wait what? 500 hours is probably close to how much time ive spent pveing in an entire expansion (wotlk) in wow. and that is doing relevant hard content including sarth +3, yogg, HM colisuem, and arthas all on 25 man.

i get mostly void star, so ill trade ya OP

so...everyone who agrees with you is awesome, but the vast majority of people who think assassins/maras are OP are nubs. for your own safety, please get off your high horse. not to mention "fearing" a class would imply 1v1, which does not matter unless you are a stealther.

if a tank pt gets focused, unless he jet charges out of there he is going down in seconds. energy shield is just as effective as sorc bubble without guard or heals on the pt. only time energy shield is worth a darn is if you have guard, taunt, and healing on you. other than that, if you pop it at say....50% hp you will only mitigate about 2k damage from the CD. the difference in survivability between my pyro pt and my CP pt is marginal at best except for jet charge, which has saved my bacon tons of times. in fact, a sorc has a better chance of surviving a focus train by himself than a pt. sorcs escape getting pulled into 30+ players in ilum all the time, pts have to sit there and take it if they are not tank or tank/dps hybrid as pts have zero escape tools baseline.

grinding for gear is normal, but there are a few things about swtor that are highly abnormal. 1. the gear difference between a new level 50 and bm is something you would expect after a game has been out for YEARS with multiple new teirs of armor introduced. to put it in wow terms, its about the difference between a new player and someone in pvp gear 4 seasons ahead. 2. the gear grind was atrocious. at LEAST 125 hours (more like 200-250) to get full BM before the many changes. now, i do think they are going a bit far in the other direction.

sorcs are extremely good in huttball. actually they are mandatory in huttball. as for void and civil war? they are a balanced class. 1v1 is meaningless unless you are a stealther. i dont agree with the nerfs, but sorcs are by far not the worst class in competitive pvp. actually they are better in competitive than non competitive.

true enough although to be fair people use BH when they mean merc merc when they mean pt BH when they mean pt and so on and so forth. it gets confusing at times when people commonly use BH, pt, or merc improperly.

well, pts are pretty easy to play since they only have 4 attacks and very few tools at their disposal. which is why i rerolled to a jugg (non rage)

i just showed you screenshots, of the first game after we got into this argument, where half of my team had under 12k hp, even with endurance buff. you ASKED me to post screenshots, WHY are you still arguing? I have provided PROOF, you HAVENT. you can #$$%^ing see my character is not naked in the screenshots and even how much hp i have because i dont have raid bars for the enemy team? generally im too busy...you know...FIGHTING to post a screenshot if im attacking one. what? did you want me to basically afk the game just to get some screenshots of the enemy team? and i did include a screenshot of one enemy member....i think. the powertech i was talking about. in my screenshots, the ones with ~11.5k hp were level 21, 23, 43, and 45. i have gear that is 8 levels old, because i havent found a single upgrade for that slot. luckily im wearing 4 orange pieces of gear, and it is easier to keep those up to date than a non modifable piece of gear without crafting. even the GTN pickings are slim on my server. i have PROVEN that it is common for there to be a 3k spread between the casuals and the twinks. sometimes even more. and you know that they will have much better stats too. easily 5-10% more crit and 20% more surge is well within reason

some classes get most of their useful tools by 25 or so. ill admit that the 10-19s are kinda against the wall. but my assassin still kicks arse, and he is only in the mid 20's since he has most of his useful tools. same goes for my pt. both of those classes i could play to their near max even at low level. my jugg, on the other hand, at 39 is still missing quite a few tools. hell he was painful to play as until late 20s or so, probably the least useful class ive played as in the 10-25.

here we go, first pug game, tons of screenshots! its a good thing this happens every game and is easy to prove. now, its been YEARS since ive posted a screenshot, and....i dont really keep up with this stuff. but here we go http://imageshack.us/g/822/screenshot2012040614595.jpg/ for those who want the short version, half of my team has around 11500 hp. the worst part is, thats AFTER the endurance buff for some of them. and there was one powertech with 14800 hp, level 49 of course. and he didnt even have an endurance buff (no idea why since he is a powertech.....), so his hp would probably be around 15500 with that buff. granted, i got LUCKY this time and didnt run into a premade! holy crap!

sigh. let me queue up some pvp on my alt and take some screenshots.... EDIT: this might take awhile, queues are long

there is not much point anymore now that people have ruined the 10-49 bracket. beforehand it was a nice place to have some fun solo regardless of what level or gear level you were at. but of course, eventually a group of a##hats will find a way to ruin this for everyone because they are completely skill-less and need a major advantage over others in order to kill people. now, ill admit that in wow there were points where i kept my alt in a bracket to pvp in exclusively, but i did not twink him. and the big reason why i did that was because that class/spec performed great in the lower pvp brackets but took a nosedive at the max level.

....most of my teammates have ~11000-11500 hp. only the "geared" ones have 12.5k. and by "geared" i mean having green/blue gear that is within 5 levels. course, usually most of my teammates are under level 25. btw, your 14k is within my 3-4k mark.

the 10-49 bracket, at least on my server, is nearly as bad as the 50 bracket now. beforehand, you could have a lot of fun solo queueing in the 10-49 bracket even if you had crap gear/low level. now im seeing more and more "twink" low level guilds who are all 49 and have 3-4k more hp than everyone else and form premades every game. now the low bracket pvp feels just like 50 pvp. extremely frustrating to solo queue since every game is a premade, forcing you to premade if you want to get the dailies done.