Hats and Hoodies Redux

A few weeks ago, I talked about hats that push the hood down but still allow you to see your character’s hair. At the time, it was bugged and caused you to GO BALD. They fixed that. Today they seem to have changed a few circlets that formerly fit under hoods and now they push the hood down. For some people, this is awesome, for others, they really liked the look of that particular headgear under their hood.

Now, it may very well be a bug that these select circlets now push the hood down, and it may very well be reverted (after I pay to move all my mods).¹ It may also be totally intentional.

Without further ado, here are the republic² synthweaving craftable hats that both show hair and push the hood down. Anything marked (new) didn’t push the hood down prior to Tuesday’s patch. From the forums, I found out that there are also non-craftable circlets that have been changed to put the hood down, but I don’t have a list of those.

(Insert disclaimer here about how, as with all my research, this is incomplete and half-assed. Also the icons on the mouseover tooltip show the empire version.)

Heavy Armor

Reinforced Chanlon Headgear (circlet) (new)
Reinforced Diatium Headgear (visor/goggles)

Medium Armor

Ablative Plasteel Headgear (circlet) (new)

Light Armor

Consular’s Headgear (circlet) (new)

The rest of the craftable circlets fit under a hood and do not push the hood back (i.e. the Traditional Brocart Headgear for light armor).

Now, excuse me while I squee like a schoolgirl because now I can push my hoodie down when I want to by showing headgear, and the headgear isn’t ugleh. I hope this isn’t a bug, or if it is, that they never ever fix it.

withhat — My shiny new Ablative Plasteel Headgear!

The bug doesn’t appear on the known issues list (updated May 15), but a CSR (not a dev) has stated that it is a known issue and will be fixed in a later patch. ↩
Honestly, you sithies have plenty of hood-down options. ↩

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RogueWarrior76 on May 16, 2012 at 12:05 pm said:

When I saw this in the patch notes I thought of you. Congrats!!

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- Njessi on May 16, 2012 at 12:12 pm said:
  
  The weird thing is someone tells me “they fixed the bald bug” and I said “huh? they fixed that like 2 weeks ago!” But changing some of the circlets, I can TOTALLY live with that. I just feel bad for one of my guildies who had a hood-up look he really liked with the circlet underneath and he now has to hide helm to keep his hood up.
  
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Yngwe on May 16, 2012 at 1:33 pm said:

I followed your link to the official thread and posted there “please don’t eff up anything else related to the head slot if you fix this.”

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- Njessi on May 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm said:
  
  I suppose I can make you a circlet that looks just like mine (the heavy armor version) that pushes down the hoodie, if you want variety from the visor/sunglasses thingy.
  
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  - Yngwe on May 17, 2012 at 5:37 pm said:
    
    I like the visor look plenty. Thanks thought 🙂
    
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Ravanel on May 24, 2012 at 6:09 am said:

I was bloghopping and stumbled into yours. This post is amazing! I’ve been so annoyed with my sentinel’s hooded appearance and baldness wasn’t an option – her hair is far too nice to be hidden all the time. I still hope that they will get the promised hood-toggle working one day, but until then, this is already so much better. I’m certainly going to try this myself.

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- Njessi on May 24, 2012 at 9:30 am said:
  
  Glad I could help! There *are* other oranges with the same basic style that will push the hood back – however they won’t have an augment slot. But you’ll be able to ADD an augment slot in 1.3, so snatch up any of these style headgear that strike your fancy. (they will push down the hood in preview too, so you can try before you buy)
  
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