109478-armorer-help-needed

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Love being an Armorer while I was leveling up.  I kept my Armor updated and my skills equal with my level. Big help.  Now at 50, i'm doing my daily for my Eldan Data Fragments and doing my Crafting dailies for Voucher credits.  
 
Here is my problem. 
 
I bought my first Epochos pattern off the vendor.  Chest piece HA-1C.  Used a regular hybrid core and boom, the armor equals the Type III Galactium Weave stuff i put a Refined Starshard Core in.    
 
No problem.  My thought process is that the Hybrid Core was blue but was not "refined" or some other cool named it made them equal, even though the Hybrid core was blue.  
 
Saved up and get the 'Adventus' HA-2C Chest piece. Make my Ingot, Purchase another Hybrid Core, and make it. BAM...It too is equal to the Type III Galactium Weave Plastron Chest piece I am wearing.  WHAT???
 
As a Second tier 50 recipe I am not expecting a purple armor but I am expecting a Blue, better then at least the level 1 Armor. And at least better then the Basic Level 50 Armor.
 
Now both 'Epochos' and 'Adventus' come with a "special". 'Epochos' was "No Pain No Gain" .. When ever you are Hit by a Crit you have a 50% chance to regain 311 health.    'Adventus' Armor was "Kinetic Converter"... Taking damage grants a 10% chance to restore 319 Shield.
 
Okay specials if this was Tanking Armor but it is labeled as "Assault" armor off the vendor.
 
The 'Adventus' armor has a significantly Higher cost then the 'Epochos' armor yet stats are the same, only have 1 rune slot each and specials are pretty much nice but not a help.
 
Is this intended?   Is this an over site?  Any answers would be appreciated.
 	
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Armorcrafting is kinda borked.  Try and go down adventus shields and you will see what I mean.
The biggest problem is they made slots on the galactium stuff so good and adventus so bad.	
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I just skipped trying to figure out what was worth making in the research gear, and trusted in this list of BiS items for my class when gearing up at 50:
 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15d8NRNPyO6MCV8KutJ0MwlSAdIP0tr91AC1pJEf0fvM/htmlview?pli=1&sle=true#
 
I'm an Engineer/Armorer, and noticed none of the BiS DPS gear I can craft is Aventus - it's all Epochos or regular Galactium gear.  You'll find a similar thing for warrior DPS. 
 
So yeah - that kinda fits in with your findings that a lot of the Aventus gear is shit and there's no point in making it.	
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			A lot of this is also because of bad stat weights like AP and brutality stacking trumps everything right now.  When that gets fixed I would imagine some of the adventus armor will be more important, especially with a dual hybrid power core.  You also cant compare a refined starshard core with a hybrid power core, refined gets to use more power thus more stats, see how it fares against a normal starshard power core and the adventus piece should come out ahead.  Or buy a dual core and see how that adventus piece works then.  Most of it right now though is just bad stat weighting.	
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