Just thinking about it if some people are having issues kitting now it's going to be even worse come 4.0 with most of the other classes getting more gap closers and anti kitting tools. Team ranking against an organised team the second hard switch and your screwed really, well unless you can stay at range which lets face it isn't going to be easy with pred leap or hydraulics. On that point there are already mercs complaining that their new backleap is next to useless due to other classes new movement abilities. Don't get me wrong sorc can put it out and in regs it's really strong, but it's only real viable spec is madness as lightings burst is sub par compared to the other burst specs. A good player though will make any spec shine. Think phase walk for sorcs/sages is also on a far longer CD than the new shadow step or dash style abilities as far as I can see. See what happens 4.0.

Hey VdFExarKun are you NoShadow or Caprica? These guys are beast Snipers and I'm sure would laugh like me at this post. Snipers only real weakness is LoS not defensive CD's. In a group situation it's fine run with a PT/Vanguard stacking diversion with oil slick and any other - acc debuf you can find. Throw the extra - acc after flashbang ends as well if you like.. Another class that can add to this only amplifies the effect.. Have a healer it's easy. But let me guess your running solo and expect to be able to solo anyone? Sorry man that's not how it works.

I have a level 60 Marksman spec sniper called Xylas on POT5 thanks... I have no issues staying alive. More words from someone who clearly can't play sniper...

Lol love the fact that one of the guys crying also boasts the following in his sig... Cryyc, All-Galaxy Sniper and Famously Furious Cryyc - Sniper | STREAM | 2k DPS Lethality Biggest Hit: 17830 Here's a tip.... Team with people that will tank and heal for you... This is an MMO not a single player game. Sniper boasts some of the best PVP DPS currently out there, twined with the fact that while in cover you can not be interrupted .. You can't have it all! I play a madness sorc and do you think i can get leach off against good players with interrupts?... No is the answer. Stop crying sniper is fine where it is. What do you want a ROFLSTOMP god mode class? FOTM inc..

But Bioware don't care I think that's obvious! Ether reroll a current FOTM to stand a chance or **** seems to be their stance. Although it would be nice to see a fair and equal system that caters for all it's not going to happen. It's to late to change the format. If this post had been up season one then maybe it would have been looked at, I doubt it's even been read by a dev as they are to busy making cartel items.

Would be great if Bioware could actually balance classes so all had a chance of getting rewards. Compensate due to your gross failings Bioware before people walk away, as currently your class balancing is about as good as the class balancing was in Warhammer online. Some of the lead dev should try playing against the current FOTM classes as non FOTM, I'd pay a one mounth sub to see the looks on their faces as the penny dropped. GG Bioware GG...

Lol, Yeah I would if my toon could taunt, it's been proven not that even the dps in a "good" ranked team need to be able to taunt. It's not their fault, but it's due to the crazy burst currently in game yet again this is a Bioware issue in design. This is also why you are seeing the classes with taunts (that use then) doing better than expected within solo ranked matches. Because of this some classes will never be picked in a four man team, so are left to solo queue.

Would be nice to see this level of detail in the current ranked system as current I agree it's completely luck based regarding who you are teamed with. It would also be nice to see the top % of each class be rewarded rather than the top 96 players as currently this is looking to be the top what ever happens to be OP at the time. Brackets should include not just dps but tank and heals if your class can spec into multiple roles. For example: Top 10 Jug (dps) Top 10 Jug (tank) Top 10 Sin (dps) Top 10 Sin (Tank) ect.... I also agree that the current system puts quite a few people off. For example finding yourself with some fresh 60 in your group who insisted on queuing ranked as its the fastest way to gear.. This then turns the match into a 3 vs 4. You can say simply stop queuing but that then means I'm missing content that I'm paying a monthly sub for due to the way the system is designed.. Also is an expertise requirement so hard to implement? Currently if you want to do ranked role what ever class is top and add players who you know are bad or good to your friends list. This seems to be the only way around this situation and then still its blind luck. Not really good enough... Good post.

Sin DPS and AP PT do more damage, kill targets faster and Generally have better utilities. Plus any one else been hit by a Snpiers 17k Ambush while in full pvp gear? Just saying other classes can easily do just as much damage. At the end of the day a good player will shine with any class. Bad players will just blame.

Is this why the current alpha comp for ranked is a sorc heals two sins in hatered spec and a sin tank?

No one should be queuing up for ranked unless they have an understanding of how the class they are playing works... AND PVP gear. If Vote kick would work I personally would vote kick off anyone on my team with PVE gear that is not bolstered to full expertise. If someone starts crying that I've pointed this out maybe they shouldn't queue! All comments are made within the terms of service guide lines.. These are the people that ruin the true competitive nature of ranked games in my opinion. They know what they are getting into when they queue up with any thing less than the required gear level and thus must be just trolling the people that want to be there. The issue here is more fix bolster or not allow people to queue unless they have a level of expertise required for ranked warzones. After all PVP geared players are often kicked from operations just because they are in 174 grade gear... Sorry same rule should apply.

Yeah this is happening due to ship equipment. Check it out, run a warzone with no equipment on your old school rail runner ship and then do a warzone with it fully equipped. Surprise your ship is included within the bolster role when entering a warzone. This is probably happening because someone messed up the bolster query code that runs at the beginning of the warzone and it includes your ship... Already reported it. It's not a priority right now due to the current ravagers exploit. Will get fixed sometime in the future.

