"Skill" is not quantifiable. There are too many variables to accurately balance anything with it.

Now I will be in white armor instead of green while getting chain CC'd and roled by premades. Huzzah!

Objective points are stupid. You can directly be involved in a huttball score and get no points. Everyone at a turret gets 2000 objective points, even if they stood there "attacking things." You can deliver a crucial CC to allow for a bomb plant, and get no points. I vote for someone who did poorly/got in late and needs extra valor/comms. That's what I do.

I have no trouble topping damage charts with a Madness sorc. Do I get blown up by multiple enemies? Of course, everyone does (even a marauder). Class balance is fine, warzone balance is not. When its competitive its fun. When its not, you feel like a worthless lump of sith who gets two shot every spawn.

The only defense of TOR PvP at level 50 left is "lulz L2P n00b." Other than that, its a disaster and fundamentally un-fun. I don't blame the premades, I blame the epic failure of ranked warzones. What are they supposed to do, other than troll new players and drive them away from the game? Bioware sewing the seeds of its own PvP's destruction.

Just goes to prove how "hardcores" will blame "casuals" for ANYTHING! Forget premades completly destroying level 50 pvp, it must be those casuals who cant compete due to not buying a voice chat server and powering each other to full war hero! Those casuals are all to blame!

I simply do not get their decisions. I know they are smart people, but like, maybe they hit their head on a shelf before putting this in the new patch? Are they trying to frustrate people who ground out full war hero?

Hey, they're about to hop into the suffering that is 50 pvp. Let them have their 5 minutes of glory.

If left alone they do amazing damage. Trouble is, everyone knows their garbage in PvP and attacks you. If only we as a PvP community could agree to just collectively leave mercs alone, as an act of mercy and respect for their suffering.

PTs are just poorly balanced. Tanks and APs suck in PvP, Pyros are good burst but nothing else. The class just needs to be looked at, its all over the place.

Two pulls giving you 1/4th a resolve bar is just idiotic. Stuns are fine, give us immunity to said stuns so people don't chain stun you to death. I've had sages literally stun me 4 times in a row without evne attacking. It makes PvP pointless and stupid. It's common knowledge that resolve is only good for looking at in the spawn. It's useless. Make it not useless, and it would be fine.

It isn't broken, just designed poorly and perhaps made by a person who enjoys making others suffer. Or perhaps it is broken, but TOR PvP is so full of CCs it hardly matters without a complete overhaul of the system.

Hurray for textual confidence boosting!

I can top DPS charts and get over 300k protection on my PT with a healer, and I was level 32. I think its fine... Also, if all else fails, go pyro and roll the map.

My top wish? Control CCs. Control Crowd...Controls. It goes against the core values of their game. Limit them and let people kill each other. Stop making players helpless for extended periods of time.

Is the OP on drugs? I hope so, at least that would excuse the blatant misinformation.

That Bioware hasn't responded is depressing beyond belief. The PvP on my server is ruined. I can only play on weekends, and its premades quite literally every.single.game. Its awful. The PvP is utterly ruined. And bioware does nothing. Oh well.

I can see making it optional, I guess. But TBH the scoreboard is like the only thing that even gives me a tiny bit of fun in warzones anymore. It would be foolish to associate the scoreboard and those who do not try at the objective.

I tasked myself to only hit the auto-attack button and my defensive abilities on a noob powertech and I finished second on the DPS charts. The end?

All CCs should give immunity for a certain amount of time and the break should also give immunity. There is no reason I should be pulled by a sorc, stunned, and then spiked. I'm a sith warrior, not a pin ball. I have a feeling that if they removed all the CCs, they would realize how amazingly unbalanced the damage is between the classes.

When I'm playing huttball the first thing that people do to me ALWAYS is stun. Always. I dont even blame them, but the PvP is so CC heavy that you can't even get your first attack off before you're flash banged, crotch kicked and knifed. Either make the CC break give immunity, or simply take some CC's out of the game. This is a game about feeling heroic, not sitting helpless watching your toon be absolutely pulverized.

Simple as this, and I cant believe a designer didn't think of this: Stories end. Period. You need something else, and I cannot understand why they didnt know it would be PvP to fill that void for most people seeing as its the easiest thing to get into at max level. Also, to the person above who said there was no statistical advantage to any class, you just made that up. It's funny if it was a joke. If it was serious, you're wrong. End of story. I play a marauder, have since beta (spare me the FOTM thing) and even I rage all the time. Its just the design of the PvP. The most powerful sith next to the emperor, me, is getting perma CC'd in an acid bath and getting kicked in the junk all while a PT runs in circles around me lighting me on fire. I cannot possibly imagine how butt hurt some of the weaker classes are.

I am starting to think the designers of TOR PvP want us to suffer. They're Sadists. It is literally painful everytime I do my daily. I physically suffer from how lousy it is. It befuddles me even on the basic level, that in a game designed around making the player feel heroic that PvP is so CC heavy. There is nothing less heroic than being pulled into an acid path and perma CC'd to death. Who in their right mind thinks its working as intended. I'm not saying it cant be fun, but that requires a lot of work on the user end and an amazing acceptance of losing.

That's another thing - at level 50 there is currently, quite literally, nothing besides pvp to do solo. I am not unwilling to group but I dont really want to join a guild, making operations unattainable, which is fine, if there was something else to do. Bioware, please do something for solo players. AoC's solo instances would work fantastically with TOR's storytelling mechanics. But the fact that you exclude solo players from ranked warzones? What? Are you trying to make me rage quit?

Listen, if I went to work, and I had been working on this project for 2 months, I'd been hyping my clients about it - and I showed up 5 hours before they were expecting to get their goods, and say "Sorry, I totally lied, what I said I would give you I'm not going to give you, because I screwed it up." Frankly, I would get fired. Stop sucking up to bioware. They screwed up, and if you cant even accept that they screwed up, you are living in candy land. Them screwing up != me quitting, but come on fanboys, this is a screw up.