Anyone wanna do that stuff? Anyone plan on having a team for 6.0? I’ll be trying to get pug teams in queue every night that I’m on so if you’re lookin to play lmk. Would also do 8v8s for fun times if we had enough. Holla

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I’d say unless you’re full aug’d and have nearly every datacron 240 is tough. You are at a disadvantage even with bolster bc not every stat is bolstered. Tips: If you want to get good, even if you know your rotations hit the practice dummy and tighten your rotations up. make sure your stats are well allocated even for what gear you have. As I said above if you haven’t already gotten the datacrons you’ll need every advantage. Now this next bit is super important and is imperative to being good at pvp, duel every class repeatedly. You don’t have to beat every class some matchups won’t favor you but make every right move in those duels. Another tip, and this will come with dueling, make sure your movements are perfect. Play around with the mouse practice running in a square or in a figure 8. Sounds silly but how you move matters. Whenever possible get in good habits. Just the other day I did team ranked and realized the Jugg jumped us at the ramp and group cc’d all 4 of us. I thought, why did I not just hang back for literally 2 seconds to avoid the group cc when the same thing just happened the round before? Also I just got back kinda recent but I started adding off target interrupts a bit better since I got back. That’s something you’ll need to do to be successful. Interrupts, cc, and movement are huge bc plenty of players can spit out high dps. Mostly I’d say dueling will help immensely. Also and I think it should go without saying but needs to be said anyway, have a game plan to start. Don’t be afraid to be that guy who just says the gamep plan instead of just asking. Can’t be throwing out question marks as a team then say “go sniper” with 2 seconds left before game starts. Lay down the law.

Half the fun is sometimes just being in the mood to trash talk. You can just hit ignore and if you’re a more novice player compared to others in solo ranked ask for advice. Half the trash talkers prob would give advice if you asked genuinely it’s in everyone best interest that everyone in queue knows the fundamentals. Not targeting poster specifically maybe the poster is a beast but seriously don’t take trolls to heart. Laugh and troll back or ignore.

The level of competition was way better in season 1, but the best mercs post 2.7 can match up with the best ops from season 1 days for sure.

Mercs can be good it's just that most people suck at them. Sorcs however are ****ed. You can say that mercs can be shut down by chain interrupting but the same could be said for ops. I've played whole team ranked games where we managed to chain interrupt the other teams healer to the point where only heals coming through were hots. The only set back of a merc is the lack of group stealth and cc. Every *********** game the operatives would group stealth their teams and try and find the other teams healer to flashbang them for the open. Whatever team pulled that off was at a slight advantage from the start. As far as healing output and efficiency go mercs are there with ops.

Any east coast servers getting solo ranked pops with 4-5 teams queueing grouped on a good night?

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Should I put in the time to gear up and get good at this game again? Is there any competitive pvp at all? Any good pvpers still playing?

SORC AOE heal sucks and is why there is no incentive to go full heals over hybrid in solo ranked. Also force management sucks. Why is consumption a thing at all and could it at least be off gcd or not grant force degeneration effects? Also keep up the good work people. I'm actually surprised people posted on this thread at all I thought no one gave a ****.

In team ranked if you bring one you're at a huge disadvantage compared to bringing an op or merc and in solo ranked you can play perfect and lose.

Sorc healers might be the worst spec in game right now, but does anyone really care? I haven't seen anyone pushing for buffs so I guess everyone else is amazing and doing fine and I'm just bad? Idk. What are your thoughts people would everyone be cool if sorc heals are buffed a bit? I kind of want to start playing this game again and this spec is fun, but seriously solo ranked with this spec is *********** retarded.

The premade thread isn't the perfect example of how bioware doesn't listen since most people like the option to queue with friends. A better example may be the taking away of 8v8s bc lack of pvp population, but when people threaten to leave game if they go through with it, they go through with it and add to a problem they acknowledged.

