I had no idea this was going on. I also still am not 100% certain exactly what the bug was but from reading the thread I gather people were vendoring and item repeatedly by buying it back for much less than they sold it to the vendor for. I had noticed that the patch was being deployed probably pretty early as I was disconnected around 8pm EST. If someone who had already been doing this noticed that the patch was coming without any prior notice and without a reason I am certain they would realize that this is the reason for the patch and then they would also realize that they have about 7 hours left to keep doing this. I would say people could have earned over 20million in this time. These credits must be removed from any and all players who vendored this or any item repeatedly as an exploit. Bioware please let the community know you have done this. I understand not handing out bans or suspensions or even warnings considering the mistake was on Bioware's end but if the credits are not removed from any and all players who have taken advantage of this then it really puts them heads and tails above other players in the game. Sure you can say it is only credits but credits can be used to instantly gear a fresh lvl 50 from quest greens to Denova Hard Mode ready. Given the amount of Credits people could have possibly made it would have been possible to do this for multiple toons as well as purchase any mount or item in the game you wished. Players not exploiting would at the very least have to work very hard for a few weeks if not months to be able to acquire so many credits or to gear their characters.

For the people saying this doesn't change pvp it certainly does. I have been in countless warzones where I have not died and I can say without a doubt in my mind that I have been in many Voidstar warzones where I never dropped combat not even once. There are voidstar matches where no one gets a door and there is combat 100% of the time due to the short runback of respawns. I see it being less of an issue in the other 2 maps and also the new one but still an issue as there will be times where you do not drop combat for well over 5 minutes. Also will stealthers be able to reset their cooldown instantly just by stealthing in combat while being shot at? This hardly seems balanced. IF you are going to keep this change you certainly need to reduce the cooldown on the medpacs. Seeing that you sometimes will not drop combat for well over 2-4minutes and then to throw another 90sec or more on top that seems ludicrous. A This change is also yet another nerf to the functionality of biochem. The stims and adrenals have already been nerfed so that they are not the best out there, they really need to be on par with BiS items since most crafting professions can "crit" their BiS items and make them way better than anything anyone else can obtain. Saying we can do so with implants is not the same since we do not get rakata or BiS recipes at all, the best we can hope for is to get lucky with a hard mode raid drop to crit on the columi ones making them only slightly better than rakata if at all. The medpacs were nerfed already as well , making the blue medpacs useable by anyone actually provide more over all healing. Now biochem suffers yet another nerf at the hands of how many times will I actually use this medpac now? Well in an operation you will only really use it for the number of bosses there are so assuming you kill 10/10 on whatever difficulty you will use 10 a week...really not saving much since you only need 10. The better option would be to take the larger heal since 10 are easily affordable and crafted even cheaper. Even if you stick with the reusable rakata medpac your still suffering a nerf since you will be getting the benefits from it much less often.

I have not gotten a BM token in my last 31 bags. Seriously 0 for 31.

I self admitting know nothing about software engineering or things of that nature. BUT from my experiences on ilum where I don't get lag until I am smack dab in the middle of the battle where the fighting is I would have to say you are wrong about this. I am asking for a small section , even just like one of the hangars would due, of one of the side ships for people to be able to duel NOT THE ENTIRE FLEET! So the players not witnessing the battle , not even on the same ship would not be effected very much if at all. If you ever witnessed dueling areas in other MMO's they are more or less all near the main game area.

Please try to know what you are talking about before you post on forums. You can not duel on the Imperial Fleet and as far as I know the republic either. If you can duel on the republic fleet then I will modify the thread at once. You can try but it will tell you that you are in a non dueling area. Also how much time could it possibly take to set the dueling area check to yes as opposed to no for a single area on a side ship of the fleet?

Incorrect. I have no interest in dueling. I'll never take part in it. Fair enough OP modified.

Please take your One Minded PvE FLAMES TO ANOTHER THREAD! I never once said ALL people here let me quote it for you PEOPLE , not ALL people.

I don't believe I said anyone was wasting time. Please read the OP again. If you are not into dueling or PvP then fine that is your choice but please don't flame my thread because of it. Many people actually enjoy dueling and do not consider it a waste of time. Whether or not you do it for the occasional fun time with a friend or for a more competitive nature people still like it. This would actually give people more to do instead of the time wasting you speak of. Not having an easily accessible place that people will be at pretty much eliminates it from the game. I know many PvPers on my server would really enjoy somewhere we could duel one an other without having the interference that is received on ilum and/or outlaw's den if it was ever populated. You can argue that we can do that on almost any planet in the game but that honestly just ruins the spontaneous nature of dueling. You would have to call someone out , name a place and then take 3-5 minutes to travel there. People like to watch the duels and all be in a place where dueling happens. You can see one person duel , do really well and say "Wow I wanna see if I can beat that person."

It would be really great if we could have like a wing on the fleet where we could duel. At the very least make it possible on one of the side ships instead of the main one where all the vendors are. No body wants to go to a planet and hang out and duel but many people would take part in it from time to time if it was a more accessible place like somewhere on the fleet.

Do you pay more than everyone else does a month or something? I have created many tickets and have never received a personal response from anyone let alone been asked to chat with a CSR rep. In some cases , like quest bug's and not receiving due rewards , the ticket was ignored for 4-5 weeks until they patched the bug. Is that how you treat your paying subscribers? Oh thats a ticket cause he is not getting quest rewards , lets ignore it for 5 weeks till we fix it then just simply close the ticket.

Try harder because I don't get it

Entirely irrelevant post , no one is asking for the dots to be removed , simply not preventing the capping of the objective for the full 21seconds.

