Legacy bound armor is armor that can be transferred between your characters on your server. Any legacy-bound armor pieces can be obtained on one of your characters, and then sent to another one of your characters on the same server. You can also stamp Legacy-bound armors into the Outfitter tab for as many of your characters as you’d like without the item being stuck on one character.
Legacy-bound armor is any armor that can be shared by any characters in your legacy. Some armors are cosmetic and don’t have any stats attached to them, while others have stats and are meant to be shared between your max-level characters. Players often collect legacy-bound armors so they can share them between characters, create outfits with them, or to spend less time creating multiple armor sets for each of their max-level characters.
Max-Level Legacy-Bound Armor
At max level, one major activity players participate in is gearing up. At max-level, earning and upgrading your gear is a major part of the game, and one really nice aspect is that all of the end-game max-level armor sets and pieces are legacy-bound. This means once you earn one set of high-end gear, you can then share it partially or in whole with your other characters.
For example, I play both the Shadow Tank combat style and the Assassin Tank combat style. These two combat styles use the exact same type of gear- they need lots of endurance for tanking, and they both use a double-bladed lightsaber. I have created a single legacy-bound set for my Assassin, but when I occasionally play my Shadow, I’ll send her my Assassin’s tank set through the legacy bank so she’ll have a nice full set of gear ready to go without me having to earn a whole second set.
When I play damage, I often play the Operative class that uses a blaster-pistol and the Infiltration class, which uses a double-bladed lightsaber. I can easily share their legacy-bound armor, but they use different weapons, so they can’t share those.
Lastly, I like to play the Commando Healer and the Vanguard Tank. These are two completely different roles – tank and healer – so sharing gear between them would be very useless. Damage characters can “lend” their gear to healer’s in a pinch, but it won’t be opitmized.
The biggest downside of this is remembering where your gear set is – make sure to keep track of which characters have it, or put it back away in the bank when you are done for the day!
Cosmetic Legacy-Bound Armor
All legacy-bound armors, with or without stats, can also be used cosmetically. Unlike normal armor, which becomes “stuck” on the character you equip it to first, you can share legacy-bound armors between your characters and even create multiple outfits on multiple characters with a single set of legacy-bound armor. Just make an outfit using the Outfitter, throw your legacy armory in your legacy bank (or mail it), grab it on your second character and make a second outfit.
You can even dye the legacy armor and it will retain the dye between characters, which you can also over-ride in the outfitter.
How to Get Legacy-Bound Armor
There are many different types of legacy-bound armor in the game, so there’s a lot of ways to get legacy-bound armors.
- Some of the Adaptive Vendor gear pieces are very cheap legacy-bound gear.
- All max-level legacy-bound armor comes from the end-game Gearing System.
- Many of the cooler-looking legacy-bound armors come from Reputation and Events.
- New legacy-bound armors are introduced each season through PvP Seasons and Galactic Seasons.
- There are a TON of legacy-bound Fitted Armors dropped randomly from enemies or from the GTN.
- You can buy some cosmetic legacy-bound armors with Tech Fragments.
- And some boxed set bonus armors with Tech Fragments as well.
- The Voss Interpreter’s Retreat armors are neat and legacy-bound.
- The armor from heroics at level 61+ are legacy-bound Alliance armors (which are also in Collections!)
- The classic Legacy Vendors have class-based legacy gear.
- All the planetary Specialty Vendor armors are legacy-bound and cost Tech Fragments and credits.
- And there’s even more pieces and sets of legacy gear scattered around the game!
You can browse ALL the legacy-bound sets on the armor part of my website!