I prefer rage, it's more simple. I can play carnage when I'm wide awake and stone sober but at any other time it becomes pretty eff'n hard

Agreed, this is stupid. 99% of their patches have to do with the cartel market. I've been ok with F2p for the most part because its made our servers lively again but at some point it starts to take away, this BS with the legendary vendor is ridiculous.

I tried 4/6/31 and 7/3/31 specs with full aim augments and loved both to be honest. I could hardly tell a difference either way. I crit a bit higher on RS with 7/3/31 but if i can get a match with more people grouping for aoe i do better on the other. Seen a lot of guys not speccing for TD though and grabbing steely and having full 6 in AP. But Im definitely getting more kills with TD now, better burst. For rated's thats awesome

It's mind boggling why bioware hasn't any priority in adding other aspects of end game content, besides new wz's and levels to this game. Like entertainers ala SWG, or ability to decorate player area's, more in depth crafting, etc. Are they really clueless to the fact that people burn through new levels and new gear so fast that we need other **** to actually do? SWG had lots of issues but at least there was a social aspect to the game and a way to gain status through acquiring and showing off your rare stuff. It seems like such a simply thing to ad for no risk.

I dont think they need balancing at all, they are the true glass cannon. If you're getting killed because of their defensive coold owns you're just a bad player. Learn to save your CC for when they are around 20-25% health, then you'll see them pop it and mez and wait 4 seconds. Mauraders are the first thing I go after with my PT if I dont see a merc around.

All these EWH have crit instead of power, or minimal power. ***? You're already well above bonus for crit with full WH. So are you guys just buying EWH gear and ripping out the power mods from your wh gear?

Well as the game currently stands better gear is the only reason why I play. If they take that away and don't add in real world pvp and some other awesome stuff to get from PVP i wont have a reason to play

For Pyro's, what are your plans when it comes to elite WH? Any particular pieces stand out as must have's right off the bat?

No, rebel scum, the stat difference and the effort required to get WH was enough to make it fair. The elite WH gear is hardly better then the full WH. I dont mind another grind, i relish it but i dont want to do it when every other ******e can get almost equal level gear in a few weeks when it took me 8 *********** months.

Quite normal = fail for most mmo's does it not? Punish vets reward noobs who wont stay. The reason why SWG died was cause vets were punished after they worked long and hard at something. I guess dev's don't learn from others mistakes.

I play casually albeit quite consistently. I have played the same toon since launch and pvp on him every day. I finally have full WH and modded my gear and I was ok with recruit gear being added, but now my WH gear that i worked really hard for is now second tier? How does that make ANY sense to veteran players? So lets even the playing field and give every jack off that plays for a few weeks full wh and elite wh with only SLIGHTLY better stats to real dedicated players. Do you think most of your subscribers are the new F2p crew or your veterans. Cause just like SWG you can kiss my *** goodbye by giving my hard earned gear away to newbies that didnt earn it. You should have just made another tier of gear or something. Bad idea. I'm out.

Are there any updated AP specs floating around? Never tried it, and Pyro flat out sucks now

So very true. PT's just post high damage stats in WZ's but mauraders absolutley destroy people one on one and have crazy defenses for such high offense.

Well it was worth a shot

I never see powertechs top in WZ damage; kills, etc. Mauraders and operatives still own the battles along with sorcs. Powertech is only good at single target DPS now with the 1.2 changes to death from above and even with that our CC and distance closers are terrible. Unless your largely ignore in battle you'll have a hard time getting close enough to do real damage. - Tanking specs destroyed in 1.2; all defenses are pretty much useless in PVP and now that hybrid specs are nerfed there is no option middle ground. - Cool downs for grapple are super long unless you spec the tank spec - No charge option with DPS spec even though majority of skills are 10m

Please, PT's aren't that strong. A smuggler or a marauder burst people down twice as fast. It's just all about who gets the drop. If your 30m away, whacking away at someone else and i have time to start stacking ranged DOT's on you followed by a buffed RS then yes you'll die but its no different then if you got the jump on me.

wow that's retarded. So much for dual specs

so none of the new sets have anything worth pulling out? Trying to figure out what to do as I have a full set of champ gear. Should i buy new BM gear and rip the surge mods out of my old champ set as I go along?

Can you still strip out good mods from champion gear in 1.2 and put them in your battlemaster gear for an improvement? If so what are you using, the imperial agent mods?

Yea great fix guys, now the game feels even MORE empty!

Well they should learn from a few things, for instance; -SWG had much better community; everyone gathered at the cantina's to get buffs and hang out. Bounty hunters would be hiding in the crowd and take out targets out of the blue. Social hang outs are KEY for MMO's. - SWG had much better open world pvp. There would always be fights going on in coronet, to anchorhead, to naboo. Why? Because it was friggen fun. And because if you didnt want to you didnt have to. We didn't need a crazy system. People just liked to pvp in that game. - SWG had collectible rare drop items. These rare items would drop with unique stats, DOT's, and other legendary stuff from regular mobs. Lots of people would spend hours out looking and farming mobs for these drops. One drop would make you rich or give you a major leg up in PVP. - SWG had real crafting that mattered. Crafted gear to get unique things like jet packs and ultra rare vehicles. To get the awesome crafted gear you needed rare drops too, but you didnt have to raid to do it. You could farm world epic mobs or duo elite mobs. - SWG had player bounties. Nuff said. I've seen the polls here. 90% of the players want them. They made for a huge amount of fun and adrenaline pumping action in swg. Bottom line SWTOR is great but it would be stupid for them to not take on some of the great stuff SWG did right before NGE.

Well I would disagree with the above poster. As a ST Tank myself, I use Eliminator PVP gear even before dual spec because I can get more medals by using guard and doing damage. In addition, when we can duel spec I will run wz's in full Pyro DPS spec and you want that gear ready. On your other question, The rakata gear is great if you mix it with champ/battlemaster gear. You really need the expertise stats to help out with your defense in pvp. I've seen lots of the top players using a mix of PVE gear and PVP gear for max effect.

Interesting build, how does it do in PVE tanking? Can you offtank decently or take lead in flashpoints still?

Wondering what type of gear to grab through the PVP tiers at 50, defensive or pure offensive? I will be mostly pvp'n with my guild, I do well already at 46 with all defensive pvp gear but I've heard some people saying the defensive gear is broken. So without a full 31 spec tank tree, is it more important to focus on defensive gear? My goal is to still dish out decent DPS, but to outlast healers, etc

In beta I didn't enjoy pvp that much, i played sith jugg then sniper up to 40. But now as a BH powertech and playing with a guild instead of in random PUG's, I'm having a blast. I think the main difference in this game is PVP is built around group play. There's no solo god's in this game and most PUG's aren't organized. Find a good PVP focused guild and a class that suits you and you'll have fun. Not to say there aren't issues. But I'm having a blast.