Upgrading to WH nets you about a +.15 DR increase per piece so maxxed out with no +% modifiers DR would be around 31.25%.

The fact that you describe Pyro as having "high survival" shows your ignorance about the class. PTs only have high survivability if they are tanks, you have bad gear or are generally bad. Also numbers do matter.. your just looking at only one side of them from the perspective of a Sage.

Just because your reaction time is crap doesn't mean there is something wrong with PTs. It's not like they have 5sec of invincibility, a 4 sec stun and disappear when you finally almost kill them. If your having problems with PTs then its on your end... skill or gear take your pick.

No PT can lock anyone down for 10sec, kill maybe... but lock down never. Hyperbole never makes a case and only serves to invalidate yours

Guess the OP hasn't run into to any good AP bounty hunters. Was trying it out for the past day and a half and had someone say Powertechs need to get or are going to be nurfed and how I have no skill. When I asked him what Powertech spec was OP he said "Pyro".... people are dumb.

Everyone gets a stun breaker, not everyone's got a mara/sent breaker.

Answering a question with a question.... classic. But to answer yours: It survives because you can earn comms so when you do get the 50 you can start with a few pieces of BM, take away that and it will mostly die.

For that to happen artificial roadblocks must be put in place or gear would have to rain from the sky, and nobody likes that... cept you maybe. Also what about people on the cutting edge of PvE progression? I currently have 6 pieces of BH gear and my guild is one of maybe 2 that can clear at least 3/4 HM denova, should I be given the advantage just because I can get the gear?

Because 1 week of pve gearing dose not = 1 week of pvp gearing.... and it never will. A new lvl 50 merc of one of our regular raiders has gotten 4/5 rakata, MH weapon, mount and title from one day of raiding (lucky I know) so unless the rate of gear gain is exactly the same then it not going to work, ever. Its needed

Do Soa again, he's a joke now and mostly bug free.

If everyone was in plain robes, then you would probably be complaining about lack of diversity. You can only do plain robes so many times, and their already there from 1-49.

Competing with WoW doesn't include having PTR premades . To answer the question usually there are bugs initially when auto leveling a character rather then naturally leveling. Took WoW almost a year to get it ironed out, so it shouldn't be to much longer till we see them here... or some version of them. Also Pong had wicked graphics for its time.

Your playing a game with them not dating them...

Not really, usually ends in something being throw at the offender... sometimes from other passengers.

They have already weighed in on the subject, your going to have to wait. Saying "are we there yet" over and over doesn't make you get any closer.