the biggest nerf to smash was that choke no longer builds shockwave, so now you can only do 2 quick smashes, berserk>smash, crush>smash w8. I still think they should take the smash off of berserk, but to each their own. I think with enough alacrity rage generation in carnage will hopefully be manageable

Do you plan on leveling through PVE? I personally hate most all PVE content, I know capping comms will be useful, but wont you be wasint some comms during the leveling process unless you go straight PvE, or do you just plan on buying med packs and crap to burn comms in the mean time? I wish they would let us just buy the 55 gear. Just to stare at it in your inventory till u get there, but i guess i can see the problems with that since many people already have multiple characters with capped comms, they could buy min/maxed ranked gear sooner with legacy and have one character outgear everyone for a long time. But still i know leveling alts just starign at the gear in my inventory makes me want to level faster

There will always be a "best" gear setup, and then people will ***** cause they have to PvE to get the best PvP gear or vice versa

What sucks is the 72 stuff is going to be much harder to come by then the 27s. Most people who do PVE will be needing on the gear for a while then when they do finnally get around to REing it who knows how many attempts it will take to get the schematic, if they have schematics (god i hope they do) I know that at the moment BW stated that they want PVE players to be able to go into PVP and be somewhere between recruit and EWH, but they never speicifically stated wehether it was working as intended that PVP gear is basically easier and faster PVE gear (welfare epics) to trivialize much of the old content. I wonder if this is BW's way of getting PVP gear out of PVE

I think they have the brackets the way they do because when the expansion comes out, the 30-49 bracket is not going to have enough people to make WZs. I'm sure they used the amount of players at a given level data that they have and we do not have to make this decision. Sure tis gonna suck to get rolled if your a lowbie just getting into the bracket, but almost everyone playing this game that I have met or talked to has at least one lvl50 and I imagine most all of them will be leveling their lvl50 first, be it in PvP or PvE content. I know I plan on leveling my 50's first before I start working on another alt. Although truthfully it may be kinda fun to leave my full WH Concealment operative stagnant for a couple months until I'm one of the few WH players in the bracket and stomp face for awhile. The bolster does not bolster down. It just gives less bolster per peice of gear if the gear is over a certain item rating.

Been playing around with this http://pts.swtor-spy.com/skill-tree-calculator/sith-assassin/222/?build=000000000000000000000000000000000322230221112030001022000000000003020312012200010000000000000000&ver=20 0/29/17 giving up auto-maul for raze and running lightning charge I don't see the point in gettign static cling and magnetism just to get auto duplicity proc, seems like alot of wasted points. Would be intrested in that Darkness hybrid build with 100% shock dmg. Are you finding your self force starved? I wonder how much alacrity it would take to overcome force starvation in some of these builds

So upon reading this thread, I can see what people are finally talking about when they said "win trading" its not Win Trading in the literal sense, people are just unhappy that they Q into Ranked WZs to have fun and enjoy the company of their fellow guildmates only to get stuck in an empty WZ whenever they have they are unfortunate enough to run into Darkness I believe that is a problem, that should be fixed, but its not right to call them win traders, call them WZ leavers or say they are ruining the ranked Q system, its not really trading anyone but you the person left in the empty WZ a win. I have grouped with these guys in rated, and they don't win trade when they get their own guild. They play to win, that being said I can see that's not really the point of the thread. When Taisia says "mean" guilds he means people that spam general chat, or spam members in tells calling Darkness Win Traders or other derogatory things, and he does kind of have a point. That's not being "competitive" and keeping PvP alive, or any other BS you want to call it. That's just being unreasonable, and a if the other team sticks people like that with an empty WZ then that is within the game mechanics to do, so it's not really the fault of the Darkness but more so the people who feel it necessary to bag on them both publicly and privately. This is now a small game. With an even smaller niche of Rated PVP guilds, since you have to be a subscriber, and most people are generally put off by playing Rated games within the first few games because they get facerolled by teams that have been around the block and sit in Q's for hours just licking their lips waiting for more fresh meat, it would be nice if Darkness started just taking any Q that pops. Its kind of crappy to make the other teams sit in an empty WZ when they want to play ranked WZs too but keep running into Darkness trying to play with themselves. But on the same note, its just as ****** for all the other teams to start rumors, and spam, and be rude to the members of the guild for doing that, it seem's its a catch 22, the more you spam and send nasty tells the more Darkness seems to become isolationist, if the other teams were more inclusive the WZ leavers would feel bad about leaving, but to snub an enemy is to raise up a friend. Can't the GMs of the few guilds meet on a neutral voice speak and hash out their differences like adults? with so few people actually playing Ranked WZs it would be best for everyone involved if they did. I remember when BioWare called all the guilds, together for the Guild Summit, it was a time that would have allowed mediation on equal terms, but that's unlikely to happen again, so you guys just need to work it out. It will be better for everyone, including the Ranked Scene in general on The Bastion. This used to be THE PvP server around here, its sad that its fallen so far, you don't see stupid **** like this on POT5 forums, its just actual competitive banter. thanks

I'm in the same boat, I haven't logged in in the last 5 days and the longer I go the less I want to log in.... I just heard my guild may have split in my absence if that turns out to be true that's gonna be it for me...

