You are saying that us dpsers are just mindless drones and you healers are smart team players? Talking about self-glorification. As a sniper, I have to watch my healing debuff and know who to put on healing debuff, when to interrupt, when to switch target, when to stop chasing a healer that runs around pillars... What do you healers do except running around and watching raid frame whose health is dropping? Do you even interrupt dps or CC dps? I hope you do!

Quote for truth! Most biased OP ever! lol

We just need protection, that's all.

Agree. Us snipers cannot protect, cannot heal, so apparently we are useless and will never get any vote from most people here, even if I tried hard to peel enemies from our healers, by CCing, chasing them away etc, sigh. I always also healing debuff enemies, esp. healers under pressure, etc. I know healing is important, but a good DPS that always have overview of entire fight and constantly move around to protect their healers, and work on objectives are no less worthy of vote. Glad that in game, I did get some votes from people, surprisingly, more during 10-49 bracket. In 50 bracket, most people automatically vote for healers.

Since the launch of this game, every AC has been mentioned, either one particular spell, or the whole class, except sniper! Damn, poor snipers. lol I don't want to hear how awesome snipers are in a good player's hands. The fact that no one ever whined about sniper is just disturbing!

What are your team's dps doing? When it takes 3 dps to kill 1 healer, your team dps could have killed all 3 dps that have no healer, plus CC, etc. Also why should dps require tactics and coordination of dpsers when a healer can just stare at raid panel and spam heal on whoever has low health? The most tactics a healer would deploy is probably to fake a heal to avoid interrupt his big heal, or a tank swaps guard and taunt.

So if everyone leaves at the 1st sign of losing, what winning team is gonna fight against? Keep recycling those who are queuing? Aren't you being selfish? You know we can all be selfish and you will end up in a losing game over and over. I thought PvP is more about fun then calculating how much awards people can get. Maybe BW should give you guys whatever PvP gear you are after so we all can just play game.

Almost all defense mechanics have cooldowns... except innate ones like armor lol. If you have more cooldowns, that means you are more durable than other classes. or are you being dense?

lo, true that, even though my 1st main was a sage healer. Healers here sound like they are uber and don't spam, but DPSers are spammers that never interrupt. In fact, healers in this game mostly have 4-5 heals, and one big heal is spammable. Rotate those with cooldowns to get proc or whatever then spam that spammable heal. Super easy to play.

hehe, I am playing sniper. But those above told us that we are immune to leap! That's our huge utility lol, as if half-smart people would let guardian/jugg to leap to end line. Only stupid people stand on edge waving hands, come leap to MEEE!

You as sentinel have problem with Voss area quests? You have so many cooldowns, use them. Also don't forget to use pots if you have to. Interrupt! Line of sight if you are dying to buy you some time and then CC. My sniper soloed those Voss area quests with my melee dps companion. I just had to use pots since I literally have no defense cooldowns to use except a tiny absorption.

Because Mara/sentinel is huge burst class? Are you suggesting mara/sentinels should just run around freely killing people before he uses rage?

That's true. So many times the mara has silver of health left and just vanish and then re-enter immediately to finish a close fight when the opponent will have hard time to re-acquire the target. Mara/sentinels just have too many Oh-ssshi buttons. I would say they need it if they are a melee class in a zerg fest Ilum. But right now in warzones, you have many 1v1, 2v2, 3v3 small-scale fights where those cooldown buttons help enormously.

Yeah, CC is always available! You know, the target has DoTs on it, so no hard CC, or you can also use CC breaker. That's learn to play on your part. Get a clue, reserve CC breaker for the time when you pop undying rage! lol Learn to play!

QFT! So many lowbie alts claim they are doing so wonderful and even better than 40s. lol. With all those awesome skills some claimed, can you imagine what they could do if they were 40s, not teens? I admit I started doing dailies at lvl 11 on my sniper, but I only just did WZ to complete dailies. A lowbie sniper can easily top damage meter when you can snipe freely. But a lowbie has no skill to escape when the other team spot you. While at 40s, my sniper can win any 1v1 any other class, and can take 2 lowbies easily. The power I gained as I level is just phenomenal. So bragging about damage alone is kind of meaningless. The overall package of lowbies is just detrimental to the team. You have few or no utilities at all, you have no escape skills. From experience in same faction Huttball, a team with higher levels almost always win.

Grapple killed Ilum and will kill any large scale world PvP.

I used in game voice chat in EQ2 pug groups constantly, even in their battlegroups, we used in game voice chat. Speaking of EQ2, I miss that game lol. Maybe SWtOR should have in game voice chat.

People just need to constantly hit map to see where their teammates are. If you see one side has 1 or nobody guarding, quickly run there! Ninja will get it. Also when call inc, say how many. You don't need 5 people to zerg 1 inc while the other turret is lefted under-guarded. Also even if you get drawn out, spin your camera around so you can see the door! I guess quite number of people just want to relax in warzone so they don't care, just want to smash smash smash!

I like all those changes listed in the OP, especially gear cost increase. Right now, nobody buys crafted gear because it's super easy to gear up yourself and your companions by just doing warzone lol. Self sufficiency is bad for an MMO, period.

Choke is the culprit. Stun, choke(resolve dropping), stun again!

mm, no. Learn to read patch note. Also they do have CC. I wonder why sniper gets to sit in cover like duck and wear medium armor while commando can just spam one button and get similar dps, and occasionally heal up themselves. Is it because sniper can flash bang and interrupt just like every other class? That's a hefty price to pay.

It's one thing it's impossible to have perfect balance, but it's another thing that developers will try to balance all classes. Balance doesn't mean 1 class has counter to everything. It means a class should have certain strength and weakness. All classes should have similar amount of weakness and strength.

So based on team play? How does sentinel and shadowtank miraculously suck in team play? Usually 1v1 strong class won't suck in group play either. It's almost cliche to say we don't care about individual class, it's team game! Then why do game developers even care about class adjustment? Just let 16 players zerg together and all will play out fine!

If I remember in Warhammer, guarding tank takes more damage, not just 50/50 split. IMHO, guarded player takes 25% less damage, while guarding tank takes 75% damage. Also further reduce the guard range like in Warhammer.

Expertise should not increase healing at all. Dps increase is cancelled out by damage reduction from expertise. Healers benefit from damage reduction so stacking expertise basically cancels out dps increase. Why should healing get better from expertise?