I think they said "maybe" in the March content patch? I don't know if there was an actual time frame set for that or not.

Yep, definitely the same guy. That's great. I used to like reading and watching his SM stuff.

Is that the same Taugrim that used to do a bunch of Swordmaster specs and videos in WAR? Or am I thinking of someone else?

I believe the problem is that PvP'ers will PvP for fun if the fun is the only thing available. I bet if there were no Cent/Champ/BM sets or valor ranks, people would be fighting on random planets much more often; just for the hell of it. They'd get their gear from PvE like in the old days of MMO's. However, when you put a dangly shiny object in front of people, and then explicitly forbid progression towards that object anywhere besides instanced warzones and a single planet, where do you think the majority of players are going to end up?

Sure. That is exactly what I'm claiming. The stats are good and the 4-piece gives you 15% crit on High Impact Bolt if I remember correctly. What's the big deal about one negligible 2-piece bonus not applying?

Isn't that gear for Commandos and Vanguards? You actually have the same number of DPS trees that they do.

Because the Commando guns make you look mentally handicapped, and you can be more skillful than "GRAVROUNDGRAVROUNDGRAVROUND". Eh, just my opinion.

Well it didn't take you long to make up your mind. Farewell.

There's a lot wrong with PvP. A lot. I'm not going to disagree with or be rude to you, or tell you to go outside, but I do have a question for you and anyone else who just logs in to do the dailies. Why are you doing them? It's obvious that you don't enjoy the PvP if you only log in to complete some quick quests and then stop. If your only goal is to achieve a valor rank or a piece of gear, then what will all of those people do once they have a full Battlemaster set? Stop PvP'ing? Go on the forums and ask for new gear sets? I was under the impression that PvP should be made fun and not a carrot on a stick chase, which is what the entire PvE game is for. It's clear that people doing this are not enjoying the actual PvP enough to participate due to its own merits, so why are they doing the dailies at all? What's the end goal here?

2/6/33. Profit.

How did they go about whispering you?

That sounds like incentive to re-roll and help balance the factions. I say go for it.

Yet this retention rate after the free month is higher than expected - as are their number of subs - according to analysts and the price of their stock. 80% retention after the free month is not necessarily bad. Why are you making it out to be? If we see a sub 60% retention after the second month then that could indicate a problem, but so far these rates appear to be at or above par for the course with new MMO's. If they succeed in advertising and continue to build their subscription numbers, they can easily maintain a good turnover and keep a relatively large player base. Nobody has a clue what the number of active subscriptions is going to be come month three, so it's not even reasonable to assume things like that.

Let's just turn SWTOR into a Star Wars skinned mirror of DAOC and get this all over with.

Face-melting awesomeness.

I did too... just realized it.

I guess I don't understand why you posted this at all, in any forum.

I still have a lot of fun on warzones on my alts, it's really all I play the game for anymore. I have about 4 alts that I rotate and play regularly and the PvP is nice, balanced and fun. I'm not anywhere near tiring of it even though I've done those warzones so many times. Honestly, I could probably just play Alderaan all day and be happy. I also enjoy the open world PvP that periodically happens on my alts. I go out of my way to find it while levelling. Sadly it's mostly on Voss, where a few of them are unfortunately getting close to 50 and being shelved. I just don't play my 50 anymore because the warzones are not balanced on our server. Ilum doesn't even deserve to have the word 'balance' used with it in the same sentence, so I'll pass on trying to come up with anything positive about that.

Most of my server has started using East/West and it's much, much less confusing, because you just never know what a person's frame of reference is when they're calling for help in Voidstar and using left/right. Half of my friends will use facing out of the spawn point when on defense, the other half use the upper map. East/West is simply universally correct and always better.

I think if you hover over your medal score buff in game it still says 50/5. I've never really bothered to look and see if it actually gives me the 5 or not, but I assume that's what is intended. No reason for them to make Warzone commendations slower to get when we can't even get Mercenary commendations in the way that was intended.

Meh...

Well that's just silly. I'm not going to level a character to 50 on the PTR simply for testing. They give us no way to test end-game content on the PTR without playing through the game again on a shell of a server. Some people may find that enjoyable, but it's certainly not what I'm paying $15/Month for. I was already a beta tester, and that was free. People aren't going to help test your game that they're paying to play if you don't give them some incentive (Automatic 50's with gear or copies to the PTR) to do so.

Well, you've shown yourself to be completely incapable of intelligent discussion. I should have known from your name. My mistake. Goodbye.

Where did this attitude come from that if you don't play a class, you don't get to discuss it? Foolish. I've probably been in thousands of fights and hundreds of warzones with Sorcerers. My best friend plays a Sage whom I've dabbled with, and I also PvP with him regularly so I know what he can and does do in an average game. Just because I haven't played one doesn't exclude me from the conversation. I know what the class can and cannot do and how they perform just fine from a different perspective. And no, I'm not calling for a nerf, but I can tell you for sure that they do not need a buff.

I can't see the video (at work, Youtube is blocked), but are you serious? Marauders and Sentinels rip things apart. I used to think they were lousy when fighting against them, until I realized I just never ran into any good ones. Recently, there are a few Marauders who I've identified that know what they're doing, and I avoid them at all costs. They're monsters when played well.