arenas havent been out for ten years. come back in two.

hrm would a swtor 2 be great made on a more up to date engine:) id love it!

the only class i notice that has any desync issues is scoundrels and operatives, and only on quesh ball...if you are having desync issues with predation or hydraulic s, you need to upgrade to at least a computer made in the last five years...i dont have any lag and i run at full max settings shadows included because why the eff not...this game is 10+yrs old, it is nowhere near as graphics intensive as it used to be. if you want balance and a change of playstyle that is fine, but dont hide it behind desync.

regardless of education ranked 8v8s was more difficult than any arena, and people today playing regs who ignore objectives are lazy and lack any interest in growing the pvp community. playing the matches as intended is far more difficult than bring x class press kill button. being able to kill and maintain objectives and read the match flow, is obviously hard for alot of even the "best pvpers". otherwise they would never lose a match in regs.

no they need to remove arenas all together and bring bank ranked 8v8s, at least those had a place for all classes. arenas have never been good for this game except as a way of showing how bad certain classes are.

the actual solution is to just remove arenas and re-implement ranked 8v8s. the deserter lock out is fine.

not trying to be mean or sarcastc but have you tried cleaning out your keyboard. i assume you have checked your keybinds to make sure there isnt a discrepancy. or maybe you are using left ctrl as a push to talk button and ctrl w maybe default for osething ...jsut throwing ideas out there... if you check all that stuff and nothing is odd, i reccomend cleaning your keyboard or buying a new one...

8v8 would bring many people back, but the rage quitting that has got to stop, i have been in multiple games where facing the insurmountable odds we came back and won...ie needing a3 cap to win in ACW or a 1-5 huttball and coming back to win 6-5 they happen when players stop ovr reacting to garbage like premades and ****... stop giving up; and if you lose at lest you tried .

Easy fix to VG DPS, and eliminate all skank tanks at once. Add one defensive that gives 99-100% immunity to everything for 6 seconds for all specs. Allow armor, defense and shield to work against ALL forms of damage including force and tech. Reduce ALL Tank damage by 50% while adjusting threat generation for those pve guys. Remove transpose, replace it with AOE pull move similar to tank spec companions. Add one more Defensive CD for Tank spec only VG damage reduction longish CD. VG fixed without going overboard and eliminating skank tanks from the game

so why is it that every day or every time i log in to my gunslinger his utilites are reset

the only true issue with Odeesan is the pure RNG nature of it, strategies are thrown out the window there is no plan or counter play, its 90% luck 10% skill. even if you have 4 people in your match all ready to do objectives guard and what not. it matters not. if the other team spawns right by the active nodes and you spawn next to the null ones. of course its even more random still when you go get a mod and its a red but the other team gets blues and oranges... sure you can cancel one node but the other team can score 250 points in one round ...OPG is pure RNG hell. now if the nodes spawned in a set pattern such :first round north and south; second round east and west; third round north mid and south; fourth round east west and mid ...etc. then it would begin to be more strategic and fun , the mods could stay as they are for all i care but it is the RNG+more RNG that makes the map so unbearable.

there seems to be a literacy issue on these forums or laziness . i am not sure which ... this first pass at balance was to bring classes in line to there damage metrics...the next pass will be on utilities. now i am in wait and see mode but as far as the 5.3 game goes PvP seems not that bad. less healers less burst things die but not insanely fast ... i am imagining that with the utility pass things will start to look up for some classes such as VG and a bit grim for commandos. but all in all i think this is not that bad. I bet that NiM groups are still clearing content that they used to.( i dont Raid in this game) I will say this is that i am noticing a less sages in WZ but i am seeing more scoundrels which is a good thing and people are doing just fine. the game is a bit harder in some ways now ... you cant rely upon 3 sages on your team to make you unkillable, but the same goes for the enemy. People who are complaining about there class got nerfed to death are just plain wrong..the super good sages are still doing good and the bad ones are finding out how hard healing is in PvP. CxP is not the best system RNG is garbage, but again people are over reacting. this is a big L2P all over again time and some people jsut cannot adjust quickly

