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I completely finished my suit last week.
I have remodded, augmented warhero now. I even bought a different crystal, just for the looks. I have reskinned. And I have tons of credits and comms and I have nothing to buy.
Right now I'm trying out a different spec. I try to play ranked when I can. But as to what I do the rest of the time, I mostly just pvp for fun.
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Depends on context. For 1v1, concealment. For huttball, assassin. For big brawls? Both suck, but assassin can aoe taunt before he gets squashed.
For being stealthy, concealment.
Flashbang > overload
Frontloaded burst > backloaded burst
Sleep dart > Mind trap
For the things that they have in common, concealment all the way.
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I don't disagree that they're ego driven.
That's why people quit because of class balance. People don't want to reinvest their time to making yet-another-character viable for PvP. You make a class inferior to certain classes in the same area (DPS), then suddenly you get skipped for those more viable classes in rated warzones, or any competitive environment.
You suddenly have three options:
- Re-roll
- Continue playing a gimped character
- Quit
Whoever is willing to swallow their perceived "effort" put into this game chooses option (1). Whoever generally doesn't care anymore chooses option (2). Otherwise option (3) is chosen.
Hardly a coincidence that 1.2 class imbalances emptied the PvP servers quickest. Hardly a coincidence that 1.2 class changes involved 3 of the most popular advanced-classes in game. Hardly a coincidence that Bioware had statistics showing that about half of their subscription base never participated in an operation/flashpoint while participating in warzones. You cant prove its the case that class imbalances lead to a dying game. But its easy to draw inference that is very likely to be true.
By the way you are wrong about multiplayed imbalance. FPS make balance work all the time. Several games have asymmetrical multiplayer gameplay but manage balance due to the sheer advantage of each asymmetric element over another (true rock paper scissors) - Starcraft, RTS.
Actually, I think 1.2 made class balance better. 1.3 improved on it. Of course, any time you nerf one FOTM, another rises to take its place. It's inevitable. We all know marauders and pts are next. After they are nerfed, sniper will prolly be fotm. I didn't say games can't be balanced. I said people will always whine about it. Take Starcraft. You can find literally thousands of forum threads claiming each race is OP.
The truth is that regardless of actual imbalance, there is always perceived imbalance due to varying player skill levels and perspectives about the best way to play.
Like I said, I think people quit because a) it's boring to play just 1 game b) most people aren't cut out for pvp endgame and need to blame class balance c) it's not new and shiny anymore
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Don't agree with any of that stuff.
Class balance? really? You think people quit because of class balance? People have been whining about class balance in every single damn game since multiplayer existed.
There are plenty of mistakes I think mythic made with War, and plenty of mistakes I think bioware made with TOR, but that's ultimately subjective. They don't make games to please me, specifically. The truth is that MMOs are a huge gamble. Players join in droves, obsess, then burn out. Your average MMO gamer these days doesn't stick to one game. Things are different now. Long gone are the days where people stick to one game for years at a time.
You want to know what I think? I think that pvp mmos are destined to fail, simply because they are ego driven. And not everyone can win. Your average player sucks, and he doesn't want to be told that. The only hope is to mix it up often enough that he can delude himself into thinking "next patch, then x will happen and everyone will see how awesome i am".
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I can tell you from experience of having geared it both ways that the difference between a 30% crit rating and 400 power and a 20% crit rating with 850 power is HUGE, in favor of the latter.
You also need to keep in mind that its not the score you get at the end of the warzone that matters for a Deception Assassin - its the kills, and you're going to get a heck of a lot more kills with power over crit.
Stacking power lets you take down that healer. Stacking crit lets you raise that healer's final score.
115 damage does not let you take down anything. Quit deluding yourself.
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I'm not going to debate pow vs crit, that's not the point. You can download simulation craft for yourself and try it out. Or you can do the math.
500 power is 115 bonus damage. Let's pretend crit has literally 0 benefit, and all deception sins have been stacking crit. Giving them all 115 bonus damage isn't going to do anything, and the class will still be underpowred.
point stands.
fyi, 1400 rating is pretty damn good for deception. Even though that rating is laughable for any other class, I'm probably the highest deception sin on my server, and I barely play anymore. This is why my challenge stands to anybody who plays ranked to disagree with me. If anything my pathetic rating supports my point. Where are all the high ranked deception sins telling me to L2P?
