You need to come out with some tutorial videos, man. I keep fighting groups of people multiple levels lower than I am, but I keep getting decimated. How do you do it?

I can't speak much for Charged Bolts, since I'm a Vanguard, but I can safely say that no talent trees buff Explosive Round because it's absolutely worthless except in the most specific of situations(such as keeping a group of people from capping a door in PvP). It costs 3 ammo, does only slightly more damage than Hammer Shot, and its AoE damage is laughable. And if Charged Bolts' casttime is only 1.5 seconds, than theoretically, it has the same cast-time as Explosive Round, with the exception that you have to stand still to use it. (1.5second cast-time vs. 1.5second GCD.)

My 50 Vanguard(and Elara).

Vornskr. We're winning about 90% of our PUG games.

Opened 4 BM bags today, got 3 BM pieces. 2 relics, and pants.

Trooper starts planting bomb, Smuggler uses Smuggle (AoE stealth), which doesn't break the bomb planting cast, so Trooper, Smuggler, and anyone else nearby go into Stealth while the Trooper is still capping.

Marauders/Sentinels seem to be one of the classes with a wider skill range. I've seen some geared ones who do incredibly poorly, and then I've seen a couple that can tear through someone in a matter of seconds. It appears they have incredible damage when played right, but look to have some trouble staying on-target.

I hope you're Beergoggles on Vornskr. I really don't want cross-server warzones, no matter how long single-server queues would be. I've made a rep for myself on my server, and basically all of the (good) Empire players fear/respect me, and I've quite good friends with a lot of them. Republic players see me in a warzone with them, and I usually get a few "hi"s here and there, because they know who I am. Add in cross-server, and there goes any sense of competition or comradery among players. The other people you're playing with/against become faceless, nameless NPCs that you'll never see again.

Relics are having Endurance (72 End to Columi relics, for example) next patch.

At 40, I bought the Guardian pvp chest, and just replaced the mods. I used them until I got my Champ chest at 50. This is what they look like.

Your last video wasn't worth the 30 seconds it took to download(in my opinion), so I won't download this one unless it's given some good reviews. I'll wait until then.

Battlemaster != skilled.

We actually had two tonight, one in a guild premade, and a second in a pug. I only screenshotted the former, however.

About everyone complaining about the new Ilum daily... read the damn patch notes. This means if there's no players to kill, you can spend time at the Center Assault gathering items instead. This has the added bonus of making players gravitate to the middle of the map, so there's higher chances of seeing members of the opposing faction.

I feel ya, man. This guy on my server is valor30, and full Champ besides wrist and offhand. I didn't even get 2piece until valor55. It's stupid.

I think this screenshot speaks for itself. For reference with my whisper to him, I'm valor58. The only Champ pieces he doesn't have are wrists and offhand, and he said he had the relics but isn't using them due to no stats(which I understand).

Interrupt his explosion-whatever ability, since if it goes off, it applies a debuff to you that increases damage taken by A LOT. Only interrupt that, and you don't have to worry about anything else.

DoT them. Or, as soon as they cloak/you predict a cloak, AoE. Or be a Trooper/BH and instant Stealth Scan them out of it.

Soloqueue about 8 matches today, Republic won every match. Don't base an entire faction off of your server's population. Edit: In every Alderaan match we've played, we 3-capped. (With no small thanks to me holding East solo against 2-5 Emp while the rest of my team just facerolls mid/west.)

Assault Plastique literally replace Sticky Grenade, since they share a cooldown. And I actually use Sticky Grenade quite often; I try to keep it on cooldown. It has a decent damage:ammo ratio, and in PvP, any AoE damage is nice. (Although I'll refrain from using it if there's CC going out.)

Once a day.

I imagine you just sit there chaincasting while they chaincast on you? Smart. There's two ways I deal with Mercs/Sorcs: 1 - Interrupt their Tracer/FL, and watch them either stand there for 4 seconds, or use their knockback, which I immediately Storm/Harpoon 2 - Attack someone else and keep the Merc/Sorc in sight, and LoS them. It's hilarious watching them move three feet to the side, start their cast again, only to be LoSed within half a second by me.

The last boss in hardmode flashpoints drop one Biometric Crystal, while bosses in operations drop two a piece. You'll get it depending on how lucky you roll/how many others in your group Need on it.

If you're Empire, I can understand why you see it's fair. As Republic though, it's far from it, all due to one reason: Sorcerors. On my server, I know of about... FIVE sages that are level 50(I know most of the 50s on my server, both Emp and Rep). However, we get a RepvEmp Huttball match, and more than half of the time, there's 4+ Sorcs on their team. Force Speed and their knockback spam alone can win a match if it's Pug vs Pug. That said, yes, I know a premade can counter that with passes/charging to stupid enemies chilling up on platforms. I'm speaking of a PugvsPug scenario, where a class/spec that already spams its knockback enough as-is can actually alter the outcome of a match by blindly spamming it.

Welcome to the one-button world of Mercs and Sorcs.