I'd like the last month of my life back after getting sucked into the Blizzard hype. What I honestly don't understand is how people on these forums complained that SWTOR had no end game but then praised D3. It's probably the wrong comparison in the first place but there is absolutely no way that POS will have more staying power than a MMO: there is absolutely nothing to do once you clear Inferno and get XYZ DPS for your class to outgear content. I got to ~85k DPS on my Wizard and absolutely melt face with Archon. Inferno got extremely repetitive and boring. Game for me is done in a month. Oh well. Back on the TORtanic until GW2.

Not re-subbing. SWTOR WZ PvP has bored me to death. Playing D3 until GW2 is released. Then will likely play both. Unless there's some major overhaul I don't see myself coming back to this game.

Unsubbed last week. Some reasons/random thoughts below: WZs got extremely boring after a number of the better guilds left on my server (Anchorhead) and thus the competition basically died down; I am always in the mindset that PvP against great players makes you a better gamer. Beating down on terribad gets repetitive The world felt very very small when you factored in all the zones you actually care about as a geared 50 in this game Tried PvEing (haven't really seriously end game PvEd since EQ1 raiding days) - boring as well Lack of open world PvP and any clear message from BW of where this was heading….still can't get let this go when I factor in the amount of fun I had because of this in UO/EQ days One thing that got me (and I did not think it would) was the awful visual aspect of this game…everything from repetitive level designs to the armor models…again, compared this to my EQ1 days and it just felt like a game that was released in 1999 had better world design than this. I can't remember/care about a majority of the zones I leveled in. I can recite almost all my enounters in EQ1 down to every minor detail Currently playing D3 until GW2 comes out. Will likely revisit SWTOR if more content is added but the current state of the game just does not grab my attention. Not sure if server mergers/ranked WZs will change this I wish BW well and I did have a lot of fun up until March so will give credit where it is due

I believe those changes did not make it into 1.2 live i.e. our expertise in BM was buffed as was every other class but the other stats remained the same for the most part. Also, anything after 200 surge suffers massive DRs.

One of my favorite changes I made (and YMMV) to the UI is changing my middle two bars from 12x1 to 6x2. Helps me keep all my CDs in my centeral FOV - especially helpful if you're like me and prefer larger icons. I'll post it to swtorui website once I get back from work.

Yes, I know you're thinking of the 25% to tech but in all honesty it's not going to allow you to stand there and take a burst/DPS race given the damage on their opener alone. My 2 cents anyways.

Saber Ward does very little to no damage mitigation since a majority of Op attacks are Tech based. Same issue with Obsfucate. You're going to have a tough time 1x1ing them as a Rage mara. Anni is the ticket as you need to quick burst, DOT and G.T.F.O to win.

I disagree on the negative view re: 2/2 phantom post-patch for PvP. I suggest folks at least try it first before you knock it. 2 secs + speed buff suits certain playstyles very well.

Been messing around with 2/2 in new Phantom and I gotta say it is an amazing gap closer

Carnage + 105 acc? GG

Fact: everyone, with the exception of some Maras/Sents, just stands there and continues to cast or DPS on you while you smack all 3 hits on them. It's no my fault bads can't get out of the way of an obviously channeled ability.

I love it. Good bye to OP healing.

http://www.wtfman.com/mcd/eclipse.htm

It was pulled because without x-server play it was going to end up being an epic fail, and probably leading to even more QQ from this community every time an 8m ran train on you or you were stuck sitting on the fleet for hours waiting for a que to pop. Don't expect to see RWZs rolled out anytime before some sort of x-server play and/or server merges are implemented.

Community. #1 thing UO had. It was an extremely social game that blended PvE/PvP/crafting together that I have yet to see replicated

One time my flamestrike hit for ~75 dmg on a GM resist i was like OMG bro

You still can't rip armoring out of BM? Or are people trolling? I thought it was clarified you can rip the armoring out of current BM once 1.2 goes live. Also, the whole system is ***** backwards to begin with. You guys knew with the amount of specs/playstyles that no one would ever be happy with stock modded gear. Not sure why you couldn't put a system in place that lets you select the mods/enhancements at the time of purchase from all (or a select group) of the available 25s in the game either via the UI or a vendor.

Just seems to me the overall % stat increase of going from BM to WH is a bit of a wash... Better alternative would be to go for crit orange shell w/ augment + BM armoring/mods/enhancements off the bat and then grind your way to a WH set to rip the mods/enh out of? Anyone else agree or am I missing something? However, this rationale does not factor in the new expertise DR formula.... Thanks

Did a little bit more optimizing this morning for PvP: Gear setup: Rakata MH & OH Matrix Cube BM for the remainder * I think this is a pretty “common” setup for a lot of players out there that haven’t farmed the BIS items i.e. augment slot bracers/belt/implant * Allows you to have 7 mod/enh slots, as well as 2x crystal slots – for this exercise I left the crystals (41 power) alone and only focused on tweaking the mods and enhancements Mods: x6 61 str / 37 endu / 11 power x1 48 str / 37 crit / 29 endu Enhancements: x5 51 acc / 37 power / 24 endu x2 48 surge / 34 power / 23 endu (from BH Champ gloves) Stats (w/ Rakata stim and our buff only): Expertise: 551 => 10.9% pvp bonus Acc rating: 306 => 109.4% special Endu: 1322 = >HP: 15.7k Str: 1498 / Power: 458 / Crit: 244 / Surge: 198 => Damage bonus: 425 => Crit 25.0% => Crit mult: 71.1% Thoughts? How’s the crit looking unbuffed? Again, this is for an Anni mara.

Many thanks - that's what I was actually trying to confirm i.e. how many slots you need to fill w/ acc enhancements to get to ~10 using all BM/matrix cube EDIT -- Looks like given my current gear this setup would work best for me: Rakata MH / OH Matrix cube Rest BM ~550 exp ~300 acc ~200 surge ~280 crit ~x bonus dmg (not in front of a PC) Mods in BM gear: all 61 str/11 power Enhanacements: 2x 48 surge/34 power from BH gloves 2x 51 acc/37 crit 1x 51 acc/37 power This is for an Anni mara.

Need a favor - not at home but trying to calculate something - how much acc gets you to roughly 10% acc on special attacks?

Reminds me of Dread Lord days WGAF let this dude enjoy his title

I wish someone from BW would just post a simplied response to this (no offense to OP - I've seen this question pop up 100 times) a) You still need to farm the PvP pieces from vendors in order to get the armoring/mods/enhancements b) PvP shells still have a valor requirement (i.e. 60 for BM and 70 for WH) c) Crafted crit pieces will be BOE empty shells with augment slots - you will either need to buy the augments on GTN or get the schematic from slicing missions d) Orange gear will now show a % of successful REing to get a schematic in order to crit...note not all gear will have schematics from RE and will display so accordingly e) All of this can theoretically be done using alts if you don't want to drop your current skills and/or spend a lot of credits f) Missing anything else?

To answer the Rupture question - the initial hit is melee and the DOT ticks are force.

Quiet frankly, I LOL'd. OP gets 5/10 - a lot of recycled material but some decent new ones as well.