yeah but it will be fine, 8 sorc vs 8 sage, is perfect balance no?

Well all I will say is this. There's no doubt that the bioware team has worked very hard on this expansion, to provide new content/mechanics etc and for that effort I congratulate & commend them. But I think Eric will have a tough time for the foreseeable future , as many of these changes have/will enrage a lot of players.

I just hope that if this is the case, stims would have a longer duration.

it must be such a tiny minority of people that could choose to do this in any significant way, why do you care?!?

DoTs, Interrupts, and Channels In order to make Damage-over-Time Disciplines more viable in Warzones and Warzone Arenas, player DoTs can no longer be cleansed. These guys just kill me.

have you ever heard the expression, "put them out of their misery"? just delete the class already, this is just cruel and twisted.

force gash BWAHAHAHAHA TOO FUNNY HAHAHAAH do you know what it means in UK!!!

been doing this for weeks, going through the tedious process of buying / refunding multiple weapons across multiple chars always keeping mind of the timers. Now the prospect of spending thousands of coms on gear that is literally weeks away from being redundant. very frustrated right now,

Bear in mind, in 3.0 the names pyro and ap will literally be swapped. So the pyro you could play today, will be called ap in 3.0. Also their have been some other changes to skills.

I just finished watching the video for discipline changes to trooper/merc, and frankly I am incredibly disappointed. So automated defences and flame suit have been removed from the 'old' pyro spec. Just what is the reasoning for this? The cool down reduction was incredibly important, was expecting it to end up as a upper tier utility, but now its with the 'new' pyro tree, this really hurts people who prefer the pyro play style. I am surprised this hasn't been raised already, am i the only one is seriously unhappy about this change? Also i have to add this, the animations for the new ability and the 3.0 ap replacement for flame burst are imo, atrocious. Literally they appear to be in some alpha stage of development, will really really struggle to keep playing 3.0 AP now and this was my last class that kept me going as I can feel the boredom setting in with this game, sad.

very sad to see automated defences staying in the 3.0 pyro tree. Just cant play 3.0 pyro, don't like its play style but the electro burst looks like total gash, literally if i saw that on my screen i would be worried gpu is on the fritz.

i use older i5 750 with a gtx 660 and ssd. Don't feel any need to upgrade. Any slowdown i feel is latency related. Would aim to get fibre before new/updated rig.

same reason they use this stupid scratchcard system, to make money 'selling hope'. I would pay good money for something nice, not good money for a chance to get something i like.

so every spec get electric bindings? i hope that doesn't get confirmed

Go jugg for solo'ing. Any kind of solo pvp or pve. Mara can bring the dps if they have uptime on target, but your original spec anni very vulnerable to roots, carnage has ways to deal with roots but I dislike the animations and dont enjoy the spec. Go jugg if you like to face tank, when your def cd's are up you can really be in the thick of things. The popular middle tree has the godly control immunity after leap. Damage is solid (but not mara level damage). Bear in mind for some vig jugg can feel boring to play.

this is hard to answer i don't think many ppl vote just off dps. So really its a very alien question. I mean high dps low kills can be the guy pressuring the healer which could help other ppl land the kills. But on other hand dps without kills is not good e.g alderaan when you need to make space for caps. So ..... i dunno, it depends:confused:

Ok I see what your saying, hp is not everything and its bad idea to draw too many conclusions from it. But what im saying is when i am level 50 mara with literally the best purple mods/armoring/enhancements on 7 pieces of gear, but then i go into a warzone and first thing i see is I have least hp on team with some people 10-20 levels below me. I am wondering what is the cause of this. I am not the bst player but im not the worst, i know how to use my character with reasonable effectiveness, i go into an arena and do laughable damage with good uptime on target. Just frustrates me because i cant pinpoint the cause. I know when something is caused by my bad plays cos that's usually obvious, but when i can just wail on someone, but the dps is not there...... just so frustrating. It looks like a similar phenomenon in 55 pvp, there is this guide there in forum. It says as long as you don't go over certain tier of pve gear, then the bolster system will give you similar performance to first tier of pvp gear. Ok for 55 that's tolerable, because at least you know when you just get all your pvp slots, then you will be on even footing with other ppl fully geared and its pretty fast to get the coms from just dailies. Just feel frustrated by what is IMO an unnecessarily complex system that just gives more opportunity. Doesn't really matter anyway, I went full retard, its done now and it wont change anything.

I didn't realise you actually gained a visible amount of expertise when in pre 55 wz, I will check it tomorrow when there's ppl online. Anyways, am I really being so crazy to think that equipping better gear, leading to REDUCED effectiveness (in pre 55), is kinda retarded? am I really that crazy to think such a thing? If there is this set expertise amount provided by bolster, then why dont they make it exact for everyone regardless of gear? why the hell would it vary from person to person? Also expertise statistic has specific effects (unless this is changed) ie it boosts damage and healing and reduce damage in pvp. So this bolster certainly does more than give '1936' expertise, Which is why everyone has 25-30k hp. Surely expertise doesn't give you extra endurance, or strength or whatever. Thats this 'mystic' bolster effect.

Well there's 'rational discourse' and then there's completely misreading what I posted. Two different things, I am open to criticism on my post of course, when you raqe like that people will come at you, but surely they will go by what you actually typed, not some figment their imagination.

Ok let me simplify my original point into something you might be able understand. My complaint is that i was not aware and (frankly don't think its reasonable that i would be expected to be aware), that you can be 'over geared' and that pre 55, if you equip the modifications from the makeb vendor it seriously reduces your performance. "From what you have written" why bother saying that when its obvious you did not read my post? When will people in this forum get down off their high horse? always looking for an opportunity to put someone down (even if that opportunity is a figment of their imagination, the self superiority is something to behold.

one thing i didnt realise until pointed out, is that the mods you buy with planetary coms are bop, so you can mail them from alts if you have other chars with spare coms.

Hi, I have a character soon to be max level. (Putting to one side the question spending coms on pvp gear when an level cap increase is due which would probably make them redundant anyway). After reading, most people say that you should only start equipping pvp gear with expertise when you have a full set (or enough to give at least 1800 expertise)? ok in that case, what gear should i first look at before queuing for wz's? Even if I could buy 2-3 pieces of pvp gear, most likely I should just hold them temporarily? So what gear is best then to take most advantage of bolster? I feel like their is sort a first tier of 'pvp viable gear' which i am missing. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks

yeah i was thinking that would be the hard bit, making it 'equally difficult' to get the best gear. For pvp really anyone can get it with persistence just keep queueing.

what if endgame pvp gear was as good (stat wise) as endgame pve gear like this dread items. Then both pvp and pve would have opportunity to max out their slot and play both sides of the game without feeling undergeared.

Yeah you are right and thankfully i have calmed down. Just felt so frustrating when I couldnt understand what was wrong. I decided to stop pvp until 55, (only few more levels anyway). Then I know where i stand and can just stack the pvp gear.