Finally yesterday i've got my hands on PTS with my main character - Jedi Guardian. Quick intro. I've been with SWTOR since launch. Had a long break from 2018 till this summer. Spent my time mostly PvPing as guardian tank, rarely as DD. So i'll give my POV for Defence. Does this fell like a Jedi Guardian ? Seems like it bugged right now and some abilities are still there despite you need to choose some of them in reworked "skill tree". I'm talking about Awe, Saber Reflect and Blade Blitz. No Freezing force and Force Clarity (i'm totally support this changes). So as of right now it feels a bit like Guardian from 7-8 years ago which i kinda like... but no Guardian leap by default ? Is there anything that feels missing or out of place in the combat rotaion ? Back to Guardian leap. I think this one must be auto include for Defence even though choise in a tree is a no brainer IMO. Cyclone Slash (chooseable abilitiy too on PTS right now) is great against 2+ enemies for trauma effect in pvp and i'm using it often. Maybe can leave without it but still not sure atm. Obviously the hardest choise will be Awe or Saber Reflect or Blade Blitz. What are your initial thoughts with the effectiveness of the Jedi Guardian against enemies ? Usual PvE like dailies is the same as before. Hard to tell about PvP and OPs without other people on PTS and proper testing. How are you enjoying or not this class ? Let's be honest it Needs to compare with changes to all other classes when it'll be available to see the whole picture. Feels OK to me as of right now. Overall Defence is looking somewhat fine. I really don't know why people are hating some changes. I mean guardian didn't have Saber reflect in 2011 till mid 2013 and Blade Blitz till 2015, right ? Was it a problem ? IMO Totally NO. Now you have to make a choise what is fit for you based on situation or type of content. I bet that other classes will have to make same choises so in theory no one will get huge benefits. P.S. People always said that PvP in this game is a stun fest. I can agree at some point. For me the most annoing things though are slows/roots. Classes have lots of abilities with such effects right now and sometimes without good purpose. Have always look at what utilities can purge/save you from this BS now, kinda forgetting about your effectiveness. I'm totally fine with soft/hard stuns. It was/is great tactical thing that you have to master to creat opportunities for you or your teammates. You told that you want to reduce the amout of DCDs, right ? Without getting rid of at least 1/3 (or even 50%) of current slow effects from this game reducing the amount of DCDs will not give any positive results, only unenjoible experience. Please think about it.

Yeah, when you can't get any rewards for spending your time in this game is frustrating... Thumbs up

So many Theory Crafters on the forum this days. People here already said - if you killed sorc/sage heal 1 on 1, it was a sh*tty player. That's just it.

I'm in the same time zone with you, mate. Different country though. My ping on RE is 220+ all the time (same on every EU Eng server) and on US servers it's 300+. I mostly PvPing and such ping is good for me for all this years in SWTOR (i'm playing since launch). Unfortunately there is no other choices. But as i can see the best choice for you is an US server, because 170 ms is a quite good for playing.

You can do another tricky cap at mid by standing very close to left or right side of the turret and easily capping from there. No matter what class are you. More then 30 meters i guess.

Well, tbh this "Bastion" buff must be reworked for sure. There were a couple suggestion, but i mainly prefer to change "Bastion" in this way: let it increase sorcs/sages healing output for some amount of time after using "Force barrier" + immune for stuns and interrupts for the same time. So, let's say it'll be 8 or 10 seconds for 30% or even 50% increased healing. On the other way Bioware can change ACID effect (but i guess it' won't happen though) - if you got ACID debuff on you you'll die immediately. So, the ending of arena matches will be war for territory in mid. Sounds crazy i know, but it's the one of the way.

Never ! You are welcome. And btw, believe me or not but "better then cross server" thing already was made. What was it ? Lowered prices on pvp gear. Bioware logic is simple: the more people can get pvp gear faster - there more will play their ****** ranked wzs. Well, as you can see nothing changes. P.S. Maybe will see some cross-server in SWTOR 2. Who knows...

^ this After i was on all 3 (ENG) EU servers for a long time, i must say that on TRE both faction are equal in pvp. And one bad night is not the occasion to come on forum and tell people about how bad/good one faction is. P.S. Maybe, as Geeorgedk said, "evil, or bad ***' side attracts better pvpers". (A better-looking ability animation and sets of gear (sometimes ). But it's just a wild guesses.

