You could always add something like: When Trauma Probe is depleted it stuns players/gives you sprint/increases expertise by x/refills your resolve bar by x.

Move down Concussive Force (or whatever the talent is called that makes Stock Strike stun/immobilize the target) to the 2nd tier. That would be a start. The longer knockback-talent could be reworked and the added distance from the talent made baseline.. I dont really want an ability that is ONLY defensive. I want options. The class is a bit too stale as it stands right now. Hell, give us a charge (an ability that brings mobility/offensive/defensive power depending on the situation). Fits the soldier-theme and it would give us some options beyond limping forward for 2 seconds before succumbing to the army of glowsticks.

I fail to see what there is to discuss. When the planets align and Orions belt are at an angle of 202.2 degrees to Minor Ursa some team mates decide to try and peel the warriors off me . Problem is: I end up having to heal twice the damage because of Smash. Which would be fine if it didnt have a short CD and giant damage.

Sweet, you saved me a ton of time. Thanks alot!

Thanks for the informative replies. Found the Recruit-set in my bags. 1012 expertise \o/ One other, rather clueless, question: Why shouldnt I buy Battlemaster gear? Do they upgrade the tiers? Dont I need the Battlemaster-gear in order to obtain War Hero-gear?

After a long hiatus I returned a few weeks ago. Before I left the Commando Medic could survive and be of use in pvp. Now my gear has 723 Expertise. Basically Champions gear with a few pieces of Battlemaster. Did the Medic take alot of nerfs? Alternatively, did the lightsaber classes get major buffs (Non-smash Juggernauts excluded)? I feel useless. Stick one guy to me and I almost have to spam heals on myself to stay alive. Two and Im dead. I feel so completely out-dpsed. Like I cant keep up with the damage being tossed around. Three scenarios that happend in my last WZ (Should be called jedizones): - Two Shadow jedis jump me. Dead before the stun fade. - Two agents jump me. Dead before the stun fade. - Near dead Marauder on 2k HP jump me. He hits Shield Wall and nearly kills me in 10 seconds.

How about ditching Ilum for it? - 4-man groups only (sure, you can cooperate with other groups, but thatll take some serious communication. Maybe it would ease up on the truly annoying faction imbalance to some degree. Maybe it would even mean fun, pvp and not stand around the Republic base and the imps always owning the entire zone since you are outmanned 4/5 to 1.

Ive been at Ilum for 3 hours now. I got 3 armaments. No ops and every time I even think of Central Assault there are 50 million bounty hunters tracer missiling, 50 million inquisitors doing their ugly lightning, 50 million agents spamming their backstab that lands even when you face em and 50 million force chokes. I am a tad annoyed at the moment. At least you get the chance to pick the stupid things up. You know what? Ditch Ilum and set up shop on Tatooine as a band-aid, 4-man groups only (wont hinder groups from working together as an Ops, but it takes more effort to keep that incontrol rather than just zerging people down), should help with this bloody discouraging 5:1 ratio. Edit...or let us just pick the place we wanna do the daily at if its too much of a stretch for the story. Just dont make me wanna pull my hair out!

Ive spent about 3 hours trying to get 30 Armaments since we are outnumbered 3/4:1. Ops rarly get going because it feels like a waste of time and quite frankly it is. You know what my defense against the 3-6 people jumping me now is? Trying to guilt speech em/jedi mind trick them.

The Republic is something we can relate to. Its depicted as a western democratic society with both good and bad. At the same time the Empire writing seems to have toned down the fascistic and racist tendencies of the Empire. Instead of being this fascistic state it comes of as a psychological hedonistic society (basically, self-interest and pleasure trumps all). That and that alot of people find Darth Vader cool and that WoWs Alliance was seen as the kiddy faction..and and and....there are too many variables to pinpoint it. Maybe people like to be *****s? Ive played both sides and quite frankly the Republic works alot better with light and dark-side. Playing a LS Sith Warrior is like playing a mean bastard that feels pity and remorse once every year. The majority of every choice theres always tacked on something that reinforce the self-interest part that seems to be a major part of the Empire.

Check the Rules of Conduct. Should be in there. It was illegal in wow. The current status of Ilum makes me think of it as a gray area, but what I think doesnt matter.

Im a healing specced Trooper and from what Ive seen so far healers (regardless of class) get bronze/silver the majority of the time. I tend to check healing done after a game to compare myself to people that I know have been close-by and playing objectives. I also admit its gear related as I pretty much have to heal non-stop to hit the 300k mark. Besides, if I am to do damage when attacking the door on Voidstar instead of healing my pretty butt off Id argue Im doing it wrong unless a fast kill is needed for a plant. The first post was really a joke complaining about healing not being rewarded on equal terms as damage dealers. I really dont care about MVP (even tho I get a lil happy when I hit 3 MVP votes in a random).

Yes, I do. 1x 1k defender medal 1x 3k defender medal 1x 75k healing medal 1x 300k healing medal (or whatever the medals are called) So yea, 4 instead of 3. Woopety doo.

