Seeing that you are under a taunt is pretty easy - the purple icon on your debuffs bar - which you should really be enlarging a tad if you take your PvP seriously enough to ask about taunts on the forums. Often there will be a max of two tanks in a game - they will be the ones with 10k more HP than everyone else most of the time - excluding PvE heroes looking for free relics. Using target markers is a good way to mark healers and tanks up and then you know who to focus. In reality this is above average tactical behaviour for pugs/regs but is PvP 101 for pre-mades or ranked. Often going after a tank is a waste anyway, you could probably hurt him more by focussing the healer(s) and forcing him to guard swap (obviously this is thinking along the lines of the tank you are against being half competent) Most pug tanks just spam everything and fail to do over 150k protection and never peel so its moot anyway. Good question overall, though maybe the way its worded generated the PvP community animosity.

I have no idea what your point is here. The PvP community gets next to NO attention, and you say "REGULAR" a lot, and in caps, so does that mean there is a PvP stream we should tune into to communicate with Bioware that the PvP community is un-aware of? If so please share your insight. Snave is one of the more popular and entertaining EU streamers. The interview gave nothing more than some dialogue between the Operative class rep - who happens to be a PvP player, and the Community Manager for the game. Remind us all again what you would rather had happened? The answer would have been nothing in place of this. The community suggested this first, not Snave from what I recall.

My main had the no symbols spelling back when TRE became the destination in server merges, and I have been harbouring rage ever since. When Bioware did the "release old inactive names" thing a couple of years ago it still didn't come up. I check EVERY day and have never seen fake Ekul online, ever. If anyone is in possession of or knows the culprit, I offer cash money credits for never having to use ' again. Eku'l. LF Ekul.

I'm a lifetime Juggernaut, and I approve this post. ED is over the top, it needs a small reduction in the amount it heals per stack and its in line with other cooldowns. Have you SEEN how many slows Madness has? Oh and the uncleansable dots? PLEASE give up on the Yuggernaut hate, its like a nagging wife who is just not going to give up.

Instead of PVP, how about all the people crying about premades can just jump into matches against and with bots like in Timesplitters. (Yeah fkn Timesplitters, what?) By doing this they can then get the instant gratification by crushing their opposition in a never ending cycle of spawns and faux glory. INFACT... If premades in PVP are exploits, then premades in PVE must be too. In which case PVE content needs to be with NPC's on your side too. INFACT... Lets just ALL go and play Timesplitters against bots on our PS2's.

This, so, so, so much. But then the people complaining about premades have demonstrated they don't understand basic logic, and clearly have no social skills, so I fear this may be in vain.

Why would bolster apply a rating increase to match a PVE gear rating? That makes absolutely no sense to me, please someone with some insight fill me in on that... Either way its all massively irrelevant right? - Because in PVP have the best PVP gear. When not in PVP (if people do that?) wear PVE gear if you have any. Either way it seems irrelevant.

No. If you have correct current tier PVP gear bolster does not (should not) change any of your stats. I believe bolster simply looks for gear with expertise in all slots bar augments and decides whether to bolster or not. If you have full Expertise PVP gear, you do not get bolstered in PVP.

I blame this guy.

I was "forced" to play dps in kickballs by Mylex a couple of weeks ago. Irony being if we had had a tank we wouldn't have been crushed as hard.

My price is low, and so are my standards*. 3 years old, one careful owner. Has previously been used for PVE - cleaned thoroughly and full valet after conversion to full time PVP. Every day runner so mileage may increase. Will node-guard, will complain about it, can taunt, intercede, focus target and will guard-swap/peel in exchange for heals. Comes with stims, med-packs, adrenals, grenades, off-spec dps function, voice communications feature, full key-binds with added extra mouse turning, and may or may not have republic mirror alt with legacy shells. No patience for AFK'ers, baddies, ********s and people who cap a node then leave it to go and die horribly elsewhere. First to see will most likely get told to go away. Available to view after 8pm BST. *standards may not be low.

In short, no. Expertise over all else for pvp. Having 40k HP in PVE gear in PVP you will die very, very quickly. As long as your old PVP gear has 2018 Expertise, use that. You should be able to replace it with Obroan very quickly. Don't worry about your stats until you get into Brutalizer gear and even then your skill and ability to comprehend/play the basics matters more

I sent 90% of my jug dps gear over to my guardian last night to see if it was any different. Personally I found there to be less communication repside (I know right?) and I encountered a fairly even w/l ratio over about an hour and a half. That being said I think I lost 2 matches all night on impside, but that was as a tank not dps. I would say its about the people you play with, but I have basically been solo que for the last 2 weeks and found little difference - time of day is a BIG factor too.

