Well crap, I just got mine, and can't really use him now.. same problem

Yep, I moved the components out of my champion/centurian gear into orange pieces, for specifically the chest, boots, and legs... and they no longer granted the second tier set bonus.

The only times I've been tempted to leave due to losing (tempted, but resisted the urge) has been when I join a match where we're already losing, because someone else already quit and made that opening. That's really frustrating. The leavers need to understand that they're hosing other people in the queue.

Well, the gear gap is becoming less of an issue now that you can get Centurion about 5x faster than before. New 50's don't have to be fodder for quite as long. But it's true, if you bracket it based on expertise alone, new 50's would be thrown in with people with PVE gear. It would be better to bracket it by the sum of the item levels, or some such. The easiest for them to code would be Valor Rank, but that doesn't necessarily equate to actual gear, or skill for that matter.

Weapons, name-calling, and cheating, are all encouraged!

Actually I liked one of the other suggestions in the thread. 3 wins or 8 total matches. If they can have two separate completion conditions like that, then I'd be OK with that. I start getting frustrated when it starts taking 9+ matches to get my 3 wins. Sometimes you just have a bad day and your team doesn't do well.

That's an excellent quote, and sums up exactly why I dropped my shield in favor of a focus, and specced out of the Kinetic Ward. The DPS gain may be minimal, but it outshines the damage mitigation, and frustration of constantly re-upping KW.

I love using the taunts, since it's practically free medals, and it also helps my team. But I haven't noticed an easy way to tell who has taunted you. It would be nice if there were an obvious in-world way to see this (not puny icons near your quickbar).

I find this irritating too. I want to use my quest log for things like.. you know... actual quests. I hate having to drop these manually just because it's pushed me to the limit.

Agreed. Healers should be able to get more medals, but it's stupid that self-healing from medpacs and the like count toward it.

I'm noticing this too. It's amazing how much they can heal through. Not just the consulars, but any good healer. Sometimes they don't even fight back, and just heal through the incoming damage.

Hah, I missed that gripe about people playing Shadows. Seriously, play what class you like, and don't moan about others doing the same. I play a Kinetic/Balance Shadow. I use Stealth to get into the fight, and occasionally to escape it. Beyond that, I'm going toe to toe.

Seriously? I'm glad I gave up on Ilum already.

Are you sure about that? It's in the PVP section of the patch notes.

It's a known issue, but it's really more like exploiting a feature rather than a bug. So there's no indication yet as to when/if it might be fixed or improved.