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  1. Bolanos

    Solo Ranked?

    Isn't that sort of an oxymoron? Your OK with a system that works to get a group of soloer's, pugs, together in order to have a ranked warzone, like a group finder. Yet you are against a solo que...which in essence is the same as a group finder that is grouping a bunch of soloer's, pugs, into a group for a ranked warzone honestly, isn't that the same crap?!?!?!?! It's still not a premade, it's just another Pug
  2. Bolanos

    Solo Ranked?

    That's crazy. In the same token as you just said, I could then say, people who get their rated warzone armor through rated warzone's should only be allowed to play on rated warzones and are not allowed back into regular warzones because they achieved their armor quicker then the soloer's of this game. The problem with warzone armor is not that it takes so damn long to get, the problem with the armor concept is that it's dependent on a group. If it's a group that you form, then you all have the same goal in sight. However, the group that the warzone puts you into, everyone has their own objective. So while you might be playing to win in order to get those rated comms, you have one or two or even three people who don't care about the objectives, who don't care about winning. All they want to do is run around and kill people. And your comms are dependent on those jerks. Armor should always be dependent on yourself and not on others, especially when those others have other goals then the one's stated by the game. The other problem with the comms is the repetitive missions. It would have been much better to find a guild and raid once a week and be able to pick up one armor piece per every two weeks to 1 month for your class. At least you won't be board of doing the same repetitive crap over and over again (regarding Black hole gear here, not pvp gear). But I stand by what you said, soloer's should not be able to do rated warzones. Therefore, people who received their rated warzone comm's and gear through rated warzones should not be allowed to play in regular warzones because they have an unfair advantage over the soloer's of this game.
  3. NEGATIVE If they want sages to NOT be DPS, then they should remove our two ******** DPS tree's. I just unsubbed, I'm having much more fun playing GW2 anyways. BW can go **** themselves after screwing up a great concept of a game.
  4. yea, from everything I've been seeing in GW2, it looks better balanced then SWTOR. Not only that but it also looks like a nice change from SWTOR's Cookie Cutter character templates where everyone is the same. In GW2, for a ranger for instance, you can focus on duel wielding or 2h wielding, short bow or long bow, Focus on stronger better pets...it's not like here where you see a guardian and say, ok, I know all of their moves. Here you may see a warrior but you don't know how he's spec'ed out which makes him harder to defeat. This also means you can customize your toon more towards your play style, like I'm a range guy, I'll be focusing on the longbow with my ranger. The crafting on GW2 is nice as well. you can learn two skills, like armor and weapon, but if you wanted to change to say baking, you can drop, not unlearn, drop one trade skill to learn the new one. then if you wanted to go back to what you had you can without having to start all over. If you where level 50 in smithing, dropped it, then went back to it, you'll be level 50 still with the same recipes you had before you dropped it, which is sweet. And as for the video, no one goes down fast in GW2 unless they are being attacked by more then one person. GW2 battles are drawn out, you really need to see some better video's.
  5. I'm sorry, I know this isn't a discussion thread but this is driving me crazy. Don't you people play your own game? Honestly, if you where to play your own game you would already know the answer's to those questions. If you read your PvP forums you'll know the answer to these questions just the same. There is a black and white difference in class balance that anyone who plays the game can see, which brings me back to my original question, do you guys play your own game?
  6. I play a DPS sage, or at least it's suppose to be a dps sage but we're not. I play a hybrid, Tele/Balanced. 1. How do you think your Sage spec is perceived by other classes? The majority of people I have come across believe dps sages are useless because other classes can provide the same benefits as sages and put out better dps burst. We are looked upon as the 'easy kill' and are ALWAYS the first targeted in PvP because of this. Many people call us 'Support DPS class' (which is the newest term I've been reading on the forums) and healer class and utility class, but none of our tree's are utility tree's, they are either heal, or damage spec'ed. 2. How do you perceive your own spec? In PvP I am to weak compared to all other classes. In a 1v1 I go down in less then 10 seconds unless I get a newb that doesn't know how to PvP and he lets me kite him around, in which case it then takes me 45 seconds to 1 minute to kill him. I have had two sages (me and one other sage), attack a marauder, a 2 on 1, the marauder won because he's doing 2.5k and upwards to 6k damage per hit while I'm only doing 500 to, if I'm lucky, 1.5k per hit. I do not have the Burst DPS necessary to compensate for my weak armor. On the backside of that coin, I have no defenses useful enough to compensate for my lack of burst DPS. This class is broken beyond belief, a glass cannon with no cannon. It's longer then 3 sentences and I'm sorry but this class is so screwed up that you can't answer it in three sentences. I wish I could write you more but you probably won't read it, not even sure if you are reading it now.
