EDIT: CANCELED Event is canceled. not enough people signed up Pub Side to even form a team, and there's an odd number of Imp players. Thank you to everyone who signed up, but unfortunately this will not be happening. Hopefully we can get more people to sign up in the future, but it will not be happening anytime soon. This will be open to any and all who are interested in Ranked PvP, both Imp side and Pub side. You do not have to be a member of a PvP guild, or even be a member of a guild at all to participate. This is purely to have fun with our community and get some ranked comms while we're at it This will be pretty difficult to organize, but I'm pretty confident we can get it done. Depending on how many participate, there will be a set number of Team Captains per faction, and a set number of teams for said captains. This will be a multiple hour event, so please plan on dedicating at least 4-5 hours (if not more) of your time if you want to participate. Website that will be used by captains to select team members: http://krisjohnston47.wix.com/bcrankeddraft it's nothing fancy, just something simple with a few buttons to easily navigate through the players. I'm not an HTML genius, sorry guys Players names and rolls will be added to the website as I receive their entries. Date: Sunday, May 19th Time: starting at 2 pm PST Rules: 1. If you are a captain, you are not allowed to pick team members from your own guild. 2. a MAX of 2 members per guild, per team. This is to avoid 7 man Grim or Ascension premades running around and beating the snot out of people. 3. 1 class per person! This means if you sign up on your Assassin, you can't change your mind 3 matches later and change to your Juggernaut. 4. Augment Exploit is BANNED. Anyone caught using it will have their team disqualified from the event. Don't be the one to ruin it for everyone else! The team makeup (healers, tanks, etc.) will be entirely up to the captains. You will not be limited on the number of healers or Smash Juggs you have on a team, but please try a little diversity to keep things fun. No one likes 5 Focus Guardians jumping on them at the same time. the team with the most wins at the end of the night will be declared the winner. If you are interested in participating, please send an in-game mail to Kristus (for Pub Side) and Ammut (for Imp Side) Please follow the following format: Toon Name <Guild Tag> (if you have one) - Class - Desired Roll Team Captains will be picked the old fashioned way (pulled out of a hat ) If you are picked as a captain, you will be notified by in-game email. Guild Leaders, tell your members about this! We want to get as many people as possible! Sign Ups for the event have been extended to Wednesday, May 15th

i lost my kibble when I read this.

is it sad that the only reason I check the server forum everyday is because of Neo's posts?

this.

he's just looking for reasons to complain at this point.

Also, this thread has absolutely nothing to do with the Rage spec, I posted a parse using the Vengeance tree. If you want to complain about Rage, go to the PvP forums. I don't understand why you came to this thread to complain about a completely different spec.

"P.S. If you stopped at "....and another armor nerf after 2.0..." then you should go look at the spec again. "Hand of Darkness - Spike can now be used out of stealth mode." Pre-2.0 this also use to give a 20% increase to armor rating. I never said the assassin got a nerf, darkness got a pretty good buff actually. I have seen multiple assassins tank in 2.0 content, they take insane amounts of damage now even compared to before 2.0 content. Learn what your talking about before you comment dude." if that was directed at me, you are sorely mistaken. I didnt say that, the person who did just happens to have the same avatar as me. And I main a Darkness Assassin, so I think I know what I'm talking about

completely agree. i'm just not the kind of guy who looks for the most OP spec and hops around as that changes to different classes. I play what I think is effective, as well as what I'm good at

Smash was absolutely OP pre-2.0 and some can still make the claim that it still is, although I never played Rage a lot. I gave it a shot after the expansion, and I just didn't seem to put out the numbers it used to, although I don't know the class as well as others do. I did dabble in it a bit between 1.6 and 2.0, but it's been mostly Vengeance since I started the Juggernaut. As for your "Mercs are *********" remark, I know a few Arsenal Mercs who might have something to say about that

You misunderstood me. I never said Jugg DPS was horrible, I was just always under the impression that it wasn't up to snuff for end-game PVE, which in turn, made most Jugg players go tank. This is obviously not the case.

