you assuming that the fact that more people left prior to 5.0 got anything to do with moving to one gear system, that assumption is not correct at all, they left for many reasons that regards the mistakes and failures that Bioware made over the years and it is not the thread to discuss them all over again. I am a pvp player for the last 7 years, 90% of my game time that is high is pvp , I know much of the pvp community on my home server DM ( and I know many of the pvp players who left ) the bottom line is the pvp community is dying regardless of the gearing system and if you will push out the pve players who come to grind the unassembled components, we will sit in the Q admiring our pvp gear and waiting long long time for a pop. anyway as Eric hinted expertise is probably back in 6.0 and we can see who was correct about it, I wish it will be you, but sadly I sure we will all cry about it, you can't hold the pvp scene alive with current pvp players only. and if pvp won't give the chance to get the highest tier of gear ,the casuals and pve players won't have any motivation to fill the ranks.

The biggest argument against returning the experise and the pvp comms is reducing the player base. this days a lot of casual and pve players filling the ranks because pvp is another alternative to grind gear overall, if situation will go back pre 5.0 a lot of them will stop pvp cuz the gear won't be the highest tier anymore. sure a lot of clueless people will stop play pvp and the overall level might go up, but than again pops rate will go down drastically because the total player base is low, and the pvp player base is even lower. now days on DM you have most of the days pops and you see a lot of casuals playing it, if it will go back we will sit for hours in Q with no pops. you can argue that you prefer better games and more challenge in less time, not sure if this argument will hold if you will need to wait 20-30 mins for a pop or not at all depending on the time of the day.

already post it but what the hell frustration FTW Atm it's patching for the last 8 hours. same routine, reorganizing data, verifying ,starts installing from about 49% sometimes it goes up to 94%, than verifying and drops down to 48-49% in an endless loop. already downloaded the launcher repair utility, uninstalled my antivirus, knocked off my firewall closed almost every process and program, but nothing helps. Since 3.3 every major patch meant the game will be unplayable for 48-72 hours. cuz launcher going berserk and patching is endless and broken with bitraider. without it I kept getting wrong game version error msg or downloading the entire game time after time. at 4.0 I estimating that I downloaded around 250-300 GB in 3 days until I got a proper version. got fast internet connection got a brand new computer but still every big patch is hell. I love the game , subbed to it since day one but really had enough of this BS.

Atm it's patching for the last 8 hours. same routine, reorganizing data, verifying ,starts installing from about 49% sometimes it goes up to 94%, than verifying and drops down to 48-49% in an endless loop. already downloaded the launcher repair utility, uninstalled my antivirus, knocked off my firewall closed almost every process and program, but nothing helps. Since 3.3 every major patch meant the game will be unplayable for 48-72 hours. cuz launcher going berserk and patching is endless and broken with bitraider. without it I kept getting wrong game version error msg or downloading the entire game time after time. at 4.0 I estimating that I downloaded around 250-300 GB in 3 days until I got a proper version. got fast internet connection got a brand new computer but still every big patch is hell. I love the game , subbed to it since day one but really had enough of this BS. sorry about this rant

Hello I am a shadow tank who playes both pve and pvp. When it comes to pve and i need to choose between endurance and mitigation, there is not much doubt for me that i choose mitigation. So in pve gear full 69 augmented i'm standing around 2100 points and around 37.5 k hp. Until i can further optimize. In pvp gear full partizan not augmented i am standing around 1200 points with 2018 expertise. What i wonder do i choose the same path like in pve or i stack endurance with the new purple 66 augments what will bring me above 39k hp. Would love to have your opinion on this subject. And KBN , me and the rest of the tanks in our guild very thankful for your efforts and appreciated it a lot.