I am a casual player, i have played a few hours here and there after work. And im almost War Hero.. It's easy to get pvp gear in this game. I would agree with you if it's like in other games where you literally have to be unemployed to be able to compete, but this is not the case. This game can not compete with Battlefield, teamfortress 2 etc in the pvp area. Ok if we had 50 different wz's, and different maps maybe. What makes this some what unique is the gear, the many talents, classes, different builds etc.

Maybe not a bad idea.. I see many people complain about the unusefulness of flame thrower, because acording to them, ppl just move out of the way. I personally though only use it after carbonize, or electro dart. And with carbonize, position myself so that as many as possible are burned in the fire. Another idea could be to make it mobile, so you could run after enemies with it, and would only stop after the duration, use of another attack or if stunned.

Remove pneumatic boots from the skill three, and add a default 15% movement speed increase while high energy gas cylinder is active. Remove shoulder slam as a default move (that doesnt work in pvp) and make it replace the current pneumatic boots skill. It's a cool ability.. It could work as it does now, but even cooler would be if it didnt required the enemy to be stunned, but instead does some dmg and also stuns/knockbacks the enemy, makes since. Could also work like a charge, but with less range. Prototype flame thrower, make immolate also add points to the stack. I am also tempted to put a chance to reset railshot somewhere in there, but maybe would be to much. What do you think, and any more ideas?

"Heat Blast is no longer limited by the global cooldown. "Its damage has been reduced by approximately 15%." What does this exactly mean, never used the skill.. Does it mean that it has no cooldown anymore, and can be spammed? Or that it shared a cooldown with something else before?

Powertech can't heal, they don't have stealth, invulnerability bubbles etc. They are not really tanks, there are no real tanks in the game, atleast in pvp.. Sure they can guard another player, but they will still be squishy if attacked. All classes can dps in the right three.. some have lower dmg but more survivablity, some are a littly bit more squishy but make up for it with more dps, stealth & utility. So it's not as easy as saying ohh this class can do a lot of dmg nurf!! You have to look at the whole picture. If they would nerf railshot they would have to compensate for it a lot by giving us more utility or make us harder to kill. Or none would play the class..

If i remember right it gives you more expertise, so it's good for people who don't have alot of it, and not so good vice versa.

What annoys me is not the RNG, but that you only get 1 BM bag for the weekly quest. At valor rank 60 you already have all the champion pieces you need, and enough for augments and equipping some chars. Not fun then to get 30 champion commendations after winning 9 warzones/150 kills, which take a while compared to the daily. I haven't even equipped many of my BG set pieces because without modified augments they will suck. Getting a full set + BG-augments will probably take years..

Im PT and full champion with like 5 BM pieces. And railshot will hit for 1500-2000k 95% of times. 4000-7000? no way.. Even when i blow all my relics and adrenals i have a hard time getting the 2500k medal. This is running the CP build.. Maybe you can hit for 3000-3500k if you go full pyro, but then you will be weak, no jet charge, no shield etc.

One thing i thought of yesterday. It would be cool with a map with forcefields that go on/off. Like in the scene with obi & qui vs Darth Maul. Like a long hall you have to go through to get to the goal in a huttball map. Separating players from eachother. Forcing people with the ball to group up and not enter alone. Haven't thought to much exactly how it would be implemented in a good way.

Funny i made a thread about this yesterday to: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=282082 But your title is better so i will bump this, hoping that someone at Bioware reads this. - Taking help from the community is a smart thing, making a map-contest. Not that Bioware couldn't do this them selfs. But maybe they have other priorities, like making flashpoints. - Using planets for inspiration, will add diversity to the maps. And save time making them. - We not only need more huttball maps, but also civilwar, and voidstar maps.

Don't know if that was directed at me, thinking i meant something like that when i mentioned adding more turrets in a aldeeran-scenario. What i mean is if you look at a game like Counter-Strike (that most ppl should have heard about), it had two differnt map-scenarios. Rescue hostages, or plant/defuse a bomb. If they only had two maps for these scenarios the game would become boring really fast. It's not the same to play de_aztec or de_dust.

Will this new warzone be someting completely different? I wonder if they want every warzone to be completely unique? Thats nice. But i don't think a hutball or voidstar map should take 3 months to make. If they use existing models.. and they have a lot of models to choose from. And why not do it, when it would add so much to pvp. Guess we will see what happens..

Hello! I know this games is new, and i have ejoyed the warzones that are in the game. But it get's repetitive. World Of Warcraft had the same problem. How many flashpoints and operations are in the game? Seems lika a lot. Compared to pvp content. Space missions, 6 companions for every class, 10000 mounts etc. Voices for every quest. That is good.. But pvp doesn't seem to get the same attention. Still if you look at the forum, pvp seems to be one of the things that people are the most interested in. PvP: Total Threads: 18,993 Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions: Total Threads: 3,204 How hard is it to make like 4 huttball maps? Doesn't even have to be with completely new graphics/models. Make a snowmap with freezing cold water instead of acid pits. A desert map etc. Hoth/Tattoine. The important thing is that every map requires different tactics. Hire a guy to just think/paint out cool warzone ideas. Just adding one or two turrets to capture/defend in alderaan, would require a new tactical approach. Not flaming just worried, looking at the content. that we will get 1 new warzone a year, and 45 new flashpoints, and 375 new mounts.

I started to do warzones at lvl 49, and was scared to reach 50 from reading all the posts in the forums about how new lvl 50s would be "slaughtered like pigs". And would stand no chance against battlemaster etc. I have some small pvp experience from playing wow a couple of years ago. When i reached 50 the first thing i did was to upgrade my greens and blues to crafted lvl49purple gear. Money is easy to get in this game in my opinion. When reaching 50 you should have atleast 200k, if skipping the meaningless 110% mount for example. Then i got my matrix cube. And bought some cheap blue lvl 49 augments to put in my gear. Now after playing a lot of 50 matches, and ilum even with my tiny 130 expertise. I don't understand the problem. I am often at the top of the scoreboards, most medals, decent damage etc. Not to brag or anything, just saying. I got a couple of champion pieces fast. The only thing thats not fun is a low gear random group against a premade champion/battlemaster group. But's thats how it is. Just my 2 cents. And on my server (bloodworty) there is actually some epic fighting going on on Illum, only been there 2 times. But republic has actually outnumbered us. The only thing i feel missing is more objectives in that zone. Like able to win, and a reset. Like warzones.

A couple of times now, three in a short time today when playing huttball, and one time yesterday on voidstar. I have managed to jet charge myself outside the map. The only thing i can see is the sky map. I can't move, or do anything. But i can see whats going on in chat, health bar etc. So it's not the computer that freezes. Very annoying.. This has happend to me only when charging from bridge to bridge. Anyone else have this problem?