Wait Goof Troop is still around? Is it the same guild from Hyperspace Cannon days?

Becareful when you hit 50 too. The gear difference is huge and you'll absolutely get rocked if you don't plan it right.

There are level 25 armoring that drops off in HM/NMM Operations though, and putting those in the belt/bracers makes them BiS for tanks.

As CP I'm running with full BM Combat Tech set with a Suppercommando shield and DPS stims. At around ~1650 aim, 1550 endurance, 250 crit, 295 surge, 680 bonus dmg I'm actually doing respectable damage. ~400k in a full game of Voidstar and between 250k and 350k in others (obviously doing less damage if guarding nodes/carrying the ball since there will less fighting). So really I'm missing about maybe a 100k - 120k dmg (probably a lot more on AOEStar, but that's hardly a good gauge of dmg since that favors AOE) that I trade for utility/survival/mobility. No Escape is super fun, and running with iron cell makes you a lot harder to kill, and yes Jet Charge/Storm is totally worth it. Without it you feel completely immobile in huttball

The valor 50 - 60 literally only took me two weeks of PvPing. You just need to: A. Find a group of people who you really enjoy doing WZs with B. Make sure they all vote for you since you're the only one below valor 60 C. Win about 95% of your matches It only seems like a grind when you are solo queing with lots of bad players and are getting steamrolled by pre-mades. Now most people in my group are already rank 66+. We don't just log on and do our dailies and log off, we actually WZ as much as we can. Here is hope that I'll get to 80 before 1.2 comes out

The article said Bounty Hunters so I doubt it's PT/Vanguard as they are fine currently. Most likely it's the un-killability of healing commando/mercenaries

Marauders are the best dps, as for utility? Not so much as a properly played Powertech.

The Rakata stuff aren't even BIS. The BIS are craftable crit BOE Columi earpiece/implants from schematics that drops in Hardmode/Nightmare OPs. I have two for my tanking set already, waiting on the DPS ones.

BM Vanguard here. Yeah, Sorcers are no big problems for us. In fact when we are geared up they appear rather squishy. The fact that they look OP is because they are simple to play and not that expertise dependent. When no one is in full champion gear then a group of them becomes unkillable. But nowadays with better geared melee classes they become more and more like the glass canon that they are. Btw, if you are having problem with Marauders/Sent, you need to learn how to joust/kite against the marauders, but 1v1-wise PT/Vanguards should be able to out last them if you are properly specced. But yeah, Assassin Tanks and Healing Mercs still owns us though :\

No way, the valor 80 stuff was in beta, and they should show up soon. The reason they were taken out was due to pvp vs pve balance. They have to add a new tier of gear for the new raid instance. Or else people will complain about how there is no point for PvE. By doing so they would have to introduce a new tier of gear for PvP so the PvE gear won't be the absolute best gear for PvP.

Also, try this, don't join instant queues. Usually that means it's a short handed WZ that's already started. If you get instant queues, just leave queue and try again. Usually you'll get more fresh WZ that way. YMMV

I didn't say that. It's going to have a new tier of raid content and rated WZs. Of course it's going to have a new tier of gear. Like the valor 80 gear that was in beta. I see it like a new arena season. Last seasons's old arena gear will be easier to get for the casuals and the serious pvpers will work on getting the new gear.

They always do this when they release new content so people can pick up obsolete gear. They did this in WoW before every expansion just so the gear gap won't be as steep for fresh 50s. IMO it's a good move. Anyone who's even remotely serious about PvP should've hit BM already, so this doesn't really affect the serious pvpers.

What's your surge? You should get that up to 250 or around 72% Use surge adrenals, surge/crit trinkets, and pop battle focus (+crit ability) Full champion mixed with rakata should be around 1500 aim, why is your aim so low? and why is your expertise so high?

You don't have to be stationary, it's an instant cast AOE that debuffs on every enemy in range. You can even ignore the little animation if you really want to. The debuff doesn't reapply, moving out of the graphic does not remove the debuff.

Honestly, in the 50 bracket as Parakeet vanguard running with ~19k buffed health, 1520 aim in a mixture of BM/Champion/Rakata gear. I feel incredibly disruptive as a vanguard. I'm not a full tank, but my survivability is much higher than any other dps (Sent/Muaraders might have better CDs, but with out it they are almost like glass). We can protect the squishies with a guard, taunt, and pull mobs off my teammates while they melt faces. We can defend objectives relatively successful, but obviously not as successful as say a tankassin. I'm not a full DPS either, but ignore me at your own peril. I can put up usually 280k - 320k dmg in Voidstar/Civil War. Not great, but not totally useless. (obviously I out gear a lot of people in the WZs, and your own experience might vary) Also, we are great medal farmers (if that's your thing), I usually average around 9 per game: 3 Free medals from guard, the 50k one is usually hard to get for me 3 other easy medals: 10 Kills, Killing Blow, 75k dmg 3 medals you have to work for: 2.5k Damage, 1v1, 25 Kills 2 situational medals: 1k defender, 3k defender 2 difficult medals you have to work for: 300k dmg, 50k protection It's situational. I kept it in my spec because I also PvE, but when going up against a group melee (read two Marauders that's face rolling you), it's really not a bad idea to drop one.

That might just be your server. On Hyperspace Cannon we actually have a more dedicated pvp Republic community and more active Battlemasters. * When the Imperials out numbers slightly in Ilum we actually stand a chance. * Our win/loss ratio even solo queuing is much closer to 50/50 * Our premade group have a win ratio of close to 95% * I'm actually having fun and looking forward to rank up to 70 and not just logging in to do the dailies for BM bags then log out But then again I'm blessed to be in the most progressed guild in the server that's 9/10 on nightmare mode ops, and pvping with a group of friends that I really enjoy playing with (oh and the fact that we are all overgeared compared to the average player in WZs is not lost on me, but it's not like we didn't pvp at least five hours a day and having fun)

War Heroes still buys Champ bags for money. It's actually decent money. One benefit of being a trooper is that all my companions are troopers. Right now one of them have full Columi gear, and I guess soon another one will have full Champion gear.

DR on Expertise is still too high IMO... right now the best PvP set is a mix of rakata & BM gear and not full BM gear. But then again, I guess advantages are given to those of us who's into highend PvP & PvE.

He has less health on hardmode because only the right nozzle gets rid of his damage shield buff. There are new mechanics introduced in the fight on hard mode. He's definitely killable in normal mode for a group with say all tionese gear. You just have to do the puzzle faster, you should shoot for around 6-7 burns. (use 3 people to do the puzzle, not 2)

Use free for all instead of round robin, then the loot should be fine.

You realize that only players with bad luck will post and complain on the forums right? Samples that are less than 100 will have HUGE variance and yes it is a small sample size. It's definetly possible that you can run HM FE 100 times and never see your token drop. It's unlikely, but you are just as unlikely say to get into a traffic accident or win $500 on a scratcher, but these things till happen to people. Just buy the pieces you need with the commendations if your luck is so bad.

Do not push him to 28% when some one is tossed! Have the dps stop. The guy being tossed is suppose to die.

I'm making columi equivlant BOEs belts and selling them for around 200k on the GTN (boe mats cost about 60k, cubes and energy node are essentially free though, as there aren't many use for them anyways, so I get at least one a week). Crits will probably go for 500k as they will be better than rakata. (obviously not better than the rakata crit ones)

It was the great the first time in normal, yeah. The 15th time of the night trying to kill him on NiM mode and half of the wipes are due to bugs? Yeah, not so much...