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Ranked warzones already rank people according to skill, since nobody without full WH is remotely experienced enough to be competitive.
At least for mains, anyway.
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Enough.
Watching low-qual players debate mechanics just makes my head hurt. That guy with all the "PRO" tips just made my rofl all over myself because his lack of experience is glaringly obvious.
Let's establish a few base facts:
1. Very few players play deception
2. Of the few that do, very few highly ranked teams run one of them
3. Hence, if you ranked class/spec combinations by average rating, would put deception sins somewhere near the bottom of the pile.
4. Stacking crit or power doesn't matter. They both give dps, and the difference is not going to be significant enough to notice, let alone make or break a spec.
5. Your hero, Shinarika, has posted on several occasions that deception is underpowered, so using her as your example is really frigging stupid.
Now we can pretend that they're just an enigma that nobody, among thousands and thousands of experienced pvpers who have tried, has been able to crack. Or, we can take the astronomically higher probability that the spec is just not a great choice when compared to alternative trees and classes.
It's not just about class balance either. High level metagame is very biased towards the win-the-big-battle-then-hold strategy. Which almost instantaneously excludes niche classes like deception sins. You need big damage dealers, powerful heals, and strong defense. Deception sins have difficulty contributing to big battles because of their vulnerabilities. Even on the 1v1 front, you don't have the dps to take out half the classes in a 1v1, and you can only defend well in very specialized (out of combat solo door mindtrapping) situations. You're mobile, but you're not a leaper, and you're not strong enough to carry a ball. Worst of all, your supposed dps never comes even close to several classes that can lob shots from the safety of 20m, nestled tight between healers and tanks. You don't have any clutch abilities that will save you from being focused like some classes (cough, marauder). And you don't have a pull, something both powertechs and tankasins have, and is 100% required for ranked play.
It's my opinion that deception is a weak spec, exacerbated by overpowered PT and marauders. Were those 2 classes more in line, I think you could argue inclusion of a deception sin. But as it stands, you have to outplay by a wide margin to give the same performance.
If any deception sins or infil shadows who are RANKED would like to debate this fact, you're welcome to. Random pubs with theorycraft can save it, thanks.
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It makes no damned sense.
A ranked system for casual players where wins are determined by luck of whoever landed on your team is about the stupidest system ever. The number of games you've even have to play for a solo ranking to mean anything would be in the thousands.
1 bad player can throw a whole match, and you want to randomly queue with people? I know you guys have this idealized version of ranked solo queue where you prove how pro you are even though you solo queue but the fact is that you make little to no difference to your team in the scheme of things. You can't rank that.
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The thing that bugs me most about it, isn't the L2P stuff.
I'm perfectly ok with a class being harder to play than another class. I'm perfectly ok being told I'm playing it wrong.
What I'm not ok with is the complete lack of actual people who are able to do it right. Where are the 2400 pure deception assassins? Please, post here, if you exist. Somehow I think you don't. I'm even more interested in the #2 team. The #1 team might be able to carry a deception assassin, but the #2 team, well, they've got a lot of incentive to trim the fat.
And if there's 1 player who can do it, but there are hundreds of powertechs, I have to ask the question: should a class really be 100x harder to play?
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Well, it's nice to know what the design is. I'm not surprised that people are disappointed with it.
As a purely deception assassin I have to put in my 2 cents. I'd also like to echo the OP on some points.
My old guild wouldnt run me in rated because I wouldn't respec. So read my dedication to this spec from that.
I don't know how deception can be a lone wolf spec if we lose to 75% of equal gear/skill classes in a 1v1. What are we going to do off alone? Our mez would be useful except it has a combat requirement, requires stealth, and can only be applied to 1 target. It's not long enough cap... so honestly, what is this lone wolf supposed to do? Go off and 1v1 respawns and lose?
Ok, so lets pretend that we can kill things 1v1. How are we going to get a 1v1? There are just not enough 1v1 situations. Aside from hacking at respawns or the odd ninja node (doesn't work in rated really), the majority of the time, your team needs a player that is helping the team.
