Yeah I've been lagging in every part of the game since last weeks patch.

Real reason they nerfed it? Hard to sell $18 lvl 70 Master datacrons when you can grind it over a few hours free.

And another one advertises the exploit. As far as gunships go never liked the sniper nor do I feel it has a legitimate place in the game. I have flown them and got high kill scores don't get me wrong. I had a low detection setup and it never seems to work. So just put all your points into the gun skills first. Armor pen is your friend. After that if your in a group they have to defend you or you just have to hope your in a spot nobody will notice you.

I really enjoyed the Merc until end game pvp. Its gearscore 246 but its damage seems middle of the roster pvp dps wise and she's 7/10 the focus of attacks so learn to kite hard. I can parse 8k max on training dummy with it. Does it get much better when everything's 258 i'm not sure.

Recovered my old VG. Its 61 running random BG's 4 man. Word on the street is its pretty much useless in pvp or will be soon. Tank spec just testing it other than guard no possible way to win a fight on your own I can see.

I haven't noticed a VG in a long.. long time. I started again a month ago and purged all my old characters. Knowing now about the changes since I left I would have kept a few including the VG. I started with a new Mercenary and Commando. Commando is level 36 Mercenary is level 70 gear score 242 I have several 252 items. People swear the merc/commando are DPS beast but i'm just not seeing it. A perk of the Commando over the Mercenary is the Commando accuracy is easier since he is not a duel wielding type so you dont have to invest more points into it for more offhand hits. If I was to do it over again, and I just might, I would go with the VG. The companion change to where they can do any role helps me a lot. Also you have to consider if you enjoying chasing your target down or staying range. PVP these glow stick warriors mainly are face to face not to big of a problem but you will get runners and they are boring to chase. Commando on the other hand you just shoot. Problem is with the current state of the game heals are extreme and you might not get very far on heal type targets unless you figure things out that I haven't yet.

Far from the best parse I ever seen but slightly useful. Verified someone can missile lock protons in about a second. Several times I was slug sniped which could explain the 1 hit wonder pilots, they had help and I didn't know. Need more data

If we have to block someone to get some fair matches while using training wheels we will! Just got to remember to unblock them when its over.

6 games today same person 25+ kills under 5 death's. Runners up were only 9 kills max. Everyone was wondering how and nobody can reproduce the anomaly. What we did get from him/her was "im in a stock fighter". But yeah I would block people like this just to get into more balanced matches. I just got to remember to unblock them.

If Talos was rich yeah. Other than that his future wife is a Hutt with a wig.

I relate to this. If its a 4x4 I would say i'm 50%-75% on a winning team. On 8 mans though I am consistently on a 1 in 9 win/loss it it gets very upsetting. I have gone as far as 17 straight losses. Years ago it was due to premade squads of 8 vs random pug squad of 8, not sure but might be the same.

The unemployment line.

That would be funny. A secret dev team of 8. They would see some of the other team facing left to right at lightning speed while they take no damage. They would be chain stunned or choked with a bot like precision. Or better yet make it a dev team of 7 and let the 8th be a pug and when the dev team looses the pug person can call the developer bots and report them.

If they are doing the outdated system of script banning or banning people just on the number of reports on a player just refund me now. This system only worked for the people exploiting. Let me go threw some a few things people don't know or may not understand. Websites still sell services like power leveling and such. Those people have a group and they all grind together. Real people or sometimes a few people and the rest are bots. If someone sees a player that may threaten that guys income all he has to do is flip account's and report a legit player with every account he has access to. In the end its a legit player dealing with a ban or suspension. Another problem is salty mental players who sit on a computer all day who cant handle a loss. If you are new to the game or class or even "under geared" after bolstered they will slander you in chat saying your a bot report them and whatnot. I just went threw this myself. These people do report you even more so if you don't respond to the slander's BS. People have their guilds send false reports to something they never seen. Most games I played had someone in guild telling other people to report "X" for hacking and many of them will do it no questions asked. Its 2019 and companies still act like its the early 2000's on how to handle problems like this. I mean yeah SWTOR is 8 years old and the game mechanics are way behind the times, some of which might be addressed in the next expansion but I don't see the game ever thriving again until they do a complete overhaul or on weeks a Star Wars movies hit theaters. If you want to catch career bots I would look at time played, IP addresses, average ping. Once you have a pattern of that and mark the anomaly's you can shorten the list of potential violators. So for example some named "SDlgijglse Uninstall" has been logged in 30 hours on average from random countries with a 999 ping you would know to pay more attention to reports about that account and even go in a few games he's playing to make sure nothing else is out of the ordinary. Another way that was effective is if staff would take a active roll in PVP. Talk in chat or spam messages "Staff is monitoring the battleground." If staff really are watching it or not is up to the company but it is a effective deterrent. Another thing to consider is games with to many buttons to push are becoming a thing of the past. Other games have altered their EULA and implemented a type of chain macro to make the game more enjoyable. The original hardcore players are in their 40's - 50's and I know a handful that's in the 60's-70's. A guy with arthritis vs a 16 high on Redbull just does not work with any current MMO business model your eliminating the older age group, and in the case of Star Wars many of the 1976 era players might still be around. Short and simple to many damn buttons.

