This ^ At least with 4's you can usually come up with some quick tactics. It's also a lot easier to adapt to your teammates actions and assist them even if they are going off the plan.

People that can't handle a five minute arena shouldn't be queuing for PvP in any format. When I hear all this QQ it just tells me that person must be really awful at PvP. Anyone who is decent in this game welcomes the chance to carry an arena team to victory. I'm not a big fan of hypergate but I'm not going to ask for it to be in a separate queue. I realize the moment you start allowing people to specifically select the wz's they want to queue for is the moment queue times quadruple.

Agreed, why is it so expensive when you can't even use it cross faction. To me this is the whole point in obtaining legacy gear.

Yup me too...

I'm just wondering how it compares to questing or flashpoints when using full legacy buffs and WZ boost on a double XP weekend?

Does anyone have a link to a recording of the stream? I'd really like to hear what they had to say regarding this issue. I find it's a pretty big deal considering the season's about to end and I'm sure everyone wants to know how they compare, at least I certainly do.

This.

DPS Operatives stand out as the most useless in ranked.

This 100% especially point two. I think it is psychologically damaging to some viewing an animation of their virtual self being knocked flat on their *****, even if its for a measly 1.5 seconds. They are not op now and will be a joke come 2.7..... this coming from a non operative

This!

Let me reiterate, I do enjoy playing this game. I especially like the main story lines for the classes I have played so far. What I am saying is that in mmo's, end game content mostly revolves around rewards. Why keep doing the same ops over and over? The first time is fun to experience the new content but after that it's pretty much for the reward. In PvP, which I find very enjoyable, it is similar at end game. I played more before I completed my Obroan set then I did after. Anyways, I do enjoy the game play, but I believe the rewards enhance my enjoyment by providing goals.

The simple fact is that in mmo's you need rewards as motivation. Sure people play just for the enjoyment but what keeps them coming back is the reward at the end of the tunnel. Just look at the enormous increase in ranked play since the rewards announcement. When you give everything to everyone then you really are destroying the whole reason people keep coming back and invest time into this game. If your guild is top tier and puts in weeks of work to down the hardest content in the game they should be rewarded for their efforts with exclusive items. The same goes for PvP. I think putting items on the CM is a bit short sighted. Sure they will get a nice immediate return but are at the same time destroying what keeps people actively playing... The reward. /signed

Anyone else thinking how ridiculous it's going to look with an entire fleet riding around on rancors??? Good luck trying to click on mission terminals or the GTN, lol.

Well Friday/early next week has come and gone.... Would be nice to see something on this.

Really all this is going to do is have concealment ops go back to being the most under represented spec.

I really like the idea behind this class, you know being an operative for imp intelligence is pretty cool, but there is no denying now that Assassin is just plain better. I've tried to stick with the operative class since the start but it seems the community as a whole can't deal with us being at all relevant. The QQ'ing was insane over a 1.5 second stun that you needed to fully spec into. So we're pretty much screwed because as soon as we get any sort of buff that allows us to kill a single target (maybe) before getting blown up, the community cries out and BAM nerfed again...

I don't get all this crying about operatives... They are finally relevant in both PvP and PvE but definitely not over powered. In PvP no one played a concealment op before the patch because they were terrible, now they can maybe kill one person before getting wrecked. They have great burst with the trade off being no good defensive cooldowns. A lot of complaints are probably due to the influx of ops in wz's and no one likes to see their toon fall to the ground... even if it's only for 1.5 seconds. Honestly if they removed that animation it would probably stop a lot of the whining. Basically the point I'm making its that operatives are very easily countered in PvP but do have the ability to pray on the weak with their stealth and great burst. People just have to give it a bit of time and learn how to counter them. PS: I don't main a operative so I'm speaking objectively.

I really don't get this, I love strategic element to an arena match instead of the usual zerg fest in 8v8's. I think it really it adds a different element to the usual kill until you can cap gameplay. Also it helps with learning your classes best single target damage rotation instead of just spamming AoE damage for big numbers on the scoreboard. The biggest thing that doesn't make any sense to me is how much complaining there is about reg arenas when they are by far the quickest wz's in the game... So even if you’re not a fan, if you get an arena pop you know that win or lose the match will be finished in approx 4-5 mins.

Thanks for the quick reply. I hope this is the case because we all know how streaky ranked pvp can be (especially solo queue). I wouldn't want to ever feel like, "Oh, I've reached my goal now I can't queue up anymore in case I go on a losing streak and drop down a tier right before the season ends". It would be great to get some official word on this. Has anyone heard if they plan on releasing details regarding how it will all work?

Just a quick question on the ranked pvp rewards to be handed out at the end of season 1. Will you be placed in a tier based on your rating as of season end or will it be based on your highest achieved rating throughout the season?

I can say this to true for the Battlemaster's Eliminator's Chestguard as well.

I'm a Carolina Parakeet fan.... spent a lot of time grinding my BM set of Eliminator which is only good for the 4 piece HIB crit buff and will be useless after 1.2 ... I've never complained about this game but now I just feel defeated and will unsub if this makes it to live servers... I don't expect anyone to care and I'm not trying to QQ but simply stating how I feel... Why pigeon hole people into "pure" builds??? I love creative hybrid builds but its seems I'm not allowed to play them......

Bioware if possible, please address this issue.

This needs to be addressed. Signed and bumped.