Please take your own advice and think before you post nonsense. No one is asking you to remove your entire spec tree. The OP is implying a solution such as not every single tick interrupts capturing objectives. You still get your entire talent tree and all of the damage you were to of done to a player will still be done however only your first 3 ticks or so would interrupt someone from capping an objective. Every class has an ability that cost no resources and does instant damage so you should have no problem preventing captures while you are alive. You should not be able to hold an entire team from capping an objective for 21seconds after your death. To the people saying Dispell and stop QQing , not every warzone will have a healer that can dispell all DoTs the game applies , if your without the right class this is an instant win tactic for the other team.

I have to agree that the 21 second AoE DoT is definitely not fair to anyone involved. You could have 5-6 people capping a turret against 1 defender and even though they killed the defender within 5-10seconds, his AoE DOT clipped them all and now he has 21seconds to return to the turret and do the same thing again. He only needs to be alive long enough to use a single ability , then he can die knowing it wont be capped. 21 seconds is enough time to roleplay walk back to the turret. Yes there are ways around this but with the current state of class balance you have to have specific classes in your WZ group which means there will be groups that have no way of stopping this. Until every healer has the ability to cure/cleanse all debuffs , even if it requires talents, this needs to be fixed. My suggestion has already been said by others in this thread , Only the first few ticks(3max) should interrupt someone from capping an objective.

I just realized your either 9 years old or incredibly lazy. Why do people think it is ok to post on forums like this..... ppl is actually spelled people believe it or not cos is not a word it is cause or because no1 is not a word , its is two words, no one I mean I understand a few grammar or spelling errors but that is just plain lazy. If you want your thread to be taken seriously by developers or anyone else please show you can take the time to form proper words and sentences. Otherwise people dismiss you pretty quickly assuming your thoughts are as bad as your efforts at forming words and sentences.

Someone needs to slap some sense into your server. I don't think I have been in a level 50 match with less than 4 sorcerers. Under level 50 bracket I don't think I have been in one with less than 6 sorcerers.

hmm I think that the Sage has way cooler visuals than the Sorc. I mean lightning is played out and it gets old. When Sorcs cast crushing darkness and lightning blast the animations are crap , for crushing darkness your hand turns red , big deal. Sages get to actually pick something up and throw it. I have always thought the Sage class had the coolest animations. Compare it to a merc BH who shoots missiles out of his butt and your light years ahead of them. In regards to the gear, sage gear fits your class, it looks like something a sage would wear. I think the BH gear is a disgrace, the helms are downright laughable and the PvP Boots look like little kids cartoon slippers. The sorcerer gear is pretty cool and in comparison to sages they def get the win but I cant believe you sages are complaining about your animations.

Bugs and exploits are two entirely different things. You DO NOT need to be using a bug to be exploiting. If you are using a bug to exploit it is typically called cheating since your doing things clearly stated as not allowed. "Exploit: 1. To employ to the greatest possible advantage: exploit one's talents. 2. To make use of selfishly or unethically"-thefreedictionary.com Exploiting has been going on in MMO's forever and it has nothing to do with game bugs. Exploits are when you clearly gain an unfair advantage by doing things that are UNINTENDED not just things made capable due to a bug. Top ranked WoW guilds were pet tanking heroic staghelm in 4.2 allowing players to completely ignore the mechanics of the fight, this was an exploit as it was not the result of an in game bug but the result of an oversight on the developers. The devs put the boss in the game and the devs put pet tanks in the game but that doesn't mean that it is fair and not an exploit. Again I say , If you don't consider being able to pull someone who just killed you into a zone that instantly kills them without any attempt at defense an exploit, tell me then what exactly qualifies as an exploit to you?

Honestly if you cant handle a trooper find another game.

It's a disgrace you that take money from people every month to play a game that is outperformed by Playstation 1.

You don't consider being able to pull someone who just killed you into a zone that instantly kills them without any attempt at defense an exploit? Tell me then what exactly qualifies as an exploit to you? The purpose of instant death in that zone is to prevent the other team from camping your spawn point and killing you before you leave, not to give you a place to hang out and prevent the other team from scoring the entire match. Would I have done it if I was able to? Yes , every chance I got, but I would still acknowledge that it was an exploit.

I have noticed some terribly unplayable framerates on ilum since todays patch, anyone else? I have been told by your (bioware) customer support that my system far exceeds the requirements to run this game. I typically play at 1080p and achieve 60fps in warzones and such. Since today's patch my framerate on both ilum and the imperial fleet have basically made it unplayable. granted this ties into the amount of traffic in the area at the time , but even if I turn my view so that I am facing the sky in ilum I still get unplayable framerates when more than say 15 people are around. Please fix your game engine.

I would imagine that the reason they start empty is people not accepting the ques , not the fact that Bioware set them up to start with 10 people. I don't think there is much they can do about this unless they make the warzones not start till 20+ people are qued so that there is backups. This would greatly increase que times. I think they should lower the amount of time you have to accept a que , that way replacements can be easily found prior to the start of the match.

I don't know what game you play but both arsenal merc and any sorc was hit heavily with the surge nerf. Arsenal Mercs and Sorcerers both stacked surge till it was 80-85%(when DR kicked in) even if it meant sacrificing things like accuracy expertise crit or endurance. Power and our primary stat aside Surge is/was the greatest DPS contribution of any stat. I have not seen a 5k medal all day and it something I am used to getting about every other warzone at least.

Medpacks no longer give medals. Why do you think you are entitled to a medal? Fresh max level characters always have a disadvantage to those who have been max level for a long time there is nothing you can do to change that. In about 3-4 weeks you will be just as geared as many of those players and you will get your 5k medal. Please stop trying to take things away from players who can achieve them just because you can not.