BioWare posted a thread explaining the gear changes. The main points being that Rakata, Columi, and Tionese will not be changed in any way, and Campaign gear is the only set gear that can be RE'd for crafting because all it is only a Custom armor with set armorings and mods in it. The set bonuses for Campaign gear are attached to its mods rather than the gear itself.

Read it all here!

I have noticed people saying that the Rakata changes have been reverted on the PTS but this is kind of a dick move. They originally confirmed these changes and they were much better itemised that the current Rakata gear. As such loads of people changed their mods back which at this gear level is not exactly cheap and now they are like: Nope, sorry, no changes!
Glad I waited with any modding and still have some of my Rakata tokens to redeem.

On the other hand, black core purple crystal:



Also this is kinda last minute, but if you can grind up 200 daily comms, you will be able to purchase procing relics better than the ones from HM/NiM ops that we have now.

Yeah, I stopped re-modding gear in anticipation for 1.2, but now that they changed their mind I may start doing that again. Depends on how fast I can pick up Tier 2 gear.

They said that players on the PTS felt that the new itemization was unbalanced. I don't see how removing Accuracy from tanking gear and replacing it with a useful stat is unbalanced.

No new set bonuses. guess i'll be getting the black hole gear on my smuggler healer then since it's the better but without the crap rakata bonuses.

not sure if want to look like that...



Not like i'll be using the war hero models anyway.

http://dulfy.net/2012/04/11/1-2-war-hero-armorhigh-resolution-in-game-screenshots/