Last of all, what is this complete bull about falling within the 5% dps targets. Give me a break. Name a single deception sin who comes within even 20% of his teams top marauder or pt on average. There isn't one. So where are these metrics coming from? Perhaps its the fact that marauders and their ungodly defensive CDs that keep them up longer, allowing them to do damage. Perhaps it's the fact that PT range allows them to hump the safety of their healers. Deception has nothing at all to stay alive, which means that even if our dps was as high as the other DPS (and it isn't), we spend half the battle waiting to attack something without it being a suicide.
I will admit that deception has powerful lockdown abilities, and having taunts on a dps with decent mobility can be a fun treat, but alas, it all comes down to the fact that we don't have enough utlity to justify our shabby dps and defense.
Pretty much the only thing deception is good for is solo defending a node by mind-trap, and even that is better done by concealment ops.
All this being said, I am determined to find a way to make it work, if i'm the last one left, i'll do it.
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A lot of people don't like open world. They think that balanced teams make things "fair". I'm going to attempt to explain how even teams are unfair.
Your typical ex-wow player thinks that arena is the epitome of pvp competition. Capturing objectives is for carebears, or something. I disagree with this notion on many levels. War is never just about killing your enemy. Neither do swat teams go into buildings and kill everyone and then just go home. No. You're always fighting over something. There's a purpose behind it.
Objectives are one such attempt to insert a purpose. For the duration of the warzone, you have a goal. It opens up room for lots of strategy and turns combat into a dance of deep complexity. For your hardcore pvper, this is sufficient. People who play to "beat" somebody on even terms will get their kicks out of this. But for your casual player, this is just a poor system. I think all of the problems with warzone quitters and premade whines and gear QQs can all be traced back to this fact that you're making non-competitive players compete. They aren't going to be able to gear, or coordinate, or practice well enough to be as good as everyone else, and then Bioware grabs 8 of them and sticks them against people who can. It's just not fair. You can give them commendations for losing, and welfare loot, but in the end, it sucks to get beat over and over again. And I think this is going to damage the pvp in this game. Already the super-premades from ranked are making pvp unplayable for anybody else.
I'm happy when people pull up their socks and find a way to compete, really I think that was the goal. But the whole process is doomed to failure. 8 casuals vs 8 non-casuals just doesn't make sense. Some people say that the solution is to separate the queues. Day in and day out people ask for gear to be removed, for stats to be normalized, for the premades to get their own queue, but all that does is further divide the population, take away what people work for.
In truth, neither side is getting any satisfaction from it. And that's where I think open world fits in. If 16 noobs and 8 ******es clash, and either side loses, people are going to be more or less satisfied. The 8 know that they were facing superior odds, and the 16 know that they were outmatched by gear and experience. It equalizes the playing field. Of course, warzones will still be around for proving who has the best 8, but for every day regular pvp... there's no need to make casuals compete. They never wanted to compete. Give them a away to band together, and I think you'll see much healthier pvp. There will be zergs of course, and even so, part of the fun of open world is dodging the zerg... and trying to find those fights you can win. The less you standarize and regulate how pvp goes down, the less bluntly you shove it into somebodies face that they are a loser.
anyway, that's my 2credits
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This is not meant to be a QQ thread so please keep it critical without insult. What I want to point out is there seems to be a disconnect between the player base and the developers in terms of CC. When ever it is brought up by the player base that there is too much CC in this game it always gets dismissed by the developers as being an incorrect statement because there are 'manys ways to remove CC'. I would like to point out that it does not seem like there are nearly as many ways to remove CC as there is to CC.
The argument I would like to make is that you can have some type of CC applied to you freely at any time. Resolve means you cannot lose complete control as often, but you can have a slow or a root applied at any time by 8 hostile players provided they are within range. CC however if it is balanced has to be balanced around the idea of 1v1 situations in order for there to be 'many ways to remove CC'. However WZ's are not 1v1 situations but in terms of CC more like 1v8 situations. With the CD's being balanced around 1v1 but WZ's being balanced around 1v8 (in terms of cd's) there is arguably way to much CC in WZ's.
