Ummm 1st time I've posted about this topic...so not sure what your talking about.

I'm starting to consider unsubbing from this game again....there's nothing to do outside of ops. I either work all day and come home, log on, run my op, then stand around bored, or on my days off I do some extra stuff then log off bored till raid time. Not to mention...when are we getting a new op? I will run 4 mans with guildies, help lowbies level, teach the new people tricks etc...I have tried to get into pvp but pvp in this game is just terrible right now. Crew skills suck...nothing unique about any of them...no fun gadgets or mounts that you can make like in other games. You can just sit on your ship and send out companions (many professions this is the only way to level them) They all feel exactly the same with just slightly different items from each. In other games I'd go out and farm when really bored...but that's lame too in this game. The best farming spots for seemingly everything is all in the same place...which I will not mention as it's already always full of people running about farming their chosen item. all the usual things I did for fun in past MMOs don't exist here....or they do in extremely weak forms. I feel like the best thing about this game was the original class stories. However they got boring after running each class up once or twice. Then you had companion stuff, a nice distraction. However in RotHC you limited our class story to faction stories...now in KotfE it's basically the same for everyone....last event I tried to participate in was broken too lol... So....what am I missing? Or am I justifiably bored?

Exactly

then your healers suck... I have done over 10k hps on my sorc and she's not even near geared yet.....also...yes the average dps might be 6k... on an unbuffed, stationary dummy. From what I've seen watching youtube videos of people who appear to be rather good at their classes and confident enough obviously to make videos....even 2k dps is hard to sustain in pvp because of movments, stuns etc. Now of course this can be said for healers as well, to be fair, but I find healer cooldowns tend to be shorter. For example in an emergency I can pop recklessness Resurgence, and then roaming mend and my health (and group around me) is back in the fight. On a 14 second cooldown. Can't think of any dps abilities that would directly counter that. I'm not the most geared healer (as it's my offspec on my main pve toon) but I can bring someone back from nearly dead to full in maybe 2-3 gcds + shield them. On myself, I have an instant cast heal with a short-ish cooldown that is off the GCD. Making it even easier. Anyway...getting off track, Yah you can find a bad healer and focus them, but as this is about premades, some of these teams are players with a lot of exp doing this and finding a weak healer isn't always simple, especially if they are being assisted.

While I don't consider myself a "top tier" player in anyway. I do know my way around these games. I have done semi-serious pvp for over a year in WoW, and casual pvp for many years as well, plus other games. I have the gear and the mouse...it's just the game mechanics here with tanks being able to reduce the damage healers take by an extreme amount. ....tank + healer...thats only 2. Those 2 can hold off a group of 3-4 dps with next to no skill. A good healer and a good tank can easily hold the point against 1/2 the opposing team. Add a 2nd healer or a third and that becomes impossible to kill. As I said in my original post it's the premades that are running 4 tanks & 4 heals...not 1 tank and 1 healer. Hell I can kill all but the best healers 1 on 1 if I get enough time, at the very least pressure them off the point so I can take it while they recoup. Tanks by themselves are not a challenge...so this is in no way "One of those posts" about class mechanics...it's more about game mechanics. So you think it's normal for it to take 1/2 your ops group to kill 2 people? Think about that in a game scenario....8v8 warzone. Lets say a tank and healer are guarding grass. Your team needs to take grass. 4/8 of you have to focus grass (possibly more if you have even 1 dps that isn't up to speed or you happen to have some heals). The enemy team now has 6 people to attack your node with or guard their other. Now multiply that affect....do you see what I'm getting at yet?

Because I play this game to have fun...that would not be fun for me in anyway. I am not that desperate to win that I'd sell out to some wuss comp just for some cheap wins.

It's gotten to the point PvP isn't even worth doing anymore.... the fun is completely gone unless your one of the 3-4 groups rolling through with the tank/heal groups. It's a simple strategy....team of 8. 4 healers and 4 tanks. You attack any of the healers, they get guarded and healed by everyone around them. You literally can not kill anyone on their teams. So you nerfed dps because "burst was broken in pvp" and now no one is getting killed in war zones because of this. Yah sure I can survive all day too because no ones doing enough damage to take me out as I kite them blah blah...but what exactly am I supposed to do when I'm blowing people up with 20k crits and their health bars just fill back up immediately from all the heals rolling around the groups? I've done 7 war zones today, only ONE of these was not one of those groups. It's downright abusing game mechanics...with that much defensive ability even if one did die, you have 2-3 more guarding the objective till they get back. There is no way to take objectives. 100% impossible to lose with this set up. So....tell me how this is fair to anyone? Also...explain to me how to counter this since I know there will be at least one of those "Your just bad" trolls. You know..those guys that claim to pull 5 million dps and burst healers down before they can ever heal. So yah...pvp is dead in this game, and I'm one step closer to unsub

not a matter of buying..it's more selling, everything people post gets undercut with another page of that item.

I love how bioware put on this big show of "banning" people...just to let them all back in quietly. Was this just a ruse to get people to think they care? There was 3 names on the GTN during that exploit time who had dozens of pages of auctions of the companion items...didnt even try to hide who they were. They vanished for about a week and are now back at it selling pages of them. I got a guy talking to me about how he's been finding exploits like this since launch and buying credits and never got banned for more then a few days.

