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And this is exactly why I came to the forums....
So I just hit level 50 and wanted to do Warzones, but I'm facing players with top gear and I'm still in PVE rags from quests.
I do no damage, I last all of 5 secnd in a 1v1, and I now can't get enough medals to get anything regardless of winning or losing.
This is complete garbage!
What are us new players suppose to do?
The best you can do, in your position, is invest in a full set of Recruit gear and band together with three other people in a premade. Of course ideally people with great gear and skills, but really anyone with half a clue and some Recruit gear would be better than solo queuing. Then play some WZs. You definitely won't win every time, but you'll win more often and have more fun since you'll be in with friends.
Oh and don't worry about the 5 seconds thing - that's happening to everyone to a greater or lesser degree because of the Expertise changes.
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Premades may have a lot to do with it. If you roll in a 4 man premade you'll find, even if you aren't hugely skilled or in the best gear, with just a little basic communication and coordination, you'll win way more games than you would solo queuing. Not all of them, but more of them at least.
So it could be you're solo queuing at the times you play and a lot of people on the opposing faction are in premades, so (at least) 50% of your opponents in a match are somewhat organised and know what they're doing. Sure they may have some bads in there too, but only a maximum of 4.
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Ah yes quite right, this'll be the one you mentioned:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=399000
I still think they could have been clearer about it. He does say the set bonus from WH gear moves with the armoring, but doesn't specifically say that won't happen with older gear.
I haven't personally even tried to move any mods around myself, but evidentally plenty of people have and found out (to their cost) they can't keep the PvP set bonus with anything other than WH. So it would have been helpful for them if this was made very clear or, even better, older gear had its set bonus moved from the shell to the armoring.
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Stop calling it "Duel spec"...
Haha, good call!
Wait, maybe everyone's planning to use their second spec purely for duels. How do YOU know?
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The patch notes mention:
•Players can now remove Armoring modifications that have set bonuses from items and transfer those set bonuses to Custom (orange) items. These modifications can only be transferred to an item that is equipped in the same slot. This does not apply to all items with a set bonus, only those where the set bonus is attached to the Armoring modification.
They don't clarify which armorings do have the set bonus attached and which don't though. For that you need to dig out an obscure post from the PTS forums which, hmm, kinda clarifies it:
The part that only applies to new gear is the set bonus. Before Game Update 1.2, the set bonus is attached to the shell item, and thus it cannot be moved from old items. In Game Update 1.2, the set bonus will be attached to the armoring, meaning you can move it between items.http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=3512899#edit3512899
Really though you could take that post to mean that "new" gear includes the newly itemised BM gear that came out with 1.2. But that's not the case. Long story short - you can only move the armoring from WH gear (or the new PvE stuff) and have the set bonus go with it. Otherwise - whether it's old or new BM gear or earlier - don't bother.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure you can too, although I haven't tried it yet either. I'm sure I read you only need the shell of the old BM piece to trade in for WH. So you can take all the mods out and then do it.
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Yep. The thing is there's no reason for them not to leave, and in fact in this patch Bioware just gave them more incentive to leave rather than more incentive to stay. I don't know what else they expected to happen.
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Tank Math 1.2
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Well, prior to 1.2, I would have said healers were slightly overpowered, tanks were okay, and dps varied but some could use a small boost.
Now, due only to expertise changes, we have: Healers got hammered (once by the healing nerf, and again by the damage reduction nerf), tanks got worse (dps went up, damage reduction didn't go up as much), and dps got much stronger (as well as easier to kill, like everyone else).
Basically Bioware have overcompensated and also made everyone die way too fast.
It's not an improvement.
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About the whole "This BM gear looks like a deformed frog" thing.
You can now take the mods out of Recruit, BM, or WH armor, and throw them into any orange custom armor piece you want and get the same stats.
You can do that, but you'll only get to keep the set bonus if the armoring came from WH gear.
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I'm guessing then that it's 5 comms per medal (max of 8 medals count), and another +20 for winning. So 60 sounds like the new max no matter what you do.
Edit: Ah never mind then. So 40 (max) for medals, plus whatever variable amount for winning depending on the WZ?
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check out the tooltip: it is not explaining the huge difference after and before the patch, not even close! beside of this many reported the same issue in <50 bracket and in pve where expertise does not play any rol at all!
Actually - yeah. After having done several WZs now and looking at the % differences, something definitely seems off. As a tank I'm dying way, way faster than before. As has been said it feels more like that 19% difference rather than just 3-5%, as if you're not even getting the DR at all, but that can't be right. I dunno what's up.
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Check out the tooltip on Expertise: Everyone is dealing more damage, reducing damage less, and healers are healing people for less. So yep - everyone is dying much faster as a result.
Seems that's what Bioware wants.
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You're right, but it'd be nice if someone else on the team still went healer though right?
Shame my main is a tank. With full tank gear. I know that wasn't optimal before, but it was entirely playable. I really (used to, pre 1.2) like playing as a full tank in PvP. No way I'm regrinding full BM DPS gear though, but I guess there's always the orange stuff.
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Most of these will require using Heroic Moment which requires a companion.
Also if your group doesn't have one of every class to buff already, then no one deserves that buff.