You don't speak for the community. Lots of us like the amount of CC in the game. CC is not balanced around 1v1.
Thanks for playing.
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Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin to say
But nothin comes out when they move their lips; just a bunch of gibberish
And motherfrackers act like they forgot about deception
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Tons of pops on The Bastion.
No complaints here.
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Respec Tankasin there's some variation of it look them up.
Darkness is also a lot easier to play too.
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don't forget deception!
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My guild won't run me because I am deception
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Hi all -
I was trying to decide what hilt I wanted for my double-bladed saber and made this quick little image showing each hilt and its in-game icon. It helped me pick and I thought it might help others, too
Enjoy!
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/6535/doublebladedlightsaberg.jpg
~ Tiana
Jedi Covenant
Mad props, this is what i was looking for
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Lightning sorcs, concealment ops, deception sins, and dps mercs are all more or less excluded from RWZ from their obvious deficiencies.
Spec discrimination is much more apparent than class discrimination because it all comes down to "So, you can just respec, right?", making it the responsibility of the player to be a FOTM.
I'm not interested personally.
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I'm surprised by the number of people who think "why are you attacking the tank? kill his healer!", as if a team has enough burst to break through a well played guard defense. That never works. Maybe pre-1.3, you might have a shot. You're going to get a lot more creative than that now. It's not impossible, but at the very least it will take the efforts of your whole team, cross interrupts on supporting healers, and clutch CC to pull it off. A jugg with guard and taunt, push, intercede, etc will be a royal pita. You are going to want to kill him eventually, but you're going to have trouble killing his team while he's alive. So you have to find a way to do one without the other. You have to find a way to kill his team while he's alive, or find a way to kill him while his healer alive, both of which are incredibly challenging.
Again, it's not even always about killing. Sometimes you just can't cap, or control mid, with one around.
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Personally, I am against going weak side on CW or Novare. Either 2/6 or 1/7 works, but the problem with going weak side is it leaves you short handed elsewhere and you're chances of success aren't that great. The prolem with taking the weak side is the opponent can send reinforcements very fast, and in CW its harder to defend after than initial grab.
Both CW and NC were designed for the side nodes to be easily controlled by one faction and the middle node to be where the real fighting is involved. The determining factor is almost always who controls the first 2 and can set in a defense first and get the opponent in a position where they either trickle in or have to wait and regroup.
The biggest issue I have with both is sometimes the game is more about clicking a node than actually fighting. Getting the nodes in CW is so important because the sides can be defended by just 3 people dying and sending speeders right back. They really need to lower the node time.
I disagree on both counts. CW has side speeders, making all turrets equally easy to defend.
In NC, it's designed for you to attack the naturals whenever you can't get south. That's why the distance between the two northern points is smaller than south to either one. It's relatively easy to defend both by having your respawns travel through your natural, more or less meaning that you actually have nearly your entire team holding their natural while getting defense of yours for free. If they want to take their natural they MUST make a coordinated strike from south, and as we know, since it is so far, from their nat to south, that if you die and respawn, you can easily take south.
If anything I'd say I am in favor of taking enemy natural every single time because it avoids a prolonged southern battle. Almost always 1-2 break off from the south group to defend their "easy to defend" nat, and directly causes them to lose the important node... south!
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Seriously, I have no interest in the 'my team is totally awesome' argument. 2 guys gets run over by 6 guys no matter who those 2 guys are if the enemy 6 guys are remotely good, let alone equally skilled as the two (which is the original assumption). What makes you think you have exactly the right classes or skill when the assumption is EQUAL TEAM? What's stopping the enemy from applying everything you just said to where they're disadvantaged?
WZ between equal teams is purely a mangement of numbers. Sure if your 2 guys can beat 3 guys you don't have to worry too much about managing numbers but usually your 2 guys aren't beating 3 guys if they're at all a match for your team.
I wouldn't say it's just management of numbers. It's a management of specializations, too. For example, 2 stealthers attacking vs 2 healers. Which one is more likely to take a node?