  7. And this is why I have so much trouble finding a ranked pvp group to get into <sigh>
  8. If BW doesn't want to fix sages burst DPS problem, why can't they at least give us a use for our sabers? Currently it's just a stat stick for us. Why not increase our defenses by giving us some sort of deflection/ripost ability in PvP with our sabers? Not much, just enough to help us last longer then the normal 5 to 10 seconds and gives us a reason to have a saber?
  9. I just thought I'd share this with all of you, Classic case of a sage backpedaling because he knows that the Marauder is gonna rip him a new tail....literally http://img.techpowerup.org/120705/070512jedi%20cats.jpg Do you think he stand a chance?
  10. Sorry Scolo, my post wasn't aimed entirely at you except for the video part. Sorry if you took it that way. second, I do know what I'm doing, and most melee's get upset with me when I start kiting them around the place as I mentioned in an earlier post where one got pissed off at me and just left to go kill someone else after over a minute of me kiting him. But this guy was just impossible, Every time he jumped to me, less then 5 seconds to react, the first two seconds I'm stunned from the leap. The only time that my stun actually stunned him and I force ran away from him is when he threw his saber for 4.7k damage. There is no way any sage could defend from that, When I respawn and see him fighting someone else, I throw everything I had at him and I couldn't even get him down to 3/4 health with that other person attacking him, my pebbles where doing like 400, my FiB was doing only like 900 on him, how the hell am I suppose to defend myself and attack as a DPS class doing 400 and 900 damage to an opponent that does, on average 5k damage to me? On top of that, he's a meatshield which means he has higher resists, higher armor, higher hit points...I mean seriously, he shouldn't be doing that kind of DPS. How can you call that balanced? How can you actually defend this? In all the online games I have ever played, this has been the worst when it comes to class balance. They don't even follow the traditional, balanced, class formula that all other online MMO's have followed since I can remember. You mentioned the guy being in war hero, everyone on the forums claims the stat difference between war hero and battlemaster is not that much, which means there shouldn't have been a huge discrepancy between us like say, battlemaster and recruit gear. This is just the truth about how unbalanced the classes are in the game. And no need to impress me with a video, first, I know first hand what a sage can do. Second, when I see a video, I like to see evenly geared opponents, not a one sided battle, that doesn't show skill unless the underdogs are actually winning.
  11. That video is the best you could do? Honestly? He was playing against a group of newbs. Look at the final numbers, the fact that his entire team is on the top half and the enemy team is on the bottom half is proof that the enemy team was way under geared for that match, which brings up one of the biggest universal problems this game has in PvP, it doesn't even out the playing field, it just throws whoever into whatever match without taking armor/expertise into consideration. The only opponent I saw that was not undergeared was Lunatic at 7:20 into the video. she's a meatshield, look as he is not even close to breaking out of the three digit damage range. He can only damage her for 402, 350, everything under 500 except for one crit that did something like 850 damage, and with two people on top of her, the one your praising plus another guy, and they still couldn't take her down and she was actually winning against the two of them. That's the way the majority of warzones are. The meatshields surviving everything and dishing out the best damage. Not what you saw in the first 7 minutes of a BM/WH armored guy running around killing people in recruit gear or worse. Lets be honest here and tell me you noticed that but are trying to pull a fast one on people here. Last night I played a match that had a sith tank, a 'meat shield' killing me, full battlemaster almost BiS, in under 5 seconds. When I looked at the logs, I was getting hit for 3700 to 6800 points of damage continuously. And he kept on targeting me, because I'm a sage and he could do away with me within 5 seconds, fully Battlemastered. I"m not a great sage, but I am a good sage and I can kite, but there was no way to kite this guy, if I remember correctly his name is Xeref or Xeres or something like that. The one time that I did have the ability to get some distance from him he threw his saber at me for 4700 points of damage, which finished me off. My best attack doesn't even come close to 4700 points of damage, I'll be lucky if I can break 3k. Yet, your saying that a sage to do 3k damage is overpowering? Now that's ******** if I ever heard it. Simple truth that everyone knows, meatshields should never be able to out DPS a DPS class, yet it is happening in this game. Caster's who wear light armor should always do more damage then a meatshield, yet, they don't in this