or get in a group with the ranged players ...derp.

That's not a carrot.

The name is Georg.

Not sure what you have against the Mythic employees...but some of them were and still are awesome designers. Warhammer failed because of management not the development team, and the billing company. You had people at top levels making decisions about classes they played without concern of the actual game. BioWare screwed up some fundamental pvp principles, fairly sure the Mythic folks red flagged this, and was told to put it in anyways. But troll on brotha, troll on.

Some servers early on were seeing an average of about 500-1k valor per second. Due to a large number of republic players getting slaughtered and unable to get away from anything. I suspect this number dropped once people alt-f4'd the client. But at just 750 valor per second you could rack it up pretty quickly...but yeah this is damned awful

um nope... Level 43 can only be valor 43.

They rolled out a patch...they should have taken a backup of the Code Base and the underlying DB. Bring down the servers, Restore. 4 hours later, game as it was when the servers went down. Patch goes back to testing...done.

QFT. All the little inconveniences are growing pains on some of the UI and other minor annoyances, but this was a bad idea. The community told you this repeatedly. Some of the people playing this game are former Mythic employees...who told you what was wrong and knew damn well what can lead a game to die a horrible bloody death ie Warhammer. They tested your code in Beta gave premier feedback...these same folks watched as you scrapped your whole system and did a re-write, watched as Gayorg trashed your itemization with his "WOW Raid" experience. And here we are...patch 1.1 a total cluster. LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYER BASE. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE THAT TEST YOUR PATCHES. DON'T RELEASE A BROKEN HORRIBLE PATCH.

With the exception that the protection will get used to play hide and seek games with the guards, no matter what is done, something will be bad and exploitable. Unfortunately, neither system works perfectly, but anything will work better than the current state of things. I want to crush Repulic players, but I want their to be Republic players to crush

So happy I worked to get to 56.5 the right way ...of course I am going to go farm Ilum, but I hope by the time I get off work and get home the server is down and this is being rolled back. Otherwise, I am going to do the wrong thing to finish the grind, and deal with the consequences if I get rolled back to 56.5, because it is a bad design, but people would be stupid to not take advantage of it. My real question is who tested this, and why did no one report this on the test realm. More importantly, if they did someone at BW needs to get a pink slip. DAOC was pure pvp gold, Warhammer was good but poorly managed and bright wizards were looked at way too late. I really want this game to succeed, so BioWare, please stop trying to ruin your game with poor testing and senseless knee jerk responses to whining. FIX THIS.