All maps have at least a few moments where it's a deathmatch. Middle in alderaan in rwz typically takes over half the match for one side to cap. Huttball requires you to hold the middle, because the chances of stopping a well coordinated team on offense are basically 50/50, regardless of your defensive abilities. Rated huttball typically comes down to who can turn over middle at the key moment of a score. This part really does come down to "which team is better".
Second, those alderaan strats you listed don't always apply. With a marauder in my group, I can force speed + predation to snow and solo cap before I can be interrupted, unless they have 80% pred + force speed of their own. Most groups don't. So maybe it's a bit of a gamble, but if I cap that node, I can and will defend against 2 players at least until I get 1 reinforcement from mid.
Other strategies like abandoning nodes turn the whole concept of "best strategy" on its head. The only reason it works is because all RWZ players know abandoning a node is RETARDED, but that means that they also never expect it. We've had 1/7/0 where the mid was a stalemate and the 1 went and solo capped grass.
The typical 6/2 in novare dies to a 7/1 where the 7 rush the 2. If you start to lose, your whole team just lets themselves die (in a blink of the eye considering dps at high levels) and they all respawn for a perfectly timed door at south, before anybody on the enemy team can make it back in time.
My favorite strategy in novare is to send 1 north, 6 south, and then I intercept their cap on their north. There's a couple possibilities
1. I see 2 heading there, meaning i turn south and it's a 7v6. South usually gets taken.
2. I see 1 and stop him. The guy from my north comes over to help and we 2v1 him, typically taking both north points.
The only situation where this doesn't seem to work well is when they try to intercept themselves. I meet that guy in the middle and neither of us succeeds in preventing anything.
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From what I've experienced, even in tank gear, the jug is not any more survivable than the assassin. All our powertechs are dps, so I'm really not sure where they rank in survivability. I would argue that the Assassin is better suited for buying those extra few seconds because they can vanish. We have had a few frustrating games of void star where we think we have them all locked in the spawn and then an assassin suddenly appears and overloads to stop the cap, buying their team the time needed to get back on the door. The cooldowns are longer on the jug and don't seem to make any more of an impact than the sins.
I agree that guarded healers are a pita to deal with, but that ability is not exclusive to any tank class so it's a moot point. As for the powertech, I've seen full tanks in dps gear putting out 400k+ in some of these warzones. I have tried 11/x/x and 19/x/x. The difference in survivability is negligible, and I can't get much higher than 300k. I've tried stance dancing and it can be effective, but a good team will seize the opportunity to focus down an unguarded healer, so it's a bit of a gamble. Why take that risk when an Assassin can just stay in tank stance the entire match and put out the same numbers?
As a dps class, I can only relate my personal experience. It feels to me like I can take down a tankasin, but hitting a guardian is just a waste of my time.
Fix Deception
in PvP
Posted · Edited by Ahhmyface
Good analysis Jack.
There's just so many subtle differences that make the spec an awful frustration to play.
A concealment op demolishes the deception sin in 1v1. The deception sin's good damage comes into play only a couple seconds before he's out of life, so you're one of the worst stealth-war classes. You will likely be unable to kill your typical tankasin (the de facto node guarder) because he hits just as hard on you as you do on him, and he's got more life.
The concealment op also has a ranged mez (sleep dart), and flashbang, so for CC/mez purposes, you're outshined again.
Your practical DPS is literally the lowest of all DPS classes. You're a comparable interrupter to a marauder, but you can't give your team predation, and your dps sucks. And for most purposes, leap > force speed. You might be able to pull some good damage if you didn't get caught so easily, but you do. While the marauder has several extra lives, and the pyro can stay nestled among his friends, you're in the middle of the fray, with a spinning sabre that says "free kill". You are going to be CCed and killed repeatedly.
You don't have pull. Pull is so damned important for winning warzones, that even if you could convince your team that your dps was good enough, they would still ask you to respec for pull.
The devs comments are just so offbase it's stupid. The concealment op fills the role of lone wolf support a hundred times better than the deception sin. In fact, one of the deception sins only advantages is that he can taunt for his teammates.
I played deception since beta. Most ranked teams on the server won't run me, and it seems like the end of the road for me. 2 weeks ago, I switched to madness. I beat my all time deception DPS record by the second day. Last week, I made an alt. I'm starting to get bored of playing by myself.