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It is much more a rebalance and restricting your options than a nerf. But yeah, I agree it sucks not being able to get the best of both of the worlds you were hybriding into.
Now, I understand why they do this (I still disagree but whatever), what I don't understand is why they did it only to the shadows/assassins. Maybe because we had the most possible hybrid builds and the most hybrid players but our hybrid builds aren't the most broken out there (even if we are not using the specs as they intended).
My bet is it is going to get ugly on some other classes on the next few patches.
If you google search swtor hybrid builds, sentinels seem to have the market share on hybrid builds
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To clarify for those who think they didn't nerf (because you probably don't play the class):
This is nerfing the tank and ranged DPS hybrid, forcing the ranged DPS to use the DPS stance and not the tank stance. Because they'll be in the DPS stance, they can't cast Guard on someone and easily get the 3 medals. If they do, they will not be able to quickly switch to the DPS stance because the cost is now 100 energy.
Honestly, as a Deception spec guy (yes, I tried Madness and didn't like it - I get comparable numbers in Deception anyways), I use Guard until I get the "10k Protection" medal and then switch to Surging Charge anyways. My guess is this Hybrid will still be pretty viable, and you'll see people do likewise - they'll get their 3 Protection medals, stealth out of combat, change to Lightning charge, and stealth back into combat.
Not a HUGE nerf or change when it comes down to it.
I disagree. You lost a lot of dmg, dmg buffs to your self when in tank stance. it was already 5% behind just due to the stance. But why single out one class like this.
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a lot of shadows (non hybrids just as much as hybrids) were using combat technique for the armor bump so they could stay alive long enough to kill an enemy since there burst is pathetic rather than shadow technique. now in order to maintain the craptastic burst they have, they must be in shadow technique, which means a loss of 150% armor rating. So its a fairly hefty nerf to assassin/shadow survivability in pvp....esp since they have no bubble or % reduction to incoming dmg cd and there stun is on a 60 sec cd.
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is the grapple or force pull considered a force/tech attack? hmm...the pull itself doesnt do dmg right? was wondering if shadows/assassins can pop resiliance/force shroud and be immune to force and tech attacks for a few seconds while they force speed to the goal line
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I'm not really against combat logs, but I don't miss them. There's no good reason to have them. I can always tell you what killed me without a damage log. Once you play the game long enough you know what you're getting hit with. I am very much against damage meters because of the exclusivity it breeds in MMO's, wherein people refuse certain classes/specs because their DPS is "not good enough". I don't like this and I never will.
hate to break it to you but ppl are already being judged by their dmg. Wanna know if someone is good at doing dmg with their class? run warzones with them for a day. Voidstar is a good one. lots of fighting, not much standing still guarding a location. check total dmg at the end.
Any warzone is good to check largest hit because at some point they had to fight someone and pop relics/adrenals/pots
and someones gonna cry lack of gear or "i dont pvp" or some other cockameme excuse but o well....its the litmus test at the moment.
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Meters are flawed. Let's take an example, Huttball. Here are things that meters don't measure which are more important than any stat:
- how many times you score
- how many times you CC, pull, knock, the ball carrier
- how many times you (above) their healer
- how far you pass
- etc...
already making excuses for low dps? haha (just ribbin ya)
Same holds true for other wzs. Also, I think there's a slight flaw in how kills are rewarded. I could swear I've seen many a skirmish where I don't get the kill credit when it was clearly MY kill.
As an aside, anyone have some info on kill award mechanics? Is it raw damage based? Final blow?
kills are more like assists but just like everything else in this game, sometimes it doesnt get counted
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Can believe with double red buff, mara buff, consumables, and min/maxed mods/enhancements; can not believe if you had force armor on. Very unlikely even in the first situation though.
Have done 9400 with my crappy crit enhancements, and no mara buff. So with my updated power/surge and mara buff I find it highly possible. It'll never happen again though come morning time
.except its been postponed...
says it when u login to the game
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Except that gear makes a huge difference. Even a good player in blues is just going to go splat against a noob in champion gear. You just can't damage them enough.
a fresh 50 goes splat against a lvl 20 in all 20 pvp gear due to how bolstering works....whats ur point?
o that this game isnt fair? no ****...try playing any toon on the republic side and ull see how all the small things skew towards the empire.
nothings ever really fair...c'est la vie
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Not to rain on anyone's parade, but I've been 50 for awhile now. I'm valor 55, have opened 70+ bags and gotten 4 pieces. 3x belts, 4x implants, 3x bracers, 2x earpieces. Rest commendations. Whenever I see people who are V20-30 and fully geared, I feel like smashing my face into my desk repetitively.
As someone who's always done and loved competitive PvP, this is just frustrating. I need the gear to be competitive, but I can't get the gear because I'm unlucky.
I miss MMOs that weren't so gear-based. Feels like such a long, long time ago now...
well good news is in 5 levels ull get champion comms with a chance at battlemaster gear. silver lining?
im standing at the vendor on corescant and the 50 blue gear is no where to be found so i stand corrected. i must have gotten it just in time. anywho, you can still buy several lvl 38+ pvp weapons and yank the exp mods out and put them in orange gear and get about 150 expertise that way til you get centurian/champion gear.
