One of the QA testers I hired in Austin did some contract work for Bioware, and from the way this person describes it, Bioware does a pretty good job of reproducing and tracking defects, much better then my company probably does from the sounds of it. I work in the financial industry too and we're legislated to holy hell on all the processes we have to go through. I can guarantee they aren't just throwing software over the wall untested.

I don't trust screenshots. Too many people know how to use photoshop very well.

These are my opinions based off a few hours of play last night in PvP WZ's. I played against a lot of recognizable names, so had a good feeling for how I normally do against them. I was in BM gear with some rakata and columi mixed in before 1.2. HP's were around 17k pre 1.2 and after they are around 16k. I figure everyone got that nerf though so it didn't bother me too much. My survivability has gotten worse. I was dieing a lot more then I normally did. The really big thing that I noticed was that I was always out of energy trying to use the rotation that I used before but adding in overload shot now since it seemed like everything was on CD when I'd go to use it. I thought I would see some bigger hits with BS and HS on my openers, but if there was I wasn't noticing it. Pre 1.2 I had gotten some 4.8k HS openers, the biggest one I saw last night was 3.3k. 4.8k was usually an extreme case but I thought I'd at least get some 4k's in there. Damage out of stealth was a big problem as well, with the CD on BS it felt almost useless to try to go after a player if I wasn't stealthed. Being out of energy a lot, I was using stim boost all the time and consuming my TA so Lacerate wasn't available nearly as much as it used to be either. No one ever likes change, that was pretty much par for the course for me. I tried to go into it with an open mind, but by the end of the night I was pretty bummed about the changes.

Yes you REALLY need to back up your statements with concrete evidence, and not tell us to take your word for it or read the patch notes. Your numbers seem REALLY exaggerated from what I've seen.

I had this happen a couple times when I was heal specced and never put two and two together to figure out why it did. Makes sense now, and definitely seems like a bug.

Who else was thrown when you found out that Blizz was a female?

I'm a concealment operative and the two I primarily use are Doctor Lokin for the heals and Ensign Raina as extra dps when I'm doing a lot of lower level mobs. I mostly pvp so gearing these two up for me is the easiest since their primary stats are cunning and they wear medium armor. I did have to spend some credits on modding weapons for them, but it wasn't too bad.

Who the f** are you even? You're giving yourself too much credit assuming anyone here even knows you?

I don't know that I agree with medal chasing being a negative. I respect that different people play the game for different reasons, and if medal chasing is what floats someone's boat in PvP so be it, who am I or you to dictate how a person should spend their recreation time?