Very good question. I read in the Dev tracker that they delayed them because they were broken, but nothing after that.

5/10 I'm not sure if you were making a furry joke or calling it a gofer (the animal) It kinda looks like a gofer.

Again people will be lazy and not wear said gear. Many a time I have come upon a WZ (pre 2.0) where the person was wearing Columi and expected to somehow contribute to the team in some manner. Bolster will force them to have decent stats as long as it is at a fixed rate.

The problem with what you have suggested is that people simply won't wear the gear. I already laid out the reason: PVE gear can be more competitive than a PVP geared person. This was an issue even before 2.0. I had a friend who could wipe the floor with 100 expertise and full 63s against EWH people. For those who suggest that the percentage should be lower. I have no issue with that. 5% and 10% could work fine. 70% difference in Min-maxed EWH gear was the thing I wanted to avoid. This bolster fix, I will state again, could also fix lowbee queues, not just 55.

I feel that an across the board difference in stat would suit PVP gear better. Bolstered people can still compete, but time and dedication for PvPers would also be rewarded. The 25% was a general estimate or benchmark. It's totally Bioware's discretion, but I am advocating for a difference that is noticeable (Maybe 15% for Conqueror) without the 70% difference that we previously had between recruit and EWH gear. This bolster change could apply to all levels 1-55, in turn balancing lowbee queues as well so we don't have snipers shooting other classes for 7k a pop.

As you all are well aware of, the bolster system has been plagued with bugs since its creation. Although it seems that said bugs will be stamped out in a coming update (I am referring the augment one) the whole implementation of bolster is wrong First off, Let's look at PVP and how it should be -Player gets bolster to a certain fixed stat amount regardless of gear they are currently wearing/not wearing -Player buys Partisan gear. Each of these pieces is 10% better than any bolstered slot -Player buys Conqueror gear which has a 25% stat bonus over a bolstered player. This system would create a PVP environment not unfriendly to new guys but also give the dedicated PVPers an advantage. It would prevent a PVEer with fully augmented 69's and above to waltz into a WZ and actually have an advantage over players without full Conqueror gear. The current system in place: -Stats (mostly expertise) are bolstered to a lower level than what PVP gear would give -PVE gear still has far better main stat and endurance on it -PVP gear is inferior to PVE gear unless fully geared out in conqueror PVP gear should be a progression, not something where any PVE player can come in and play far more competitively than a new 55 who has just been bolstered because they simply haven't done any PVP. An example of a bolstered player would be the following Not bolstered Main stat: 2700 Crit: 20% Surge: 68% Expertise: 0 Bolstered Main stat:2000 Crit: 16% Surge: 65% Expertise: 1700 Those numbers are not specifically 10% less than a partisan geared person, rather an estimate, but the idea is that gear can be down bolstered to a fixed rate for entrance level PVP. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

I am not saying that older PVE gear should not make a return. I do agree that they should return as schematics only. What others in this thread have suggested is to create a vendor to simply buy the gear for an unlimited amount of time which I believe is ridiculous. The gear from certain world events is or was very easy to obtain (like the Rakgoul set) making it not very interesting or individual. When I run around in my Champion gear I want people to know that back in the day I was a dedicated PVPer, not someone who simply bought it.

Your grammar makes me think you have a lot of background with developing video games. It makes you seem very intelligent, and I want to believe your amazing suggestions. I can not figure out why I am having trouble agreeing with them.

Every MMO has (in one form or another) some exclusive looks/items that can no longer be obtained unless it is a great price, or the person had the gear originally. I DO NOT want them to release tionese/columi/champion/centurion/battlemaster/WH/EWH again because it gives some dedicated players a unique armor set. It also creates a market for crafters who have the schematics. Not every item has to be vendor sold. How would cyber techs make money if the mods they sell could simply be bought at a vendor? Armormechs and Synthaweavers are the same way.

Seeing that this is your very first time on the forums I will cut you some slack...actually I won't. If you would just look at the dev tracker you would see why it is POSTPONED. A major bug was found and they didn't want something like that to go live. Would you?

So at 720K dps you would definitely have more than 9 kills because a kill means you inflicted a certain (low number) amount of damage or dealt the killing blow. Even if every one of his kills were only done to a single target, that would still be 26 kills. So actual numbers instead of made up ones would be nice

Yes because the top Tier of PVP gear is 55 just like you could not buy WH gear before you were 50 (Don't argue this I tried and failed many times). 55 is needed to get the gear. And crying about valor rank 40? You just need to pop a valor boost and play 10 wzs to be 40.

It had less stats than bolster anyway. Some of the gear got buffed because of the update to it. I liked it.

No no no no no. Older gear should be exclusive and hard to obtain. That makes it more valuable. That's how an MMO economy works. If you have a friend or guildie who has had armor mech since launch you should be able to ask them for some BM gear. Heck you could even check the GTN for it.

Harharhar clearly since POT5 is a pvp server you can't pve right? *sarcasm* The lag isnt so much in boss fights or combat, it's chat and joining/leaving GF

The lag on POT5 is INCREDIBLE. Its not my internet, everyone in the group finder queue with me experienced it. Fix it Bioware, and don't wait til next Tuesday, do it tonight or tomorrow.

I noticed that it is only really a problem on Makeb and sometimes in PVP. In raids I have yet to notice it.

Since 2.0 hit, the reduction of crit rating has made many reconsider how to min-max their gear. I would like Bioware to say that it will either change back soon, not change at all, or may change in the future. As it stands the crit changes are (in my experience) acceptable for both PVP and PVE; however, the forum crying may get it changed back. I am not adverse to crit changing back as long as we the players receive proper notice because of the way we are gearing our characters in the new sets of gear.

YES THANK YOU You see it too! My partisan gear makes my stats WORSE than the PVE gear. Infact all items that contain expertise make your stats lower because for some reason they dont get bolstered. I reiterate: SCALE BACK BOLSTER. There should be at least a 40-50% difference in conqueror gear than bolster gear. Make bolster bolster your stats to a fixed rate FOR EACH SLOT REGARDLESS OF WHAT GEAR IS THERE. Bolster should not change based on gear. This fixed amount of stat should be at least 20% lower than Partisan

Do you even know what this guy is asking? Instead of TL;DRing his post just read for 1 second. He wishes to be able to switch between skill trees with the simple click of a button instead of respeccing and putting all of the talent points into the appropriate trees. I would like this to be implemented because I could switch from pve to pvp speccs with ease.

I give you a 2/10 because it looked like you were actually believing what you were saying. Not a very funny post. I would have given a 0/10 but you wrote a lot so I felt generous. But if you do actually believe what you are saying, maybe you should check the dev tracker

You know no one actually pays attention to the Consumerist...

I like paying 10 dollars for five levels. I hate paying 40-50 dollars for 5-10 levels Which one of these is TOR and the other one is other MMOs?

No! The 55 bolster is broken. PVE gear provides you higher stats than partisan gear. Relic slot is also an issue in the 55 bracket. To put it plainly: the bolster needs to be scaled back.

Run down of current issues 1. Pvp gear (Partisan) is either not scaled or down scaled. The PVE gear I was wearing worked way better 2. TTK is out of whack. People have a lot of health but are only doing a bit more damage than they would at 50 3. Naked pvp (threads already about this, don't need to say more) screenshot of my most recent WZ http://i48.tinypic.com/34gro5y.jpg If TTK was intentionally increased then I hope a dev will respond saying that it was. With the amount of damage being poured out there should have been more deaths, and in all the wzs I was in healers were very hard to kill, even with 2 people attacking them. If the healer was guarded you might as well give up.