{"id":35595,"date":"2024-12-04T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/?p=35595"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:09:09","slug":"rare-blue-and-purple-world-drop-gear-in-swtor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/rare-blue-and-purple-world-drop-gear-in-swtor\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Blue and Purple World Drop Gear in SWTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you the kind of player who likes learning about obscure, rare or hard-to-find items? I’ve gone on a search to find out as much as I can about these uncommon World Drop armors and how you can get them, and what they all look like! You may have seen some of these chestpieces or helmets drop while fighting world bosses at a high level, or occasionally while levelling up and questing on a low-level character. View All World Drop Armors<\/a><\/p>\n

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All Rare Drop Armors<\/h2>\n

View All World Drop Armors<\/a> in the armor database!<\/p>\n

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What are world drop armors?<\/h2>\n

World Drop armors are armors that would drop randomly from enemies in the game.<\/p>\n

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Why are they uncommon?<\/h2>\n

These pieces used to drop from enemies particularly before Update 4.0 when level-sync was introduced and all of the loot tables were adjusted to accommodate the higher chance that your character might be high-level but questing on a a low-level planet, but would not need the low-level gear that would normally drop there. After Update 4.0 these items are considered quite rare – they will occasionally drop from the odd enemy, but the most well-known source of these items is randomly dropped from World Bosses.<\/p>\n

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Many of these items have both a normal version that is Bind on Pickup and has a blue or orange bordered icon. Many of them also<\/em> have versions with a purple bordered icon and the word [Prototype] in front of their name (even though they are Artifact-quality, they are from the launch of the game so the naming is awkward). These purple and blue versions are Binds on Equip<\/strong>, so they can be bought and sold on the GTN, often for high prices due to their scarcity and because some looks have not alternative way to get them. These purple-bordered versions of the items are often considered best-in-slot for levelling gear even many years down the road – not that you need strong gear to level these days, and you level so fast you will likely out-level your gear very quickly.<\/p>\n

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Crafted Pieces<\/h2>\n

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There are also a few crafting schematics for a few of the pieces, which produce Bind on Equip versions, but which sets have them and which pieces are craftable is very limited. These particular crafted versions have blue-bordered icons, and the schematics will be listed in the Archive<\/strong> section of the Crew Skills list for players who can craft them, even though the schematics items are still floating around and technically available to be learned. Sometimes it’s just a random pair of boots, or helmet, or boots that can be crafted from a set.<\/p>\n

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So for example, for the non-[Prototype] RD-13B Striker set: The Chest and Helmet are orange-bordered and Binds on Pickup. They could not be reverse-engineered and could not be crafted at all. The Belt, Boots, Greaves, Gauntlets and Vambraces are blue-bordered, and Binds on Equip. The Greaves, and only the Greaves, have a crafting schematic item that you can get to learn how to craft the greaves on your Armormech – both those graves and the schematic itself are also Binds on Equip. And lastly, there are the [Prototype] versions of all of those, which are purple-bordered and Binds on Equip. What is available and not available is quite chaotic and you may not be able to find full sets of these, but there are often look-alikes in the game available.<\/p>\n

Extended Crafting Names<\/h2>\n

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To make things even more confusing, I believe the blue-bordered crafted items schematics also had different versions of their names that no longer exist at all in the game, with different prefixes – there was the initial tier from the schematic with a blue-bordered icon, and when you reverse-engineered the crafted item, you could get a version that started with the word Critical, Redoubt or Overkill, each with different stats attached and a purple-bordered icon – these seem to no longer exist. Then, you could reverse-engineer that purple item to learn a bunch more stronger purple-bordered versions with prefix names including:<\/p>\n