I always appreciate people who upload videos even if the quality is not up to some peoples expectations. I will say every time I watch a Sorc video of any sort it just reaffirms how broken and stupid easy the class is. Escape at will, bubble heal, and the list goes on. Go play a Sent with no pocket healer, now that would be funny. Notice not a marauder since the likely hood is you'll have a healer with so many damn sorcs around.

On Pot5 from Pub perspective every morning eastern time there are several imp guilds that premade in regs and it's easy mode. Then late afternoon, early evening same thing. Because of this happening most of the WZ's that do pop for pub are often 3 capped so fast that many of the players just drop out which puts us further behind. The main reason according to them? They don't want to waste there time fighting premades that should be in ranked. If I switch at the same time to my Imp toons it's just pathetic as now as a solo queue player I'm in with the premades and the results are the same. Quick and easy and boring match. This is a dieing game as a Imp it's mostly against Imp and as a Pub it's mostly against premades as our pop is so low and always half that or better than the imps. Usually I just log in on monday get my weekly accomplished in 7 or 8 matches. Then go to Pub for rest of week trying to stomach the long haul of 14 or 15 matches just to accomplish m weekly. Now on my Pub toons I have started to attack these same individuals that queue in the solo as a premade in OPvP. Turns out they suck alone without the perfect comp or coordination that TS provides. Gotta find my fun somewhere.

Yeah the sad thing is my other main when game came out is a shadow. I've played it as a serenity shadow recently to see if it's as everyone is saying and the class is complete cheese. I get frustrated on my Sent and log out. I get bored on my Shadow. I fear nothing on my Shadow whether focused or not. On the Sent I try to be last one into a fight and it's still like i'm an icecube thrown into the fire.

/signed Benching my Lvl 60 Sent. It's always been my main but it is so frustrating now. I'm a day or two away from just canceling entire Sub. Every match now is snare, stun, dead. In 4 v 4 you are the first targeted because everyone knows it's a quick kill and why bother focusing the sorcs when they have every tool in the book to be the last man standing (top dps, top heals, top dcd, top escape methods). Bleh so frustrating.

Thanks and good to know.

Heh, that's been my experience almost every night on pub side on this server. Seems I never join any wz's that have any pub 4 mans, always going against imp 4 mans. As an example over the past few weeks since I started pvp'g on my new guardian lvl 1 - 55, I've played now just over 200 wz's I've won 33 of them. Now once I see this happening as I have a limited time to play, I just log onto alt for lower level pvp and if it happens there I just log out. It's hard to blame the premades other than it would be nice if they were queuing for Ranked only of course they might not all get there weekly's done as fast. Perhaps when the new pvp changes occur that will allow 4 vs 4 you will see less of this as it has ruined the enjoyment of a vast majority of casual players with limited time due to real life responsibilities.

Curious, are any of the above teams Republic? I know in the 200 odd pugs i've played in I've seen most of the above on empire side with there 4 man's wrecking the random pugs but never seen any of those names on pub side randoms.

Good job Matchless. I always enjoy watching your vids as well as getting the chance in WZ's to play with you all. Generally nice even when it's pub vs pub.

I started using this spec mainly when I wanted to speed up Ilum and go fishing for imps, but man ever since watching Powers vids on the subject and it doesn't hurt that he's on my server it just rocks. It really does. I don't hit the huge numbers but I went from 4-5 medals as dps to 8-10 medals each WZ. My survivability has gone up, my teamwork has gone up as I can protect players and general fun has gone up. Also on Ilum, my favorite target to find is a DPS Assassin. I just laugh at them now with essentially no worries. No heal spec'd characters can be a bit difficult as I sometimes struggle to get the burst on them, but they are guaranteed not going to kill me.

It certainly happens. I've had days where I've lost 10-12 in a row only to finally win one that didn't count towards the daily, weekly. Probably should implement some kind of lost x amount of games and it actually finally count towards daily/weekly. Today though I played in a match in alderaan where a republic player with the score being 260-240 (2 cap vs 1 cap) actually suggest we let the empire have the final cap so the game would end sooner. He thought we had no chance. Honestly where does this kind of crap come from? Ilum would also be better if players roamed around via DAOC and used hit and run tactics, camp the travel lanes then leave. Instead we just sit at the base, trade valor or not even participate. Bleh

No Marauders/Sentinels are just fine. They are beasts in PvP, have great defensive cooldowns, better stealth ability then Assassin/ops as well as consistent DPS. A well played Mar/Sent is hard for multiple people to deal with let alone one person.

Excellent Idea.

