From the next patch only the first 4 medals will count for valor/commendations, the rest are just for show... so this fixes that problem. However most pugs i roll with won`t mark healer, but they will kill them first... ok maybe not most but enough... not like it`s hard to figure out who`s healing... So marks or no marks, they will still die because they need to die first, anyone decent enough knows that.... If they remove it they might have the surprise they will still die first... what then? Ask for immunity while they are not doing any damage and just healing?

It`s a good ideea for the next tier of gear... right now i don`t think they will change it, but keep it as a sugestion for the next gear tier!

Respec DPS if you don`t like everyone shooting at you. Even with no marks i just target and nuke the person who has a healing icon/castbar on them.(and the icons are easy to spot) The only reason marks exist is because most people can`t figure out who is healing... so the ones with more pvp experience(ops leader) have the option to mark them so everyone can spot them easily. Even if they remove them players like me will still target you over anything else... But they shouldn`t remove them, you can always respec dps if you don`t like getting focused... why would anyone focus the dps you are healing? This is not PVE, people actually think and don`t have an agro counter... Also, did it not come to you that when the most used phrase in a warzone is "KILL HEALERS(FIRST)" you might get focused first as a healer?

Please show us a team us two mercenary healers... i`d like to see you kill them. In their hybrid spec they get 45% mitigation(a shadow tank has 40%) while spamming some grav rounds/tracer missiles... And they can also dps pretty well thanks to supercharge giving them no cost for their power shot/charged burst, that does the damage of tracer/grav but it`s weapon damage not tech... They have many other tricks, in a 2v2 you will never be able to kill two merc healers as the game stands now... unless they are average while you are really good... Not to mention other things.... Tbh they can still introduce arenas(they won`t they already said it won`t even be in 1.2) but just don`t give gear rewards for like the first year untill you balance the classes/fix the bugs to an acceptabile level...

Ok ok, then make a new thread about new pvp content... i still feel without them giving something for doing that new content (like you know, better gear) it won`t help keep the BM`s still pvp`ing... But if they manage to make it intresting enough to keep people playing without the carrot on the stick, kudos to them i`m all for it! So far, they did not prove they can do it, so i asked for the carrot... but feel free to ask for more content... i`ll support it...

It will solve the quitter issue, so now people won`t quit so you can get new people and maybe turn it arround, it does happen now... tho it`s rare.... With the new system people will just stay hidden and alt tab or if they have 2 screens just watch something on the other one... so you will still lose, and you will have less people fighting... and when people figure it out that 5 minutes warzones still give you 2k valor, they will gladly lose and still get 2k valor, so the faster the better. Why fight and make it longer?

It`s winter make.... i went skying while we had snow... also my weight is fine, i play while i work, that basically means during the time i don`t work i actually go out... i`m pretty sure i have more free time/go out more compared to the average games... who comes from work and starts playing... So you can keep trying to make it look like comming from work and sitting at the pc for the rest of the day is better... i don`t care and we are not talking about that... Leave the personal atacks... this is about them giving people who are gear capped something more to do.... more content, new gear, anything really....

Actually you don`t need to pvp that much to reach Battlemaster if you do it in a premade and getting 1300-1550 valor every time + Ilum buff + 1-2 votes... That adds up to arround 2k valor per game, only you need to be decent to get it, it`s not handed to you no matter what... I mean what`s next? Pay 15$ for a full rakata/bm set? In every MMO i enjoyed, including WOW Vanilla, gear was not easy to get, i personally liked it that way more... The current system means if you suck, you will get to rank 60 a lot slower, and that`s fine...

That might work too... anything for us to have a reason to keep playing... i like my guild i`d like not to unsub, and if they make it less boring for people who have rakata and bm gear i will be happy... I`m not sure if it`s because we have nothing more to gain or because we already repeated them too much.... but i`m willing to test it if they add more variation...

Not true mate... i`m wanted and have been told they knew they will win they had me... But really, you kill their ball carrier/support, you get damage medals... you aoe taunt them all, you get them tagged and get kills, you guard a healer/ball carrier, you get protection medals.... You can get 8-12 medals just by doing your job well... and win in the process. Yes healers got the short stick, this is what i expected them to fix by adding more medals not by ruining the point of medals... And trust me, it will be faster to gain 2k+ valor for 5 minute games compared to 3k valor for 15 minute games, even if it means you must help the enemy team a bit... So untill you have a full pvp set, doing that is simply faster... and people will figure it out, if they can get it faster they will....

