The Trooper Renowned is the Trooper level 20 pvp set. The Trooper exhalted is a level 49 crafted set made by an Armormech (not orange). The Agent sets look terrible compared to what Agent's have now. These armor sets are very lacking for 'Legacy Quality' armor, I would have expected much more.

Sounds like you need to roll up a commando then! And yes they are out of line, they always have been be it for PVE or PVP. Saying otherwise means you are out of touch with the rest of the game.

Looks like it's time for you to roll a smuggler then! Enjoy our 'infinite energy' hahaha. Also you might notice that the survivability is ALOT lower, oh and the damage is too, oh and don't forget the healing too! Enjoy!

That's ok, anything is better than the 80% sorcs/sages that we have now!

I agree thanks! Welcome to more realistic gameplay sage/sorcs, you can join the rest of the classes now, hopefully BW will realize you shouldn't have that bubble either.

We can only hope.

It's not about making ops harder it's about taking classes that are way out of line and bringing them back to reality. It's a step in the right direction for the game and will help with class diversity. These changes are a step in the right direction and should have happened along time ago.

Please do, the game needs less of them to keep the game rolling. No one liked the lack of class diversity anyways.

Your doing it wrong.

The pvp end of that article, really had the most backward, idiotic logic I have ever heard.

agree

PVP ranks and gear are all about time played. The only correlation that exists is that better PVP gear MAKES you better because they made expertise the end all be all stat in pvp.

If you are looking for serious end game PVE make sure you choose a tank that holds a lightsaber. They benefit from the free deflection bonus just by holding one not to mention BW built jedi much tougher than anyone else. Vangaurds/PTs are great fun but any of the lightsaber tanks just have to huge of an advantage not to role one.

Posting in the wrong forum maybe? Or, they have only played as force user and nothing else.

Heavy, heavy gear dependent class. Vangaurd's have no active tanking abilities like gaurds/juggs do save fore one 2 min CD shield that only reduces damage by 25%. One thing you really have to watch for in boss fights is the special attacks. Since Vangaurd's don't have active shielding abilities they rely completely on defense/shield chance/absorb. Given that some types of attacks completely ignore these stats, if these attacks aren't interrupted a Vangaurd tank will most likely bit the dust. Long and short of it, high defense, high shield and absorb, and dps that know how to interrupt.

This is the root of the issue right here. It's not that they don't have anything, they do, but what they have is light years behind what others have. It's like battling super heroes from behind a cardboard box with a bb gun. Sure you can shoot someone's eye out if they aren't paying attention. But if they are...

Not to mention it fractures the already small communities we already have.

This is all fine and dandy but don't forget you can't damage that melee not 1 point or all of your CCs are worthless. Now lets take forcechoke, it's a CC that stuns and does damage at the same time, ok how about oh forget it there's to long of a list of them that work better and either damage you while you are stunned, doesn't break on damage or lasts twice as long if not longer.

Yes actually it is, and yes I know your trying to be a joker, but, the numbers are out on classes played. Guess which class by far is the least played? Now guess some of the reasons for it.

The legacy system cross class abilities really seems like a bad idea to tell the truth. The world of SWTOR is bland enough at the moment with most of the population being force users. Am I the only one picturing say snipers, just spamming lighting rather than shooting a sniper gun? That would just kill the (already dying) immersion.

It's really to bad they did this, it feels like a waste of time rather than just making 2 different items. I think most players on the Republic side would actually be happy if they just allow them to use Imperial side armor. Heck put the mirror class armor on the PVP vendors and raid vendors and please a lot of people. Would it look out of place, sure it would, but I would guess that a Commando shooting lightning might look out of place too, and that's what we are getting. I would suggest to put the Republic side armor on the Imperial side too, but I don't want to cause any undo pain to anyone's mid-section from laughing to hard.

It would be the best if gunslingers had force run. Flash grenade is only useful to stop people so you can que up long shots on them. As a way to stay alive its worthless. You can't run far enough in 8 secs that a Jedi can instantly jump on you or a force user can slow you.

Try this with one of the pure ranged dps classes, ie Sniper or Gunslinger.

Point is, there is no disadvantage in this game to playing a jedi or force user. Players are figuring that out fast. If you haven't noticed warzones are generally comprised of only those classes and a small smattering of the 'other' classes. The elements that made the movies exciting were the blaster battles and escape scenes, that what SW was about. Every movie of the original trilogy was about escaping and fighting gorilla style. That style doesn't even remotely exist here.

No. Ranged classes in the game lack the proper tools to actually kite like in other games. Match this with melee classes having extremely short cool downs on gap closers, chained together with stuns, slows etc. and you end up with mostly two people spamming an ability at each other face to face. It would have been nice to actually get the ranged blasters fights that the movies had but instead its shooting people in melee. They would have been better off putting force users and jedi in one warzone to fight others, and ranged users in their own to fight each other. It would have made for more Star Wars like battles that's for sure.