Lets use huttball as a example. You just re spawn and your running down a ramp and you see a red guy fighting a few greens, your on a high ramp they are on the ground level almost directly under you. You think "i'm going to help the injured guy out" and start to cast a heal. The same millisecond you try to cast the heal the red guy that's focused on the few guys he's actively fighting turns a 180 and stuns you and continues to fight the other's without the hint of a pause. If your going to tell me "zooming out the screen" the average player can fight multiple people and see behind them and cast interrupts on multiple other people in half a second without pause your full of.... Same thing with perfect timing force choke's. Guy A force chokes you and guy B force chokes you at the instant force choke end's from guy A and its a pattern.

I just came back tot he game after years off. Kept a few old toons rolled new on the rest. When a player is facing four other players and you start to cast a heal or action from behind and elevated and that player does a 180 and stuns you, you know its a bot. I see it in non ranked a lot. This was a dead giveaway in WOW. When I decided to come back to the game I didn't see and active bots and the old ones seemed to shut down. I learned over the last few years if its got a bot I will just play something else. Looks like I missed something. Now on the flip side of this again I have been gone years and my old toons can do pvp ranked. I jumped in one with the free Ossus gear as a healer and got placed in a 4x4. First match I didn't do to bad we lost but lasted awhile. Second match it was the classic stun lock and all swarm the healer tactic. Some guy with a name a anger therapist would make a career off of instantly starts slandering me as a bot. You say something and then your just tossing matches and a bot. Getting stun locked and the group never protected the healer never came to mind as the reason. People mentally cannot handle a loss and have to label people, then they try and persuade other people to make false report's on players as a form of revenge.

100% agreed and what im seeing myself. Headstart = I win guns, anyone after this gets 1-3 shot killed goes "***???" and leaves for another game or changes sides so they can get carried until they get their own I win guns.. but still leaves the other faction pilots far behind.

If they want to stop and be a sitting duck fine, but the "one hit wonder" weapons while they are doing this is not only stupid but out of control.

Well I think a good start to the DD and the CE would be to add a discount to the cartel market. Buying the tokens, Buying the items, something to make spending the extra money worth I all the time.

Nah they arnt OP.. not a bit.. not just a little.. http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3526/faire.png

We need a combat log to help figure out more exact facts on damage and defenses.. however Bioware has removed the combot logs from our view so we cant see whats going on with our charcters. All I can say for sure is this cant be the way Vanguard is supose to be from my experience as a 50. 1-35 was cool, 35-40 went from cool to a drag, 40-50 was a joke since I had to have someone level with me to finish my 50 grind.

LOL.. wow.. really? Tanking 3 lvl 50's with broken shield's and defense mechanics in ANY gear you wear? You rather forgot to mention the 2-3 healers constantly healing you to keep them from 3 shotting you or you live in a world full of make believe. In PVP 95% of all the classes can and will skip any or all your armor.. your just about the same as running around in orange armor with nothng in the mod slots doing half the damage (by design) as any DPS class. Peope havent mentioned it much but even in PVE Vanguards lvl 35 on up its a drag to lvl since mitigation becomes crap also, most likely due to the same reasons Vanguards are becomming hated by the republic in BG's... They are a waste of a class that often brings a groups progression down since they dont have much to offer currently. Currently my 50 Van is shelfed as well as 6 others by other players for the exact same reasons, but its all classes and companions that use heavy armor and a shield, not just a Vanguard. Dont belive me count how many times you see your shield bubble go off PVP and late game PVE.. wont be much. And again the link for reference with detailed instructions and video's on how to see how broken you really are for yourself. And while your reading and watching this ask yourself "Why did Bioware remove the combat logs?" http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=155034

I was lvl 27 before I noticed I had Vanguard tab to train... until then I was only training trooper.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3263/screenshot2012010217052.jpg Guy somehow rides the bike to the turret, he cannot be targeted or shot and he stayed in the entire game. Also about 4 times i the last 3 days doing "The battle of Alderan" once the battle starts going south for the empire the match ends with 300+ points on each ships health and their are plenty of players on each side and the empire always gets credit for the win.

LVL 50 Vanguard in warzone with bolster http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/1739/screenshot2012010219263.jpg Ok.. now my lvl 18 commando in a warzone with about half the gear. http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4467/screenshot2012010219223.jpg Commando before the warzone http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/8171/screenshot2012010219122.jpg Commando 4487-6337 Damage 29% crit 42% damage reduction Vanguard 3962-4932 Damage 11% Crit 47% damage reduction So the Commando does a chunk more damage than the vanguard and only sufferes 5% less armor than a tank? I can understand a tank not doing as much damage since it is a tank but the commando should not have anywhere near that much armor reduction. Same goes with the Empire side, the "Bolster" gives them bogus stats. I need to find a few empire players to show their before and after warzone pictures of their status. I only have a 14 bounty hunter I will get pictures of here in a bit.