Rule #1 - Watch the node Rule #2 - Kill/interrupt enemy healers and defend your healers Rule #3 - Use CC Breaker when resolve fills (generally) You now are better than 50% of pvpers. Also, don't feed enemy pylons.

Why not go with the rock/rock/rock approach?

My idea is that the abilities that apply a buff to smash instead apply a debuff to your target that can't be cleansed off. This way the massive damage is applied to one target, but still does aoe damage.

The fact that non-pvp gear is better than pvp gear is terrible and a horrible move by the dev team. The developers haven't really done anything for the pvp community lately other than this and all it did was more damage.

Yeah but the idea of it is much better than the idea of bolster. And by that I mean I think they should just give everyone a set of gear that sets a player's stats slightly lower than partisan.

Bolster is such a fail... What was so bad about recruit gear anyways?

If you think Bioware will even peek into the PvP thread, then you dun lost yo mind

Yes! I found my quote of the day

Right. Lets give the strictly melee class no gap closer because that would be fair, amiright?

Roll is just an imbalanced ability period. There should be atleast a minute cooldown on it and it should not allow you to instantly enter into cover imo.

No its not. Why bolster is even used at level 55 is beyond me.

I agree. Just because classes serve the same role doesnt mean they should have the same abilities. I'd prefer to see classes have more abilities removed since so many abilities are shared between classes, but that won't happen. I was happy to RotHC diversify classes more though

Yeah I don't understand why bolster is required to even it out though. In pre-55 pvp, a level 30 shouldn't be as strong as a level 50. In 55, someone in high end pve gear shouldn't be as strong as someone in high end pvp gear.

I'd rather them focus on fixing pvp first and they've only taken steps backwards with bolster. Theres a lot of work to be done between balancing teams, fixing bolster, handling the smash monkeys, and calming down the sniping frenzy. At least they realized their mistake with stun bubble.

Exactly. Those who have put in more work SHOULD perform better. It only makes sense. System was fine before anyways

Bolster is pointless... I hardly notice a difference from people coming in with pve gear to what it was like coming in with recruit A set of PVP gear doesn't even take long at all to grind anyways, which is why I was confused as to why bolster was such a big deal when it came out

/signed Lets make this happen!

Does anyone know of any good 2.0 pvp min/max guides out there?

I don't see the need for bolster at all... It takes about a weak or less to get a full set or pvp gear depending on how much you play.

Lets not get off topic here about DCDs. There are a lot of good DCDs out there, and if CC ever does get fixed then those will need to be looked at, but right now DCDs don't matter much when you have to rely on those every two minutes to actually do something useful because the rest of the time your just cced to death.

He's got a point. The stuns and CC are way too much in this game. No matter what class you are stunning then beating on someone for 5s doesn't take skill. Especially when it takes 10-15s worth of stuns to become immune to them and you only have one 2 minute cooldown to break it. Less stuns > more slows/roots (mostly slows). Drop the aoe incapacitates in pvp too. No one enjoys being stunlocked and forced to just sit there for half of a fight 1 hits aren't a problem unless you're undergeared which doesn't matter because it only takes a week to get geared.

I'm level 16 in the rage tree and I don't feel like I'm lacking in dps. The 15% crit chance for vicious slash seems to help a lot especially once I can use my zen or fury and get free vicious slashes. Defensive cooldowns help a lot with survivablity also.