Yeah that was an awful change. Maras could actually purge net too with the force camo utility. That was hotfixed two days after the xpac, and now force camo just breaks roots instead of purging debuffs like initially proposed. A bug which led to a nerf instead of a bug fix.

Of course not, but this means they do more damage than sorcs or snipers when left to freecast. That is why they are difficult to balance, slight changes can make them too strong very quickly. Some proposed changes have been great ideas, but the capability of mercs will still be dependent on bringing sins and powertechs in line.

Exactly, and those are good threads, not like this nonsense.

Without saying why I'm "talking crap" or proposes any new ideas in this thread. Such poor arguments? How about you actually make one? And I did look you up, that's where I found your constant 1200/1200 season 1-3 ratings. You know, from never playing ranked in season.

Play a ranked game before you complain on the forums. Damage potential matters because if mercs can effectively pull those numbers without ways to shut them down you will see them become overtuned. Mercs are currently the glass cannon ranged. I'm still waiting for any one of you merc players with iqs of room temperature to propose a fix instead of just moaning. Durrrr

When you play any ranged class it cannot be overstated that you CANNOT use abilities at random, CANNOT get mucked about and CANNOT get your limited resources wasted and still do good damage. Hurrrr Durrrr

It's their desire to blame everything else for their failures. Best part, they don't even introduce changes. Most of these threads consist of "bioware, I'm losing games on x class, fix it". Identify the problem, present a solution or multiple solutions. If not, ****.

We have a winner! Stacking shield/absorb on a pt is good, but not for augments. You will live longer with a higher hp pool, a lot longer. Mitigation works well when you are tunneled, but auto crits surpass this so it is just better to take the hp. Also, a quick tip. Shield/absorb works for damage received through guard; whereas, defense rating has no effect. Gear accordingly, gear your toon to your strengths, which should be pretty obvious with a quick look at the tanking tree for PTs/VGs.

Haha welcome to pot5 for the last year. All-galaxy pub toons from going into solo q with a 4s team in comms around midnight eastern. Used to be even worse considering they ran hybrid tank and heals lmao.

That is actually a great idea. What a lot of people misunderstand about mercs is why they are focused in solos. Mercs do ****loads of damage and have electronet. They are a ranged class which gives them an advantage, so with that in mind they can be shut down by melee. They are focused because if you don't, your team will get wrecked. Do they have a get out of jail button? No. But they do have hydraulics energy shield and kolto. Why it is so hard to fix them is they could get out of hand quickly if given a barrier style ability. Allowing them to reset a fight, and reposition after the focus drops is tricky. It may be what they need as it is definitely what snipers do, but I think most people can see that getting out of hand very quickly. They are in a bad spot because melee has be overtuned. Also, I'm not sure why anyone playing a ranged class feels like they are entitled to top the boards in solo q when focused by 3-4 melee. I'm sure they are going to be very viable in 4s once pts/sins are toned down. Seen a lot of people doing well with lightning/arsenal already.

We have a winner!

Yeah, and they earned that pvp gear pre xpac, probably even augmented it. If they want to stay in griefing midbies that's their choice, they wont get any rewards if they leave before the match ends. If they want to not buy the xpac and play swtor "shadow of wrecking lowbies" that's their decision too. What do you want bioware to do? Put in a bracket of 4 levels where the 55s with pvp gear destroy the 55s without it? Where you get a q pop every 3 hours? Or would you prefer that they took the expertise off old pvp gear so the people that earned that gear pre xpac get destroyed when they walk into level 60 warzones? Expansion is still so new that people are complaining about this. Every week the number of 55-59 players with pvp gear declines.

Because you're wearing pvp gear and they are not. Pvp gear which you can no longer obtain.

Oh look a dps is guarding. Tunnel him. Victory. Oh boy that was easy.

Your screenshot, and what he stated proved that nothing is wrong. Your anecdote of how you are getting #shrekt in warzones proves nothing. These threads are endless whining and complaining, and they are filled with people outing themselves as horrible players. Bolster is working as intended in the 30-59 bracket, deal with it. There is no problem which needs to be fixed.

So the screenshot you provided shows how bolster is working probably and you are complaining for no reason. Thank you. Expertise drops the damage you deal, and increases the damage you take by a flat percentage. This also looks like it was taken when ship parts were bolstering.

Which will give you nowhere close to the stats you are referring too. Nor will you have 2018 expertise. If this is such a widespread problem lets see a screenshot of what you guys are talking about. Should be prettry easy to find.

So you're complaining that augmented toons with full old pvp gear that you cannot get anymore are doing too well? That's obvious. That person will level to 60 and not be in the bracket anymore. That problem will fix itself, the expansion is still new. You cannot purchase old pvp gear anymore, and players like that are such a small margin of the playerbase. You also don't get 40k hp from the old pvp gear even at 59. Full dark reaver gives around 42.5 for most dps classes with all the datacrons at level 60. Most toons in that bracket will have 33k anyway. Crying, crying on the forums. Boo hoo hoo.

Especially when they're looking for a problem which doesn't exist.

This is impossible with bolster even when they are level 60. Screenshot of a toon with full 172 blue pve gear having 2018 expertise please. Liars and crybabies, all of you.

And of course this difference is in no way, shape, or form attributed to the level 30 playing his character for 30 levels while the level 55 could have 3 years of experience playing that toon. Like I said, it's always the fault of someone or something else.

The slot machines caused market prices on stims and augments to drop in half in two days. At that rate, crafting would not matter, augments would have been 20k per. It was cheaper to play the slots than even send companions out on missions. If they were not fixed, the entire economy would be dead. The problem was presented in great detail, and fixes were presented. Your threads about midbie pvp being unbalanced are insufferable complaining. You don't say what's wrong with the bracket, and even when you do your claims are unfounded. Augmented full brutalizer pvp toons will be gone soon, bolster works the same way it does in that bracket how it does at level 60. Those overgeared 55+ toons are experiencing huge expertise drops. You know that thing that decreases the damage you do, and increases the damage you take by a flat percentage? QQ more, I'm glad most of you whiners are getting wrecked. Nothing is going to change at level 60, you'll just find something else to complain about as you always do. Never individual skill, it's always another player abusing the game, or biowares fault, etc. The ride never ends.

Tanks have always been able to do decent damage with dps gear on. Welcome to the invention of tank tunnel. Less mitigation? Can't be guarded? Sounds like fun.

Content. He stated that force storm does not do too much damage, and that these complaints are coming from people who don't like lightning because they don't complain about force quake. People don't state that force quake does more damage because the majority of players are on imp side. Force storm can tick for 4k as an instant channeled aoe that slows, and has no cooldown. Interesting how you think someone who sounds like an esl student, and has horrendous grammar has "expertise in writing". The content of, and the writing itself makes no sense.

Fresh one from solo q http://i.imgur.com/jkq6Dbm.jpg?1