Oh Satele, I never knew you thought of me that way. Here... let me help you out of that bulky armor. I'll be gentle...

Well said. Gaming since the late 80's and I have the ability to form my own thoughts without the need for support or acceptance. I can also just 'move on' without hissy-fitting about it first. Lost of old-school gamers still game. We're just quieter.

So press your buttons and vanish... Now you're back to where you started.

I force charge the gap any chance i get. Tactics are tactical. That's what kills PvP and establishes "nerfs". When players use their brain to come up with tactics to over-come a situation, and others whine. Mainly because once that "tactic" gets made public (which is usually real fast), it becomes a normalized by the public. MMO's and MMO-PvP have never supported using tactics to accomplish a goal, as it's usually deemed an "exploit"/unintentional or "fixed" ("nerfed"). When designing the game and mechanics, they are usually cut and dry in how you can accomplish a goal. In my eyes, this situation was made intentionally as a tactic to either support your bridge defense, or slip by, unknowingly, to try for a ninja bomb plant. I'd say it's completely legal, and anyone who "quits if this happens" needs to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and harden the f**k up.

Loving my Marauder. My newest 50, only rank 55 valor atm, but I have a blast playing him. Get 7-8 medals per WZ, usually in the top 3 with damage, and a hell of a ball carrier. Frenzy + Predation = awesome group buff. They have good damage, and great utility.

You came into this thread, only to nit-pick him blurring names in a screenshot? Really? All I can say is, "lol". On my marauder, healing troopers are a pain. Aside from that, no class really stands out.

Stop using charge as an opener. Run in, deadly sabre, get knocked back, force charge back to them. Simple as that.

Anni spec is pretty much just single target.

Mara is the only class that hasn't been boring to play. My operative got specced healer and collects dust inbetween needing him to heal for HMs/Ops. Mara is fun, has a lot going on, and I just flat out enjoy the hell out of playing him.

I was in beta for a while. Maras and Sents cried all the time about how crappy they were. Said they hit like wet noodles, with no CC and they were buffed 2 times.

I played an Operative to 50 as my main, then went heals and rolled a Marauder. Wouldn't have it any other way. I have no issues 1v1, even in my half cent/champ, have lvl 45-47 leveling oranges. If you're getting owned by sorc's, you're tactics need reworking, cause sorc and sage are the 2 easiest classes for me to kill. Are you using cds properly? Are you setting them up for big dmg such as deadly sabre, 3 bleeds + rupture, hitting trink and force choking while they DoT to 1/2 health in the duration of force choke? Are you using obfuscate often? Seriously, just hit 50 3 days ago on my marauder, and having a blast in WZs while only rocking 304 expertise atm. Level 50 valor aswell. I pretty much leveled him through WZ.

My wife has given birth 3 times. You will NEVER see me mistake a woman for less than a mans worth... I couldn't do it, and I think i have a high pain threshold. With that said, our Co raid-leader was a female. her name was Buligerent for a reason. Nice as can be, but if you **** up, she'd be the first to tell you that you suck. Which is why we loved her haha.

For someone so intelligent, you make a lot of assumptions that seem to only benefit your viewpoint. Raiding isn't hard. WoW was also not my first MMO, nor the first time i raided. MMORPGS have become much more mainstream, thus having to evolve to meet the new-commers needs aswell as trying to maintain those of its core supporters. Do us both a favor, and stop assuming and trying to be elitist. Especially for one so efficient and intelligent as you say. Raiding for social reasons has few rewards. Being geared for the content takes strain off other players. It's absurd to assume i meant to be raid geared to do a raid? Waitwut? Silly notion. Being geared with appropriate entry level gear is what I was referring to. It wasn't that hard to figure out. Now, as for the important piece of the puzzle. Let's look at that. If you are on add duty, and adds get out of control and wipe. It was social alright, but inefficient because you didn't accomplish the "common goals" of the raid. If you're the off-tank meant to taunt off main tank because of stacking debuffs, and you fail to taunt, you failed. it was social, yet again, you didn't accomplish your "common goals". So much for the "important piece of the puzzle theory". Again, 20 isn't casual and 40 isn't epic, it's all relative to the dedication and ability of the individual. A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link. P.S. You completely missed the topic of my post. Let's try backing your "intelligence" claim a little. big raids take more time, simple logic.