PVP in SWTOR is not fun mate... not after a while... you repeat the same warzones over and over and over... and people make the same mistakes... It is fun in the beginning when it`s all new... but after that the exploits and bugs get to you, yea they fix them but the harm is already done by the time they are fixed... Also i don`t feel i should stop playing my main and gear up alts just so people can catch up, it`s been enough time so that every person who wants to pvp already has gear...

I can play a lot, since i play while working... I managed to get rank 60 before 1.1 on my first char, the second one is close to 60 right now... I had to stop playing my rank 60 for the most part, because once you hit rank 60 all you need to do is daily quests... There is no real reason to keep going right now, we need a new gear tier, both PVP and PVE. I waited for a one and a half months already, now even the casual have reached battlemaster... please add more gear so we have something to do...

We will see how you feel when half the team will just get 4 medals then just try and solo people on the side or just stealth and afk. I mean you can just pause the tv show you are watching, get 4 medals in like 1 minute, then stealth into a corner and keep watching... Then when you have all the gear you need you can just try and do some warzones for fun... but then again if others are also afk`ing odds are you won`t be able to enjoy it. Will it be say 20% to 30% slower than actually doing your best for 15 minutes and just trying to win? Sure... but who cares, you only play 1 minute out of 15 meaning you can do whatever you want while grinding the valor... no more "oh now i have to grind". Then you will hit the same problem we all hit eventually.... you have all the bm gear... what will you do after? There is nothing else to do...

Our healing suffers from trauma in pvp, so it`s not 12% or 450, it`s 30% less. Also, 40% mitigation(shadow) vs 55%(vanguard) is a world of difference. NO self healing makes up for that.... A 1000 damage hit will hit the shadow for 600, the vanguard for 450... the shadow gets hit for 33% more damage... now you explain how a 12% self heal(before trauma) or a 450(before trauma) heal every 4.5s will compensate... Shadows have one edge, a bit more consistent damage, so if you hit the enrage timer on a fight where healing isn`t an issue... sure... get a shadow... Also the mighty Kinetic Ward is so **** most people don`t use it in pvp... it`s a drain on resources, so a drop in dps... It also doesn`t block anything vs most classes... So, you are saying that the tank that has the same mitigation as a commando but does half the damage of a commando in that spec is too op? Learn to play.... EDIT: Also vs multiple oponents in pve, kinetic ward is lost in the first 3 seconds... after that you as just like a vanguard, only you take 33% more damage and have a much lower shield chance.... but yea, you might do like 500 more damage across the whole pack of npc`s.... imagine dude, 500 more damage, WOW... totally op... totally worth taking much more damage and having a much lower shield rating with no ward up.... right?

I don`t get them, i used to defend the ball carrier/guard him to get guard + defender while doing enough damage to get the 75k and 300k(sometimes) medals... I was basically playing the whole game defending and running arround to be where the enemy is making sure i get the most medals.... Now i will be done in the first minute, and i can just stealth in some corner with the game on one screen and doing something cool on the other as much as i want, 2k valor and all those commendations will still get me geared pretty fast... My guess is they realised people are getting bored with the game so they decided to let us get full pvp gear(well for my alt my main is already a BM) faster so we can play something else... I`m pretty sure most people who spent 15 minutes fighting and defending their *** off trying to get the most medals will just get 4 then let the other team win so the warzone ends faster, i mean imagine voidstar if u`re defending and let the other team plant, they win in like 3 minutes. RIGHT NOW, you don`t get much, barely any valor since the warzone ends fast, but with this patch you will get 2000 no matter what. So losing faster = faster valor. Sure the winning team will get like a bit more, like 200-300, but nothing relevant... and it`s much much faster then actually fighting and wasting time... EDIT: It`s basically a win win, who wants to win can still do it, who wants to medal farm can still do it i guess... and who wants to afk can now do it with very little to lose, tho i guess a stealth class is better for this... We will be able to get full gear before actually playing a whole game, a cool thing if you ask me, that way we don`t have to suffer when we are undergeared...