I get what your saying in regards to mobility (to an extent). It is rather frustrating playing Hutball and seeing 15 supermen flying around the room or being grappled to further points. That aside, when I run the ball, literally it feels like I am running at 20% normal (non speed buff,but normal) and going slower than everyone else in combat. However, to the bold. That's on you man. You and gear. Not being a butthead here, but if you see more than one ability in regards to stunning/cc/etc then you are being focused on and in turn need to hit your defensive abilities. Proper timing of such helps you live through times when you think you probably shouldn't have. Get some gear (get above 4% expertise and you'll see a difference), learn when you are being focused. Be mobile, if you see a tracer hit ya, move. Ya, that simple, move out of the way (though 30% of the bads think it's wildy OP that someone can spam such an ability from a distance and kill a non moving, non caring target .I mean go figure a DPS spec can DPS from a distance and will kill someone that is afk...) I digress. Don't forget we do have "Power Surge" which in turn will make one casted ability instant. Also, I really don't know where you are getting that a Arsenal Merc isn't a burst spec. I think you're either geared incorrectly or your rotation is not what it should be. We may not burst like an OP pre-surge nerf, but that doesn't mean I can't take away 50% health prior to a Saber being able to start hitting me.

White resolve bar means none of my knockbacks work. Shielded target (depending on shield) means my knockbacks get absorbed or ignored.

"What would it take for you to stay or resub? " They keep the servers online and keep making improvements to the game. I know, I know, I don't have the unique snowflake, self entitlement thing going on.

Show me in the printed paper you signed where "dailies" had any sort of time limit on them? I did my heroic Mode daily last night. It took me over an hour, closer to an hour and a half. Yup,we chose FE to start off. So again, your full of poodoo when you say, "dailies are supposed to be fast". No, no they aren't they are supposed to be "dailies" and nothing more/less IE a repeatable quest so you can earn money, commendations and/or still progress with gear outside of raiding or PVP.

Good post OP. I have no idea why for instance, in the first 2 minutes of Hutball if the other team scores you see 1-2 people leave. Makes no sense and to me is the same as literally crying because someones ice cream hit the ground (same level of mentality-life didn't go my way boo hoo). I agree with your post. I have been in horrendous WZ's where you have to wonder if your team knows what the ball in Hutball looks like. When it gets to that point I just go into solo mode and worry about my gains. Either way I am working towards getting bags/ more gear which is the end goal. But those that quit because they can't stand losing (even though they are admittedly keeping track of wins/losses at this point) are still getting less valor/commendations. So I guess it works itself out with the reward to effort ratio.

Na, I have had an OP stun me with my resolve bar degrading from full. Not slow me, not root me, not blah blah blah, but literally stun me. Has happened a few times so I can only imagine the unique snowflake syndrome OR it's an oversight. Not nearly as bad as the 1 v 1 me (BH) against a Sage and the sage running in circles while channeling. Same guy also running around a turret while capping it. lol Yes, he was reported and yes half of my team saw it. Was quite funny tbh, just hope they nail the guy.

What about intentional kill trading? I know it's hard to determine and I know we can't have a GM sitting in Ilum 24/7 nor one respond immediately when it happens via tickets. However, I am just wondering if there will be a perhaps, better objective system put forth so that kill trading is well, pointless.

I am in the same boat. What ever made you think otherwise? RNG does have it's place in PVP in an MMORPG however. Otherwise you would see this, Tracer hit's for 1500, crits for 2k always etc etc on down the ability line. There would be no "chance to proc" anything. It would be hit it 3 times and this because active. In essence there would be little to no flavor for combat or even the combat system. I get what you are trying to convey in regards to the PVP reward system though. However, how is it that someone who can open 50 bags and get nothing, but someone who opened 49 and got 1, how is it that, the guy who opened 49 isn't deserving? Is there a limit now (post 60 valor) that hinders ANYONE from attaining said gear? Get off the "I earned it, you didn't" horse. That is more useful in the "kill trading" discussions going on. If you had said that, I believe you would have merit. To say that someone who has a piece of gear or 2 out of 10 bags being less deserving than the next guy "just because", is a horrible argument. Ya the system needs to be better, but man, you certainly need to reassess who is "deserving" of said gear and who is not. If you want to put a cap on gear, fine. Do it for most participation in WZ's objectives type points, something that encourages team play objective play, not "I rode this OP class to X e-sport arena rating RAWR". You have to think deeper than you are man. Look at the whole picture. EDIT: Oh and the "hardcore" PVPers you speak of, well they tend to bail if the other team has more people rocking "Battlemaster" than our team. Funny thing though, we have a tendency to win some of those.

My point exactly if you read the tracer spammed me to death deal. lol

It's been around 3 weeks since I received my last "in bag" piece of champ gear. While I understand that BM takes tokens and such, perhaps they put tokens and gear on the same looting table. Dunno, but it still stands man. 25% is 75% not to get anything. If you ain't first, you're last. Numbers are what numbers are. Hell, I've played hundreds of lottery tickets at the 1 to 3.4 to win ratio in my life. I haven't won the money back that I have put forth. While there will always be the guy or guys that "OMG look, I got 5 bags and 4 piece of gear" on the flip side there will be the "I've opened 40 and nothing". Good/Bad

lol How'd I know tracer spam would be in here? Goes to show ya that even a clicker is still one up on someone who fails to even use the "S" key. On topic. The PVP is still in it's birth. The game is 2 months old. Look at WoW and 7 years of horrid class balance. I can compare due to the fact that there are completely different classes/specs in this game. It takes time. Just give them some and maybe, we'll see some improvements. I mean, it's not like the Devs wanted this to go from Mainstream MMO to FTP in 6 months. **Spare me the doomsday, herp derp it will if PVP fails cause me and my guild of 2 million will quit** speech. The game is new, give it some time.

