Clearly you wear centurion of below? My High Impact Bolt crits jugs for 2.5-3.2k when they dod 4.2-5.4k pretty easily. I dont last more than 5-7 seconds, most of which I am being chain stunned. Can usually charge me and just obliterate me before I can get them past 80... they are easily dealing 200% of my DPS to me... which is why I stand no chance. My defensive CDs are terrible. Even if I get the jump on a scrub sentinel they pop immunity and then take me from ANY hp that I have to 0, whether I have 50 or 80 % left. SO many biased trolls in here. Get at least half BM (the difference between that and BM is negligible, as trooper will want most of the champion mods anyway - surge and power or accuracy and crit? hah) Then face people in equal gear. THEN come talk. Instead its some scrub that I prob two shot because they were not geared... the same player an equally geared jugg would 1 shot...

What cooldowns? I have 2 minute CD that reduces damage by 25% and 15% heal over 10 sec on a 3 minute CD. I am not a sentinel with invisibility and 90% dmg reduction. I have not a shadow that can pop auto deflect/resist on everything. I have the worst defensive CDs and the worst CC in the game on top of getting stomped in comparative damage. Stop pulling spells out of your arse.

Well, if every other class in the game can stomp you in 1v1, and you have very little utility (harpoon has longer CD than sage spells, and sages have MORE spells combined [knock back on 20 sec, the sprint, the grip, etc, trooper just gets grip]) then what use are you? Just about every other class in the gave has more CC than a 45 sec CD 2.5 stun and a minute CD 4 sec stun...

To start, Im 5/5 Champ main piece Battlemaster with all the rest of my gear. I find it VERY hard to 1v1 just about anyone. I have tried ironfist specs, tactics, and assault. Right now I run assault because the other specs feel even worse. When I face Juggs with my item level I have seem crits over 5.2k on me. My highest impact bolt back was 2.8k.... Today I found a jugg with a hair over 14k hp (dude must have been in blues and centurian gear) I figure I can take him... I high impact bolt crit the poorly geared player for 3.3k... okay, hey leaps, throws me, leaps again, chain CCing me and does over 4.2k + tons of other random little numbers, then spams 2.5k a pop (my ion pulse is critting him for 1.2k) Their freaking lightsaber throw is hitting harder than my high impact bolt, they carry a lot of mitigation, and really, no matter how much I try to kite them with one 2 sec 50% slow, it only takes seconds of melee to chew through my HP at a rate 3x faster or more than I can do back. Really... I have only seen anything near 5k when I had the PVP zerker buff, stim pack, power trinket proc, etc, on a player with 12k hp. But jugs do that do vanguards in half BM gear half Champ... I am THRILLED to encounter other trooper/bounty hunters. Really the only class I can challenge 1v1 at all right now... Any advice? Any reason these classes are hitting me SO MUCH FREAKING HARDER than I can ever HOPE to hit them back? OH, and High Impact bolt also gets deflected or dodged about half the time as well because its white dmg...

as assault my highest HIB was for 3.6k on a player that has 12k hp (clearly not wearing any good gear) Not sure how ppl are pulling 4-5k in players actually geared.... I sense trolls coming in here? Ppl post pvp videos claiming vanguard is good... and that vanguard dies 75% of the time in 1v1.... classes like assassins you CANT get away from because of how much CC they have and the fact you only have a chance to proc 50% snare... they will be up on you 85% of the time minimum. Often I can be chained/incapacitated for over 10 sec + ton of roots after, then crippling disabling slows. They are instantly popping 3k, 2.8k, 3k back to back and im losing 25% of my HP per global sometimes... as a spec that is carrying 51% passive mitigation....

that guy gets owned half the time.... classes take him from 25 to dead instantly, 1v1....

Really? with champion gun and 594 expertise my Stock strike crits in a match range from 1.2 to 2.2k, and my ion pulse from 800 to 1.6k (CRITS!) Full auto usually is hitting for 500 as well. My damage is pure garbage versus anything equally geared to me. If I encounter anything in my item lvl 1v1 I stand no chance. They chew through my HP faster than I can theirs while spamming every CD and skill that I have. Like I said.... I play 2.2k arena in WoW with junk comps just fine. WHen I play my SWTOR alts I destroy just about everyone 1v1... (albeit in 10-49 warzone, but I can kill players with higher lvl and higher hp). Vanguard though? I can do everything perfect and dish everything out, and simply not do jack crap for damage. Then a marauder from 15 meters blats 25% of my health off in one global, or more. Its BS, and its def not me. SO far I have just played with teams where I guard and pull mad huttball skills for wins. But actual, 1v1, or small group PVP, I am useless beyond "guard" for teammates.

try playing a vanguard, and consider yourself lucky dmg is so low as tank spec that other classes still easily own you, they have no mechanics to get away beyond a random 50% slow (any other methods are easily countered with the other player's cooldowns, so always in melee against them) and just overall pretty much crap A marauder at 20% hp will kill me when I have 40... basically takes me out in one hit and then 1 more global, crits, and I die. Meanwhile he is regaining more HP than I can do in dmg. Im 594 expertise.

So, Im around 594 expertise right now, and have tried both the 25ish/13/2ish spec, and the full assault spec for PVP, and in both cases, it's just utterly pointless. As shield/pvp spec, an assassin or marauder can still tear through me in seconds. My hardest hitting spell, stock strike, maxes out at 2.2k even with champion surge trinket popped. Yet I see them hitting back over 3k no problem, often many simultaneous, very high numbers. Even if I get the jump on someone, get them to around 40% when I have 90%, they just turn around and chew through/own me in mere seconds. My dmg and mitigation simply doesnt even bring me close. And as assault... my damage actually goes up to a point that it crosses the mediocre threshold.... but sages have more mitigation than I do as assault. Basically assassin can stun me and kill me before it ends. Spec is non-viable because the damage is only mediocre, and the vanguard is made of glass. I came from WoW, a game with horrid balance. Even playing horribly underrepresented comps in that game I could still surpass 2.2k without much trouble. But dang, playing my vanguard feels like Im playing a warrior versus nothing but frost mages. Account canceled untill I see patch notes that offer any hope. I dont have the time it takes to lvl another to 50 and get back in the same gear. -offer me a free class change... I'd stay - the game overall is very good and impressed me in a lot of ways. However - I am a PVP player... and I just happened to pick the WRONG class. Leveling and story was fun while it lasted.

as mine is impossible to play on with 40 ppl TOTAL on the fleet on weekend nights... so much for standard? was a heavy not long ago

I chose my server because it was one of the few heavies available... still pretty dismal

I know it was a goal at launch to get players into servers, but now after it has died down I can hardly find anyone to play with. It is a standard server at an hour where 90%+ of the servers say standard, but on the republic fleet its often between 30 and 85 people at its peak, and most planets are between 5 and 15 people. Illum had like, 5 people the other night :\. There are awesome outdoor PVP zones that are completely barren. I left WoW for two reasons 1)PVP balance was pathetically horrid - you either played a mage or rogue, or you didnt pvp AND 2)the servers were becoming ghost towns (omitting the few servers that everyone was paying to transfer to) This game is awesome, but it really needs to have live and flourishing servers to keep up its flare.