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The rating system works there just aren't enough teams to support it. If 100 teams queued there would be competitive games. If 4 teams are queued all separated by 300 rating it will not work. It could. It easily could. It's just teams don't want to put in the time and the month of getting stomped before you're good enough to even begin to compete. What bioware should do is put NPC teams in ranked arenas and lie and say they're actual players. Who gives a **** right? If it works as well as I think it will we can have the NPC teams play each other when all the pvpers leave the game.

as long as madness uses the 3 charge for wrath system instead of 4 I think madness and lightning are fine in the hands of good players. Healing sorcs are tricky to fix, but if you look at other healing classes and why they are successful there are a few obvious problems that must be addressed. Right now a good arena team can cc a healer till whitebar and chain interrupt that healer to the point of no casts getting through. Most games actually start off with two operatives getting ready to flashang each other, and most good healers know when they will be cc'd a few seconds before it happens. So if you breakdown heals getting through it's a bunch of hots and a few casts, which is why ops, and now mercs, are pretty successful. Sorcs have 1 hot. They do also have bubbles, but must use them wisely as force management is ****. And the AOE heal is in a terrible spot for arenas. Standing still in arenas or grouping up in a small circle to get cc'd is dumb as ****. The only way I see it being effective is if the AOE size is increased and/or heals increased for it and/or cc immunity while standing in the AOE. I also think sorcs should get bubbles that cost less force, and I think high in the healing tree there should be a place to spec into a removal of the bubble debuff on targets 30% health or less, or at the very least if it ends up being op, a removal of the bubble debuff on themselves once they're 30% or less health.

Actually anything you do damage to gives you a kill when they die. So if they do a godzillion damage bc maybe they're a good pressure/group damage class, and you can't finish them, then you're doing something wrong. And really 1 mil is doable tunneling one target np. You shouldn't be impressed. Step ya game up.

Snipers had a flashbang and knockback root. Madness having a single target instant cc was not overpowered.

I bet my balls smell better than your twitter.

In group ranked the bottom 3 classes can do fine. In solo ranked where 4 dps v 4 dps is fairly common it doesn't surprise me the classes with the worst defensive cooldowns are dying the fastest. There are good snipers, mandos, and juggs who don't need to be buffed and are easily getting their 1500 rating. One thing I've been waiting to see are more competent vengeance juggs. In the right hands that class is going to be sick in 2.7 if people work at it.

It's not semi impressive, it's straight up impressive. Getting a 1500+ rating is easy. Getting over 1500 in 10 games is not, and doing it on pot5 pubside takes serious skill.

I'll be the first to rsvp, this is going to be amazing.

You choose not to pvp and you can enjoy pve and get cool ****. The pvers that work hard get newer, more exclusive things then the casuaI raiding guilds do. The pvpers are about to get their only notable item, and not only is it easily obtainable by almost any geared pvper, it will be ripped off and given to everyone. I know the pvp one will look nicer, but they are definitely adding insult to injury by giving a cool mounts to decent+ pvpers and anyone cm, pvers. Can you please tell me why it's not ok for pvpers to have cool items that require a certain level of skill, when pvers can? Why can't we have nice things ? If I enjoy pvp more I will play it regardless of the items rewarded at high end operations, but would it not just make more sense to also give rewards to people who want to pvp and pvp well?

No I've already said that the rancor mount is easy to get. Anyone decent who gives a **** can get it. It's just, by far, pvers get more content and exclusive items. One guy says that pvers will unsub if there is one group that gets exclusive items that others do not, but how many pvers are unsubbing bc of the lack of incentives provided to pvpers? I clearly don't care too much bc i'm still playing, but it would be nice to get exclusive items. And no the rancor mount is not exclusive. With your logic there should be nothing that rewards good players, and everyone who beats black talon should get full 78s, cool speeders, and titles.

This is so ridiculous I'm not entirely sure you aren't joking, but i'll go with my gut and assume you're not. First off, you want the rancor mount and you don't pvp? Sucks to suck. The following are all exclusive to one group and not the other: Dessler Avenger, Dessler Turbo, Praxon Bloodline, Praxon Firaxa, Avalanche Heavy Tank, Helix Hyperpod, Titan Six Containment Vehicle, Praxon Pyroclast, M0-GUL Thrall Droid, Deep Wriggler, Desert Kell Dragon, Volcanic Kell Dragon, Karagga’s Unyielding Helm, Dread Guard’s Corrupted Masl, Crest of the Dread Master, Corruptor Blade, and Qyzen Kephess Customization. Can you guess which group it's exclusive to? I know I'm still trying to guess who said "I'm a PvP'er and should get what I want thing". You you might know. I will quote you directly though since we know who said it and can be sure it wasn't made up. "I prefer the PvE content and to make it exclusive to one group of players over another would likely cost them subs" so if you've read this far and still haven't guessed who those items are exclusive to, it's pve'rs. Now you're saying that it's not ok for one group to have exclusive items, and that biowares out to make money, yet you disregard all the posts before you stating all the things pvers get that pvpers don't, the numerous threads going back to the days of 8v8s which argued that pvpers have no incentives or rewards like pvers do. Where were you on those threads being all fair? Did you even read any post on this thread?