Hello everyone, i am valor rank 93 shadow on an eu pvp server, our republic community is smallish compered to the top pvp servers and we are outnumbered around 3 to 1 against the sith. i am specifically writing this on the shadow forum instead of the pvp forum because i think the shadows here can understand me better and help me to deal with the situation. i am half way through getting full war hero stalker gear at the moment, i got 1650~ willpower (rakata stim included), 1500~ endurance, 1220~ expertise. i am playing the std 31 kinetic spec since 3 months ago. when rateds didnt come with 1.2 patch most of the mates i used to run premades with quit and now there not any competitive pvp guilds left around except few foreign language speakers. So the situation right now is the imps are running alot of premades and focus fire me in every warzone. For some reason they have all decided that i am a "key player" and must die instantly. it was kinda funny to see 8 men premades or 4+4 premades that just trying to kill me and ignore everything else around, i am usually getting on top of damage done and top protection done in warzones ( around 400k+ damage and 80k-120k protection, can be more depends on how many healers in that warzone). now i am taking 300k+ damage in almost every warzone, if i am guarding a healer, i might even eat 500k damage. even republics started to focus me at last few games. i thought maybe the shadows here can throw some advice, i was trying to mix stuff alittle bit, i have equipped survivor bm shield and changed the stim to fortitude one, with those two i am running at 20k hp doing less damage and still die very fast unless i vanish and run to heal up, which means they have effectively removed me from the fight. i am hopeless and looking for some advice before i leave this game for good. thanks to any replays.

http://www.swtormovies.com/movieview.php?id=3371 check this out, 5k crits and 3k crits back to back, powertech burst and sustainble both are insane.

it got nerfed, the paying cost to send your pets to slicing missions costs more than you will get in return.

i cant find 1 balance shadow or madness sin on my server that can get me under 50% when im kinetic, in fact when i am 1v2 in warzones the 2nd player i am hopping for would be madness sin because they are epic fail and my 42% armor migitates all their dot damage... i just rip them apart. if you want to kick imperial arse dont go balance, esp without a pocket healer.

another vid of the hybrid you want to tell me this is normal that a player wins every 1v1 or 1v2 fight with 90%+ hp?

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/1176/newbitmapimagep.jpg 340k damage, 410k healing done.

best counter to melee train is to have a tank that can taunt and aoe slow them (warrior/sin with weather) and ask others to aoe them down.

Wheelerific, i have provided proof (video of the hybrid) and all you do is calling people in names. maybe stop spamming the thread and actually give legit answer why do you think your spec isnt op? do you think doing 400k damage and 300k healing is normal?

yeah, i normally play kinetic, this was the first time i ever played balance in pvp so i called him to come to ilum so i could test the spec... it doesnt matter tho, the operative hybrid is still op and should get nerfed.

ok, so you wanna tell me that doing that kind of damage (3k backstabs) while able to heal yourself from 30% to full in 2 gcd's is normal?

you can watch this vid this guy is soloing 2 shadow tanks while eating dinner.

operatives hybrid healer/dps are out of control now, every operative right now is playing some kind of hybrid spec that allows them to do 400k damage and 400k healing done in warzones. this is getting ridiculous and they needs to be nerfed.

i am running a full battlemaster survivor geared shadow with my premade, and i promise you that even 5 dps wont kill me or my guarded healer, i am averaging between 60k to 100k protection each match, depends on how fast my premade whipes the other team. i played in few matches where it was premade vs premade and i had 200k+ protection and 500k damage taken. we win vs the other premades almost always unless the other 4 pugs in our team are too undergeared. i am considering a good tank as a player who takes at least twice the damage of his healer or any other player in his team. tanks are perfectly balanced in pvp, as solo we are weak, with a healer we are unstoppable. everyone here who is whining about how fail tanks are, clearly needs some l2p.

i am running a full battlemaster survivor geared shadow with my premade, and i promise you that even 5 dps wont kill me or my guarded healer, i am averaging between 60k to 100k protection each match, depends on how fast my premade whipes the other team. i played in few matches where it was premade vs premade and i had 200k+ protection and 500k damage taken. we win vs the other premades almost always unless the other 4 pugs in our team are too undergeared. i am considering a good tank as a player who takes at least twice the damage of his healer or any other player in his team. tanks are perfectly balanced in pvp, as solo we are weak, with a healer we are unstoppable.

yeah i got a proof, one of the gunslingers in my guild whom i run premades constantly showed us the teleporting thing, he isn't using the bug but i know of few snipers at the imperial side who know about this. and dont try to make me an idiot, i got a smuggler alt so the cover is no where close to the bug i am talking about.