No his point is that the RNG system is broken. It is not. I mean seriously, you guys are attacking the laws of percentages and blaming them for not giving you that 1 out of every 10 that it says (or in this case 1 out of every 4). The system is not broken and it is not flawed, it is what it is, numbers. The numbers are not incorrect by any means (unless there is a big in the coding). Now, before someone nerd rages and punches their monitor. Can a better system be put in place? By all means yes. Can a more user friendly one be put in place? Yup. I am not arguing the fact that a different system would probably behoove the entire community. What I am arguing and finding funny is that people are blaming the numbers for not getting their gear. What, they are what they are. They didn't change because it was you. They have no biased to anyone. And like I said, if this is such a huge issue (RNG) why not march on down to your local lottery and demand some money or a change? I mean average lottery to win around here is 1 in 3.4. Those are good odds wouldn't ya think? Come on now guys, think before you attack RAWR "it's all flawed", "it's all broken", NO, no it's not. The system they put forth is working properly without flaw. Is it the best system? Nope, but people still want to blame the numbers for working properly.

Because BM only takes 3 tokens for some. You mean to tell me that you would rather them give you 7 BM tokens and 15 Champ tokens per bag? I honestly hope you mean to rework the entire system so a BM takes over 70 (seeing as tier one took so little, then Champ took 67 at most would make sense to have BM bumped up a bit from that). That I could see as an improvement as well. Either way though the current system isn't broken man. Could it be better? Ya, but it's not flawed or broken.

You've done nothing but shown your disdain for the PVP reward system. What would "you" do to improve it?

Seems like a pretty reasonable fix to me. Well, not fix, but improvement.

He didn't want to hear it from me either and in fact hates me. I guess he just wants BW to ship him and everyone above valor level X all the gear they "deserve"at that point. I mean clearly he doesn't want to hear why the odds work the way they do, he just wants them to work for him and NAO!

You can hate me all you want. But it's a fact. So are you going to do what my 4 year old does and cover her ears, screaming la, la la la, la la la la, I can't hear you while the fact of the matter is, you have sh*tty luck? Come on man.... What's next? Why not write your state government on why you haven't won the state lottery or Powerball yet? I mean, the odds of winning are roughly 1:3.4... Much better odds than getting gear.. Again, you can complain all you want, but to say "I don't want to hear facts" is a bit childish.

Someone somewhere who has opened 2 bajillion bags in the last 4 months of playing (see what I did there) is nerd raging at your post. lol

I thought they were RNG. With that said, you can't "expect" anything. You could have full BM by the end of next weeks weeklies. You never know. EDIT: Perhaps you need to learn what the laws of percentage really are. It isn't I have a 1 in 4 chance of winning therefor 1 in 4 bags WILL give me a token. Hell, you could get 1,000 bags and even at 50% have all 1,000 give you nothing.

In before "Will of the forsaken" argument is brought up. Or wait, did Imps/Sith get it?

Ya I have all but given up on trying to knock back a runner in Hutball that is close to he goal line. No matter where I am in front of him, literally 80% of the time I will end up knocking him into the goal OR kicking him off to the side but still making ground towards the goal. Each case is screwing my team. Only really happens though from my furthermost on my side burner towards the starting area of my team, so not that far, but it's where it counts the most. Perhaps it an issue with the location. All other places it seem to work fine. Well, unless getting absorbed, ignored completely or a half knockback is fine.

Just seems odd that you would post in the PVP forum since you don't really care for nor PVP that much. Oh and the nerf isn't even out yet (as far as I know, mgiht be, /shrug), but ya, let's all jump ship because they touched a stat that was broken, but we didn't agree with. You do realize that it affects more than just a DPS OP right?

Can't go OOC while on a boss fight as far as I have in raids. You can in PVP while still makes no difference considering that there are health buffs in game. I playa BH btw, so no, no stealth love here, but I don't see a problem with the water either.

People are worried about a heal that is usable only "out of combat"? However, they could care less about being able to score in under 10 seconds due to leaps and grapples/sprints/immunities? lol wow

I have a 4+ year old computer. Only 2 gigs of ram and an Nvidia 9800 GT Vid card. 2.2 Dual core AMD to boot. Ya, almost minimum specs. To top it off I have heating issues and am running with an open tower. With that said, one night I spilled about 30 oz's of rum and coke into my tower. It hit the motherboard, Vid card, memory and part of the hard drive. I let it dry out for a few days and it finally fired up. Just a basic outlay of "my" system. I rarely have FPS issues. When I do, it is when a lot of AOE is going off in PVP. PVE I am fine, even a lot of people in PVP I am fine, though when the derp derp AOE hitting for 100 a pop thinking they are helping starts in, well then my FPS goes down hill bad. Not saying this is BW's fault, na, I need a better system. I just figured I would give some back story in regards to what I run and still run SW fine for the most part. EDIT: And I voted.