Well you can believe what you like about my professional expertise I earn well enough not to care what your opinion is. That fact of the matter is they don't care... and only care when something is exploited to this degree. Look back over the last serious issues and tell me where they did something about it before it became wide spread? Even a statement on the forums? Never is your answer only when something has gone viral it gets fixed, like I previously stated "Priority". I only started out making this post to raise another point of view.. With out the mass exploitation this would not be getting fixed so quickly. I don't see how I'm wrong there and I don't think anyone should be punished. If anything those that abused this exploit have now missed out on all this game content why do they carry on playing? If anything they have just cheated them selves it's sad really.

No I work in Development and like many companies things are done on priority. If you would really like to know I was offered the exploit at cost and I turned it down. To get issues fixed the priority has to outweigh current development story. This is why issues that only affect a few people or a small amount of content will get side tracked. It's a simple process. So people seriously believe that if only say four people did this Bioware would be so fast to fix it? I doubt it very much. I have simply pointed out that the player base is not commonly listened to unless it takes drastic action to get it's point across. Well that and the poor testing done on this patch.

How about no action or reward for players that did or didn't abuse it and instead this kind of stuff gets tested properly before public release.... Currently the only way of the player base communicating with the dev team is to spread things like this. This is with the aim to raise the issues profile enough for the management to be bothered enough to get it fixed. Otherwise and I think I speak for many here, nothing gets done. Examples of other issues release with 3.0 Rishi Datacrons... Not fixed. PVP bolster exploit... Not fixed. Mesa Arena Lag issue... Not fixed. I could go on but I doubt people will be that bothered instead they will simply make comments like how they should get free stuff because they were a good little boy/girl. People did this so that it would get fixed and everyone could enjoy the content as it was intended. The issue here isn't the players its the content don't reward or punish people because of the failings in your development cycle.

Issue is here the buffs to Sins/Shadows... Not mara's/Sent's. Most classes are having issues with Sin's/Shadow's.

Just lol Mara's/Sent's are fine... L2P thread..

Bolster lol... Did you also know the current bolster exploit where plays can get addition stats in wz's by equipping ship parts to none GSF ships?

Here's some idea's.... Fix the issues you have before rolling out more content, it worked for EVE.. Also make versions of the Warzones in Warhammer online.... They were far more diverse and allowed more players to join rather than 8 a side max. Unfortunately they couldn't balance classes and there was nothing to keep the PVEr interested so it died. On that note as your engine can only handle 8 a side wz's, tell your devs to rebuild your engine to handle more and to stop being so lazy.. Lazy coders = mistakes = exploits = exploiters = ruined game. Just like your current bolster exploit where plays can get addition stats in wz's by equipping ship parts to none GSF ship. This is constructive criticism .

What server would this be? I play on POT5. I've seen all classes pull over 2k dps and more in a single warzone Merc, Mara and sniper included. You just have to be good. Due to the healer buffs pulling numbers in wz's does always mean you killed more people. For example Madness does good pressure damage but against some of the healers on this server you not going to kill them. All classes require a skill level to play. Yes there are a lot of Sorcs but I bet the majority stand there derp spamming and thus are easy to kill. You must not have a lot of good PT's or Sins OR Mara's bursting them down... #easypickings..

Working as intended... The Sorc/Sage more than likely has polarity shift up.. This lasts 10 seconds. Check the Sorc's/Sage's buff line before using your interrupt skill... Issue solved.

Lol so many trolls saying sorc/sage is the cream of the crop... how wrong can you be???? This is a L2P thread people who are complaining are clearly clickers.. Bioware did a great job this time at bringing more classes up to the same level, although there are still a few that need tweaks. Sorc/Sage is not one of them. And what class does the person who started this thread play???

Worsin clearly isn't very good with his Sniper, Pyro PT, Carnage Mara , Veng Jugg then.. If any thing what your doing here is trying to cry wolf. The class isn't overpowered at all... Complete troll post = trash..

Craft... That is all! Have a load of your guild mates farm mats and then hand them to your crafter toons who can just rack up the points. Well I guess Bioware had to use their failing crafting system for something. On a serious note though way to many conquest points are rewarded for crafting compared to PVP or other PVE activity. This isn't currently balanced or am i the only one that feels this way?

Ok does any one here (trolling aside) think that static barrier is either stupid looking or just doesn't really work all that well when focused? I mean in any Star wars lore has any one ever seen this type of effect? Or was it just made up for this game? Would this whole mechanic not be better served as some kind of extra damage while active say 20%? (sorc/sage only) 10% for players the buff is placed on, does not stack. I've only said 20% for the sorc/sage as they have no other real active defensive abilities that allow then to make actions while active. This would replace the current bubble which soaks X damage until broken. This would also look better if the animation was more like the sentinels rather than the blob or bubble effect. As an example SWG Master enhancer had all its defensive's come from it's force pool and on being hit its armour buff would provide damage mitigation at force cost. I know that this isn't SWG but the idea formed as a good basis on how to provide a lightly armoured character continuous protection until it's force pool was depleted. Thus simulating a so called master of the force using all of it's power. Rather than a pea being smashed by a large hammer. This Force Armour (Sage) or Shroud of the Dark Side for Sorcs could provide X% damage reduction and additional effects relevant to Talent tree for additional points. For example on hit the madness effect could return damage to the attacker, Corruption as it does now could heal the Sorc for % of health as well as bonus alacrity (% increase the lower the sorc/sages health is) while the buff is in affect, and Lighting grant Immunity to interrupts as well as Backlash available on a separate rate limit, as a skill. This would retain the specs close range AOE soft CC. These effects only work while the skill is active I understand that not every one will agree with this idea, and bioware aren't even probably bothered but thought it was worth a go. Please discus