except that the good sage/sorc healers are still doing warzones...hrm guess that shows which sage/sorc healers stopped using them

wow i cant believe so many people are complaining about this.. i really need to stay off these forums for my sanity. Since i am here though, it may cost 7k credits to remove a crystal, that amount is so insiginificant in the grand scheme of things that even if you only do PVP which is the worst way to make credits in this game, that 7k is laughable. all of you standing on your high horse about "the point of the matter" jsut let it go ... if you cant afford 7k then you arent playing all these alts you are mad about swapping weapons too. if you are playing all those alts then you have more than enough credits to make this a minor irritation at best.

so i am confused did they actually release a DPS target number if so link please ...until you can i am aware of no official released specific target

the last few expansions i got really bored once i achieved max level gear ..i think bolster should be liek 246 ...same as crafted gear ... at least give me something to work for ...no progression equals boredom and then i stop playing less and less

I am really beginning to think I am th eonly one who thought that the Zakuul outlander story was way better than most of the original story lines. voice acting was better for the original of course but the newer story was cleaner, and felt like i was making an impact as opposed to always being somebodies second in command.

The buffs to plasmatech VG and DOT spec shadow seemed positive...just saying

the real reason that by the time A new Hope comes out there is only one Sorc left in the Galaxy

I have taken breaks from time to time on SWTOR and it usually corresponds to about a month or two of having maxed end game gearf or PvP during the time of 204/208 gear was probably the fastest it took me to get really bored . one of the reasons i like MMORPGs is the progression of my characters. I actually appreciate the longer gear grind with this system. The gear gap is disturbing between bolster and end game gear...but if that were adjusted to one tier behind current max it would go along way to solving this problem...EX: bolster should equal 242/244 purple gear. taht way the GAP is not as large or as noticible and for those who appreciate the progression, such as myself, it will be still something to strive for. I like GCexp and i like the path for gearing taking more than 20 warzones or whatever it was. it gives me something to strive for while enjoying the fun of the game

I am going to piggy back off this with a complaint, Sorry OP. I have folks in my guild who are jsut returning to the game some of which havent even finished the eternal throne yet and now to compete in conquest we have to "chose" Iokath some of my guys are not wanting to complete that part yet because it prohibits choices made or makes any choice they make in the kotet story line obsolete if they havent done it yet. i know its probably minor and "doesnt matter" to most but to them its important. It feels like a big slap in the face to those guys that are just recently returned. Am i over reacting, maybe, but SWTOR has been one of those games especially with the chapter by chapter release that was going on for a long while that encouraged breaks in my opinion. When paying customers return it feels like we should not be punished for said break. I am not a complainer, usually, and no one is going to quit over this or whatever, at least not from my guild but this really does feel like a Slap in the face for coming back. Like i sad no one is gonna quit but its pretty irritating to know that conquest this week is pretty much a wash for us.

Well historically speaking bioware does nothing in increments. the last time commandos got nerfed they were horrible for almost 4 expansions. but looking at Vanguards and how many people said they were over powered for so long, and all they did is ...not change them for a few expacs and now you get the current iteration...same OP **** they used to be but every other class got buffed above them.

I am fairly certain that from the very beginning the Engine the game was built on, a beta version of the HERO engine, that they literally CANNOT do cross server functionality at all. Becuase of that reason any talk of possible cross server fixes si out of the question. Now i have been in and out of this game for a VERY long time now but it seems to me that the only thing we can do is wait and see, what happens and that any discussion that comes about this will have to wait until we see this Road map or any thing of that nature actually appears. that being said, maybe one day SWTOR 2 will be a thing and they build it on a way better engine. either way i still love this game so i am hopeful. but i am also hesitant to be excited

any updates on this my newb sniper is pretty much waiting until this gets fixed

i disagree with casual and pvp not going together , as i am of the belief that just because you are casual does not make you bad or unskilled it is just a limitation of your time. but i do agree with the rest of what you wrote:)