It's just RNG depending who you get on your team and who you get on the opposition. Yes, there are probably more bads than "goods" but most of the old guard have left the game if not just the server. The community is damaged because PVP guilds are irrelevant now there is no 8v8. Four man guilds? psh. Group up with people you know and cross your fingers you get some good pugs. There is NO point raging hard about pugs in normal because its pugs in NORMALS. If your team are morons or just bad ignore it, get on with your own game then tell your story on the forum after, because they sure as hell wont care in the match and raging wont help your performance either. On the off-chance you get a good team and a decent opposition, enjoy it. I got a half decent rep opposition team in Quesh Huttball last night and yeah we got beaten, but we put up a fight and they made some epic errors. As long as its fun just get on with it.

I would transfer to tofn for more ranked match opportunities, but I have a soul and I would like to remain as is. More pops doesn't mean anything other than more pops. tofn still has many, many bads.

what day one is this exactly?

At this moment in time, I don't see why anything needs to be done to improve defensive stats, I don't see many PVP tanks complaining at the moment (bads aside, but I think we have covered that). Guard is probably a bit OP if I am really nit-picking, but then if you are talking normal WZ's it doesn't matter overly, if its ranked, I think it works out ok IF the team you are on and team you are against know what they are doing. TLDR I think PVP tanks are fine.

It takes someone with sense and humility to cede a point in a discussion (especially on these forums), so +1 redemption points to you for that. The point has been made, so stop ragging on the guy and get back to learning to play or complaining about class balance.

4/10 will troll again. 3 for Top Gun Theme, 1 for not making any spelling mistakes.

I think that's a fair assessment, the key thing really is most of the time if people are attacking the tank then they are attacking the wrong thing. (assuming the tank is good!) Burning the dps or healer said tank is guarding will hurt the tank if the person under guard is, say wearing pve gear. (a VERY common occurrence in regs on TRE) To be a PVP tank you have to be three things. A masochist, not obsessed with killing red, and full of HP.

I am a "career" tank. I have played a Juggernaut since launch. I played through mostly PVE until S&V NiM came out, I then switched full time to PVP, having casually played PVP before since launch. I play in a PVP guild, on a PVE server, because the EU PVP server is dead. My jug is in full Brutalizer, and augmented fully for endurance, with a stim that takes me to a shade over 42k HP. I have the 2pc tank and 2pc dps set bonuses. The reason I say this is because it will show you that I have played one or two Warzones in the last few months, nothing more. As people (who have clearly got more experience of BEING a PVP tank than you) have said, the difference between augmenting for mitigation stats and augmenting for endurance is not even worth discussing, as mitigation stats will not be effected nor effective enough by the small numbers provided by augments to make a difference to ALL OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF DAMAGE PVP OPPONENTS PUT OUT. It's that simple. All I can assume is that the quality of PVP tanks on your server is atrocious, or that you are just talking utter nonsense to troll the OP.

I learnt to bind with a Nostromo/Naga combination about a year ago, having used a nostromo and normal mouse before I went full binds. What I found is a UI setup that mimics the layout of buttons you use is a great visual indicator to help you build up the muscle memory. This is a screenie of what my UI looked like whilst learning (ignore pvp rage chat ) http://i.imgur.com/FZZw1gZ.jpg

It is the case for Juggernaut full PVP tanks. Mitigation stats (in PVP) for the extra amount you will get for trying to augment in a PVE style manner will not show a worthwhile increase in TTK when compared to Endurance. PVE damage is much more sustained and designed to "match" better with the various forms of mitigation. PVP you will be getting all sorts of damage from all types of sources, Endurance is a balancer for that unpredictable incoming fire. In PVP where your main job is to be a pain in the arse to everyone else - or in ranked where your job is to neutralise the other tank, guard swap and manage your stuns for hardswaps - Endurance is what is going to make the difference. When your guarded target is getting focussed you are going to take a lot of damage from guard, and endurance is what will give your healer (and your cooldowns) the best chance of keeping you up, mitigation won't help you enough there. For "normals" its mostly irrelevant, for proper ranked, go endurance - I only seriously play a Juggernaut, as far as other tanks go, you would need to ask them, but the logic should remain roughly similar.

Translation: the people who are just going to get dominated by the established teams who only que to crush the new teams with this weeks latest fotm. ? Solo que is just for fun and definitely should not be taken seriously, I'll give you that. But don't talk nonsense.

Aren't Huttball 1&2 and all the Arena's classed as "one warzone" each in the matchmaking map selection system?