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Except it's not only noobs that luck out. I also clearly doubt being rank 60 in 0 battle master and 4 champion is normal considering most my rank are far more geared. I can tell that you're clearly not a competitive pvper. In competitive pvp against the top premades gear can make or break the fights. Even a 10% advantage is huge. If my team is unluckier than our rival teams we lose.
PvP is all about competition. It's players versus players. May the better team win. If my team is relatively equal to your team and your team is in blues and we're in champion/battlemaster gear guess who gets steamrolled?
Also the level 50 gear got removed recently.
hahaha. ok. since u have no control over who u play against, your argument as it applies to this game is invalid. sometimes u get geared skilled opponents, sometimes u get rookies with no gear. guess u will have to work harder to get ur gear than other ppl.
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i just bought them 2 weeks-ish ago. the vendor had no lvl20/40 gear....only lvl 50 if that helps
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Two pieces of gear that's completely inferior to what the lucky rank 20 noob got in his 8 bags from dailies/weeklies.
O well. noobs suck at pvp right? so with ur blue 50 gear and your couple of centurian pieces you've got around 200 expertise iirc. so u should have no issues beating him right?
the normal progression of pvp gear isnt to completely skip centurian. if u were lucky and got to skip a lot of it great....if not, thats normal.
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oh but wait, you have random drops from champion bags -- even if you lose -- to help you normalize the playing field. Too bad it will take you 40 bags to get a piece -- which is roughly 500 WZs. Have fun with SWTOR!
By eventually OP ^^ means 2 months, yippie!
6 bags from weeklies, 2 from dailies. thats 20 bags a week jsut from quests. if u get no champ pieces thats 60 centurian comms. which means if over the course of doing all these u buy 7 champ bags from warzone comms (cake since i was buying 2-3 a day pretty easily), you'll have 81 centurian comms. thats 2 pieces of gear a week if u are terribly unlucky. sounds fine to me.
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People really need to stop telling others to L2P when it comes to PvP. If you were one of the first 50s and actually had access to the blue 50 pvp set, you were one of the lucky ones.
The majority of the people that didn't rush to 50 got punished. Everyone that didn't go Biochem thinking they might get some perk from something else got punished. Everyone that didn't buy the blue lvl 50 set before they removed it from the game were punished.
The pvp from 10-49 was perfectly fine. The second EXPERTISE got thrown in, anything that looked like skill was thrown out the window.
The level 50 with Expertise gear dominates those 10-49. They win more, get more rewards. The lowbies lose more and get less rewards. The rich get richer, the poor poorer. Then they remove the blue 50 set from the game making those issues that much worse.
They basically turned it into a giant farm game. Except in this case the cattle can, and are, taking their $15 a month somewhere else.
Ummm i didnt rush to 50. took me 3 weeks. and the 50 blue gear is still there. i bought it. its on drummand kass/corescant near your trainer.
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im a jedi shadow. i hit valor rank 60 today. i have battlemaster ear, both implants, mainhand and a relic. rest of my gear is champion with chest, boots and wrists being the exception....those are centurion. Seems about right to me. And i went for the first 14 champ bags with not a single champ piece. Ive had several doubles but you're not supposed to get your entire set in a week so keep truckin. you'll get it all eventually.
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obviously progression is the tie break but it seams that even a bomb on the door even if removed counts as further progression. if no bombs on doors and neither team completes but makes it to the same room i have no idea what the tie break is.
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What exactly is the point of that? I don't need Centurion Gear.
cuz thats how it works....champion is the middle tier. if u get a few pieces great but centurion is the first teir.....
by ur logic i dont need champ or cent gear, just battle master....why cant i get it?
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another healer QQing cuz he cant multitask...
if u jsut want to perform one role then u arent going to get a lot of medals.....5-6 maybe
if u do more than one then ur lookin at the 8-10 range.....
so if u just heal and are average.....5 medals will be about normal...
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Killing PVP on release destroys a community
pvp is alive and well....your opinion is in the minority
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Lack of cross server LFG interface reinforces a community. Having a LFG interface within a server can only do good. Put aside your wow hate and realize that when someone wants to run a flashpoint they shouldn't have to wait 40 minutes to throw a group together.
join a guild...i never have to wait
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medals get you commendations for PVP gear, Winning does not
i'm a Sin tank and usually end with 10 medals every warzone
insignificant
and winning does give u more comms than losing
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you do know that warzones are objective based right? to foster team work....thats why your *** gets worked by a guild of 4 that play together on vent......medals are just a side bonus. the point is to work together to win not see how many medals u can rack up because u were off on ur own fighting some dude that had no purpose to winning the warzone
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Put it in your cargo hold and then go buy another Champion Bag. Rinse repeat. Can have as many as you want in your hold.
mine is in my cargo hold...still couldnt buy another one but ill try again
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There is a vendor with blue 50 gear on Dromund Kaas by your class trainer i believe.
DK is the 2nd planet in the imp line right? which would be corrisant for me i think...thanks ill go check it out
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Anyone else Ripping enhancements from Agent gear for your Powertech stuff?
in Vanguard / Powertech
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