I loved 8v8 and it was my favorite game mode. But the game is no longer balanced for it. When we were lvl 55 most games were long stalemates. Classes are now too mobile. With two organized groups, there would be no point captures in any maps. I loved 8v8 but it would simply not work anymore without a huge ability purge by the devs.

I would ask if I could get your stuff. It it does not seem like you have much

PvP guilds are so 2012

My wish is for pops. Regular pops. Wishing for anything else at this point of the games lifespan is silly.

Sniper is a much more difficult class to play at a high level. Mercs can still get away with face tanking because of their defensives. A well played Sniper is the strongest spec in the game. However a well played Sniper is the rarest player in the game.

Not RNG.... Surprise Mechanics

I like SWTOR, I come back to SWTOR every year for a certain amount of time. However, I am realistic about the game. It has been in maintenance mode for several years now. Just accept the game for what it is, and enjoy it. Honestly, the game was screwed before it launched when they picked the engine (framerates on Illum, no xserver etc). Will we ever get large investment? No. Can you still enjoy what we have, sure. We got our 6 guys working on the game, support our six!

I used stomp to get one down, died. Went to the med center and there were only two there. Rinse and repeat. Don’t know if it was a lucky bug for me or not. But going to the mend center got them down.

It is not a broad definition, it is the definition most gamers use. If I can use real world money to quickly get better items. And another gamer takes an extended period of time to grind those items. I have P2W. I have an distinct advantage during the time it takes you to grind your way to where I am. Set bonuses and augments require huge sums of credits. If you don’t have those credits, you can either take the time to grind them, sitting at a gear disadvantage. Or you can buy some items off the CM, sell them and have the gear quicker.

I only get crates from wins. They have not been very helpful, but they are there.

Paying to skip gives me an advantage over those who grind naturally for however long it takes to catch up. If we are fighting over a node, and I have paid to skip so I have all my set bonuses, augments and tacticals, and you are still grinding for your 2peice bonus, I will win. That is P2W. If you have played for years and are sitting on a big bank account, then your advantage is fair. But if you pay for your advantage it is not. I keep using FIFA as an example, because that is what EA base all their systems around. But for those who spend money and can get the best players quickly, they have an advantage over those who don’t spend money and have to grind for the in game currency. That is the same principle they have brought to SWTOR. It is P2W. Under your definition almost no game is P2W.

Solo ranked is the only ranked PvP that pops. But that is beside the point. Ask any raiding guild if they will take you without set bonuses.....they won’t. To do the high end content in the game your going to need to spend a great deal of credits for set bonus gear, tacticals and augments. Or you can grind and craft everything needed. But you can also pay real money to skip the grinding and crafting. That is P2W.

Set bonuses. Bolster is irrelevant in ranked PVP, if you don’t have set bonuses and the right tactical you are at a severe disadvantage.

No someone who has grinded the game since day 1 has not P2W, they have grinded. But if I spend 50 bucks and get 100m credits allowing me to buy gear at the same rate as someone who has grinded, I just P2W. Also, I have no fear of a login queue in SWTOR.

Huh? Nobody would complain if microtransactions only resulted in cosmetic upgrades. That is why nobody calls Fortnight or Overwatch P2W. Most EA games however are P2W, and this gear system is no different. In FIFA, you buy packs of player (the top end have less the 1% chance to drop), you then sell the trash players converting them to in game currency to buy the best players. It is universally known as a P2W game. This gear system is a lot like that. You can grind the credits.....or you can buy CM items and convert them to credits. That is a P2W mechanic. You can grind your credits for years. Or I can pay 50 bucks and make 100m credits. It negates the whole grind. P.S I reference FIFA because it is EAs biggest revenue game, and what they use to model all of their multiplayer systems.

Every time I see these, your lazy grind the credits arguments I roll my eyes. It is not the fact that I can’t earn credits, it is that there is a very easy way to pay real world money that allows me not to earn the credits. With the need for a mass amount of credits to gear, many people will reach into their wallet to bypass earning the gear. You don’t think that was a motivating force when designing this gear system?

In the sense of video games the term “pay to win” describes having an advantage over another by using real world money. In no game can you pay to actually win the game. But you can pay to have the best gear quickly. EA’s biggest money making game is FIFA, nobody would argue that the game is not pay to win. You cant pay to win the game, but you can pay to get enough points to buy all the best players, giving a huge advantage. Lots of people in this game have big stacks of credits. But returning players will need at least 30m credits to get all the BiS shells and augments. Considering the easiest way to do that is use credit sellers or Convering CM items to credits, it is a P2W mechanic.

EA tried so hard to make it P2W, they forgot that they only have a skeleton crew running the game who can’t manage gold sellers. Oops.

That applies to most classes survival-wise, except for mercs that could just face tank damage. For example, if a sorc wants to survive longer, he has to kite, severely limiting his damage potential, especially as madness. And if you're kiting and self-healing, you're also not doing damage. When you're using barrier and phase walk, it's basically a 3v4, same as when a sin is in stealth. The difference is that the sorc can be controlled, and his movements tracked and anticipated with ease. Stealth is a complete game changer. I think stealth mains take it for granted. Silly argument. You can’t compare a sorc stealthing to a sorc kiting. If a sorc is kiting well that means all the attention is on him. If a sin is stealth the al, the focus on a teammate. By your accounting it is a 2v4. I have mained a shadow for years. I have not played in the last few, but vanish works 50% of the time, even with the resilience trait picked. Most of the time you stay in combat. Vanish is good but it is not anywhere near as good as any merc dcd.

What happened to your old love interests? EA is not paying to bring the voice actors back. Too many companions to voice act. Pick a main character as a love interest if you want future content.

Returning player here. The playerbase is what it is at this point. Just as the game is what it is at this point. Don’t expect a huge revival. At the same time don’t expect a huge investments into new ops. That ship sailed a long time age. I was a hardcore player for years. Everyone I know in game has moved on. Some like me may come back for a month or two. But there is nothing to hold my interest. And people who gave a lot of time to this game years ago, well most of them feel burned by the investment and development in the game. We are still feeling the effects of the poor initial development. The engine was crap at launch, and the engine is crap now. If you wanted to save multiplayer in this game, build a time machine and insert cross server 6 years ago. The game started as an MMO, they changed focus to cater to single player story modes, and have gone back to an MMO (just without the content of a major MMO). To say this is a transition period is false. This is what is called maintenance mode.

They want you to buy things off the Cartel Market and sell them on the GTN.

Or 6.1

Good change

They are not a charity, if they don’t provide a product worth buying then they don’t deserve their customers money.