I get healers in WZ....... but it seems they NEVER heal the maras, they are too busy following Powertechs and getting their heal medals that way.... Whats even worse is I am doing my job, DPS/Healer hunter AND capping objectives, 90% of the time no votes unless guildies are there... Nerf Maras... all my other toons can kill them, maybe it is because I know the class and the one I am using....

no... no one does... and shut up about it dammit.....

You should play the class... Assassins do not have healing spells or the force bubble that sorcs have, never did.... The assassin has a defensive cd barrier.... The lightning is weak, I know I have a 50 of each and the lightning hits for half of my sorc (I play dec, not tank) Dots are one unless they are madness, and you have to hybrid to make it worthwhile Its an assassin, of course it has stealth It is an assassin of course it has speed (melee classes need gap closers) Stuns and mezzes... LIGHT ARMOR that other tanks lack.... I have not personally seen a tank assassin crit for over 3500....

^This Thank you Prime

First of all, insults do not help your argument.... Second you are proposing the concerted effort is to boost one player's comms, not the teams.... Third, I suppose that you don't realize that pugs will be funneled to this wz, unless of course your server has a horrid imbalance to the republic side, meaning that your "team" of imperials are the only people queing wz..... Solution is to drop the wz, as soon as you see the message that it will close due to imbalance, keep 2 in and everyone reque once out, your equiv of the mara and sorc should outspeed to the ball and if not the mara equiv can force charge the opposition keeping him off the ball... The game being 2 v 1 may stop the timer and even if it doesn't you still get the ball, your team reques and funnels back in to get the dauntless medals and the win. cheat countered.

Roots are not cc... you should read the sticky resolve guide, it will help you with your definitions. Crippling is a 12 second slow, and it is only 50%, considering the amount of push in the game, you will see it is not enough... If you had your way everything would count towards resolve, then there would be no one without a full resolve bar.... Filling someone's resolve is punished, you can't cc them.... would like to know how you intend on controlling individuals, rated or not.

First off I find it amusing that you attack someone who does not have an issue where you do, it shows that if it is your playstyle that is the issue, you have no intention on fixing it. Secondly I have a bunch of characters, one of each of the major classes and I have no issue where you do, the only thing I think should be refined is slowing to the point of immobilization, since it can last longer than any stun, root or mezz. Play as a Mara for a while and you will understand why rooting is very important to them, if you make their roots break on full resolve they cannot compete in PVP at all, they can only build enough resources to work when they remain in h2h AND face the target. Without roots facing the target and remaining in h2h at all is damn near impossible, the target has to be a REALLY bad player. This leaves the Mara with Choke and Leap to build resources (both have a CD) and Scream and Throw as their only viable attacks (both have a CD). With talents choke has a 45 s cooldown and requires the Mara to channel, so without roots the Mara has one rotation every 45 seconds that builds 7 rage which give him 2 screams and a throw. Not to mention this is all a 10 m range aside the charge. Maybe you should play something that is not a ranged class before criticizing?

^^ THIS!!! I have played MMO's as they are now for almost 20 years, I have played text based mmo's in the late 80's early 90's and I can say these things... SWOTOR was one of the smoothest openings The free content roll out has been excellent End game expansion has not been the only focus What I find in QQ forum world is a bunch of people who are convinced WOW started when they did (second expansion pack or later) and had an expectation that was unrealistic. I played around with WOW for a few weeks and was fed up with it, mainly because of how Galaxies ended, and Galaxies was the genre I wanted. People who really want this genre are not going anywhere, and in a year from now the unsubs will have a sad face. On the point of not being able to get into the game at all, I remember Asheron's Call, the 15 minute que time to log in, the loss of your place in que because of timeouts, I prefer to have lighter server pops than to have to deal with that and the laggy experience. Be careful what you wish for.

You can not get away from the differing gear issue, the only way is to cookie cutter gear stats and that leads to all sorts of issues based in playstyle. The problem people seem to be thinking is the expertise stat, I do not have an issue with this pvp buff stat, I think it is good to delineate between the two games. When I pvp I use pvp gear, when I pve I use pve gear, I just started to accumulate expertise and to be honest I do not really see much in the way of improvement. Maybe I gain about 2 seconds on a kill and 2 seconds over death, it is really not that impressive at this stage. The Pubes quitting is just dumb on their part, especially if the gear imbalance is an issue, quitting a war zone = 0 reward = 0 improvement on gear, at this point losing a war zone all the time will get you geared in 4-6 weeks (depending on how bad you lose, based on 2 hours in wz a day). When I lose I get 80+/- comms, if players lose like that it is 25 days to get the comms needed to buy a full set of pvp gear.