Hi. This topic is not about class imbalance. It's about unfair matchmaking. Lots of times i had a situation when in our team for example had 1 tank + 3 dd and the other team had 1 tank + 2 dd + 1 heal. Such things are fine for unranked, but for ranked it's ridiculous. Next example - today and a couple of days ago, i had games 3 vs 4 people. Not because our fourth person leaved it, he is not even came. Giving someone an easy points because of such matchmaking is stupid. Is it bug or what ? Maybe Bioware can make a system to fill empty places like in unranked wzs, or not let to play such matches (3 vs 4) and just end WZs without rating losses ( i mean when fourth person not even came. Not when he leaved wz).

Yes, transfer is not working At least it's good to know that i'm not the only one with this problem.

Yeah, i've did the same 2 days ago but no one answered atm. As far as i know all pvp shields for tanks have the same problem (at least on Rep side).

Hello! Not sure if i've chosen the right subforum, but i have an issue with 1 item. I have enough ranked commendations for Conqueror War Leader's Shield and Partisan War Leader's Shield in my inventory of course ( http://i.imgur.com/eJWQIio.jpg ). But... i can't buy Conqueror War Leader's Shield because pop-up message with a description of item shows me in the first row - "undefined" (here instead should be written "Partisan War Leader's Shield" (http://i.imgur.com/gydRJF0.jpg) ), and in the second row 3,475 Ranked commendation (it's correct, as it should be like on other items). Does anyone have the same problem ?

this ^ Free expertise - this is the main problem. A lot of expertise for people with pve gear. It's working for PvP WITHOUT bolster. But now with such bolster we get the following: WH < EWH < Partisan < Conqueror < all new PvE gear.

/sign Best post i've ever seen.

I thought the devs have promised to introduce some new matchmaking system ? (but as always, did not specify the date ) But as i see this thread still exists, so... premades vs pugs problem... again. gg Bioware And yes, i'm fully agree with TonyDragonflame's post.

wait... bolster works in PvP on lvl 55 ? O_O OMG i can't believe it... So, people with PvE gear in high lvl PvP (55lvl ofc) feels themselves fine? And PvP gear is almost useless now in PvP ? Bioware, what have you done... I couldn't even imagine such terrible thing in PvP... even after 1.4 (with smash and stunbubble)... If it's true (i didn't get lvl 55 yet, so i can't check it ), then I agree with the author of this thread - Remove bolster from lvl 55 !!!

every coin has two sides. I would like to see what is on the other side. True. Lots of insults in almost every wz. People should learn to respect others.

Solo kills Aluka (20) (Sentinel) (The Progenitor) - http://i46.tinypic.com/2pskh2q.jpg

^ this It's time to show what you are worth. And yes, if you'll "make up some lame excuse not to participate" so... dudes, you can't call yourself a real PvP guild. so get your asses to PTS when the time comes.

by the way it is an interesting question. hmm... for example, how many attacks can be applied before overheat? (without recovery of heat/ammo). i mean 1 attack (only 1 same ability all the time) = 8 heat / 1 ammo for example. so, BH can have 100/8 = 12,5 attacks, and Trooper 12/1 = 12. but i don't know about regeneration numbers of heat because i don't have BH char, and perhaps this difference is leveled because of difference in regen numbers, but at first look it seems... a little unbalance really. P.S. sorry for my English, i hope you'll understand what i wrote

I will say this - if you don't want to cry about the fact that the republic loses every game, the lack of rwz on rep side and as a result a very long receiving of new equipment --> reroll to imps. and you'll activate an "easy mode" pvp life for you - easy comms, many wins, very quick completion of dailys and weeklies, pure fun. So, you need to think carefully. You want to have fun (as Imp), or you want to lose your nerves every day (as Rep)? P.S. Only the strongest survive on Rep side... strongest ppl, not guilds tbh...

I made some changes in The Progenitor PvP Records post. I added a few new records, maybe nothing special except Qusid's biggest heal. you can put his result on the 5th place among servers i think. P.S. Stalkeki (in solo kills category) are not a vanguard, he is powertech.

Totally agree with you. You gave a very good examples. C'mon people, you shouldn't blame Bioware in most of your trouble with lags. Blame yourself, your connections, your PC, or some guy which have bad connection (me, for example. because my usual ping is 230-300 ms and i always have lots of dc's and lags), and cheaters ofc.

