Yup Jedi Covenant yesterday up till 1am was 39 to 52 this morning 13000 to 250 with disconnects. Comcast residential service. It maybe a widespread DNS issue with Comcast internet.

Something is borked 39ms yesterday to 2900 today loaded in with xxx's and 181000ms. Gen chat is flooded with the same complaints.

Best line of the video. "Pop the bubble and kill the little sorcerer inside" classic! Great video mate, I play Carnage and I enjoy it immensely. Thanks for the tips.

A few billion lines of code and no bugs? What world do you live in?

Another issue that has been brought up and should be noted. Those upgrading to "newer" tech from "older" tech are not going to see major improvements by adding just a new GPU. A GTX 680 on a 1st gen Intel or AMD is still going to bottle neck at the CPU. Newer GPU's have more power requirements so older systems with small PSU's generally can't handle the upgrade. In a perfect world, if you're upgrading your GPU and you have a system more than say 2 years old, then it's better to just upgrade the whole system as you'll save money in the long run.

Thank you for this thread I was looking for info on Combat spec. I have a 31 Carnage Marauder and I like the spec. a lot.

Stun Wars the Slow Republic Stuns are out of control. It's normal to be stunned 3, 4 times in a row with out any way to break them. There needs to be a diminishing return on stuns. 1 or 2 stuns at full duration then progressively less duration on the stun until immunity. Right now you get stun locked and killed in 4 seconds flat with no way to fightback. It truly has turned into the Slow Republic.

This The stun bubble has turned WZ's into Stun Wars the Slow Republic. The sheer amount of stuns has gotten so out of control that everyone considers them the new normal for War Zones.

Very true, if you ever wanted hard core PvP then you played Ultima Online. Stat loss for dying, corpse picked clean, thieves stealing your stuff every area a free fire zone it was truly a terrifying game to play at times, Everyone was on the level because it wasn't item based it was skills based. You could even fight naked and be competitive. It was my first MMO and I still have my accounts on the Lake Superior shard.

In order to have player collected bounties you need an OPEN WORLD. SWTOR is to compartmentalized with all it's instances and same faction only areas. Bounty Hunters would never be able to collect bounties, unless there allowed on the Reb/Imp fleets. SWG had a truly open world where everyone was allowed to go pretty much where ever they wanted so bounty hunting worked. Player Bounty hunting in SWTOR would never work because of the restrictions on where you can and can not go. Now a Bounty Board with NPC's that you could hunt for credits would be cool but not really the same.

Damage in warzones is not indicative of how well a class is in a given WZ. Anyone can put up huge numbers in a Voidstar stalemate on the first or second door. Same with a huttball match where the team just runs around and kills and doesn't try and score. Success in WZ is about objectives and damage. Being able to kill the other team to cap a node or rest an area node like NC. Huttball takes mobility and lots of protection and taunts not so much big damage. While big damage will pwn weak under geared teams with bad or no healers. Big DPS won't get it done against a team of similar gear and comp.

I don't think the spec is geared towards being a pure DPS spec. I know most pure DPS classes can and do beat me in DPS output, but they lack a lot of the utility I have. I hope they don't nerf the hybrid shadow. If they do they will have to tweak Infl and Balance to bring them in line with other classes in terms of survivability. Right not with out a dedicated pocket healer Infl and Balance shadows are just not optimal. There viable just not optimal.

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It's what I use If geared right (800+ Bonus Damage 75% Crit Multiplier) it hits like a truck. I have put up over 600K in Void star my lows are 300K highs are 600K average is 300K easy with protection and guard if needed. If the other pure builds offered the survivability and damage I would probably play them as the 23/1/17 can get a bit boring. Tell ya what tho it is a 1v1 KILLER! All but the best Mara's and Vanguards give very little challenge. I 3v1'd a node in Civil war yesterday killed all 3 and still capped the node with 50% health. Granted the 3 weren't geard that well but still It is a very hearty spec.

RWZ's teams need to be matched based on team rating. We all know this, anyone who thinks different is just trolling and likes to faceroll teams with low ratings. On our server only a few teams do RWZ's and there the one's winning and rolling pug's. Cross server would help but the match making for teams is broken as in it's not available.

The only Mara/Sents I can beat on my Full WH Augmented Kin/Balance hybrid Shadow are under geared ones (recruit gear, sub 1200 expertise). If there in full WH or even Full BM I can't seem to beat them. Every now and again if I catch one with there stuff on cool down I can get lucky but for the most part I combat cloak out and let a vanguard kill them. There a hard class to solo 1v1 it takes 2 or more to smear them into the ground.

I have a habit of calling out people out people who are PvP'ing with 300 expertise wearing green PvE gear and have Mods and Augs that are 4 or 5 levels bellow 50. To what end I don't know. t I know we are all not born with gear at 50 but most I see are high valor levels and still are PvP'ing in sub par gear. I'm sorry but if you don't have enough pride or common sense to get appropriate gear to PvP in then why PvP? Recruit gear has done away with the excuse of not having PvP gear. Expertise is everything in PvP. Until it's changed get it and get as much as you can of it. Oh and in reference to this post and along the same lines as mine... I play tennis and I play it quite a bit, both recreational and competitively have been since I was little. If I'm playing tennis with someone and they show up for a match with a wooden tennis racket wearing combat boots and jeans I'm sure as hell going to ask them if there being serious? it's the same when I ask a under geared PvP'er. I'm never mean about it I'm simply wondering why and if they know there is a better alternative. /rant off

Ok the best way to answer this is Champion/BM Armor Mods do not carry over there /set bonus to other gear. War Hero Armor Mods do carry over there set bonus when you replace the Armor Mod. If you were just to rip out the Mod and Enhancement and place it in a Rataka piece leaving the Armor Mod alone then you would keep the Rataka set bonus. It's all in the Armor mod and it must go from the same type of piece to the same type of piece. Old chest piece to new chest piece. If you rip a armor mod out of a leg piece an stick it into a chest piece the stat bonus will not take effect. TBH I don't see any reason to do this as expertise is your primary and most important stat in PvP. The more you have the more you factor in a WZ. edit In 1.3 you will be able to add a augment slot to ANY piece of gear. So if you like the look of Rataka gear you could add augment slots to it and add WH mods and be all set.

Yes In order for Infli shadow to be ruined in 1.3 it would have had to been good at some point post 1.3 . Fact is it hasn't ever been good. Not saying it's not viable, it's just not optimal.

Expertise expertise expertise expertise... Do I need to repeat it? You go into a WZ with sub 500 expertise you do not factor in that WZ. You may as well be naked and give it a try. But as for helping your team., You are a liability not an asset.

Yes you made your opinion quite clear in the two posts you made stating your opinion. I just chose to ignore it and posted mine anyway.

This is the interwebs Post a public PvP video on the PvP forums you're gonna get e opinions. Just the nature of the beast. Deal with it.

I want to play as a Jawa A jedi Jawa how epic would that be?

Yeah try speaking it Hehe

Well in CW you can really go both ways. You can hold Mid and R or L or you can hold Right and left because of the speeders. A lot of good teams are starting to counter the 2 left rest mid strategy by flooding one side and taking the other leaving mid alone. CW unlike NC lets you get away with it.