I'm rather enjoying pvp, and feel like I can take a good beating before going down. I have never felt ineffective in pvp. Yes at times I get frustrated, but who doesnt in pvp. Me: Valor 49, Full champion gear (well i'm missing an ear peice... ) Im using this: http://db.darthhater.com/skill_calc/trooper/vanguard/#::f6e5f4ef3ce3fe4f2e2fe6f18 I am a bit low on DPS, most pvp matches I'm between 90k-180k damage (yeah, no dps at all), If I have a pocket healer its easy to hit 200k damage. But my focus is keeping my team alive with guard, and managing the enemies with debuffs and snares. I always make sure to use my taunts to keep the enemy dps down by 30 percent for my teammates. I use gut and my shields to stay alive and keep dots on them to prevent them from getting points in alderon and voidstar. The 18 second dot on gut is way way underestimated for ones ability to prevent them from flipping a point. If I pop all my shields and los them, gut them, I can hold off 5 of them for well over 50 seconds alone. Hutball, with my reduced cooldown on storm, harpoon, and cyro grenade, its just movement logistics to me to score. Especially the cooldown on storm, I just pogo jump from enemy to enemy until I'm at the line to score

Id agree mostly. Sorcs are a huge issue for me, I feel they can zap away a good 60% of my heath before I can usually get a few of my good hits off on them, they usually have lower health, but they force me to go in to panic defensive mode, and by then, i'm producing no damage on them and Ive poped all my cc and shields. By far I need to research/work at finding a way to take out sorcs. Operatives & Assassins are painful, but if I LOS them or if I turn around and wack them a few times it forces them to back off real fast, sometimes I just keep them movement snared with my HOB, keep em out of melee range, and its no issue at all. Mercs are just plain ol annoying, I always save my inturups just for them , that usually makes em mad. The rest is fairly manageable, unless they are strong at their own class.

Oh, I have had so much fun, every Voidstar I get now I pull about ~2-3 guys down to their death right off the bridge. They tend to all focus on me after that I don't think they like it

In Huttball, right at the beginnig of the matches, I usually wait at the acid, and whomever grabs the ball, I do this: Harpoon > Cyro Grenade > Neural Serge 3 seconds, 4 seconds, 2.5 seconds all The whole time they are taking a nice long acid bath. Sure they will use their abilities to remove the stun, that's why I add in Neural Serge. So Yeah I burn out three of my main abilities, but I usually kill the guy with the ball, and I pick it up and run. I've noticed that many enemy players are aware of me doing this now, which is ok, they usually wait for one of our guys to grab the ball, and then they try to get them down, I usually shield them. I also have started to have some enemy players go around me and try to push me into the acid also from behind, I usually storm to them before they can push me in. The three sec immobilization is defiantly working well, for me.

I'm so using my harpoon like that in voidstar every time now.