Finally we managed to collect records of our server. I'll try to keep this post up to date. The Progenitor PvP Records Overall Damage 1. Proe (Sentinel)- 1344355 - http://imgur.com/SX2RO.jpg 2. Mitosis (Powertech)- 1246052 - http://i.imgur.com/kFnWM.jpg 3. Exo-dus (Juggernaut) - 1198864 - http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/5112/screenshot2012111614575.jpg Damage Per Second 1. Marrat (Marauder) - 1572 - http://i.imgur.com/XdPok.jpg 2. Sidrath (Juggernaut) - 1474 - http://i49.tinypic.com/debvp4.jpg 3. Orrahin (Juggernaut) - 1220 - http://i47.tinypic.com/21amg4j.jpg Biggest Hit 1. Mek (Juggernaut) - 10248 - http://i45.tinypic.com/wrkqx2.jpg 2. Marrat (Marauder) - 9912 - http://i.imgur.com/XdPok.jpg 3. Valkyrst (Juggernaut)- 9896 - http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/431/screenshot2013011400395.jpg Overall Protection 1. Vaskur (Guardian) - 818475 - http://i50.tinypic.com/o9lkas.jpg 2. Vaskur (Guardian) - 772955 - http://i50.tinypic.com/25incer.jpg 3. Vaskur (Guardian) - 607829 - http://i.imgur.com/1lAvP.jpg Highest Protection Per Single Life 1. Vaskur (Guardian) - 502153 - http://i.imgur.com/FfWjn.jpg 2. Iceinferno (Juggernaut) - 497719 - http://i50.tinypic.com/2zps3go.png 3. Vaskur (Guardian) - 440842 - http://i.imgur.com/NfNWVFj.jpg Most Damage Taken/Death Ratio 1. Emalie (Sorcerer) - 521503/0 - http://i47.tinypic.com/34q6a6v.jpg 2. Mek (Juggernaut) - 385349 - http://i49.tinypic.com/2utg9l2.jpg 3. Vaskur (Guardian) - 351378/0 - http://i.imgur.com/NfNWVFj.jpg Highest Overall Healing 1. Exodust (Sorcerer) - 1443387 - http://imgur.com/SX2RO.jpg 2. Lelyia (Sage) - 1257277 - http://i.imgur.com/e0MgGXW.jpg 3. Exodust (Sorcerer)- 1168351 - http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2406/screenshot2013011214223.jpg Healing Per Second 1. Qusid (Sorcerer) - 1422 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42244181/Swtor/swtor%202013-01-14%2016-48-49-04.png 2. Exodust (Sorcerer) -1329 - http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3319/screenshot2013011518093.jpg 3. Qusid (Sorcerer) - 1318 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42244181/Swtor/swtor%202013-01-11%2017-18-56-93.png Biggest Heal 1. Exodust (Sorcerer) - 9209 - http://i.imgur.com/soDmIU1.jpg?1 2. Qusid (Sorcerer) - 8681 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42244181/Swtor/swtor%202013-01-13%2017-03-52-77.png 3. Qusid (Sorcerer) - 8335 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42244181/Swtor/swtor%202013-01-11%2016-38-36-18.png Most Kills 1. Awe-some (Scoundrel)- 97 - http://i.imgur.com/olujm.jpg?1 2. Rey'es (Shadow)- 90 - http://i.imgur.com/olujm.jpg?1 3. Amarànt (Powertech) - 85 - http://i45.tinypic.com/1o403l.jpg Solo Kills 1. Aluka (Sentinel) - 20 - http://i46.tinypic.com/2pskh2q.jpg 2. Stalkeki (Powertech) - 14 - http://i.imgur.com/WhTnD.png 3. Aamos (Guardian) - 11 - http://imageshack.us/f/521/screenshot2012112300594.jpg/ Killing Blows 1. Amarànt (Powertech) - 37 - http://i49.tinypic.com/e7cln4.jpg 2. Amarànt (Powertech) - 36 - http://i46.tinypic.com/riw8it.jpg 3. Midway (Assassin) - 36 - http://i46.tinypic.com/juab9t.jpg Highest Objective Points 1. Zizz (Guardian) - 34250 - http://i49.tinypic.com/1zn6ha8.jpg 2. Cartin (Scoundrel) - 34000 - http://i49.tinypic.com/1zn6ha8.jpg 3. Fernando (Gunslinger) - 33750 - http://i49.tinypic.com/1zn6ha8.jpg Most Medals 1. Iceinferno (Juggernaut) - 23 - http://i49.tinypic.com/2nhl0qw.png 2. Jondar-ken (Guardian) - 23 - http://s14.postimage.org/nzhqzbjgv/Screenshot_2013_01_18_00_08_32_004009.jpg 3. Ruha (Powertech) - 23 - http://i.imgur.com/wLZt9AQ.jpg

Overall protection Vaskur (818475)(Guardian)(The Progenitor) http://i.imgur.com/ywC0f.jpg