Cheeseblaster
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Get full battlemaster first.
This +1
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I was too. His guards put up a much tougher fight than he did.
But Rakton was too easy...
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I just started a trooper 2 days ago and today reading the forums I see people are upset itch the last patch. Should I start anothe toon other than trooper? Am I wasting my time now since they were nerfed?
if you read through the forums it seems that just about every class is now unplayable because of 1.2
vangaurds and commandos are still beasts.
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what is the ETA on when this hits live?
Hopefully soon. SOunds like a step in the right direction.
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Nice. I'm in the same position as the OP. Leveled a Vangaurd hybrid to 50 and now am leveling a Sorc. I could solo anything with my Trooper. made it all the way to 50 barely at social I.
So I was looking for a more group focused toon this time around. And since I was so jealous of the lightning Sorcs could dish out in PVP I went sorc.
Sounds like you can do both solo and group pretty well with the healing spec. I've been having a blast so far.
And I agree with the OP too on Khem. Loving the convos where he's threatening to eat everyone...
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Jedi arent nutritious, khem needs to start eating campbell's chunky soup.
They're too bony...
Since we're on the subject of Khem. How do you gear him at lower levels?
I'm lvl 12 so just starting with him. How long before you have t buy gear or a new sword for him?
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The problem isn't that it is too hard to win medals. It's that winning them is worthless unless your team wins. Which you have have only 12% responsiblity for.
Bingo....
This is beginning to border on ridiculous BW, another band-aid won't fix it. Like I said earlier, revert back to pre-1.2 till you are ready tp roll out the entire PVP change which includes cross que and rateds.
We have more people than I remember since launch on my server, yet long que times for WZ's that start with 3 or 4 players. That should tell you something.
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read Taugrim and Yojack sticky. They both have good suggestions
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To refresh everyone's memories, one of the most important aspects of the new changes is that your team's performance inside the Warzone has a direct impact on a portion of the rewards you are given at the end of the Warzone. Even if your team is losing, the closer you can make the game the better your rewards will be - so don't give up hope! Giving up and letting the other team 'win faster' is now the worst possible route you can take to rewards.
My apologies if this was covered before but the above statement only applies if the rest of your team cares enough to try, or you aren't going up against a highly rated pre-made (who was SUPPOSED to be rated out to make this work properly) and therefore actually have a chance to.
Most of the losses I see are huge. And one side or the other gets up big very quickly. So even if I play my a** off and do everything I can it doesn't always matter. Maybe 1 out of 9 WZ's is actually competitive.
I can see what you're trying to say but the logic is flawed, and does not reflect reality.
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Well my server pop is really high, i've actually had to wait a few times this week to log on. And when I do i STILL have a long wait for PVP matches that start with less than a full side.
I think their medals change is nothing more than a band aid.
I can get at least 4 medals doing nothing but standing in front of a node and dying quickly when anybody attacks. I throw gaurd on someone and there's a few more medals.
In fact, I get a larger reward if I do that and my team wins, than i do if I play my a** off in a losing battle because i'm up against a pre-made and still lose big.
That's messed up. Add to that the ridiculous amount of time it takes to get anything above Recruit Gear and the casual PVPer, who may not be a great player but was still the guy who filled out your side, just sticks with PVE.
I'd have a lot more respect for BW if they just came out and said "we screwed up big since most of these changes were dependent on rated WZ's, so we're going back to pre-1.2 PVP until we can get it all working"
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Hi gang, my IA Sniper just dinged 50, I have the following:
- 1 Champion bag
- 2K Warzone comms
- 1K Merc comms
Bag didn't have anything in it. I need to spend the WZ comms cause the cap is 2K. What pieces should I get first? 2 piece then weapon or vice versa? Thanks for your time.
...and to preempt the trolling, I'm also rolling a marauder/assassin but that's another thread.
Like was mentioned get the Recruit Gear. Then hold tight til they fix 1.2
The Recruit gear is better then Cent was so it's decent for a fresh 50.
BM and WH gear take ridiculous amounts of time now, so I wouldn't even focus on that yet. If you manage to get a piece or 2 of BM great, but Recruit should be fine.
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So are kill ratios and damage going to contribute to the actual WZ rating? If so this puts the DoT dealing classes at an extreme advantage over single target classes. For they, get credit for kills at a much higher rate and do a greater ammount damage than single target classes .
Could someone at bioware answer this.
I don't think BW knows yet.
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I'll sign the petition.
It's a ridiculous looking symbol..
Maybe we could just get rid of it altogether. We're Vangaurds, we don't need a dippy looking symbol to tell us we're awesome...
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Vangaurd has been a blast all the way to 50+. Love being able to solo heroics while teh Jedi's need to beg for help.
Just one thing to keep in mind. Low level PVP players gets insane buffs for WZ's in order to make them more viable. Those bonuses dissappear as you get to higher levels.