well, Defense made damn sure that no one will ever take him seriously. Ever. But then again, did anyone take him seriously before? As for the "smash QQ" thing, that wasn't my intention with this post. Although I mostly played my Jugg in PvP asVengeance, I did want to raid with it, but most of my guild mates said Jugg DPS was insufficient for end-game content like TFB hard mode or Nightmare Denova. I wasn't aware that Jugg DPS was viable pre-2.0 and that was all I meant by this post. That obviously was not the case, but the Vengeance tree is putting up promising numbers as of 2.0 and I'm interested to see what a boss fight parse will look like. Didn't mean to start a war here, was just posting up something I thought was interesting

tl;dr: it's good, I recommend giving it a shot. Ever since the game launched, Marauders/Sentinels have always been the choice for melee DPS slots. Most people looked at Juggernauts/Guardians and scoffed and said "Lolno, go be a tank", and Powertech/Vanguard or Assassin/Shadow DPS was virtually nonexistent. But, I have some shocking news for the swtor world. Vengeance is, dare I say it, good. on a 6 minute parse on a 55 operation training dummy with no stims, but fully buffed, I did an average of 1946 DPS. bottom-left numbers are the 6 minute parse, bottom-right numbers are the numbers throughout the day, did alot of pvp today. I was level 53 at the time of this parse. parse screencap: http://tinypic.com/r/10dtyy0/4 Spec (what I use for PvP, could probably be optimized for PvE a little better): http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101MMZfRrRruddGGR.3 Yeah. I know. My gear was min/maxed War Hero/Elite War Hero gear. Due to a recent patch Bioware did to fix the PvP and bolster system, they removed any and all expertise from War Hero/Elite Ware Hero gear and gave all the gear a stat boost. So with my gear, that would be equivalent to Black Hole/Dread Guard. So, Juggernauts/Guardians are no longer "only a tank" and can now compete with Marauders/Sentinels for melee DPS for raiding. Just something to keep in mind if you're wanting to start a new character.

tl;dr: it's good, I recommend giving it a shot. Ever since the game launched, Marauders/Sentinels have always been the choice for melee DPS slots. Most people looked at Juggernauts/Guardians and scoffed and said "Lolno, go be a tank", and Powertech/Vanguard or Assassin/Shadow DPS was virtually nonexistent. But, I have some shocking news for the swtor world. Vengeance is, dare I say it, good. on a 6 minute parse on a 55 operation training dummy with no stims, but fully buffed, I did an average of 1946 DPS. bottom-left numbers are the 6 minute parse, bottom-right numbers are the numbers throughout the day, did alot of pvp today. I was level 53 at the time of this parse. parse screencap: http://tinypic.com/r/10dtyy0/4 Spec (what I use for PvP, could probably be optimized for PvE a little better): http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101MMZfRrRruddGGR.3 Yeah. I know. My gear was min/maxed War Hero/Elite War Hero gear. Due to a recent patch Bioware did to fix the PvP and bolster system, they removed any and all expertise from War Hero/Elite Ware Hero gear and gave all the gear a stat boost. So with my gear, that would be equivalent to Black Hole/Dread Guard. So, Juggernauts/Guardians are no longer "only a tank" and can now compete with Marauders/Sentinels for melee DPS for raiding. Just something to keep in mind if you're wanting to start a new character.

tl;dr: it's good, I recommend giving it a shot. Ever since the game launched, Marauders/Sentinels have always been the choice for melee DPS slots. Most people looked at Juggernauts/Guardians and scoffed and said "Lolno, go be a tank", and Powertech/Vanguard or Assassin/Shadow DPS was virtually nonexistent. But, I have some shocking news for the swtor world. Vengeance is, dare I say it, good. on a 6 minute parse on a 55 operation training dummy with no stims, but fully buffed, I did an average of 1946 DPS. bottom-left numbers are the 6 minute parse, bottom-right numbers are the numbers throughout the day, did alot of pvp today. I was level 53 at the time of this parse. parse screencap: http://tinypic.com/r/10dtyy0/4 Spec (what I use for PvP, could probably be optimized for PvE a little better): http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101MMZfRrRruddGGR.3 Yeah. I know. My gear was min/maxed War Hero/Elite War Hero gear. Due to a recent patch Bioware did to fix the PvP and bolster system, they removed any and all expertise from War Hero/Elite Ware Hero gear and gave all the gear a stat boost. So with my gear, that would be equivalent to Black Hole/Dread Guard. So, Juggernauts/Guardians are no longer "only a tank" and can now compete with Marauders/Sentinels for melee DPS for raiding. Just something to keep in mind if you're wanting to start a new character.

