Unlike other issues that require lots of testing and development, this could be fixed by simply acting on the hundreds of tickets being opened on specific players that do this by banning them. Really it shouldnt be brain surgery server x requires a certain number of complaints against said BOT to warrant investigation. Investigate, ban, rinse repeat. Soon bots will not exist as there will be no reward.

No this is not another thread complaining about: The ridiculous RNG gear issue, Or the pop imbalance or Ilum or or or It is the fact that they do nothing about a few players who BOT in Warzones! They ruin it for everyone. It is hard enough to win vs a group of battlemaster geared imps as is, it is impossible when 4 out of 5 games has a afk bot and now its 7 vs 8! Yesterday alone i had 14 out of 20 matches with the same moron who afk`s in it. This is not hard to fix! Do it!

You are missing Permetheus's point. I too have a Tank, a vangaurd shield spec. Level 55 valor, with all but 2 champ peices. I do not notice the difference between how fast I die in a warzone with my vangaurd or my Sage. Of course I wont die if I have a pocket healer! but have you ever tried to kill 2 sorcerers healing each other? You need to way outnumber them. the whole point is Tanks SHOULD have more survivability than Sages, and Sages SHOULD do more damage. Currently only the last half of that statement is true.

I understand that putting 50's with lowbies is not fun for lowbies, or for the 50 that is with lowbies vs a group of 50's. SO BW separates them and bam 1 hour queues kill pvp at level 50. This is all because of expertise. I am not saying remove expertise or the concept of progression. SOLUTION: allow level 50 players to toggle expertise on or off. If it is off they can queue with lowbies until the sever pop catches up and there are enough 50's to reduce queue time. Then they can toggle it back on and play 50 only matches.

I think this system is crazy. Just make it more expensive to buy stuff as opposed to random. I gree with the OP, and also believe his numbers. I am only valor level 33 and have opened at least 50 bags and have only 3 pieces, with many useless relics. Why do people who are not at valor 50 or even 30 keep saying bs to that many bags? You get 3 bags from the weekly Illum, 3 bags from the weekly warzone, you get 1 bag from daily warzone and one from daily Illum. You start with 5 bags when you hit 50 from saved commendations. If you play a fair amount you can buy at least 2 bags a day. So in your first 7 day period you will get minimum 5+3+3+(4*7)= 37 bags.

Great post, very informative. I am having a problem with rev eng items at the level 22 mod. All the way up I found that i could rev eng 5-10 greens to get the blue, and a bit more than that to get the purple. The level 22 mods I have tried over 100 rev eng and not learned the blue once. Is this working as intended?