Background: been away from SWTOR for quite a while. Decided to head back in as a preferred just to get my feet wet again. Got mirrors of every class, and artifact equipment authorization bought from years ago when I lapsed my subscription.
Issue: I have Imp/Pub mirrors of every shade, so I had them share gear. Account bound items with artifact mods, you know the deal. Well just now, I wanted to head to my Warrior to do some story missions, so I attempted to mail the gear off of my Jedi Knight.
Mind you, my Sith Warrior is the original owner. This is important, because now both my Sith Warrior AND my Jedi Knight apparently require another artifact equip authorization to use that gear I mailed out.
The one that I bought years ago. The one that is still active on every other character I have. And the artifact quality gear that I did not attempt to mail out, is still usable on both characters.
TL;DR:
Basically mailing Account Bound equipment with artifact quality mods causes that equipment to lose its artifact authorization tag.
My question is this, before I search for a way to get in touch with EA to complain-
is this a bug, or a feature?