OP, Since you have high valor rank, play huttball a lot, and can get 3 wz wins in a hour, I'm going to guess you're play as an Imp. I do agree that the medals need to be about objectives...the current system leaves some classes in the dust. The medal system heavily favors hybrids. A sniper can have an epic game leading in damage and interrupts on captures, and get 4 medals. But a SI or tank can get 9 medals for a mediocre performance. Hence they get geared much, much quicker but didn't contribute as much. Adding wz debuffs will only further decrease the amount of time Reps play (on most realms at least), as it can easily take 5 hours to get 3 wins as a Rep, and it's just getting worse. More and more pvp reps I know are stopping pvp entirely or swapping to Imp Side. A much bigger and better motivational tool would be to add more rewards to the under represented side so that wzs could approach being balanced. Instead, they're just adding more same faction wzs, meaning there's even less reason to be a Rep. So yes, swtor pvp had much potential but needed massive refinement. However, I doubt it can recover from faction balance issues.

I took my time, and agree leveling up, especially the first character is the best part. People that rushed miss out on a lot.

Next time look for someone wearing a robe, standing about 30 meters behind him and waving their arms....

Dirty fighting works great as a dot up people to prevent capping spec. It also can pull nice damage 250-300k with modest gear, but you don't get a lot of kills or big hits, so not many medals.

Seems like pvp is getting more and more imbalanced due to population/gear/ilum. Perhaps it's time to look at having mixed teams. You already have same faction fighting, why not mixed teams? With some adjustment, you could make every wz a mixed team, thereby removing the constant complaints of bias. You would also need to remove any real rewards from Ilum, so that the dominant faction bias can end or at least be lessened. Just a modest thought. I await the the flames and purple lightning...

I have a lvl 50 Gunslinger, with alts of Vanguard, Sage, Jedi Guardian, and Merc....So this is my opinion based on that. 1. 7 on the storyline. It's decent, if you don't take yourself or your smuggler too seriously. Think Han Solo before ep 4. 2. At least 1 NPC per planet on average to flirt with. Most are flings. You see some again. They're all fun. Even after marrying a companion, I still flirt with NPCs in front of her! 3. Leveling up can be a blast. PVP is problematic, esp as gunslinger. The companions and order of them aren't great if you're gunslinger too. You don't get a healer till Hoth. They're much slower to level than Trooper or Consular also, but if you're going for story then it's fine. On additional note: Smugglers get some of the best cheesy lines in the game. If you like playing as an incorrigible ********, it can be fun.

As a lvl 50 dirty fighting specced gunslinger, I say go Scoundrel. The occasional healing and stealth will save you tons of time while leveling, and be useful in anything else you want to do. And you can still go dirty fighting. The bleeds are delicious in pvp.

I like the concept of cover, but the implementation has been very problematic...especially in regards to pvp. So here's my suggestion on how to make cover worth using, and yet less buggy: 1. Make being behind a cover object give a small damage (10%) buff to the shots that require cover now. Make all shots usable in any stance. Current shots that require cover will can have their damage adjusted so that they do the same damage when in cover after the 10% buff. 2. Cover gives a significant damage reduction (similar to now). 3. Remove the cover bar, and requirement to kneel to being in cover. Animate a kneel if you like, but get rid of the ability to be pulled out of cover by cc effect and the time it takes to get back into cover (esp during pvp). The logic is this: Being behind an object makes you less likely to be hit or take damage (hence the damage reduction), and it may provide a rest point to aim better (slight damage increase).

Anyone who was there KNOWS that it was the wrong thing to be doing. If you don't know why it was wrong, then you really have much bigger issues to learn about in life. Read a children's book and learn a morality lesson or two and stop being a looter.

The punishment will be that Rep quits in droves and Imps play LOTS and LOTS of HUTTBALL! MUuuuahhahaha! You're punished by your sins, not for them.

I've barely begun my BH, but one case... Another quest (diff class) gives the choice of killing a lightside jedi or darkside sith. Lightside npcs are normally considered "Good". But also, any non-harmful npc would be considered at least neutral. That being said, I think many of the choices are really more Lawful/Chaotic choices...and I've seen some choices where the "dark side" choice is the more "good" one. (anything where the choice is...the truth must come out...blegh) But my question is about the obvious evil darkside choices.

You're right. Being good is way, way harder than being bad or evil in game or in RL.

When you make darkside choices for a character, like the major ones of killing a good npc and such, do you feel bad about it any? Do you feel gleeful, detatched, or what?

Why can't I romance my wookie? Or my trooper's M1-4X? Hmph! Actually, my favorite as a smuggler was a certain woman from Alderaan....I hope I get to see her again. Oh, and one from Taris...

Better to wait, than introduce new major bugs. Standard software release policy...They can do a release any day of the week, so I'm sure they'll get to it when they can.

Yeah, on my server, we run into massive numbers of Sorcs all the time, not unusual to see 6 in one wz, but on Rep side we rarely have even one Sage. I guess the consular name didn't sound as cool. So yeah, it's already a problem.

My in game heart belongs to a certain woman from Alderaan... Why can't we marry one of our non-companion love interests? Risha, despite having a great voice, is a bit neutral for my tastes.

Yes, I had that too! I even swapped so that I just do drop down instead of the gumby search thing and it was still horrible. So I swapped to Dirty fighting spec, and don't use it as much, except when I can get pre-set in cover. They need to allow all shots from not in cover, with maybe a small decrease in damage when not in cover.

I had a run of over 35 straight losses...I was about to lose it. But since then, I'm probably 8 of my last 10. It depends who shows up at the moment...and if it's all sub 50s vs near full 50 teams of imps, we're doomed. I think many of the powerleveling pvpers went Imperial because they think the evil side is cool. And they leveled fast so they could pwn noobs by being geared out. They also seem to have more healers, which is always a help. And Sith Sorcs seem a bit OP, while Jedi Sage is almost unheard of on my server. That being said, in games where we have as many leveled and geared players, we win just as much if not more (because we learn to play harder). 50's bracket will help this a lot, but having one side win more will lead to them being better geared and winning even more. I'd wager servers become one side dominate , with the other side stopping play or changing sides because they don't want to lose.

The problem is that on most servers there are groups of 50s who ruin all pvp for everyone else, simply because they got to 50 and got gear first. Now they steamroll and get more gear, while the other side is quitting pvp entirely. More people want a 50's bracket than don't because of this. Maybe you should roll an alt till your server catches up with the number of 50s.

I agree premades always work better, but I'm taking my time getting to 50 to enjoy the story rather than powerlevel. My bigger point/question is what is the trend? If vastly more people went Empire, then pvp will be vastly imbalanced (aside from huttball which can hide how imbalanced it is). Moreover, if this is the trend, it's reason to implement a 50's only bracket, sooner rather than later. The longer they wait, the more people who will quit pvp entirely. I see the trend on my own server, but what's the trend on the others? I so want to look at BW's stats.

Ilum is a good idea of what to look for. On my server it's 15 Imps, 1 Rep.

How is your server doing on win/loss record in the wzs in the last 3 days? I'm mainly curious if Reps are winning on ANY server at all. It's been pretty horrendous lately on mine...

What is the mirror spell to that tracer missile? And what spec on Rep side is that? Cause that just destroys me on my main.

I'll take wookie toss over harpoon anyday. Wookie toss always makes me smile. While the harpoon, that I turned off 2 minutes before, going off...... Corso hasn't been out of the ship since I got Bowdarr. Bowdarr does get better, but lately (late 30s) as a gunslinger, I just take Risha, and blow crap up. Though she does get mad when I flirt with other women.