I just do PvP and get Thyrissian and in 95% of the game I am top DPS. The best PvP gearing system was the one we had in up to 3.x. The rest I do not think is anything worth to remember. Amplifers. Where the biggest CRAP this game ever made, and we had to live it with it for up to two years. Credit sink and a big stress at that. For me they should just return to what it was back till 3.0. I also prefer the previous up to 5.x system with stats tight to Armouring rather then Implants. With Implants you are tight to the Crit or Alacrity this gives, which reduces your gear stat options. It is also annoying when you change a peace of gear especially with how most of the gear is Mod-less in 7.x.

BS/EA doing what it does best, breaking what does not need fixing. Something which has been done to PvP since 2.4....

Same problem. I can't login.

There's that. I am a solution to the problem as well, also because I do not Group Que in Arenas, which makes an insanely broken game. But yes Group Queing in Arenas should be removed ASAP. We are already like a year late.

I think 7.0 is much better to 6.0. 6.0 was a mess of putting as much stuff as they could.... Like going out in your first date and putting too much cologne (at least they learned from this as did many after the first date) It was practically insane to stupidity the gear bonuses gamble thing Amplifers (I remembered) and was going to unsub because of it... First of all many of the changes to come in 6.0 where very slow. We had very little updates. Do you remember that we had a full ranked season before they stopped gear swap out of combat (a huge advantage to stealth classes), and the same for the insane broken burst of Sins.... Tactical changes (see Sin) were very slow to come by as did other broken utilities. I think the ability purge was needed, much needed 2.0 it is long time ago and I played mostly Sage and Operative heals at the time. The original Skill trees (1.0 to 2) where good, and much better to what came after them i.e Dicipline Utilities. Which was a stupid system, and to change one utility you had to start all over again (I am not sure it was always like that). The current system is better to the one before it, easy change between abilities, and now you can also save all you want and interchange easy. Is it better then tree, if you like hybrid definitely not, but then that would be very hard (impossible) to balance. For example I remember Operatives and Sorcs being very good in hybrid specs.

I just downloaded a patch (about 30 gb) now I cannot log in as it tells me my Game Version is not for this server. Server Darth Maglus time about (or just a bit before) 2000 CET. Edit. I press my character (ignore the note) and I logged in.

Yes Sins where good as tank, especially to steal a node. They had that double CC with reduce resolve ability spec'd only in tank which was really helpful in node capping. I am remember Fluffy of Harbinger (good all Finnish Rep side guild in ranked in Vamila on ToFN) which use to spec this a lot.

The Hololocate on Sniper is a game breaking bug for the class IMO. It does a bit less on my Gunslinger. But as you said, it does it in the worst of moments. Considering that defence wise this is the most challenging class it is a bugger. The endless roots is also annoying. Rooted till the end! The no-love towards Snipers by the Devs ehh.

I think WZ respec is fixed and fair in the game, especially in Arenas as is tactical change. I think it would not be a bad idea to try to allow Class respec and tactical gear change in between rounds in VS. When Tacticals launched in 6.0 and you could change them out of combat it was too easy for the classes which when stealth go out of combat (sins and operatives). This gave them a FoTM just for this alone. IMO BW was late to fix this especially considering we had competitive Rated Arenas going on.

When you have objectives in place the whole game changes to be honest. A class can be useful doing 20% less DPS. For example if I remember well at that time Operatives where slow in DPS and they where very useful in Arenas for there abilities. Sorcs/Sages where inferior to Operative in healing and DCDs but thank to bubble explode where needed in teams. Skolops got it 100% correct, that balancing in WZs is easier to implement. While in Arenas, with rated BW ended giving Reflect DCD to nearly everyone. An ability which in 2.0 was reserved to Jugg tank!

Rated WZ where the best thing in the game, the strategy needed and team work was amazing. Playing it was hard, especially since a couple of the really good teams tended to go to the next level. These where the teams that would que nearly every night, and if you made a team and que'd you where very likely to meet them and get annihilated making many guilds to quit after a couple of games. I was lucky cause on TOFN it always flourished more or less. There was that month it went near silence when GW2 launch, but then it became stronger when the hype calmed down. On ToFN we used to have an average of five guilds queuing every night from 2000 to 0000 CET, with the quietest night being Saturday followed by Friday. Saturday was busy in the afternoon though. Sunday and Thursday evening used to be the most busy. To this extent Arenas where used pretty badly on SWTOR. I would have made Solo-Arenas, and left Ranked Team-WZs as eight. With special Guild league competition, with rating and possibly a tournament ranking system. This especially possible now with PvP Challenges.

Possibly if Swtor adjusted its Open-World PvP and competitive side it would be in an untouchable top spot. I think Swtor best competitive era was in Ranked WZs. Open World Ilum was not bad in my experience as it generated a lot PvP community. Ilum was rather balanced on my server back in those days, so I can understand the pain as in most servers it was reported as unbalanced. Ranked Arenas never worked as intended and BW failed to incentive as it should and penalize the cheats ASAP.

I agree with this for one principle. If you removed the heal to Snipers from cover and roll, then BW on the principle that DPS should not heal Must have removed the same to Mercs/Operative/Sorcerers. Why remove it only to Sniper and leave it to the rest. Also unlike Operatives and to a lesser extent the other two classes, Sniper healing was never game breaking, and I never actually read or heard anyone complain about it.