game. You have to give something to receive something, tanks give up DPS for HP and armor, Caster's give up armor and HP for DPS. But this game throws those rules out the window and gives everything to the meatshield. If you claim that sages do not need a DPS boost, then you don't play a sage in PvP in the 50's. A shadow, who's main weapon is suppose to be the lightsaber, has better force attacks and can do higher DPS using ONLY force attacks compaired to it's Force User only counterpart, the sage. BW is giving the consular MELEE class both, melee attacks and the best force attacks while it gives the Force side a pitiful melee attack and a joke of force attacks. If they wanted to make sage's healers, then they should not have given us two dps tree's, they should have given us two healing tree's and a balanced tree for defense. In the end, BW knows that they ****ed up when they nerfed us and instead of admitting that they where wrong, they are just not touching us at all. Notice how all other classes got something removed or was given something except for sages. It's because they know they ****ed us up so bad that anything else they do to us will completely kill that class. It would be nice if they would just admit their *********** mistake.
  12. I managed to get one PvP match this morning before work and it's the first time I heard a sith call me annoying over /say. Normally they just say that we suck, but this guy called me annoying. Marauder attacks, I slow, dot, and start casting what I can, when bubble breaks, I push and reslow, he comes back to me I stun and back up while using my mobile attacks (which suck), then slow, he comes at me again I force lift and run away to heal. he comes at me once force lift was done and it was a rinse and repeat the above process...three times! THREE TIMES I had to do this and I still was not able to do enough DPS to kill him, but while force lifted he had the time to call me annoying and once it broke, he ran off to attack someone else and left me alone. It sucks when anyone can take me down in less then 10 seconds but I can't take one person down in over a minute! Where the **** is the fun in that? Actually, that's probably what the marauder was saying also, where the **** is the fun of chasing this guy around? Last night I had a sniper shoot me 4 times and I was dead. 4k to 6k shots each, and one of them I was actually behind a pillar, so not sure how that one got me! yet you think that a sage doing 2k damage is just right or to powerful?!?!?!?!?! What the ****! I'm full battlemaster with one piece warhero, two pieces short of BiS for battlemaster and I"m getting hit for 4-6k and I can't break 3k damage, yet I'm fine?!?!?! and according to some I'm overpowered? This is just ********. If it's not 'fair' or 'balanced' for me to do 5 to 6k damage on people, then why is it fair for a sniper to do it? Sniper is as close to sage class as it gets, plus they have medium armor! I love playing a sage, I love being a caster, I love wizard classes, but this is not a wizard class at the moment. The only thing I can do with this class is piss people off by pulling them away from the fight and stunning/pushing/lifting them while I run away just to keep them, and myself, from having fun with the rest of the people in the warzone.
  13. Bolanos

    DPS Classes

    This is funny, you go to a thread about sage's not being able to DPS and everyone tells you it's because sages are not a dps class, that they are a "support and utility" class. Someone ask's which classes are considered DPS classes and everyone say's Sages are DPS classes. I think we need to get our **** together here
  14. Bolanos

    Sorcs in PvP....

    Its funny that you said this because last night in civil war they left me, dps sage, so protect snow on my own, so I sarcastically typed in ops, please don't leave the sage alone guarding a node. To my surprise someone actually turned back, a smuggler, two ranged guarding a node. after a while a sith marauder runs over and of course, targets me, the scoundrel helping me defend started healing me, so the marauder get's pissed, leaves me alone and attacked the scoundrel, so I started healing the scoundrel while he dps'ed the marauder. We took him down and he came back for seconds. After failing a second time he came with help, and with the scoundrels stuns we where able to hold off. Was preatty cool, until 4 came our way and we both called incoming at the same time, LOL, after that I remember a faint haze of being rezzed on a ship
  15. This is crazy, a lot of times I'm stuck guarding a node with one other person. And a lot of times we're just standing there praying for some sort of action. I personally have never used noble sacrifice or whatever it's called and not even sure if I have it since I don't have it on my action bar, but if i did, I probably would use it to help me gain some medals because sitting there twiddling your thumbs is boring as ****! However, if I was guarding a node on my own, which is kind of ridiculous to have a sage guarding a node on his own, I wouldn't be doing that at all, only if I had a tank with me would I do it.
