If you're circling someone you can see what is happening around you while keeping your eyes on your target.

That's more like the hours for a part-time job. 2-3 hours a day is casual.

Level brackets was never the problem. It's the expertise stat that is the issue. A new level 50 against another level 50 decked out in expertise will still roll over that 50 like he/she was a level 10. The nerfs to the buff stacking/biochem will be the major change.

I'd rather they fix the reasons for people rage quitting than just tack on penalties.

Warzones aren't really made for guilds since 4 people is the party limit to queue up. Illum is the only place where guilds will be able to actually pvp as a guild. Though it remains to be seen what effects the changes to Illum will have in the 1.1 patch, i largely anticipate that the faction imbalance is not going away any time soon and will still hurt the open pvp. Perhaps adding a guild vs guild feature, where you can designate a maximum number of players each side can have, would actually give PvP guilds something to do as a guild. Of course the numbers would have to vary since there are small and large guilds. Also, to coincide with it, perhaps an alliance system so the feature could be more alliance vs alliance than guild vs guild. That way a couple small guilds could band together to fight a larger guild. I do not assume that this is the perfect idea and there could obviously be suggestions to improve upon it. However, you have to start somewhere with an idea.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=141695

They just need to give more rewards for finishing sooner/faster. Problem solved.

Please implement a system requiring people to vote for an MVP before exiting the warzone.

Since the nerfing of slicing, I have noticed an increased amount of crafting materials on the GTN. As a crafter, I am happy about this. As for selling crafted items, the rate is about the same.

You can complete your war effort quests by killing people. Kill the enemy faction. You gain war efforts, they don't.

They should just improve the healing gained from stacking willpower. Problem solved and it doesn't force everyone else to pointlessly stack expertise against each other.

You fail to grasp the point where ONLY HEALERS get a benefit to people stacking expertise gear, but expertise gear is more or less necessary so you don't get stomped. /facepalm

So what you're saying is expertise gear is only there to bring heals back to regular levels? My point is with everyone stacking expertise gear, the only benefit anyone gets is to healing. As a Tank, I won't take any less damage from someone with equal expertise gear. As a DPS, I won't do any more damage against someone with equal expertise gear. As a Healer, I can heal more regardless of what other gear people are wearing.

Expertise gear is dumb because let's say two characters are of equal expertise giving 20% bonuses across the board. You do 2k base damage. With the expertise buff you do 20% more damage (2,000 x 1.2 = 2,400). Now the other person has 20% dmg reduction (2,400 x .8 = 1,920). However, healing just continues to get stronger and stronger. So as people stack more and more PvP gear, HP gets higher, damage stays the same basically, and healing gets stronger. EDIT: They should have different kinds of expertise gear to either increase damage reduction, damage, or healing. That would be better than increasing everything across the board.

That's debatable since I think it's actually easier to fill oranges with mods. For armormech/synthweaving you would need to reverse engineer for 7 different schematics to fill all your slots. Meanwhile filling custom gear you only need 3 schematics. Sure they are across different crew skills, but that doesn't change the fact that it is still only 3 schematics.

Strength/Willpower gear is Synthweaving, Aim/Cunning gear is Armormech.

Eviscerate/Headshot only work on weak, standard, and strong targets. Players are not considered to be any of these.

A. Slicing is a gathering skill, not a crafting skill. Why would you give a gathering skill a crafting function? B. For all these massive amounts of people slicing, I have yet to find the Augments I actually want on the GTN. Maybe now people will actually send their companions out to fill the GTN with augments instead of just generating credits out of thing air.

I thought you needed Slicing to get Cybertech schematics? Also you can still go out and gather/harvest lock boxes and make plenty of money. Pretty much they just made it so you can't get rich while afk. Slicing still has a place, just not for the reason such a vast amount of people picked it up for.

Suppressive Fire is surprisingly bad in PvP. Suppressive Fire does about the same damage as three snipes and coincidentally only hits a maximum of three players. They must also stay in the AOE which is 4.5s channeled. I would much rather snipe one person three times than essentially sniping three different players. Unless they improve the damage and/or people affected, I just don't see Suppressive Fire as being that viable.

Is the question really "Why am I not overpowered with expertise gear?"

If you didn't take the day off then you would be at work. Thus it would not be peak hours for you. I don't understand how anyone can argue that 10am-4pm is peak hours. A majority of people do not get home from work before 4pm. The only people complaining are those who don't have anything to do all day.

Kaliyo might work if you are a healing operative, but otherwise she melts way too fast while barely putting out any damage.

They need to make it so when you reverse engineer it doesn't just add a single stat, but boosts all the stats across the board. A purple crafted armortech item shouldn't be on par with a custom armor outfitted with only blues.

Did WoW's lack of innovation hurt its success?