Have you ever played an MMO before? Look at the chat, and tell me that it's common to have 70 people in one guild, all geared accordingly, and online at once to do a raid. In my 10 mans, once a week on avg we had someone not be able to raid due to scheduling conflicts with work / family / sick / being out of town. Let's say 2 people don't show for your intelligently efficient planning because they got called into work. Now you have to look for 2 players of 1) Appropriate roles 2) Appropriate gear / skill 3) Not complete morons 4) Know mechanics (other-wise you now have to tell them the encounters which takes more time) 5) Agree to your raids rules. There are more, but I think this is enough to say that getting huge raids together does require time. There is a fine line between effectiveness and overkill. 40 doesn't equal hardcore, and 20 doesn't equal casual. It's all relative.

Who sits on a computer? I mean, really...

I have an opinion and I want to force it upon you all!

Lol, what are you on about? I reported a player who was "running into the Pit wall" in huttball for AFKing in WZ. Saw the same player in Civil War running into a rock, doing the same thing. He got killed and got booted from the game for lack of getting on a speeder. This method works in 2 out of the 3 WZ effortlessly. However, after myself and many others reporting this guy, we stopped seeing him. Infact i went from seeing him 2 times a day to haven't seen him in 5 days now. It IS possible, and it is being done very often. I'm not sure how you can be so blind. Also, there are macro programs that can do this task easily.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!! Dude, you're effing hilarious! Aww man, that was funny... whew...

That's funny, I've been in a ton of betas and first day releases, and this is one of the smoothest.

So, I've seen threads claiming: 1. Marauders/Sentinels to be OP due to armor scaling. 2. Juggs/Guardians being OP because of Force Leap / Charge. 3. BHs are OP because of spamming tracer missile and are too hard to kill. 4. Sorc/Sages are OP because of Bubbles/Knockbacks/Heals. 5. Operatives/Scoundrels are OP because they can all crit for 8k and kill everyone in 3 seconds. Really? You guys are serious? What classes/specs are you people playing, to think that almost every class OTHER than yours is so OP?

Why use tactics and brain power when you can come to the forums and QQ?

But they won't have expertise. Which makes a HUGE difference.

I was in VS earlier, and noticed 2 players (repub) on attackers side, that managed to get on the top ledge (left side if facing doors) that run along the top sides of the first room. They just stood there, afking through the warzone. When I called them out in /say (I could see their names) they joined the fighting. They were both from the same guild and ranked Battlemaster. This needs to get looked into. Unfortunately, me being a low level in there, I was unable to live long enough to get a good screenshot. Which is why i won't mention their names, since I have no tangible evidence to backup my claims. Just wanted to bring this to light, so it gets looked into respectively.

31 bags and got 5 pieces, albeit 2 are duplicates. Good thing my companion uses same stats as I, with the exception of expertise...

Playing Devil's Advocate here. Alliance side usually had the BG advantages over Horde. 1) AV map favors Alliance strongly. Guard tower setups and choke points. If you played Horde in AV, you knew that zerging would almost guarantee a loss because Alliance can get their faster/easier. 2) AB stables is ALWAYS capped before farm, thus giving Alliance a 10 point lead. Even if they popped at the same time, stables ticks the first 10 points sooner than farm. With that said, how many Alderran WZs have you lost by 10 points? While I do see it ticking faster at the start, i can honestly say that I have never won by 10 points. Not saying it shouldn't be fixed, as it should be. just pointing out that it hasn't had the impact that anyone's made it out to have. I've been on both sides of the fence. Also, IA's have to pull out a VK to do backstab, shiv, and debilitate which do have animation time like a Scoundrel pulling out their scattergun. Report the issues, and see if they get addressed. To yell /cancel sub this soon just means you're impatient. WoW's AV and AB BGs are still the same in terms of favoring Alliance as they were when they got introduced years ago.