Thats the thing. Me and 3 others jumped 3 now....only to face another 15 in the middle of the fight. So, are the armaments only at the Central block? None at the south/north?

Then were am I supposed to get medals even tho I heal for 300k a game in my crummy gear? Congrats you healed for 300k! Here have three bronze medals.

Too bad Im a trooper. Good tip tho.

My server has a large problem with faction imbalance to the degree that it doesnt feel possible to outsmart an enemy; as the zerg usually trumps everything. It really is the way of World PvP no matter the game. Anyway, Im not here to ask for some discussion about what should be different or how to solve problem x,y,z. What I want to discuss is how to do the daily/weekly Ilum quests with as little spawn/death/spawn/death against an enemy force thats 4-5 times bigger than yours. Im not after exploits. Im after spots with armaments that might be a little out of the way, times of the day and general tips and tricks. The entire topic is really about trying to avoid as much frustration as possible.

If it wasnt for Cell Charger or whatever it would be power as sustained > burst, but now sustained and burst is fondling each other like newly weds. In other words, its a bit more tricky. Or really simple. I guess more crit means more grav rounds, full auto and demo rounds and less hammer shots aswell as less pressure on Recharge/Reserve Cell. Guess some math wiz could show us the breaking points on stats that Troopers want.

Theres some planning to it. Even if I most of the time get a group within 10-20 minutes I start asking for a group at once. If it takes alot of time I keep asking while going at my normal questing. No standing around doing nothing. The bonus 4s on Nar Shadda and Alderaan are tougher since alot of people seem to skip those lines flat-out.

I wouldnt mind it, but Id rather see: a combat log, target of target-frames, Bartender customization, buff/debuff customization, more visible procs. Recount was never essential to wow-raiding (cept for personal improvement and a sense of friendly competition within the guild...so basically bragging rights). If we had slackers or less good/motivated players we generally saw it by them dying like flies on fights like Cthun, Algalon, the other squid monster and so on.

Playing a near parody of evil isnt very cool (albeit funny). Lighside/darkside works alot better with the republic since theres more wiggle room. Besides, even if you do think you look ugly you'll encounter far more enemies out in the open. Not to mention that it got the entire underdog-thing going for it with this server population thing.

Heh, I rolled a Juggernaut at first. Got it to 50 after a leveling process I only can compare to the vanilla wow warrior leveling. Tried all the three different specs and all of em died to one Gold mobs at one point. Now this wasnt due to me not knowing how to play (I could go on talking about the similarities to the wow-warrior and how good I was at that, but it really isnt relevant). Anyway, my Sith friends quit (for the time being or whatever) so I started a trooper (level 27 atm). Best change I ever did not only because its more fun [as in having useful tools beyond a shield wall, force choke and push and intimidating roar). Its just as stylish, but most of all having great potential. Basically, I went from often dying to 1 gold/1 strong mob (or worst case 1 gold. One time I killed two gold mobs! AW YEA!) to soloing Heroic 2-quests and Champions of equal level with ease. Most often without popping the Commandos mini-enduring pain. There is a huge difference in difficulty (even if the Trooper gets a harder time later on it cant possibly be as weak as the Juggernaut leveling). Last, but not least I gotta point out that I refused to use Quinn only because I didnt like him (bootlicking little lapdog)

Well, then, if it is Mouse 4/5 and you installed the software. Enter the application: check what the Mouse 4/5 are identified as (f.ex. Universal click, IE Forward, Click etc). It could be that the buttons on your particular mouse are conflicting each other in ToR specifically. In my case, the Logitech MX518 worked right away, but my new mouse didnt while they have roughly the same layout on keys.

I dunno what mouse you got. What matters is: Do you have software for the mouse? Like a lil application where you can bind mouse buttons to keybinds. I got a Roccat Kone+ and I couldnt bind Mouse 5, nor the tilt of the mouse-wheel (which was funny since my good old MX518 had no problems). Instead I went into the Mouse Software and bound the tilt to weird keybinds (ctrl-shift-M, N and so on). Now the game think tilt are those keybinds instead. Mouse 4-5 (AKA Side-buttons) werent set as "Click", but rather something else I cannot remember. Set em to click and they worked. Try it out!

DBM and such arent needed in SWTOR. Pretty much all the bosses abilities are telegraphed in such clarity that if you miss em you deserve the death. This is assuming that the ToR raid bosses are similar in their mechanics/design/whatever. That being said UI Customization a'la Bartender would increase my enjoyment alot. Target of Target would be sweet for tanks and dps alike. As for damage meters and gearscore. The first is a nice tool for your personal skill. The second one I never ever used. Then again I was in the same guild from Vanilla to Cata downing every boss the game had to offer so I never had the need for it. Still, its a silly addon. If you dont wanna pug, join a guild. Macros arent the devil either. Its a godsend to lessen the pain of clunky mechanics that might never get fixed. Or just adding enjoyment to the game (please observe that this does not refer to One Key to Rule em all-macros).