  16. DPS sage's need a damage boost. As it stands right now, we have the weakest armor and we hit the softest. All of you say kite them around, but there is no time for kiting in PvP. It takes us from 30 seconds to 45 seconds to solo one person if there is no one else on the field to interrupt. It takes ALL OTHER CLASSES less then 10 seconds to take down a sage, and lots of times it happens in less then 5 seconds, like from an ops with the stupid acid blade. Our biggest problem is we can't do damage that is comparable to any other class. We start hitting people for UNDER 1k, normally around 500 to 850 points per tick on a channeled cast while other classes are doing twice that. Don't believe me, look at this video: DPS Sage's are far from being balanced. It's also not fair that we are the only class that requires babysitting on the PvP field if we want to survive. Even tanks who have the best armor and hit points do more damage then a DPS Sage. I've always played Wizards in all the other MMO's, I like the range, play Sniper in shooter games, which is why I went with sage, but it looks like we should have gone with shadow if we wanted to be a DPS class although you can only do the dps from half the range. And everyone that say's that we do damage from 30m out, please, everyone that PvP knows that distance in this game is a joke! there are so many gap closers around and everyong is running with sprint on that makes it a joke. Yes, sprint, not force run, you now get sprint at level 1 I believe and that's enough to close the gap. So you understand what 30m does...Your 30m away from me, I hit Tele Throw (pebbles), and if your moving towards me, by the time my channeling is done, your already on top of me landing the first hit. So while we are doing 750 damage per second, your doing upwards of 1k per second, yea, I can see the balance there Look at the video, look at the damage discrepancy and tell me if that is actually Balanced! That there is every day PvP for a dps sage
  17. I changed everything on my build sheet to reflect what you suggested. The only question I have is, I saw the site where the two video cards are shown on bench tests and they are very close. My question is, they are so close, but will there be a visual performance difference? Is the difference so little that you won't notice? On the bench test it didn't rank so well in the direct x 11 shader area if I read that correctly, will this cause a problem compared to the other video card? You mentioned that you have two SSD's and one hard drive. I assume the hard drive you have is for your backup's? I normally have a backup being done every Sunday night on my system at 2am which goes into a 1tb hard drive. This is the main reason why I want a hard drive. Would you suggest I get two SSD's like you have to run and store everything and just leave the HDD for backups? If so, which two SSD's and which Hard drive do you suggest? And thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions, I greatly appreciate it.
  18. I'm not sure if this is a known problem or if it's just me but, under the codex, under Persons of Note, Risha is marked as a Smuggler. So I went out and purchased a full set of orange smuggler armor that I can upgrade along with my own gear as we go along. However, when I tried to equip it on her, i say's that she does not have the required class to use that item. I look at the item and it say's Armor Medium, Required Smuggler, Jedi Knight. I am able to equip it so she should be as well right since we're both smugglers. or is there a problem with orange armor on companions which I don't think so since she's using an orange sniper rifle.
  19. Thanks for replying to my question. 1.) no, I will not be overclocking 2.) no, Since I am not planning on overclocking I didn't think I would need an aftermarket CPU cooler. I don't mind getting one and I know there are several good ones in the market now at a decent price, any suggestions would be appreciated. However, I've never been a fan of water cooling. 3.) Yes, using the same case which I recently purchased because I needed to see something different in front of me, LOL. I now have: Cooler Master SGC-5000-KKN1 CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Case 4.) I currently have two ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series in crossfire on my current build and am honestly looking to simplify my life a bit, so I thought that one GPU with 2gb of memory should be enough to last a long time. Really don't want to get into two video cards again unless I need to. 5.) This is my everything computer. I play my games on this PC (and the new one) and I also do work from it. I run my own company and do much of my graphics work from this computer. Whenever I do changes to my website or get into Photoshop to get some images just right I use this computer because I have two monitors hooked up. I use Windows 7 64bit. I know 16 gig's of ram is alot, and that I have it set up to give me two empty slots incase I want to up it up even more, but when it comes to graphics work I know that memory is key, otherwise the wait times when editing sucks. Also, like I mentioned before, This computer is normally on 24 hours a day, 7 day's a week, unless I leave town for a couple of days, then I'll shut it off, otherwise it's running. Bad habit, I know, but hard to beat that habit. Hope I didn't bore you, and thanks again for taking the time in answering my post.