I have been getting both the abilities problem. I thought it was my only problem with my Sniper, since my rig is getting a bit old tbh.... Sniper was made the worst class in 7.0 from a defence Point of View with removal of heal-in-roll and heal while Crouched. I am not so good Sniper in Arena but I really love the class, I am just under 50% win/ration after like 50 Arena games. The problem with Sniper is versus certain classes it is mostly doomed. Double Sin set up being one of them. I think versus the ranged classes it can still manage well. But if remove healing at roll to Sniper then why you do not remove the heals to Sorcs and Mercs for example? Sniper is now even more the most challenging class to play well (it always was), mostly cause its different to requires a totally different mentality.

I have not done one Premade since 7.2 started. But some games on DM are lost or steam rolled by stupidity from certain players not because of Premades. And I really do not mind Premade in regs WZ. What I find it childish (amateur) and stupid is for those who do it in Arenas. I hope BW updates Arenas ASAP and removes the Premade function, cause it really breaks the game mode. If any PvP player just worth 1$ to his name IMO he would not do it....

Challenge Mode has such potential. Its a pity that BW never tried to push it in no way whatsover. Why not create Guilder Challenger mode for Challenges for example. Where one can own say the are the Dominant faction of that Arena or WarZone with special stuff attached to it. A lot of possibilities in Challenges and how to make them work.... Another lost occasion from BW to a very good system.

I know he was. And possibly I know who might have called it. Listen I liked SR for all it was, and with all the defects it had it was a nice game mode. What I am saying for it to be taken seriously it need BW seriously on it. Something which never happened. I mentioned a few examples on the high tier how it could have improved and be possibly one of the best PvP game. SR was the third best PvP mode the game ever had, with Ranked WZs second, and a good organized tournament second. I think the one with Arenas organized the fall of last year by Biggs and KogAss was the best tournament the game ever had. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1294089932?filter=all&sort=time

On DM half of the golden players are known to have cheated in one way or another ( Que Syncing / Speed Hacking being the most common used cheats, excluding Macroing which is difficult to detect). I am not saying all I am saying half. Then there are other subtle ways of cheating which is not considered as cheat. Like having multiple characters of the same class. Could you take a Gold seriously or any ranking for that matter, if when the games are good I play Sniper A and when are not so good I play B and when bad I am C. If we make a soccer comparative its like Manchester City fielding a B team, and then if they lose losing the points somewhere else. On these half are these more arrogant dudes, even if they happen of being good with a certain class. A certain Sage was for example very good with that class (he could carry most of the games unless he had the same level player in the other team) but every season he is under investigation and then returns to play with a new account. Each season was like that.

On ToFN we had ten plus teams queuing, four to six different every night in Winter 2013 before 2.0 launched. Friday and Saturday night use to be a bit the quiet. It was slowest in the end of that Summer August to September 2012 when GWII launched and some guilds left.... Yes at that point it was three teams queing. Three / Four team where on another level. It got slower a month after 2.0 launched, then with Arenas announced and the removal 8s even more so. That one destroyed the PvP Guilds and the PvP community how it was. IMO how it was supposed to be. SR and Arenas had to help 8s and TR become more popular, it actually was made the opposite effect with Ranked WZ removed. It also destroyed TR after the year, and balancing was a much more delicate affair, and gave an infinite advantage to players who played stealth classes Good and Burst classes second. The problem became worse over the years and with subsequent expansions. Having a class which with two/three buttons melts another one down because the correct DcDs are not popped is game breaking. This was especially the case in 7.0 with Sins first and PTs later. Possibly the best balancing time was at 5.0. Then we had same ongoing problems which me and others have repeated extensively and BW never fixed.

I am at 70 with my Sent and Mara. I am at 40 now with my Sniper, was at 20 ter. The mm has improved since the patch fix. MM has to get better, but its not bad as it was in the first days. I still think BW should not allow Premades in Arenas just as it was in Ranked. Yes I know this is not competitive as it was before, but four man premade in a 4vs4 you can most of the times call it Game Over, unless it is one very bad premade.

I think in order to make Arenas work BW has to implement the following; - an Arena has to have the same combinations, if its three DPS and one heal so be it on the other team. If it is three DPS and a tank same on the other team. (the first two days this was bad) but it improved in the weekend - Premades of any kind (grouping up) should not work in Arenas. This is game breaking in so many ways. my 2 cents. So far I think it's fairly okay also for the different players you meet in like a two/three hour que time.

I managed down to 29% (in like 15 mins) solo with companion 50/50 healing, Sentinel Concentration with PvP gear and augmented, before it enraged. Is that good or bad....

REAL ISSUE IN SOLO-RANKED = NO PROGRESSING The real issue in SR always came because we never got separate Arena Not-Ranked que, something everyone was asking from the day Arena where introduced in the game. There was no progressing in ranked, and this was further emphasized with smaller population, giving a PVE equivalent of doing a solo que operation in Nightmare mode. The end result of this is that people who tried genuinely ranked Arenas would give up. Also unlike Team-Ranked where team mates will tell you what you are doing wrong, in SR this rarely happens and people will just go on and flame the weaker link.

removing content is removing content - nothing positive can come out of it.... I have played Arenas since introduced in the game, but since BW could not fix them in ten years, possibly (and I am divided) it is better to remove them. Arenas could not be fixed and apart from players behaving how they should not and BW never acting concisely, even some wishes like class stacking, and trying to makes que work with rating never materialized. but then I say BW removed Ranked 8vs8 WZ which had a much better competitive content then Arenas ever had.... So should we be surprised....

7.2 should launch on the 13th Dec (latest Thurs 15 Dec). This give them about a week and a half to fix the worst bugs which come out with a patch. If not by that day, it will launch towards mid-end January. What a great tenth anniversary the game had... 🥵