Perfect description of Warzone PvP, which isn't really PvP at all. Warzones are CC v CC. The team that can best manage Crowd Control abilities will win any given encounter inside the Warzone environment. The above statement should be in the tutorial which describes what you will experience in the Warzone environment. Actual PvP is very rare. If you are lucky enough to find this elusive activity it will be taking place out in the "Open World". Count yourself lucky if you get to experience actual PvP because it is very enjoyable when all the planets align. Relative equal numbers of the same level in an environment the allows for the use of ALL of your skills, abilities, equipment, and without a questionable (artificial) inflation system. This isn't meant to diminish the coordination abilities needed to be successful in a Warzone, better known as CC v CC. This is only meant to distinguish the difference between the two forms of game play. It's about expectations. Getting facerolled is a part of life. Clearing up your expectations of any given environment will hopefully give you a better understanding of why you get facerolled; e.g., Don't go into a Warzone expecting PvP when it is clearly a CC v CC environment.

WOW! I'm glad you rerolled Imp. I would rather get facerolled all day by Imps than be anywhere near you. Thanks to you I am considering deleting my only Imp toon. lol However you do have a point on one aspect of this garbage you spewed out.. They should just rename this game to "Imperial: The Old Republic" because you're the majority.

Most of the time it breaks from what I observe. I am one of those people who stand behind sorcs that use this barrier, because I AM going to kill them when it ends... SPLAT! Every time. It's just fun for me, sorry! I have however seen a couple of people turn while casting this, but it looks like a keyboard turn. It is slower than I would expect it to be if they were using a mouse turn. I say this because I watched a dude turn in circles while casting, and I was like, "WHOA that's a first". It looked as though what he did was hold down the right mouse button and press A or D because he was turning slow. Then he died, SPLAT!

There really is only one thing left to do... Nerf Operative plz!

I sort of agree with this however I don't have to much of an issue killing healers with my DF Scoundrel. A bad healer goes down pretty fast, a good healer just takes longer. My Combat Sentinel (never played smash, so can't speak to that) is a joke, however it is damn fun to play. I like to just freak healers out on the Sentinel. It has a huge burst making bad healers actually panic, fun times. Good healers freak out a little but usually just lol @ you in the end. The very second a FOTM looks at you.. You're dead. Nerf smash and the whole class goes down the crapper. EAware knows this me thinks.

Priceless! +1

I laughed out loud... Now my co-workers are staring at me.

Saber Reflect: Instant Cooldown: 60s Reflects all direct single target ranged, Force, and tech attacks back to the attacker for 3 seconds. The damage done by each reflect is capped, and the cap rises with each new rank of the ability. It does look like the reflect damage is capped. It says single target attacks, I assume that means it doesn't reflect AOE attacks. No indication as to the amount of reflect damage before it hits cap. I also didn't have any problems reading your post. Good Luck

We got put down like dogs by the nerf police. These people that cry about Smash today can't hold a candle to the complete emotional breakdown QQ that took place back when Operative/Scoundrel DPS trees were viable. People didn't just threaten to cancel subscriptions, no sir. There was full on emotional collapse bordering on suicidal tendencies. I think EAware felt kind of bad about how they overreacted to the QQ, which inevitably resulted is the utter destruction of an entire class, so they made up for it with the heal tree. lol yea.. That makes me laugh a little inside. Needless to say... If you babies want to cry your way to a nerf for Smashers then your gonna to need to up your game. This QQ is just weak. Weak!

Has it ever been established whether or not Expertise works for companions? I think Treek does pretty well, currently in dps aug'd 66 pve gear, heal stance. Was thinking about putting her in full Conq heavy power/surge with a little alacrity on top. Dunno though..

I like all of it.. Great update, thanks BW!

I'm a little confused.. I launched the game and was given a small patch... 300mb or so.. I click play and am currently in game... If I log out now and don't touch it 'til tomorrow I am safe from reinstalling the entire thing? Or am I screwed cause after the small patch I clicked play?

I meant the [Weekly] Spoils of war. Usually its 9 wins to complete it. Now it's 15.

Just got in game and straight off I notice.. No PVP!! lol Also my Weekly Warzone Daily is showing 6/16 complete.. iirc isn't it 9 wins to complete the Weekly?

Screwed up and released it early, maybe? No word because they're all trying to figure out what to do now. However 300mb seems sort of small, doesn't it?

OK!! So maybe a bit harsh. Not that it's not fun. I think PoT5 is a great server, it's just not for the weak. I love Have a Nice Day, they rock and are fun. I just think it would be nice not to have such a large gap, if you catch what I mean. More even WZ's during peak. But we do have nutballs after dark and that sorta makes up for it. lol

I haven't really played on any other servers, but from what I see PoT5 is like the bad neighborhood of SWTOR. If you can't roll with the bad boy yardies (psychopaths) after about 7pm edt then you definitely don't want to be hangin' about after dark. Faction balance is crazy.. I would be putting it modestly if I said 3:1 Imp to Pub. It's probably more like 5:1 at the end of the day. I do 8 maybe 10 WZ's a night Imp side.. Wont see a single Pub. Every WZ I do on Pub side is v. Imp. I also notice that after about 7pm WZ's are almost always complete blowouts. If your team is going to lose it's going to be murderous. Expect to take that beat down face planted in the dirt. AND your going to know its coming the first 15 seconds in to the match. You either take it or quit like a pansy. Come on over it's good times! I promise.

This, but I admit.. I do agree with the dude that does it for fun. Purely entertainment purposes. I have done the Voidstar thing where I backpedal while pulling 3 people away from the door. Knowing full well I put myself at a huge disadvantage watching my team mate set the charge. It entertains me. Then I die.

I played a sentinel, mostly combat and watchmen spec, for quite a while. I use to get a little frustrated sometimes with what I thought was a crap ton of CCs in WZs. This was pre 2.0.. I didn't think it was game breaking, but it felt pretty bad sometimes. Some sessions I couldn't even get through a single rotation the whole match without getting locked up. Other times it wasn't so bad. After 2.0 I decided to retire the sentinel for a bit and check out some other classes, check sig. I noticed that I am not as effected by CC on these classes as I was on my sentinel. Obviously there are many factors that could cause this, but sure felt like I had to really work to keep that sentinel moving. Not so much with my other classes. Maybe I was just a bad sent. lol

I see more mara's, snipers, and pyrotechs marked than healers.. Marks floating around everywhere. Watch cast bars!! For the giggles sometimes I start a round healing on my concealment operative just to get marked. Having 4 cavemen chase me around with glowbats is quite funny. Can't say this helped any, but I suppose for a few minutes it was 4 less monkeys beating on a real healer, and I get luffs.

Small arms fire in the distance.. Lets do this thing already.

/signed This is the petition to nerf Operatives, right?

This ^^

I can't really speak to the guilds question, but PoT5 is slightly Imp heavy. All in all though it's not that bad. I play mainly pub and in my experience we seem to be the slight underdog here.

Look everyone!! I'm important!! I'm in a guild! I need to tell everyone! Now that I have been accepted among a very small portion of the community, It is my duty to let you all know that YOU SUCK!! cereal bizness bro What do you care? We don't care.