Play a sorcerer, we need buffed.

I play a Sith Sorcerer healer and personally I think healers are too weak in pvp. I find the fact that I have to stand in one place pretty much all the time in order to heal infuriating. I used to play a druid and I would almost never stop running around in circles I get interrupted all the time because it seems everyone has 3-4 stuns or interrupts. My amount of healing actually goes down from normal when I join a wz and they recently cut our bonus healing gained from expertise in half! Now it seems just to be a big dps race in warzones and while I can hold my own for a bit it seems I spend most of my time running away from melee and trying to LoS ranged. I'm not complaining I'm just saying you shouldn't.

I like to peruse forums on my off times or when I'm at work with no work to do. I do it to learn more and become better informed and a better player. I have to say, though, I have yet to learn anything pertinent or insightful from reading the pvp forums here. Every single thread is a complaint from one person who claims to speak for "80%" of everyone decrying one or more minor (but percieved major) flaws in Biowares pvp strategy. The fact of the matter is, for players that don't have 80% of their time dedicated to overplaying certain aspects of the game things are just fine if not outright OK. There will always be perceived overpowered classes (usually not played by the OP) little quirks that annoy us (8 SECONDS TO CLICK A DAMN NODE R U SERIOUS!?) and complaints about hey they should do this or change this or cancel that. Please try to be empathetic and thoughtful about the people who are designing this game and those of us who are playing it casually just to have fun. Just chillax and enjoy it. If you can't do that then by all means, shove off. This is a brand new game, we're all experienceing the growing pains of a potentially collosol (sp?) undertaking. I, personally, love the game and feel that while there are things I would like to see changed I choose to see the glass as half full not as **** SO EMPTY AND POINTLESS FREE GEAR BAD PLAYERS BAD. Think before you post. Don't speak for "everyone". Be mindful of others young padawan. Borshanar Ven Zallow If anyone has any constructive criticism or POSITIVE input, feel free to post.

I really don't think the "hype" that you are referring to is the cause of faction disparity. It is a gross oversimplification of the psychology of players to think that a couple game trailers poisoned the minds of players against the Republic. I think the culture to which the game was hyped has more to do it. The culture in the US and the West is general has been shifting in recent years to more of a "dark side" mentality. If you pay attention to TV and movies in the last decade or so you'll notice our fantasy heroes are becoming more dark and brooding types and gruff but missunderstood anti-heroes that eventually open up to a soft and squishy inside. I also believe that buffing a lower pop faction to even out world pvp is opening a huge can of worms when it comes to actually affecting the problem it's intended to resolve. Many of us who played WoW (I know, I know) felt that the Wintergrasp buff, while making us feel like Gods for a bit, actually had little effect on the outcome of the match. They messed with it a half a dozen times but it never really worked right. I think that's a dangerous trap to fall into for swkotor and I would hope they don't try to grab that tigers' tail. One thing I have advocated in the past for other MMO's (that shall remain nameless) is free or discounted faction transfers from a heavily overpopulated faction to the lesser populated one until a suitable balance is restored. Also, storyline "hypes" can be used to give the Rep's some heroes and add some good guy with a mean streak bonus's to put it more inline with todays culture.