People need to wake up and realize the Bioware you came to love, respect and trust is no longer operating. First of all, this game was and is a Mythic project. EA bought Mythic to spread-head their plunge into the MMORPG genre. THey bought Bioware for their IPs and their license to Star Wars (Via KOTOR1) The initial plan was to have Knights of the Old Republic 3, and then Star Wars: The Old Republic. Knights of the Old Republic 3 would take place a bit after KOTOR 1 (Yes, it will basically ignore KOTOR 2, Bioware wasn't happy with Obsidian's story). SW:TOR would take place 200+ years after KOTOR3. What happened however, was Mythic's reputation went belly-up with Warhammer after that game failed (Suspiciously, simalir to SWTOR. Great initial sales, then a massive bleed of Subs). The tried to curb this by shoving Mythic in with Bioware and using the hyphenated name Bioware-Mythic. At this point, KOTOR3 was scrapped, and Bioware and Mythic were supposed to collaborate on SW:TOR. Again, Mythic's Reputation kept dropping, and the utter failure of Warhammer scared EA into dropping the entire Mythic name and just using Bioware (Who's reputation was solid at this point). The problem was, Bioware lost quite a few good employees when EA bought them (Around the end of ME1s development cycle). The rest of the real Bioware was split up. Some went on to help with Dragon Age, some stayed on the Mass Effect 2 game (Now under different leadership and with a different head writer). The real writer(s) for the Mass Effect series (Including Drew) were hauled off ME2 and put on SWTOR. This is why the best part of SWTOR is the story, and the worst part of ME2 is the story. They basically ruined Bioware in a very short time because of poor decisions like this. Spreading the talent to thin, and letting lesser talent take on big projects (Mac Walters writing on ME2 was horrendous, and basically set the stage for the franchise to be ruined). Anyway, the Mythic team members kept on their original mandate, which was the MMO aspect of SWTOR (Worlds, PvP, PvE, Flashpoints, Crafting etc, etc.). You'll remember Drew left Bioware after he was done with his work on SWTOR. So basically, this isn't a Bioware game. It's a Mythic game with a Bioware story. The stories however, are spread and stretched to thin because of the poorly designed MMO aspect, leaving them disorienting and with zero flow. Calling this a Bioware game is just wrong. Bioware no longer exists. In it's current form, it's a miss-mash of various game companies (Bioware Austin, Edmonton etc.) the original Bioware is no longer an operating entity.

lets face it 1.2 was highly anticipated as a game update that would save pvp and save BW from the coming onslaught of D3 and GW2 but ppl at blizzard are probably now celebrating this month since they now know taht Game update 1.2 has made pvp an abomination BW, bring back pvp as it was pre 1.2, and keep the current system for gearing with warzone comms, STOP NERFING CLASSES, INSTEAD BUFF UP CLASSES THAT ARE LACKING im pretty sure by this december ppl at BW will be pointing fingers at each other on how the PVP team made swtor became the fastest F2P mmo

BW wants world pvp feedback or ideas?!?!?! they are joking right?!? they have ruined WZ pvp by nerfing healers and tanks to the toilet and they arr thinking abt world PVP?!?! plz BW, u stink at making pvp fun in a WZ, how the **** will u possibly make open world pvp any better, its really not that hard, 1.1 had great class balance, just give us a fun or interesting incentive for world pvp, hint: look at GW2 for an idea what a bunch of idiots

the changes to pvp are horrendous, pvp now only favors ppl who are DPS, tanks and healers got thrown im the trash my pvp stats w/907 expertise 18% dmg 8% defense 10% heal why the **** are defense and heals so low?!?! are they trying to male tanks and healers cancel their subs?!!!? if so, they are doing a good job i mean seriously BW, fire ur "world class pvp team" they are just a bunvh of idiots that will help make Swtor F2P by the end of this yr 1.1 pvp was great, but now that healers and tanks are useless in pvp then how does this make pvp any fun when u just have ppl DPSing each othet?!?!? salutes to all the whiners that couldnt kill healers or tanks just becuz they thought u can pull off stunts like u did in COD have fu everyone with ur soon F2P mmo, im cancelling my sub since i cant put with this "world class pvp team" always making dumb**** blunder such as this

ok so your getting 600 to 700k dmg in WZs, thats great BUT! wat does all this dmg really mean? are you actually changing wat is going on in the match in some significant way, like actually eliminating an opponent? with madness spec, the reason why the DPS is so high is due to the DOT attacks spreading out over the enemy team, for ex. affliction lasts 15s, in that time frame i can spam 4 afflictions with coulpe of creeping terrors on the way so my dmg stacks up like crazy, but is it really killing off my enemies?!!? NO!! it only just annoys the other team at best just becuz u managed to have ur DOT attacks spread out over the enemy team doesnt mean ur winning the game, you need burst attacks to actually make a diffrence in pvp since the more instantaneous ur attacks are, the better you are of an asset to the team but u may argue that creeping terror stops maras/senitels from jumping on your fellow teammates, who cares, the mara is still alive and can still kill your teammate while you sit in the back trying to DOT kill the mara, Good luck with DOTting ur enemies to death, if that is possible, PVP is all about instantenous abilites, not slow annoyances that the madness tree is about

