Fixed. This is what actual PVPers want. Skill should determine battles' outcomes, not gear.

No, this is a welcomed fix for PVPers. Only carebears that get by on gear in PVP will be affected. Looking forward to when this is implemented.

Great news about the lessening of gear importance with PVP. It will breathe life into PVP for players that have reached 50 and tire of getting 3 shotted by gear whores. Skill should always be the primary factor in PVP, and it's good to see you're adhering to that. Ignore the coming QQ threads about people who like having gear win battles for them. The focus on player economy and crafting professions is also welcome. My suggestion for future PVP content: focus on Open World PVP (and I don't consider Ilum OPEN world).

Sounds good. I doubt it will even be looked at, much less implemented, but you have my support. Not in total agreement with everything, of course, but it would be a very large step up from how things are currently.

No, just the vocal minority of carebears parading around, falsely, as PVPers.

They will be making most gear moddable (meaning taking and placing) before long. Will make more crafting professions viable besides cybertech and biochem. Making expertise mean less does not make PVE gear better. PVE gear won't make you crit for 7k.

What if I have to go take a ****? I need to be penalized for not going afk in a warzone, and instead leaving? You people complain about the most retarded things. You get rewarded win or lose anyway. Such babies this generation.

LOL. Do you read? Ignore +1

Stop copying and pasting the same threads over and over. There should have never been any PVP gear to begin with. PVP is about skill, not gear.

They are lowering gear's effects on PVP. PVP will now be more about skill. Enough fear mongering.

Oh, and stop acting like this is gonna kill PVP. It will help it greatly, and people will actually participate in PVP past 50 instead of rerolling.

As said in another thread, this is great news for real PVPers. PVP is, and always should be, about skill first.

Great news for real PVPers. Too bad for the gear whoring e-sporters, though. Thanks for alerting me to this good news.

Please explain why I, as a PvPer, not a carebear, should care. Go back to WOW and continue playing hand-holding training-wheels-PVP there.

No. No more instanced ****. Open world PVP (not Ilum or anything resembling it) needs to be the focus from now on.

Not an issue.

Pants.

Ilum is a carebear's paradise. There is no non-consensual risk involved and it gives rewards.

SWG Best MMO ever made, and outlasted WOW.

Why should someone be penalized for leaving a game full of afkers or otherwise crappy teammates? It's a waste of everyone's time, and nobody has a lot of it to begin with. Fail thread.

I haven't seen population issues anywhere other than Ilum. This will scatter the population out away from Ilum and reduce the issue that much further.

Why PVE?

Did you not see this? Also, that's what guilds are for. Ganks turn into guild wars.

Thread still hasn't been noticed, eh?

Never said anything about bugs. As for the content progression over time, see that's where sandboxes are superior. Players don't have to rely on devs to GIVE them content, the players make the content themselves, and it is usually much more enjoyable.