So while a ton of fun to play your damage etc.. will eventually plateu....
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Does the choice you make have any effect on either companions conversation/storyline/romance?
Im likely going with Jorgan, but dont want to get screwed out of a romance option with Dorne.
Not really. You just get affection points from whicever one you pick.
Companion quests convos etc// are based on affection points if I'm not mistken.
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Wow I never had the chance on my vanguard to let her die or not.
Is this later in the game? Vanguard is level 27.
Ya, you have a ways to wait for the next installment.
Well played OP. I thought description was pretty funny.
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Right now there is no comparison between the grind for PVE vs PVP gear. On my freshly leveled Sage I run EV a few times to gear for Karagaas. A few Karaggas Runs lead me to HM EV and Karaggas. After 2 Weeks of casually Hitting a few HM flashpoints, Dailies, and a OP runs I have full Columni Gear with 4 Rakata pieces. Now I'm geared to run the hardest content in the game after only a couple weeks of CASUAL post 50 PVE game play.
Now, transistion to PVP. If i spend two weeks of casual play just doing WZ's for WZ coms I will barely reach the amount of WZ coms I need for ONE PIECE of high end PVP gear. Remember above, i calculated it to take approximately 29 hours (very conservative number) of consecutive WZ play to earn enough WZ coms to buy the chest piece. Maybe I want to buy the main hand weapon... should I plan to PVP in WZs for the next month?
Excellent point. PVE high end gear is easier to get than high end PVP gear. And i'm actually gonna go for the high end PVE gear now because I can get a whole set fairly easily, like you said, which will take me about a week.
I also agree with your OP. Well said. And the drop in PVP population I think backs that up. People don't want to spend 20 plus hours for 1 piece of gear.
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The patch was incomplete. Everything was set up with ranked WZ's in mind but since they yanked that the rest of it really has no point.
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Omg the drama.
Pvp is balanced for top of the foodchain.
You are obviously not skilled enough to judge balance. During training times of my pvp team we got all 8 into one voidstar game
The top sorc healer on our server in my premade gets 600k healing done in voidstar if I protect him.
One of the top 20 operater healeron our server gets 720k healing done when he is protected by our 2nd tank.
The 2nd best Dps on our server got only 620k dammage in that warzone.
If you die every few seconds, it is because you play random low level pvp.
STOP RUINING HIGH LEVEL PVP FOR THE SKILLED PLAYERS
This is exactly why the fact they tried to put this update through without a) cross server q-ing, and b) ranked WZ's was such an unforgivable disaster..
With both a and b above, those who q solo get to have a decent experience, and those who go pre-made and are higher ranked have a decent experience.
With the way they did it nobody wins. They would have been better off just holding out all of the PVP updates until they got it sorted out. The PVE 1.2 changes are pretty cool. And Novare Coast is cool. But they could have instituted the new PVP map without the other stuff.
They half-a** it. Someone in management is not thinking very well.
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Do you know any football team that doesnt pay their players if they dont win the cup??
Check and mate! Well said. The players still get paid, those who excel and win it all get bonuses.
85% of my WZ's have started out without a full team. And in many cases before we do get a full side the opposing premade has capped all the nodes, score 3 times, or is already through 2 doors.
Doesn't happen every time. But it happens enough that I have just stopped trying to get my 50 dailys and weeklies. I've gone back to leveling my alts. It just ain't worth the time. I still PVP occasionally but in reality it's not much fun. And the drop in PVP #'s is proof of that.
BW instituted a reward system based on ranked warzones. Now they have a reward system intended for ranked warzones without the ranked warzones.
BW's big mistake was not realizing that ranked WZ's could not exist without cross server q-ing. How they missed that is beyond me.
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i'm back on the fence. Really still peeved about losing rated WZ's, and PVP has been mostly blowouts either way.
However the new WZ is very cool...
The legacy stuf looks pretty cool if you can afford it.
Recruit gear is pretty decent for those fresh 50's.
Basicaly the same balance problems exist. But at least I get to get a BM set fairly quickly.
SO I guess IMO it's not better or worse.
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So far i've found rewards for both weekly and daily have been t he same.
99 WZ comms and 99 rated comms...
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urge to kill...fading...
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I think the way this was handled was amateur.. And whoever let it go this long before realizing rated WZ's wasn't ready just plain failed.
However, the free month for 50's is a nice gesture.
Yet again the Empire gets love.
in PvP
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I know what t he OP is talking about. Same thing on my server. The Imps win a huge amount of the time. But i'm going to disagree slightly that it's damage or gear based. The problem is you are most likely going up against pre-mades which have advantages over all PUGs.
Cross-q and ranked WZ's will take care of that. But it doesn't sound like that will get fixed anytime soon.