  20. Hi everyone. Hoping I can get some help. The last time I put a computer together was just before I got married about 7 years ago. My wife said I spent way to much money putting that machine together but it has lasted 7 years and is running SWTOR decently but does lag on some planets. I think it may be time to build another computer that will last me another 7 years...hopefully, and would like some input from you guys since I'm a little rusty and not sure if some of this stuff is compatible with each other or if there is something better in the market at the current moment. I'm also open to any suggestions on changes. CPU: Intel Core I7-3770K - $340 Motherboard: Intel BOXDZ77GA70K - $220 Memory: G.Skill Ripjaw X Series 16GB DDR3 1600 - $110 Video Card: EVGA GTX 680 2GB PCI Express 3.0 - $500 SSD: Corsair Force Series 3 240GB SSD - $210 Hard Drive: Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black - $200 OR Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB - $300 Power Supply: Corsair HX850 - Already have it Disk Drives: Already have. I am new with the SSD but from what I've been reading, it's suppose to making booting up and running programs run much faster then conventional hard drives, However, is it faster then say the VelociRaptor? I also see that they have a shorter lifespan then a regular hard drive and I'm the type of person that always leaves his computer on unless I'm on vacation. So my system rarely shuts down so this has me a bit worried about using the SSD. Any feedback at all would be greatly appreciated please.
  21. Thinking about building a new PC and went shopping around which was probably a mistake because it opened up alot of questions for me. I haven't built a PC in a while but still remember the basics, the rest is in the manuals. I have always built Intel based PC's, never AMD. However, this last search I found that AMD is very afordable and it looks like they might be a better buy for the buck, however, I don't know how they will work performance wise with games and everyday tasks. I was looking at the 8 core A79-8150 which is suppose to be a 3.6 speed for 200 bucks. When I look at intel, a 6 core at also 3.6 is almost 700 bucks. I know that Intel has the name but if we where to compare cpu's, which one is better for gaming? which one is better for every day processess? On similar grounds, I normally buy intel mother boards and was that many people where purchasing the asus sabertooth 990 FX to with that chipset. The last time I had an asus board I almost threw the computer out the window. Has asus gotten better? Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give me.
  22. Thanks. Actually figured out that the site is not compatible with IE8, so I downloaded firefox and it's working now. thanks
  23. Hi, I'm clicking on amr profile so I can see the setup your using but when I get to the website there's nothing there. Do I have to register with that site in order to see the setup?
  24. At least I'll be getting some rated comms. As it stands now, I get passed up alot for rated warzones because I'm a DPS sage and they rather have, for instance, a scoundrel that does better damage and healing and doesn't require babying like sages do.
  25. People that say that it's because of the range, is either crazy or don't play PvP to see what all the other classes are doing. Range is a joke in this game, 30m or 20m, is the same crap, distance is closed way to quickly in this game. To top it off, shadows get a 30m pull to pull their targets to them, talk about a gap closer. And if range is the reason, then why do snipers hit harder then us when they can spec to 35m? according to your theory they should hit for less then us and they don't because we are the softest hitters. Honestly, when entering a warzone you see everyone carrying weapons but then you look at a sage and they brought a *********** pillow to do battle with. BW screwed up big when they nerfed sage DPS and they refuse to admit it, which is why they didn't even touch us in the 1.3 update...they didn't even mention our class in the update out of fear of admiting that they ****ed up! Shadows damage boosts is located in their tree spec, they can spec for the harder hits, if I remember correctly it's in the middle tree. It's a spec that should have been given to sages as well since we are the range class. But they gave shadows the melee damage AND the range damage. Sage did not receive range damage boost like shadows did and our melee damage, well, like I said, instead of sabers we should be carrying pillows. I have never heard of a jedi that can't do damage with his saber...have you???? All jedi's I have seen in the movies ALWAYS used their sabers, but sages are a joke to BW I guess.
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