Assuming you're talking about the hybrid 14/27 PvP spec or similar since you didn't specify, but it applies to a 31 def spec as well. The problem is your gear, not the spec. Replace the tank mods with DPS mods. Problem solved.

Giradda the Hutt salutes you!

So you're complaining about survivability as Focus spec or what? You want the best burst along with the best survivability? I don't get it. Speccing 14/27 def/vig for Warding Call and pure damage mitigation or whatever gets you Blade Barrier gives you some of the best survivability in the game, not factoring in healer specs for obvious reasons. If you need escape tools and Guardian Leap isn't good enough to solve your problem, you're playing your class wrong.

This. I have no problems completing my daily easily on both my 50s without leaving. Most of the time when some moron leaves after 1 minute we get a competent player to replace him and manage to win out anyway. My server is pretty good at abusing dumb players and leavers by now and well, most who really care are Battlemasters by now so it's pretty easy to win.

5 Republic during normal play hours? Stop playing on an empty server.

No, it's absolutely true. Most ranged attack abilities in the game are actually tech/force, "magic" if you will, and ignore defenses completely. That includes tanking stats besides armor, and your cover. Enjoy.

I took the tanking set because the set bonus is way, way better for my playstyle on my Guardian. Since tanking stats are mostly useless I replace the mods/enhancements with BM/champ/PvE DPS ones from select pieces that have the most appropriate combination of end/crit/str/surge.

I did the same thing as you. My main is a Guardian, my alt is a now 50 and PvP geared Commando Combat Medic. Enjoy being an unkillable one man winning machine. You won't even need peels and guard, so bad tanks won't impact you too much. The only real possible problem you will run in to is that your team may have such low DPS that no enemy will ever die unless you help focus them with Power Shots.

Wrong. Go do Ilum/Belsavis PvE dailies. And even if you don't like the Ilum PvP pulling party, it's free gear you don't have to compete for.

It's the default UI. Mine is the same size and looks the same. I guess you play in a lower resolution and that's why your UI looks bigger.

The day cross-server warzones get implemented is the day I'll stop doing them because there's no fun playing with complete strangers that you will never see again, and if there's no other decent PvP in the game by then I guess I'll have to quit. It's like putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound. Consolidating the player base to fewer but more highly populated servers is the only way to go. And if you like PvP and picked the overpopulated faction it's only fair to suffer for it. Even Huttball shouldn't be same faction. There needs to be an incentive to balancing the factions.

World PvP only went away in WoW because, after crashing the servers on an uncountable number of occasions, Blizzard invented instanced minigames and made sure the rewards gained from it was 100x better in order to actively discourage real PvP, because their servers simply couldn't handle so many players actually having fun.

You apparently don't have time to play anyway. You can cancel your sub right now, because it's going to happen.

I didn't claim to know anything about your server or the people on them. You did that for me when you posted claims that you were the best Guardian. I have my own accomplishments thank you very much, but I don't use them to inflate my arguments with ego. I prefer to use logic and facts.

I agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but Eve is still terrible despite that, which is quite an accomplishment. Sorry.