i tried this build in PVP today and it got me 340 DPS, total damage of 228k in 8 mins *note im not fully geared in PVP(expertise of 251) my build http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201Zfc0MdRrZcrfosMk.1 0/20/21 basically since the CD on crushing darkness is long enough taht another wrath can proc up so u can use LS in the mean time and might get a bonus CL proc from taht affliction can trigger lightning barrage which can proc up wrath even faster, One thing i noted is that wrath almost procs up every time i use force lightning, so there is still a good chance we can pull CL, but it will take some more work *note i did not use wrath + CL combo, instead i used wrath + crushing darkness, wrath + LS while crushing darkness was on CD CL triggers faster than we think it does with LS, just taht it takes more work and makes the rotation bigger overall, chain lightning isnt entirely doomed, but will take more work to proc up, DPS overall isnt hurt that bad

i know we all will miss the wrath + CL combo, but we have to move on the only solution i see is to lightning barrage combo + (wrath & crushing darkness combo) we still have our stuns and 10s off the CD of force speed, so its become more of a control class rather than a burst class anyway here is my build when 1.2 hits http://www.torhead.com/skill-calc#201Zfc0rbMrZcrfosMk.1 i guess if affliction crits, then cutting ur cast time in half for force lightning might somewhat be able to compensate for the loss of CL,

thats your opinion

^ not gonna lie, many things that game had over this (ie giving u a speeder at lv 1 + the stuff mentioned above). Wish they would bring something back rather than just be WOW in space, and my suggestion are not bad either.

This game has everything WOW has, raids, instances, heroics and what not. I only see that bioware is just adding more and more raids. I mean cmon, im tired of playing these raids over and over and over again, then you play them harm mode again and again and again, just to get good gear? You know what? I dont care about best gear, im not gonna do an endless grind to get it. Add some real content that would make me want to continue playing the game. This game makes me feel like im playing a star wars hero that bioware wanted me to be, not someone who I want to me to be. Theres nothing to define you in the game, ur the same as the other players, no customization or anything. Heres some points -You give us a ship, but dont let us customize it? Cmon, let us differentiate our ship from other players, let us add furniture, exotic parts, and new color pattern. Make the ship a TRUE home rather than a generic loading area. This brings me to my next point -Add a real space game! The on-rails thing is fun only for so long (even starfox does it better), but what is my incentive to do this? U get fleet commendation, yeah who cares. Let us actually explore the galaxy in a sandbox style, let us take our friends together on our fully customizedf/furnished ship and do space pvp and open world space missions, and give us a real incentive to increase our space rank. Jump To Lightspeed is an excellent example of what I am asking. -Bring in real crafting, and let the players add vendors, and make a TRUE player driven economy Add resources found in many planets, and add various crafter classes that players can roll on as new toons. Give them such a crafting system that makes their item truly unique and creates competition among fellow crafters/artisans. Also give them an ability to open their own custom shop. Similar to toe complex crafting system from SWG Please bioware, without these elements, I fell im just raiding at endgame, and that will only go so long before it gets boring. With these gameplay elements there are so many more tthings to do in-game and expands the endgame by a huge margin Also add color customization kits, and various different endgame armor that looks VISUALLY different from the other endgame armor or gear to create a sense of diversity

i mean seriously, do you people even see the stat differences between battlemaster and champion armor? there is only a +5 in expertise and other stats i really dont see the point of even getting battlemaster gear, its just stupid to torture urself by grinding warzones for that extra 5 points, and then you complain the drop rate for comms is low well guess what, BM gear is just a bonus and not a HUGE jump from champion gear, heck even the armor looks the same just different colors i know this whole game is about gear grinding, but now that champion and centurion gear is so easy to get, why complain about getting only 2 BM coms out of 32 bags? isnt the real point of BM gear to be just a bonus to those ppl who enjoyed playing warzones and eventually stumbled on to valor rank 60? if the devs handed out all the best gear in the game, then what the heck is there left to do?!?!?

great, now i wont be hitting those 3k impact bolts with my trooper anymore in pvp, not to mention 3500 hits in PVE

so let me get this straight now that surge is being nerfed by having diminshing returns, at what percentage will those diminhsing returns come into effect currently i think at 90% surge is where it gets harder to increase surge, after the nerf, what will this point be? if the devs are nerfing surge, then they have basically screwed over troopers and mercs that relie heavily on surge and crit so now that troopers and mercs are weaker, this just added insult to the injury to all the DPS players

yeah, im lvl 49 right now and my current gear gives me 30% crit chance, i was looking at the champ gear for DPS and my crit is going to go down along with my surge when i wear that, so most likely you have to buy mods for crit and surge

im a dps assault spec vanguard lvl 40 and im trying stack up my crit and surge as high as possible currently my crit is 24.3% and i think my surge is around 72% Where can i find orange gear that has BASE stats of high crit and surge, i can put in mods, but i need base stats that have high crit and surge alrdy on the armor piece Ive been questing on hoth and most of the rewards from quests there are not what im looking for, or dont have the right combination of stats i need ive seen vanguards and commandos with crit chances of 36% in warzones, and surge ratings of 100% and they eat imps up right away ive also heard that there are heavy armor belts that can be looted on balmorra off of champion npcs, anybody know where i can find orange braces that have crit and surge rating?

bumping up

okay so let me get this straight, on a PVP server your always on PVP status but in a RP-PVP server, you can activate your PVP status and fight anywhere on the map, while in a PVE server you just fight in designated areas of the world?