I posted this elsewhere but this seems appropriate as well. You actually CAN remove the armor and expertise portion of PVP gear. I'm not sure if it's a bug, or whatnot, but it is doable. Make sure to have a armor mod of any kind in inventory (I use a lvl 8 green I picked up for 100 credits) Take your pvp item, place it in inventory. Ctrl right click on pvp item as if to modify it. Ctrl right click your spare armor mod. You will notice that the mod jumps into the armor spot in your pvp piece (it was previously invisible). Now drag that mod that just appeared out of the pvp piece and into your inventory. You'll be prompted to pay 28k credits or whatnot, and when you accept you will have a purple armor mod that you can stick into any armor. Customize any orange pieces into pvp gear.

This. EvE should be the benchmark other companies strive for in terms of open world pvp. But having a great system like this demands losses, because when there is no penalty for dying, there is no incentive to defend and win. In EvE you can lose years (hell hundreds of man years in some cases) of work in a war. War decs would be excellent. The main thing we need are totally open planets with territory that guilds can control. With sense of ownership will come the need to defend, especially if controlling said territory has a benefit. In EvE controlling territory gives easy resources. You CAN go out into 0.0 that you don't own and gather there, but you'll likely die before you can bring it back, so you mine in your corp/alliance controlled space in relative saftey.

You actually CAN remove the armor and expertise portion of PVP gear. I'm not sure if it's a bug, or whatnot, but it is doable. Make sure to have a armor mod of any kind in inventory (I use a lvl 8 green I picked up for 100 credits) Take your pvp item, place it in inventory. Ctrl right click on pvp item as if to modify it. Ctrl right click your spare armor mod. You will notice that the mod jumps into the armor spot in your pvp piece (it was previously invisible). Now drag that mod that just appeared out of the pvp piece and into your inventory. You'll be prompted to pay 28k credits or whatnot, and when you accept you will have a purple armor mod that you can stick into any armor.

You noticrd that too? No keybinds! At least grav round isn't in every slot like some tracer missile spammers must have.

I've had games with 10 or 11 people per side as well. These also usually (not always) result in not being counted for dailies/weeklies, but the valor counts.

It's not hard to swap holding said points. Look at Tol Barad in WoW, you'd have battles every 4 hours or whatnot, and the zone would be flipped back and forth between factions. The Ilum quests should be either kill quests, or they need to totally revamp the system and make it worth more than a bag of loot to hold the zone.

It's passable for a PvE game. I was hoping for more territory control and epicness of owpvp, which is what was advertised. Mechanics need tightening up as well, some abilities are delayed by a few seconds. WZs are fine, if uninspired. Class balance is questionable at best, but need more fully geared 50s to confirm suspicions.

If you are either Republic or Empire, just use Alt f4 on Sarlacc. But it only works for Republic or Empire, anything else you have to not use it.

Dude, just kite them out of tentacle range. L2P or go back to WOW.

Yeah I've had this happen too. Most notably when racing to a health boost. I see myself getting there first, but never get the health. Ping is a healthy 30-40 always. Also, every so often when a match ends, and everyone gets frozen, we all get moved over slightly (1-2m) as if the game corrects positions at that point.

I'm up to 9 relics. Can't wait for tomorrow.

I never said it was balanced, I was giving advice on how I managed to find a solution that is suitable for me. I have no doubt pvp dmg, not just from OPs/scoundrels will be tweaked hundreds of times. It happens in every MMO.

I was getting killed by the stun/opened as well. Now with 400 expertise and 19k hp I can actually put up a fight and win occasionally. When I finish off my pvp gear and have 23-5k hp it shouldn't be much of a problem. Tank spec vanguard, here is my strategy As soon as you hear the opener (those knives have a distinct sound, not sure how the scoundrel opener sounds) cc break, pop aoe stun. Gut OP to make it bleed, pop shield, pop medpack, toss sticky nade as an extra timed dmg dealer in case he stealths away. Proceed to make generous use of trinkets/adrenals/pvp buffs to burn him down faster than he gets you. If I survive until his armor penetration buff wears off, I'll win.

I'm sad watching all of these crazy burst dmg videos. As a vanguard with 400 expertise, I have to wait for the sun and moon and planets align to get my 2500 medal. Most matches it doesn't happen.

How long did WoW have no BGs for? And when it did there were 2 or 3 to choose from as well. There are 3 here. There are many things to complain about, there being only 3 BGs is not one of them, imo.