From the summit post linked on the last page though, it implies that these buffs will apply in WZs. Of course you'd expect one of every class buff at the start of the WZ, but I'm assuming people are talking more about when you respawn solo and that kind of thing. It still makes a difference to have players coming in missing three class buffs because they didn't want to level three alts to make their main better.
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Has it been stated somewhere that 1.2 is out next week though? I haven't seen a post about that, and while I'm not on the PTS it doesn't sound like things are ready for live on the 3rd. Maybe the week after.
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That's fine that Bioware want us to try out the other classes and level up alts, keep playing the game and seeing the rest of their content. But the legacy buffs should all be convenience things.
Something like having the self-buff from all four classes definitely makes a difference in PvP, and especially so with rated WZs coming up. Sure you'll get them all at the start, but if you die and spawn by yourself it's a different matter. So (assuming this does apply to WZs) they're kinda requiring people to level up three alts for a while if they want to have the best stats possible, and I thought the idea was to move away from requiring PvE for PvP.
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Everyone has the same chance of being on a similar team. It is not just me, several others have been tracking it too. We are within 3% of each other after 50 games and subtracting the huttball interactions between same faction. If three of us are doing it and have similar numbers then it has to be true.
No, everyone doesn't have the same chance of being on a similar team. If you're part of a premade you've got a 100% chance of being in a team with at least 4 premade members. If you're queuing solo, the chance will be less than that.
Three people keeping stats is nowhere near enough to mean anything statistically. Even if your 18% figure was true across all republic solo queuers, you'd then need to compare that with empire solo queuers and see if they're doing any better. Or if it's just that premades are way more likely to win, which everyone knows already.
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I've seen this stated before, but never saw the answer if the BM item must be complete (or if the mods can be switched, or removed) for this to work?
Well this is regarding Rakata gear, but I'd hope the same applies for BM:
Hey, some answers.1. Yes, we have updated the stat distribution on Rakata gear with 1.2.
2. If you have not modified your gear, it will seamlessly update the mods inside when you log into the game the first time after the patch has been applied.
3. If you have modified your gear, it will retain any changes you have made. Any mods you didn't change out will update.
4. Restoring the original mods into the item, before 1.2, will cause them to upgrade at the time of the patch.
The problem, of course, is that if you hand modified your gear, we ultimately have no way of knowing what your intention was. Maybe you wanted to use the mod you removed somewhere else, maybe you just wanted to replace it. We cannot make any assumption as to the intention of individual users when modding the item, preventing us from upgrading already modified items post fact.
TL;DR: Any 'original' mod in an updated item will upgrade with the patch. Any 'foreign' mod added to an item will be left untouched.
Hope that answers your questions.
Source: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=3534712#edit3534712
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All I can figure is that some stats are more critical than others and they tried to prioritize them, then when you have enough points to allocate they're trying to spread out your stats again to make it more rounded.
Or they just had a bunch of monkeys in a room pressing numbers, it's hard to say.
Haha yeah looking at the figures the monkeys theory seems strong. But Bioware knows much more about how this will all fit together than I do I'd hope, so it could well be the stat allocations for top tier gear make good sense in 1.2 with various changes and whatnot. Err, maybe.
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Ok I didnt explain it properly. What I mean is, friendly pulls/jumps need to also CHECK for resolve. If someone's resolve is capped, they shouldnt be free for a friendly pull/jump.
Yeah that'd be nice. (Edit: at least for pulls, charge - not so bad)
Also agree that roots (and snares when talented to 100%, same thing really) should add a little resolve.
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Thanks for the info and images. Kinda weird what they're doing with some of the sets. For example my own (Supercommando), as you point out, they dump Aim at one tier only to give it back at the next while losing a ton of Acc, and meanwhile play about with shield/absorb/defense between tiers, all for no obvious reason.
You actually lose a little End going to WL, and while you gain 99 Exp and a good amount of Shield/Absorb the former is pretty minimal benefit at that level, and the latter two are of limited use in PvP anyway. Hmph.
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Great. Thanks very much for the assessment - that's exactly what I was looking for, and I'd agree then that it's excellent on its own but not worth the reach to get there, at least for me. Likewise though I'm not sure the deeper skills in Assault Specialist would suit my playstyle so well. But it's really good to hear everyone's opinions on the various builds. Still some tweaking required for me I think.
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So okay, I haven't actually tested out Hold The Line before (always been too deep shield spec), but the tooltip says "Grants 8 seconds of immunity from all movement-impairing effects, knockdowns and physics and increases movement speed by 30%.".
So I took that to mean all snares/roots/knockdowns and knockbacks/pulls (that's the "physics" part), but I guess I'm thinking it's better than it is. All that AND a sprint. So what does it not work against?
I'm very unlikely to give up Storm for it anyway, but curious all the same.
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I'm using this 28-13-0 spec right now, but with the change to DoTs not affecting node caps in the next patch I'd be interested in dropping Gut if there's anything particularly good to take instead of it.
I'd agree that there are more useful talents at the bottom of the Tactics tree than Assault Specialist for me, but I could spare a few points. Those would usually go into Heavy Stock in most builds I guess? Soldier's Endurance really isn't great per point, but every bit of Endurance helps.
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Oh now you've done it. You know when you mention Redmarx or, Force forbid, quote his constructive post about issues with 1.2, the thread will not just get locked down but erased from all existance!
Are you mad! I better finish this post here or the thread will be gone before I'm done typing.