http://www.swtor.com/server-status Shows it is down. I just subbed after a long break and I hit play..then it went down

Mistake?

This should have been in next patch but it's not there, they might stealth fix it but that is unlikely. How is something like this not at the TOP of their to-do? Because it has not since Oct 2011 (At least).

If there's one thing I've noticed in 10-12 years for MMOs and "mass pvp" of any sorts is that ranged is king. Unless one side is getting zerg stomped, if there are two big balls of opposing factions, (you will always see youtube vids of this) ranged are duking it with an invisible line between them, it's called no mans land. The same that was used for trench warfare in WW1, the problem is that if one person, for example a melee player steps out of line into no mans land, you stick out like a sore thumb to the enemy and everyone targets you. Again, just like NML, if everyone else doesn't get up and charge at the same time, you can't do anything. There's an over reliance on other people as a melee player, as well as a reliance on healers because more than anything these are the guys (melee) that get hurt the most and quickest. In small scale encounters it's better but even then, the last few days in warzones I've seen 7 Knights of varying specs vs a full sorc/bh team, it's incredible how little we can do. Scaling more ranged dps/healers is out of whack than scaling another melee class. It's why I'm rolling ranged from now on in other MMOs, it's too easy; far far too easy and most importantly, to me it's more fun. I'm not going to carry on being that guy who has to run out of the pack to get mass targeted, then die and everyone else then decides to attack and miss out of all the kill gains while the ranged sit back and pew pew with little to no fear. Edit: Oh yes, and knockbacks/slows are a dozen times more potent to a melee players than a ranged, the fact is I can be permanently slowed whilst in return I cannot permanently be up in someones face, it's a strange tactic to give ranged the ability to do this whilst having the advantage of ranged in the first place, knock em back? Who cares, just use your 30-35m range.

I've played all 3 specs in PVE and PVP for a long time and I can say outright (It's pretty obvious too) that a vigilance guardian is severely hampering themselves in soresu unless they're only goal is to guard/survive/be a walking target with a newspaper for a weapon. Focus generation is the worst of worst in this set up, which means so is your damage, which doesn't make up for the fact. I generally use soresu only to help someone live that little longer or if it annoys the enemy team by me being alive and using CC abilities rather than stabby stabby abilities. In focus I'd soresu 24/7 in pvp unless we had some really good healers and I could switch out. I've only ever had one person ask me to guard them in PvP, it was a DPS Trooper. He didn't quite understand that I'm no longer playing a tank and want to kill things faster than it'd take to see the next Halley's Comet. Maybe he should've rolled a vanguard.

In this thread. People who cannot discern a disucssion between graphical/engine performance versus the non questioned gameplay of another game.

Okay picture this: because it happens. You are a guardian, alone, because you're that awesome and the rest of your team is snoozing. An enemy appears, he's ranged, he's slowed you, can't get to him because leap would reset, if you do get close he knocks and you..still cant used leap. Essentially locking you out of fighting, defending yourself and/or keeping the ball. ------- You're now a vanguard, alone, because you're that awesome and the rest of your team is snoozing. An enemy appears, shoot him. Half a chance to fight back at least. In short, do not give ranged another bonus, don't, just don't do it, please, no.

Played a guardian/jugger? Let me know what skills you use!. I can tell you, it's more than 1.

Wrong, so wrong , nobody listen to this at all.

I leveled as a tank, I pvped into an almost full set of champ in war leaders gear. Don't. As soon as I went focus or vigi (tried both, now vigi) I did more for my team than I ever did as a defense spec. Why? Because I can kill people fast and if I need to, I have more damage mitigation in the long run than a defense spec, simply activate soresu form, guard a healer, you are NO different. Except as vigi I flatly have more hp and damage reduction. Also, when no healer is around defense specs are no issue at all, they might as well afk.

Yup, all I do is PVP now and I can't even do that. There is NO content for me because it's blocked by these people, it's not fun. Every day I have to put up with this and when I say every day, I actually mean it. 10 games in a row 3 days ago was being abused, I even reported the people and video'd it, bioware responded they'd look into it but they haven't even watched it yet. They are sooooooooooo slow at dealing with these people.

I just arrived and not getting the credit. I also noticed it didn't update me with the baseline 200% buff or say who controlled it. On top of that, I can't see the zone objectives/see who owns what, I tried going in/out, relogging, restarting client, nothing. Was working 15mins ago

This, it makes me wonder what people think before they post. Even as a science fiction writer, how do you come up with anything more than you have already? Like star-trek, there's only so much you can do, better weapons (with fancier names), faster ships, time-travel; it all comes to a point it's just rehashed technology. I dare someone to come up with something that hasn't been done to death and in this instance, 3000 years before set standards in the SW universe. I would love to see time-travel in star wars, has it ever been done by anyone? Not technology wise, but freak accident wise, going back to much, much earlier times, maybe a flashpoint arc or expansion quest line, would make for some very interesting lore and rare/lost technology. What do you suggest then? Kinetic weapons are old hat, mass-drivers on a large scale are in, lasers, blasters, ion/plasma/phaser(giggle), what next? Mind bullets? Sith/Jedi! What about ships? Hyperdrives/hyperspace, is there a need for more?

There's a guild exploiting the size of teams on warzones every night for the past week (gg bioware so many have reported this) and playing 8 vs 10/12 is not fun, I immediately leave when I see them, as does everyone else. Don't punish me for avoiding exploiters.

Just because it's improbable it does not make it impossible.

Guild called "LF Love in Alderaan Places".

Love it, looks exactly like me when I play I actually think we are better than I first thought, more rounded than any other class and that's something not to shrug off. It's mass pvp with 4-5 knockbacks before I get resolve immunity and perma slows that annoy me most of all, that's it.

Well done for understanding how broken it is, this is not a fix to the problem but an understanding of the cause. How anyone could be against fair and even gameplay is beyond me, those people must want the advantage. I guess these are the same people that bug doors and exploit team sizes.

There is, other games will invite 1 by 1 and increase the limit based on who accepted. Of course this doesn't count people who leave, but this is how some other games have worked. This is one method, it's realistic, go troll somewhere else, RTM.

Simply, stop inviting more of the other team when there is less on ours. For example, 5-6 on one side and 8 on the other. Stagger invites and/or do what every other game in this genre does. It's very tiresome after 2 weeks of being out numbered when I have time to play, every single day, at least 6-8 games a day. It is nice when 8 finally join us, but by then it's too late.

It amuses me the majority of the thread think the problem is putting up too many auction yet they are the uninformed not realising how to increase cashflow with minimal effort.

Programs are supposed to ask the cpu to run at 100% frequency in balanced, I'm not surprised swtor isn't utilising it efficiently. Of course, clock rate and usage are two seperate things.

51% Damage reduction + 11.59% Player damage reduction and they don't often hurt but some still do, to the point I really, really feel sorry for anyone without a defensive stance and light/med armour, OUCH!

As much as I'd love to do higher tier abilities, I cannot because I don't actually play a trooper, I just leveled a BH/Trooper for this (+ a bit more, it was a little fun!). If test had access to premade 50s I'd make a comprehensive mirror of EVERY ability for EVERY AC and I'd do the work bioware pays someone to do for free. *hint hint*.

But..but ...lassy, he's so cool!