I'm level 50 and primarily PVE so I don't know much about expertise... so if I spend every night doing hardmode flashpoints and get the best gear I can (while working 40hrs a week, taking college classes, etc) I can't expect to do very well in PVP the few times I wanna queue up (or seek out world pvp) for a break from pve? That's not good. We're all playing the same game, we're all in the same boat, we're teammates and enemies but BW wants to fragment it more with a pvp-specific stat? Resilience (and arena/pvp gear in general) is the main reason I quit WoW when TBC was released after playing 60-80hrs/wk for over 2.5 yrs, it's just not fair to fragment your consumers like that.

The Trooper's is pretty bad... LS/DS has no affect. You get scolded or praised in the IMMEDIATE conversation or quest turn-in and that's it. But I think that's how it is with all the classes. Option 1, 2, or 3? 2 NOPE! Chuck Testa, Option 1's happening. Option 1, 2, or 3? 3 -Affection, Never spoken of again. Get letter in the mail an hour later saying how bad you are. What kind of pseudo decisions are these? I'm so fed up I just [spacebar] through and choose all the d/s options and hit space again without even seeing what happens cause it doesn't matter if it's gonna happen regardless.

I AGREE! *spoiler below* As a trooper, I did Dark Side option to save Jaxo and sacrifice 314 cilivians so I could sleep with her again but instead she runs off, I get scolded, lose affection with Elara, and then never hear or see Jaxo again except in a letter saying "I have to leave and find myself". *** *** ***? BW: "Here's 2-3 options" You: -Makes Choice- BW: OHHH CHOICE 1 HAPPENS REGARDLESS (Or you do something and it's never spoken of again so doesn't matter).

If BW had more hardcore gamers working for them we would've gotten a cooler title like "OG" lol but maybe only the PVP servers would like silly things like that... you RPers probably wouldn't approve

Maybe it's just the PVP servers with the crazy imbalances. Port Nowhere -PVP has close to 1.8:1 if not 2:1 imp:reb ratio Some of my friends on PVE servers though say it's not nearly as bad there. Maybe it's just the hardcore pvpers who tend to roll imp.

Oh, maybe they can just bring the Republic players from some servers over to others who need more (but I think every server needs more Rebs). 'Port Nowhere' is a healthy population, we just need 50% more Republic players or so lol

I think they'll have to consolidate servers soon. With all the subscribers they've lost recently they'll need to cut hardware costs and combine a few.

So "Winning" is now a punishable offense? Even if I'm the one being camped, I don't blame my campers. That's what open world PVP is all about. Control the objectives and stop them from being able to respawn and you win. We did that in Arathi Basin all the time in WoW. The fault is on the developers... that if that spawnpoint is being camped, you should be able to rez elsewhere (further away though). Happened to me on Voss at the Shrine of Healing. The medical droid is the only place to spawn and if they capture it and camp your body you can't do anything but logout and wait.

Sorry to necro this, just thought we should have some more current discussion about this. I agree that it doesn't look very amazing for all the points you have to sink in to get it. The 5 (or 6) points you have to put into Combat Medic tree just to get up to the final thing does not seem worth the end result (5 of which are just +Surge Healing but you can stack +Surge gear instead that will help you in dps and healing). I would rather use those 7 points to get 17 points into Gunnery and have Grav round debuffs and other dps improvements for versatility sake.

Yeah, this game is too easy in most cases (unless something's just broken). I've even done the HEROIC 2 or 2+ things solo sometimes. We just level way too fast for how much content there is. They want us to move along and to the next planet after 2 levels, but there's enough quests and flashpoints and pvp to stay there 5-6 levels. Seems like BW increased the XP rate at the last minute or something with how many quests there are. I'm a completionist so it irks me that everything's Green/Grey by the time I get around to them.

Speaking of strategy, if there's a flashpoint boss fight that is obviously broken or not working as intended (Cademimu end boss's smoke-fire not visible until it's wiping group) is it okay to exploit it a little to get the job done? :-)

The whole reason to have a Global Cooldown is to break macros, so why not allow us to have custom UI/addons if everything triggers a GC anyways?

Yeah, this game spent so much time on voiceovers (which are circular and get to the same outcome regardless of what you choose anyways) and not enough on the polish. My gf won't even play the game cause there's no colorblind mode (like Aion and WoW have), and no Dungeon Finders, no Guild Bank, only 16-man raids. Plus nobody knows what the endgame will evolve into. With WoW, at least you know what you're getting (even if the mechanics change every patch lol)

I agree they should've put a little more effort into keeping up with the rest of the MMOs and THEN adding story/voiceover to it. You can tell they spent a lot of time (maybe too much) on story when they don't have LFG System, Guildbank, Colorblind Mode, UI tweaks, dps/heal meters, etc.

We at least need aggro meters, the ability to put our own health bar over with the rest of our party, and heal/dps meters. Unless BW doesn't want meters to show how off-balanced everything is right now lol.

Yeah, I'm glad that it's like a minigame. Fun arcade-style, throw away a few minutes between crafting missions or something.