Thank you!

Only thing I can say about this one is that if the person can keep 4 people on one node that would make less people on the other nodes. Here's mine: 1. Sorc's that forget to keep their bubble up and get face planted over and over by stealth classes. 2. DPS that continually try to kill people getting heals rather then witch to the healer 3. Having more then 3 healers in huttball that do nothing but heal, so we can't actually kill anything but everyone still tries to play "offensively" rather then group up n hold. 4. Snipers dropping cover in melee range of a large group of enemies and not expecting to get destroyed 5. Operatives trying to run the ball from mid to goalline... 6. Lvl50 toons with 11k HPs in WZ's, check their gear, they have lvl 40 greens with defense stats (absorb) as a sniper 7. Ilum groups of 20+ chasing 3 people all the way to the enemy spawn where there's a full ops group of enemies waiting. 8. People who cry/yell in /ops usually insulting the rest of the team, or people who say "gg" in civil war when we're down by 10 points

I feel the same way! BW Please, please, hurry up and patch something to give people bored something to do! I know, your waiting for 1.2 to make a big "save the day patch" but seriously think about your timing some more. You said "March" right? but the Guild Summit is the first week of March ending on the 7th. So unless your going to put "the big patch" in while your Dev team is talking to the leaders of a large chunk of guilds on your servers (some of which are e-famous enough to fly to Austin) then its going to be at least the second week of March. So thats March 13th for 1.2, barring you don't get feedback from the Summit that you feel needs to be implemented, yeh right:rolleyes: So your expecting everyone to pay for another month of game time on promises? You probably going to release another teaser video right? around the time that everyone is going to start resubbing? Hopefully make a big blog post about it? I hope you also make a advertisement! Run it on TwitchTV or put it in movie theaters during the new 3D star wars movies. I'm hoping 1.2 will be enough content to bring back those that have left, but I question if 1.1.4-6(?) will be enough bug fixes to keep current subscribers I would love to see "all" the blatant bugs fixed by 1.1.6 then BOOM, huge content patch 1.2, and we have everything we have been hoping for. Guild Banks, Legacy customization/skills, New PVP Wz, new Ilum that doesn't suck, new Raids, new set of tier gear, hue to chest, white color crystal, basically everything everyone wants!

this, more like 5% tho

That would be cool! I'd also like to see an ability like: IWIN: Requires nothing; Instant. Cast a massive debuff to everyone else in the area effectively making them target dummies with different name plates. Repeated use of this ability will lead to smaller server populations and eventual mergers or end of life for the game client. Seriously, I would love to see acid blade free, especially since it would allow us to be both more "bursty" and able to sustain more DPS in both PVE and PVP, but I definitely think people saying it should be a buff/ never need to eb cast ect are just being silly. If you want a simple class play BH/CMD

See this is the big thing, I didn't follow this game at all. I even bad mouthed it a good amount because I thought it was gonna be lame. I like star wars but I'm not a huge fan, and BW made some good games but again I wasn't really planning on playing it. But low an behold here I am and I do enjoy it, I think it has a lot to do with my guild being good and enjoying hanging out with them more then anything else these days since really there's not a ton to do at 50, but I think people that were expecting more from then game are disappointed. This is why im kinda scared to be too excited for GW2

I'm enjoying pvp with my guild mates. I'm in no hurry to get BM gear, 58valor atm, I figure it will come. I don't kill my self doing dailies any more, if there's a fight in ilum I will do my daily, I always get my WZ daily done but that's cause I'm still having fun in WZs with friends. I'm trying to get a tatooine OWPVP event going we'll see how that goes. Truthfully I would love to see some attack-able bases or more objective based OWPVP, they kinda had something but then broke it worse with ilum, I want some kind of objective back in ilum, not just kill each other for no reason other then dailies. I'm lucky I think in that every teus there is a large battle in ilum so I can finish my weekly/daily that day every time. I wont pick up those boxes... Also what else is there to play? Tera is crap, Asian grinder/non-interactive kill quests, the combat system is cool, but the grind reminds me to much of wow, and I'm not going to force myself through the crappy content just to play the combat system. Not to mention there's no stealth class, no real pet class, which are the only 2 archetypes I enjoy. As far as GW2 goes, yeh I'm looking forward to it as well, but I'm really hoping 1.2 comes out blows everyone away and people will play both, cause I do genuinely like this game