Super off topic, played a high RR Ranger on Tristan. A friend of mine is still running around with my Ranger. (Munky) Been about 6 months since i've last fired it up to go and enjoy some interesting PvP around the bridges in the frontiers.

Always love your videos and instructions you give in your threads. I'm also on Anchorhead and have had the pleasure to group with you and Matchless peeps. Always fun times. Only question I have at the moment is, What is your computer spec your running? I'm always a slide show even in some of the open areas.

Nice video. Was a relief to not see a sorc video as others have mentioned. It's inspired me to roll a JK as a alt when things are slow.

Yeah I've been trying for a week to complete my daily at Ilum as a Republic player. Camping the base isn't fun at all and as a dps Shadow I very rarely get any credit anyways. Went to central assault early this morniing as I thought, surely as a stealth I can collect the 15 I need. Well needless to say the roaches were out in force probably thinking the same thing. 7 total Republic players in our instance of Ilum, there was a good 20 Empire players running around. I tried to grab one when I thought the coast was clear and another 4-5 stealthers pop. This is not fun in the slightest. Honestly I do not feel bad for the empire players in the slightest. This was known from the beginning and yet all of the elitist guilds most even from Beta decided to still join the overpop'd side, lvl to 50 a day or two into early access, trade the objectives for equipment with there own Republic alts helping them cap the objectives in Ilum. Poor design, selfish players = lack of any pvp content. The days of DAOC are long gone where realm pride meant something. It's all about the elite equipment.

There also needs to be towers and other objects to control. The main bases should be that, main bases where you set off from. Heavily defended by NPC's and Turrets. Other mini bases, towers in the Open World could be guild claimable. Thus they would get the spam that so and so is near there base or attacking there base. It should take more then 10 seconds to take out such a base as well. Tanks should be controllable with limited movement. I think just turrets should be controllable and remove the tanks and replace with forward outposts to defend or attack. Players should be allowed to upgrade the keeps, add NPC's of different styles, different turrets that would act like siege. All of this was done in DAOC and it is still being played today. It has yet to go F2P.

Wrong. They can blow all of there adrenals, trinkets, and stims if they want for insane damage, but they do not need to. A decent geared OP can still take most anyone outside of a few tanks down with there initial burst that they have naturally, restealth and reapply if needed routine. Only if they truly want to destroy a heavily geared target would they blow all of the adrenals and such. They are a problem and they need adjusted as do Sorcs bubble as do a few other abilities. And they are not the squishiest targets in the game. A dps Shadow is far far far far far more squishy.

If we're talking Huttball, you just need one overly geared out Sorc that can shield up, run thru the acid, shield run thru the fire, shield run the finish line...done. Two Sorcs if you want to do it even quicker. That's not skill, that's not expertise, that's ridiculous design. No premades needed no L2p needed. Press a few buttons and done.

Nailed it. I just hit 50 a day or two ago and was so utterly disgusted when I went to Illum. I am a long long time DAOC vet and I was like finally a planet dedicated to PvP perhaps in the vain of Frontiers. Nope, we get all of these decked out Imps and a handful of Repubs standing around trading for gear. I feel like restarting my DAOC account to actually get some decent pvp. Also the hooded capes on that 10 year old game look better.

And yet that is exactly what has happened. When you watch 40 - 50 imps in decked out gear with a handful of Repubs just swapping objectives in Illum...what exactly is expected once they implement the patch. Screwed screwed screwed. And yeah I've went through 10 failed bags. They'll probably implement the patch soon then as a Repub we'll really be in trouble.

I just seen the joke that is Illum. They need to just make all the gear over. They have completely ruined the game when people now getting to 50 get the shaft while the power levelers are in battlemaster gear. What a joke. Giving us lvl 50 blue pvp gear won't do much good unless you make it as good as say centurion gear so people can somewhat compete.

I just rerolled to this spec a few days ago. It's much more complicated then an Inf spec, however now that i'm learning all of it's ins and outs it is quite an awesome PvP spec. I even have been topping some of the DPS charts in WZ's because frankly i'm extremely hard to kill and I don't have a pocket healer.

Voss social set is probably the nicest looking set out there i've seen. It requires Social V I believe so I won't be getting it anytime soon.

I felt the same way today. Came home from long day of work, fired up the game at lvl 38 and thought i'd get some nice PvP matches in and it was just a nightmare for the next hour. Every game that popped on the republic side was up against teams that comprised of a minimum of 6 lvl 50's up to a few games with premades that were all 50. One of the matches had me as the highest lvl at 38 on the republic side vs all 50's. Not pretty and not fun. Logged out, went to dinner with wife, watched a movie...posted online forum...off to bed. Enjoy the night of slow pops 50's until we see brackets.