Nah, dont need that. Its your job to die as fast as possible so the mara and shadow geeks can sit in their little basements, rub their tiny, little epeen and get a brief feeling of selfconfidence in an otherwise pointless existence. Working as intended. Unless youre talking about actually paying to play one though lol. Why anyone would do that I have no idea. Almost all commandos left are employees of BW atm.

neither, your job is to be fodder for the real classes.

Infinitely better? If someone hit you 20 times for 10 damage you will take 200 damage. If you dodge 10%, it means you will only get hit for 18 attacks for 180 damage. With a 20% reduction, this equals 144 damage taken. If you dodge 5%, it means you will get hit for 19 attacks for 190 damage. With a 25% reduction, this equals 145 damage taken. 0,5% more damage taken is hardly far better...

I will NOT come back, as SWTOR is the single worst MMO experience Ive ever had. Was grindy leveling, with a couple ok storylines here and there. dark/lightside choices was a nice touch though. PvP, which is my main focus were the worst Ive ever seen. Had no idea any developers that are not retarded could design such a failure as Ilum. I had some hopes for 1.2, so I decided to stick around. However, when 1.2 hit, it not only completely ruined and gimped every single spec I could choose from as a commando, making me from being an average class in PvP, to be the absolute bottomfeeder/dummy, with no hopes of taking any equalgeared/skilled class out in PvP, BW also completely ruined my gear (2 full sets of BM). I had modded BM gear, and 1.2 basically made it the same stats as the fresh 50 gear you could buy for 20-30k a piece. Considering how many hours I put into that gear Im just shocked that a game company would be able to grief their paying customers to such an outrageous extent. Obviously I have left the game, and I solemnly swear I will never buy any product made by Bioware ever again, and I urge other people to follow suit. The amount of customer grieving BW have caused with this game, is just beyond repair.

Basically this. Commando/merc is a dead class atm. unless you are a maschosist or something. Its simply not fun. I dont mind playing the underdog, but this is ridiculous. Commando/merc got absolutely nothing to contribute to WZs anymore. Reroll or quit. Thats your options given by Bioware.

So, what youre basically saying here is that only 1% of the playerbase have worse score than you. I feel your pain bro :/

Dude, any commando with a shrivel of self-respect have already left the game. Why should BW care about the few die hard fanbois that are left?

Ive seen a couple of them can still do damage and also heal if I choose not to interrupt them. This needs to be fixed.

Yup, marauders are currently balanced around 1v2 scenarios.

Actually Im not.. Thats why I can see its perfectly clear that commando/merc have nothing to bring to the table that other classes cant do infinitely better. Playing a gimped out class that no matter how "skillfulled" you play will get facerolled against random rauders does not contribute towards my perception of fun and is basically why Im not playing this game anymore. Ive played alot of PvP in this and other games and this is the first time Ive played a game with a class with such limited skillset. You simply have no tools to compete with compared to other classes. And now that they have inferior damage too I dont really see why anyone would expose themselves to that misery that is SWTOR PvP atm.

How is this a good build? You dont have the healenhancerskills, so you wont be able to heal yourself sufficiently if being attacked, and you wont be able to kill anything. All you can do is spread around some DoTs from behind a pillar and hope noone notices you. You dont evven have muzzle fluting, which means powershot will have a 2 sec casttime lol... Face it... There are no good BH/Commando specs atm. All trees got annihilated. Why anyone continues to try is impressive and really counts towards your fanboi status. Personally I enjoy DiabloIII/GW2 beta and dont miss SWTOR at all. With the current devs I do not believe SWTOR can survive. Worst gaming experience Ive had since endgame AoC.

As a commando heal my record in a voidstar was 550k dmg taken (before of course the class got removed from the game). I really dont think maras are the one people like attacking. Everyone know they got ridicdonk amounts of defensive CDs, thus you will most likely not get a kill, and thus usually not targeted unless its the last target alive. Commandos are a freebie, because they got zero defensive CDs (25% dmg reduction 10 seconds every 2 min is a fkin joke), and thus a 100% guaranteed kill. Trust me.. You do not know what getting focused means. No serious player would put targetmarkers on marauders.

Had top dmg with up to 600k in certain voidstars, its all about aoe and positioning. Find yourself a nice pillar to be able to LoS behind and ALWAYS keep at least one teammate between you and the enemies to avoid deaths and maximise uptime. If you find yourself on the frontline, reposition immediately. Everyone can spam FA and GR, but AoE is what rakes in the numbers. A well placed mortar volley can score you 25k+ dmg right there (could pre 1.2 anyways, before it got gimped into oblivion). Clusters of enemies = always spam mortar volley, plasma/stick grenade, hail of bolts, pulse cannon. Why hit one target for 3k if you can hit 5 targets for 2k in the same time period? However, I didnt really play much after patch 1.2 though and have unsubbed the game, due to the worst patch in MMO history ruining both my class and my gear.

