Not disagreeing but does the game even have the population to support such an implementation without killing group play entirely. if this was lost ark, WOW or any MMO sporting healthy population numbers i would agree, but doing this could make things even worse in terms of actually being able to find a game. Im playing devils advocate here just saying i dont disagree, they are currently a cancer in pvp and this thread is witness to it, and they are ruining alot pvp for many people. Intentionally or not

The fact of the matter is, the population of this game isnt great, especially on the pvp side of things. Promoting 'premades' and any form of elitism may just hurt that even more. I imagine many old pvp'rs can come back to the game on there own, get stomped out immediately then return to where they came. stating pvp is bad. This isnt productive. Im not sure what the solution is. I think bioware need to decide who there audience is. Is it the premade, co-ordinated player, or the chilled, have a laugh only log on here and there player. Who knows, certainly not me. For example, today did 5 games, 4 were premades, logged off, probably wont log on now for a few more days, play a better pvp game thats more suited for me. Not saying this is wrong, maybe this game isnt for people like me who just want to log in have a bit of a laugh, pvp and log off. Maybe it should be mainly for those who want competitive pvp who knows

Your dealing with an EA game. EA are concerned with one thing....money. (Battlefront is a prime example of this) As long as people are throwing money at the cartel market why would they attempt to improve a minigame like pvp which really offers very little return money wise ^^ My advice, either just let it go, play casual for ***** and gigs or move to another game.

Writing on the wrong forums to be honest. If you want competative proper pvp, swtor is not the way. Tbh its one of the worst pvp games out there

tbf i only play at weekends (dont have time during the week). So i imagine those with IRL commitments are the same.

tbh mate i think the nerfs to sorcs ability to do around 2 mil dps per bg and 1 mil healing needs addressing before the force wake ability. The numbers atm sorcs are throwing out are insane

full ranked with half augments on assassin hatred is at 72k ^^

Having the same issue. The only followers i have are treek, HK51 and lana. Unable to launch chapter 4 as it is said a required companion is missing and the objective currently is to speak to koth :-/ Anyone have any ideas?

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Further more i just feel its an incredibly gimped spec in comparison to the other 2. There is very little survivbility difference imho and that shouldnt feel like the case. I imagine all these auto crits are playin a massive part given we was initially designed to be massively shield based

Further more i just feel its an incredibly gimped spec in comparison to the other 2. There is very little survivbility difference imho and that shouldnt feel like the case. I imagine all these auto crits are playin a massive part given we was initially designed to be massively shield based

bit of both really. Im endurance power 186 augments throughout, 55k hp and ditch the defense mods and threw in absorb mods.

Im confused at the moment. In pvp i feel like either I am doing something completely wrong as a shadow tank or i need to change my spec. I have completed my pvp gear with full augments (endurance power as advised) yet I appear to be squisher than ever. A team in the area will focus on me before anyone else as they know I will be annilated within 5-10 seconds...If anyone has any constructive advice reference this issue It would be most appriciated.

Tbh i think the reality is this... unless your premade, pvp is not fun. Simple. Its fustrating and there are many better pvp games out there now. Without the 'star wars' title...this game would have died a death long ago with the current system in place.

hatred hands down. The other two provide different options for a team but if you want to faceroll and kill people with very little effort...hatred is your friend (until it gets nerfed ha)

lets me clear on sumat yeah. Hatred Sin definately number 1. Not kinetic or deception

you run defense augs as a shadow. I must admit that is pretty unique given defense is claimed to be tested as pretty useless for assassins as it is too unpredictable. However i suppose you could put forward the argument given shields are pretty useless against crits and internal damage how is shield / absorb any better....so fair one i suppose. Also another solution is to ditch all defense mods in tanking pvp gear replace them with pvp crit mods and then potentially sit at 26% crit, 50% shield, 40% absorp with about 45k hp with few ranked pieces. However your defense will be reduced to 18% so...there is no perfect solution just whatever you choose

with 26000 views on this thread, all assassins watch this space you are going to be nerfed then we will see who are the FOTM rollers and who played it from day 1.

Way to much i think tbh. You should be rocking at least 45% shield proc with kinetic shield buff and aroind 40% absorb. Due to the nature of pvp tanking stats crits are always going to be an issue but as an asssassin tank it is what it is. Full pvp kit wil give you 20% defense, personally because defense is unpredictable you can drop that down with pvp mods boost that crit and surge. It works for me in arena just fine. Your stat combo of course is your call but to answer your question i feel its too much

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Tbh no matter who you are, it is blatently obvious that bolster is broken.... Theres no discussion on this, low level players (i am not one) have absolutely no chance at the moment. I have seen these aforementioned low levels get "globalled". This is proof that this sytem is currently broken.

sorry buddy i stopped reading at that part....

I agree, playing with fully augmented 55 pvp rated gear is easy mode. (I do it myself) The only solution is to create smaller brackets....but that wont stop the "twink" aspect your refering to unless you do a 50 to 59 bracket. The only actual solution is to normalise the rated gear to green level and remove augments...good luck with that ^^ there would be a riot.

No disrespect intended here but 90% of the reason for that is probably your class, not insulting your skill here but sorcs/sages are most indeed fotm since 3.0.

Those of us who work have only finishing work lol and still need to patch therefore expect people not to be on until late tonight / tomorrow