 7.4.1 was released, you have probably noticed a bunch of armor dropping that doesn’t have any stats, can’t be modded, and aren’t worth any credits when sold to a vendor.
This gear is called Fitted Gear, and while you and your companion can equip it, and you can dye it, the gear won’t improve your effectiveness in combat. The purposes of Fitted Gear are purely cosmetic and economic.
Fitted Gear is not meant to replace drops for full-fledged gear, though a few issues with the feature rollout have caused it to drop more often than intended. The devs are aware of this issue and are working on a patch to fix it. Other gear is still available, and you can still equip those pieces. However, it is typically better to just use modded gear, and we’ll cover a good way to gear while leveling instead.
How to get Fitted Gear
Just so we’re all on the same page, a piece of Fitted Gear can drop from enemies just like normal gear with stats. There is also a new daily login calendar called Ancient Armaments that will culminate in giving you a full set of Fitted Gear.
After the GTN Revamp, you could no longer sell gear with randomized stats on the GTN, including world drops and some crafted gear. Fitted Gear reintroduces those pieces to the game so that the appearances aren’t lost and can be traded.
How to recognize Fitted Gear Sets
You can tell that a piece of gear is Fitted because it will have the word “Fitted” at the beginning of its name, making it easier to search on the GTN. The vast majority of Fitted gear is Premium (Green), but higher rarities do exist. Fitted Weapons exist, though it seems they can only be obtained from Login Rewards, not as random world drops.
The names for Fitted Gear sets are consistent, so the entire set will have the same naming scheme for all pieces. For example, you’d have a Fitted Bonadon Skirmish set and a Fitted Bonadon Fiber Mesh set, just as you’d have a Rakata Duelist set.
The first word describes a series of sets that usually correspond to 1-2 the standard look for each origin story and the second word differentiates sets within that series. For example, the Cinnegar sets are all Consular attire, while Dantooinian has both Warrior and Knight appearances.
Fitted Gear Design Quality
Coming from an avid Space Barbie enthusiast they aren’t modern, high-fidelity sets like brand-new sets we see on the Cartel Market or from group content. Though they aren’t Reforged, they aren’t the bottom-of-the-barrel super polygonal junk you sometimes see either. It’s of the same quality as the Spoils of War vendor.
As someone who primarily sticks to Collections and old endgame gear for making outfits, I can tell you that I’ll be adding a GTN search of the term “Fitted” as a new catalog to flip through while dressing up one of my toons or companions.
It’s worth noting that for the first time since 5.0, the Gemini/Iokath weapons available as part of the Fitted Weapons catalog. They follow the naming scheme Fitted Efficient [Name] [Weapon Type], though the associated armor sets were omitted.
We don’t know for sure why the Gemini/Iokath armor sets weren’t included, but I suspect it has to do with the fact that they have significant undyable sections that subsequently don’t unify. Some of the individual pieces are also downright hideous. That said, it could also just be that they forgot to include the armors.
Over at Today in TOR, Kal has gone to great lengths to compile complete catalogs of all Fitted Armor and Fitted Weapons, I highly recommend checking them out. Many sets also use the same models as what you’ll find on the Specialty Goods Vendors on each planet.