I have always played tank classes in MMOs, I enjoy the style of fighting. Nothing is more fun then smashing someones face in with a shield or blocking their best attacks with my shield....so I find this game to be a bit lacking....no tanks, no not even an animation as if I was blocking anything with my offhand shield generator. You can't tell me we don't have shields as the Zakul knights carry them. I don't mind if it was only a flair item, I'd love a shield and would actually pay CC for it. (That's saying a lot if you knew me). Just think of all the fun ideas we could put together for outfits, toons etc. It would certainly make playing a tank in this game more fun.

no...stun and kill them...they have to stand still to channel stuff still.

How do I report? None of the report options in game have anything to do with hackers or exploiters... guy in hypergate capping a pylon as the game starts and then is at the other pylon before we can even reach it using normal abilities. When I killed him and tried to recap he was back at the pylon and attacking me before I was even 50% through the channel. And it's a PT...one of the slower classes in the game under normal circumstances

Basically...Anything they do want to change now, probably isn't slotted until at least after summer vacation

Yes, absofreakinglutely we should, you think the devs are going to bother making a change if we don't voice our opinions? TBH I don't really see them showing much interest in anything players have to say, let alone pvp..which is most often the most overlooked base of any MMO. Which do you think catches the eye of a devs faster? 50 people posting about the same problem or 1 post that just sinks to nothingness?

obviously you interested enough to click on it, scroll down, and comment, which btw brings the topic to the top again. So clearly you do care. Thank you for your support.

Possible fixes in most to least horrible suggestion descending order. Nerf healers: Yah...This wont happen, PVE balance and all. Unless they separated them, but we all know BW isn't going to put any kind of effort into that. Cap healers: Find a way to make sure there's never more then 2 on a team, like a raid finder type deal. Again...BW would have to work to make this happen....so it'll never happen. More CC, more useful interrupts: Maybe some better options to shut down healers? Right now most classes have 1 short stun and 1 long stun that you can not attack them or it breaks. Our interrupts only prevent using THAT ability for 4 seconds. That is nothing...just use up one GCD on another heal and it's right back up to use. Perhaps a successful interrupt locks out all casting for 4 seconds. Easy enough change, minimal work. Could be really useful and make interrupting all the more important without really having any effect on pve. Unless people are going to cry about trash pulls being easier....you can't interrupt Bosses, save a few special cases perhaps.

I want to play more matches that are not just healbot central. This is how ANY given fight will go.... I start attacking X Player --> X player realizes they can not fight 1v1 --> They run to the nearest healer I see 2 guys defending a node. By themselves, ---> CC one, draw 2nd one in, Los around a wall/pole long CC on that one. Start to dps 1st guy down. A healer shows up and now enemy A. and B. are unkillable. I marked the healer, I see him all alone at one capture point...revenge time right? ---> they run around spamming god heals and by the time they are even having to use cooldowns to stay up, a tank and 2 dps show up and guard him. Don't even get me started about healer stacking, that alone should result in a ban....ya sure, nothing illegal. But the most cowardly act possible in any MMO. Grow a pair you losers. No one likes you, really, no one. Any time I see the other team has 3+ healers in the same guild or even just healing eachother I just leave. No point in even playing those matches. A healer 1v1 is killable, Yes, that is the first thing people point out. BUT it takes a time to kill them depending on how good they are. Anyone who says "I can kill a healer easily" is either full of you know what, or has only faced terrible healers somehow. A good healer will kite, Los Etc making them all that much harder to kill. 2 Healers....your not going to get anywhere without at least a few people focusing and ccing + interupting. 3 healers? Yah....like I said.. /leave game. PvP is kinda fun in this game...but I'm so tired of every time I get someone low their health goes right back up in the 1.2 seconds it takes for me to cast a final ability I thought would have more then finished them off. I feel like only way to really pvp in this game is to make a premade...and maybe it's just my server (Imp side JC) but I never see anything going on as far as pvp.

If you want a challenge...do the "Iron Man" leveling style. Only allowed to wear basic gear (grey or white...well I guess Adaptive gear with no stats would be fine) If you die, you start over (or give up)

Yah, I read about this..it was happening after patches or updates to people...but was supposedly a bug....grrr... Wish Bioware would just answer these questions themselves instead of leaving us all to guess.

I did but I used it on an Op (already had a sniper) so I had another class to farm with (stealth ftw) so I did not get to observe the result as far as unlock goes.

I'll give you 5 credits for both. But you'll need to transfer to Jedi Cov. Thanks!

...why? If your concerned you'll out level the planet your on...you will scale. So even if you level up you won't be more then a few levels over the enemies. I cant think of any other logical reason anyone would wish this.... I guess if you really insist on it...log off and come back in about 11 days?

thats the problem with this game....there is no definitive answer...even the answer we get directly from the Devs apparenltly isn't 100%. I'm not buying a boost if I'm not 100% sure it'll work. I'm also weary of leveling a toon and starting KoTFE just to find out I need to start over

friend in vent just bought one and says it didn't

Lol...my queue is usually instant....L2P. I will form at least a partial group of friends/guildies before hopping in.