tl;dr: it's good, I recommend giving it a shot. Ever since the game launched, Marauders/Sentinels have always been the choice for melee DPS slots. Most people looked at Juggernauts/Guardians and scoffed and said "Lolno, go be a tank", and Powertech/Vanguard or Assassin/Shadow DPS was virtually nonexistent. But, I have some shocking news for the swtor world. Vengeance is, dare I say it, good. on a 6 minute parse on a 55 operation training dummy with no stims, but fully buffed, I did an average of 1946 DPS. bottom-left numbers are the 6 minute parse, bottom-right numbers are the numbers throughout the day, did alot of pvp today. I was level 53 at the time of this parse. parse screencap: http://tinypic.com/r/10dtyy0/4 Spec (what I use for PvP, could probably be optimized for PvE a little better): http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#101MMZfRrRruddGGR.3 Yeah. I know. My gear was min/maxed War Hero/Elite War Hero gear. Due to a recent patch Bioware did to fix the PvP and bolster system, they removed any and all expertise from War Hero/Elite Ware Hero gear and gave all the gear a stat boost. So with my gear, that would be equivalent to Black Hole/Dread Guard. So, Juggernauts/Guardians are no longer "only a tank" and can now compete with Marauders/Sentinels for melee DPS for raiding. Just something to keep in mind if you're wanting to start a new character.

I understand what you're getting at here, and by no means do i think BiS farmers should get an (80% gear gap). BUT. I do feel that the people who put in the time and effort to get the gear, should be rewarded with a slight advantage. It's something that translates into how I go about my actual personal life, in school, my job, whatever. You can be awesome at what you do (Playing your class) but if you don't put forth the effort and put in the time (farming gear), then the person that DID put in the time is going to have the advantage. Just an opinion though.

I disagree on the part of gear unbalance. Just a personal opinion, but if you get your *** beat repeatedly in bg's and farm the gear, then I think it's extremely unfair that people who didn't go through same the trials and tribulation get the same benefits from it. I do not agree at all with any sort of bolstering in the 55 brackets. Lowbie is a completely different story, but i feel it should be left out of end game. Can't stand getting wrecked for hours at a time to farm the comms? Too bad. But that's just my opinion.

I really hope this is a bug.

For those of you who don't know me, I am Ammut from Imp Side. First time on the forums, hey hi how are ya. I'm sure you have heard it a million times before, but this new bolster system is.. broken. To say the least. A friend of mine tested a theory, went into a 55 bg completely naked except for his main and offhand, and had more expertise, stats, and health than people in full partisan gear. uhh.. what? I completely understand the need for the bolster in the lowbie brackets to keep everyone on the same playing field, but in end game? really? lolno. I really hope this is just a bug and Bioware will iron this out. But if this is how 55 PvP will be from now on, then I'll be cancelling my subscription to tor. What is the point of grinding BiS PvP gear at 55 if people can just walk in naked and be on par and/or better? This doesn't make sense. this is an RPG and gear is (supposed) to separate the padawans from the masters. It separates the casuals who do the daily once in awhile, to the hardcores who actually enjoy farming BiS and enjoy competitive PvP. I know PvP guilds like Grim, Infamous, and ASB can't be too thrilled about this either. I love PvP, and I especially love(d) PvP in star wars, but if this doesn't get fixed, and get fixed soon, I'll be leaving and just bide my time until Elder Scrolls lets me in their beta. It's been fun, but I fear this new bolster system might be the downfall of PvP in this game. Let's cross our fingers and hope Bioware gets their head out of their asses. Probably just wishful thinking though. Thanks for the gg's, Colony.

Toothybeaver, Jedi Guardian from the origin server Sword of Ajunta Pall. Dunno if you still play or not, but I'm holding out on the offchance you do. Your skype account is deserted and I tried texting the number you gave me, says its out of use. Miss you brother. Hope to hear from you soon. -Kris

I've taken the liberty to create a meme page for the game on Facebook. if you don't know what a meme is, please crawl out from the rock you've been living under and join the rest of the internet. Go give us a Like and help us grow! More quality content coming soon! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swtor-Memes/139652969523961

I've taken the liberty to create a meme page for the game on Facebook. if you don't know what a meme is, please crawl out from the rock you've been living under and join the rest of the internet. Go give us a Like and help us grow! More quality content coming soon! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swtor-Memes/139652969523961

For those of use that use Facebook, I've went ahead and started a meme page for the game. I found one, but it only had 11 likes so obviously not very popular. If you use Facebook frequently, please give us a "Like" to help us grow! More pictures on the way! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Swtor-Memes/139652969523961

My friend can now craft War Hero gear. A lot of it has a possibility to turn out rated or augmented, so before he spends all the mats and whatnot to craft all this, can Rated War Hero Gear or Augmented War Hero Gear be traded in along with ranked comms to obtain Elite War Hero?