Quote Originally Posted by lvillanueva5 View Post
So quick question... Would full yellow 'Augmented' scrip gather gear be BIS once they release the ability to augment? I'm wondering if I should even waste my time trying to gather the massive amounts of yellow script to purchase all of the scrip gear in preparations for it.
The scrip gear was never BiS in HW either. You could meld the other crafted gear and outdo the stats. If you only looked at ilevels (which has little meaning outside of melding caps) scrip gear had a higher ilevel. It doesn't matter if you had to have a certain amount of gathering or perception to get to nodes.

Scrip gear are for those that don't want to do melds and get what they need in terms of gathering or crafting. Usually it meant those that weren't omni crafters.

Similar system existed end game of ARR too. You had crafted sets and sets you could get from the vendor. The crafted set was always better due to melding min/maxing