This is an interesting topic, after reading your previous posts about the failure of Defensive stats in PVP, I respecced and equipped a DPS set of PVP armor/items that I've built up through extra unassembled champion items. I remodded the rest I couldn't replace. Trust me, after building an entire set of Champion Supercommando gear, it was painful to read your findings and remove my beloved tanky stats. I have saved the mods, just in case. I tried it and while I have noticed a certain increase of squishy-ness, the DPS is greatly Increased. It's not rare that I will go 200K+ dmg and 80k+ prot now. I would barely break 100k damage before, although I did get up to 160k+ prot in several matches where I had a dedicated healer. However, I will say that fully investing in that defensive gear and going deep into the defensive stats of Shield Tech did allow me to stay alive longer, especially when getting attacked by 3+ people. However, I couldn't kill any of them. lol. So while the defensive bonuses are good, I still think that the hybrid ST/Pyro with dps gear is overall a better value. Therefore, unless 1.1 brings large noticeable changes, I don't think it will effect the viability of a hybrid spec in pvp. TL;DR: Unless 1.1 has a very big and noticeable change in defensive bonuses, it probably won't be worth it.

What you're describing is Ilum, get to end game and you'll see.

Server first*: Karagga's Palace 8-Man Normal - Bonethrasher 12/27 Eternity Vault 8-Man Normal - XRR 3 12/27 [sERVER 2nd] Eternity Vault 8-Man Normal - Gharj 12/28 Eternity Vault 8-Man Normal - Ancient Pylons 12/28 Eternity Vault 8-Man Normal - Vault of the Infernal Council 12/28 Eternity Vault 8-Man Normal - The Infernal One (Soa) 12/29 EDIT: The reason why the Vault of the Infernal Council and the Ancient Pylons SS's are just blah like that is because there's no real corpse to pose in front of. *While it has not been officially confirmed, we have been asking other guilds and no one can confirm any kills on Jung Ma. <Jen'jidai> Empire

Here are some of the SS's of the kills Bonethrasher (Karagga's Palace) Anihilation Droid XRR3 (first boss of Eternity Vault) We almost got the 2nd boss down, he was at 1% and then we wiped. Then we got that bug where it said we were still in combat and couldn't enter.

Jen'jidai will be there, numbers are being calculated as we just found out about it.