How is that squishy again? You start with saying they are squishy and then go on to list up a dungheap of defensive abilities that maras have that no other class can even compare to. As a commando I have zero defensive abilities and no way to escape or counter or even interrupt. (25% damage reduction for 10 sec every 2 min does NOT count as it at best lengthens my life with 1 or 2 seconds atm). Maras are ridiculously overpowered atm and you know it. Stop trying to defend it, cause it simply makes no sense.

As many people already have pointed out, most players already changed the enchancements months ago. And I for one saw no reason paying creds to keep the useless acc/alacrity mods, so I obviously destroyed them. So basically reading the patchnotes wouldnt matter squat for this matter. The patch would destroy all the gear youve grinded with blood, sweat and tears for the last 4 months, and theres nothing you could do to stop it. BW just totally screwed me and ALOT of other people off with this crap. This is the most griefing I have experienced in any game. To me it is basically the equivalent of someone hacking my account and stripping all my gear clean. And the funny thing is this is done by the game company itself. Utter horrid.

Gonna be Witchdoctor for me...

Even if you keep saying that to yourself doesnt make it true. Grav round is still the most important ability in our rotation and and our overall damage is thus gimped into oblivion compared to other classes. Have you even seen what maras can do now? I dont even... The reason that 10% advertised damage reduction translates to something like 25% in real play might be due to how the damage modifiers and scaling work for power, expertise etc. Saw the same ***** in Rift too, a seemingly small % reduction in the damage of the skill just snowballed to utterly gimp the damage in half due to how all the modifiers were calculated.

+1 Quoted for truth

To spell it out... Nasdaq and most other leading indices have been soaring since newyears. EA has fallen. Not talking long, long term perspective here, but 4 months of bullmarket is a strong market indeed where i come from. And as some other guy were pointing out. YES, SWTOR is not EAs entire portefolio. BUT it is what is on the investors mind atm regarding the company. And that will affect the shareprice. Thats also why I ask if they have any new titles in the horizon that could change the current sentiment.

Well, some of us actually have jobs besides trolling the forums. Although Im not a financial analyst I do have an MBA, working as a controller. Thus I have a basic understanding of how the market works and dabble in shares for the fun of it. Havent been too much in the american market though. But of course you dont have to participate in this discussion if you dont want to, just thought it could be interesting to hear if there were some other gamers with an interest in shares, and what their thoughts were. Actually gaming companies can be very lucrative investment objects when you play the game and follow the forums. Chances are you have way more information available to you than the poor financial analysts that are set to analyze the company. Had a payday in Funcom when it fell from 50 to 5 after the fail of AoC.

They topped out on 25$ around november in anticipation of SWTOR but have declined steadily since then, it got a slight boost from 18$ to 19$ in february in response to the announcement of 1,7 million paying subscribers. There have not been any investor announcement since then. Stock is now hovering around 16$. I would suspect after the complete fail of patch 1.2, and with diablo 3 coming next month, and GW2 in the horizon the customer base is certain to fall dramatically. The stockprice however have fallen alot in an otherwise strong market, and is now on the same level as before the SWTOR hype. You believe the stock will fall even further or will it even out in anticipation of new titles?

+1 Youre not the only one dude. I logged on to find both my full BM sets being completely useless. Have 9 BM coms banked so i thought i at least could remedy some of that.. But guess what? BM coms are also useless now. Either the devs are intentionally trying to grief and torment their own paying customers, or they are just utter retarded. Cause this is just beyond anything I have seen in any game ever before.

So can you explain to me what is the point of healing if you do more damage as a dps spec, and would anyways be teared to pieces by a single DpS? Wouldnt it then be better teamwise if all healers specced DpS? Any competent team would just instantly focus down the healers, and since healingoutput is less than damageoutput they would win the match. Future of SWTOR for y'all. One of the worst MMO PvP experiences I have ever had tbh.

You really consider a 4 sec stun every 1 min as an "escape ability"?

Just to correctify my first post. The fights now DO NOT last longer. This was a first impression based on the belief that my gear was top notch (full BM). However it seems BW decided to gimp all my gear into oblivion (2 full BM sets), due to them being modded (changed alac/acc for power/surge/crit. putting me on a horrid expertise stat disadvantage compared to the other players. So due to that, even though Im valor 79, Im currenlty geared like a fresh 50 noob. if I were to continue playing this means I would have to grind all my BM gear again starting off from the start, which I obviously dont either have the will or time for, so canceled this farse of a game and preordered D3.