It is not my best playstyle, I like it, I think I do well, but I know I can improve it a lot... I have seen exceptional Dec Specs running around, they impress me, I wanted to test using the worst I am at, seems to me losers get something which is better, I did also notice less droppers in losing wz

My assassin again... win in HB 4-0 5 medals - 110 comms 4k credits Mind you medals for playing the game not killing everyone regardless (my assassin is dec spec so pvp handicapped as is)

lost novare 1 medal 35 coms and 1400 credits... My assassin sucks lol

this is because you are used to easy money, now that it is not so easy you want to complain... Comms become worth something when you put in effort for them

all the qqing can end.... 6 medals in HB, losing side 1600 credits and 60 comms... stop crying already.

The only solution to your conundrum is to have everyone geared exactly the same, if you cookie cutter everyone it will be the only way to have your skill v skill even applicable. Since this is not the case, and I hope it never is, since BW is moving away from that with being able to make all modable gear pvp gear I think I am happy, there are always variables. What about internet speed, machine performance and all the other factors which do not relate to skill... I do very well with expertise 0 right now.... even when I face off against players with expertise. I think this says something about skill more than gear.

You are told what is expected by the type of PVP that is offered. Objective based warzones is clear to me. Why play to win a warzone if you do not get rewarded beyond the losers?

1. no, I do not have BM gear, none of it, I only cue solo or with my wife, so by all means keep your bias in check. How much you got? I will take all your money. 2. no I do not benefit from the system with the exception that I understand the system and use that understanding to my advantage. 3. Now he is someone you personally interact with, not just some guy you know... eyeroll... 4. I made it quite clear how to avoid getting 0 comms... 5. Math you are doing it wrong, 6 weeks compared to 8 (that is 2 weeks less than two months) The fact is I am Joe Casual in pvp, I do it for fun because it is available, it is not the point and purpose of my game, especially since it is not open pvp, my preferred format. Aside from once I have NEVER received 0 comms, I have explained how and I have explained that in the instance of always losing it is not entirely true there will be some grand gear disparity. The perpetual winner will deck out a suit 2 weeks prior to the perpetual loser, so the disparity is what, 2 pieces, for 2 weeks? More or less my win loss is 50 50 in wz so no I don't always win, but I always try to win, and oddly enough it always works out that I gain comms for my effort. Again with supposition... PVP was broken, if you give a million $ to everyone then everyone is poor...

All you are really telling me is your healer friends are not participating in the warzone.... Sure, they heal for a whole lot, I bet there was not one of them within 30m of the warzone objective... I am sure not one of them was healing people actually involved in defending or capping warzone objectives... People still wonder why I grind comms quick, it is because me and a few others realized that the participation being rewarded is not 500k damage/healing/guarding, it is performing like that at the objective points in an attempt to win the warzone... I remember the player on my team whining about is paltry rewards, he was inconsolable and started getting verbally abusive when I explained nicely that all he had to do was change his tactics from fighting for top damage/kills and rather help the team win the damn warzone... that is the key to not getting 0 comms... after that you are looking at (for a perpetual loser) less than 2 months at 2 hours in pvp a day for the full gear... the perpetual winner takes two weeks less... gear disparity is a bs claim.

I Que solo except when my wife and I are playing together.... My wife, though has come a long way, is not a great player. Guilds on my server are always recruiting, my guild is too, my guild has vent, if I played when they were all active I probably could do premade runs... but I do not have experience with that just yet in SWTOR... Again you are, just like mr I QUIT WZ, are highlighting a player issue, not a program issue or system issue. I get 50/50 without a premade, maybe the last sentence in my prior post should be highlighted.

Don't have BM gear... qq qq qq I don't Either, and we do not see me crying to get more comms to do so.... Let's do the math Comm cap is 2k I get 8 medals per match usually (good average) losing gives me 48 comms winning gives me 80- something (I just got out of HB 8 reps to 4 imps we lost 6-0) Lets overstate, WZ = 20 min average rate/wz considering 50/50 (we will underestimate) 60 if you drop losses, considering the same 50/50 ratio the average rate/wz = 40 Everyone who is in had the chance to gear before 1.2, call it early bird rewards, contends with new players who did not, on their side and the opponents side. Faction based win loss is not absolute, the random rate prevails. 2000/60 = 33.3333333 wz to cap 33.33*20 = 666.66 minutes to cap dropping 2000/40 = 50 wz to cap giving the same 666.66 minutes the non dropper has 666.66/50 = 13.3332 you have to spend an average of 13 minutes per wz to equal the efficiency, considering half are winners 25*7=175 minutes are lost to winning wz 333.33-175= 158.33 minutes spread over 25 wz which should lose 158.33/25=6.3332 minutes to determine a winner over a loser. This also has the failure variable to consider, failing to determine winners from losers. What is the point? How much comms do you need? Why should you leave? Logic dictates unless you can guarantee you will get winning wz teams when you drop out, which you cannot, dropping is a net loss, especially if you all are as good as you can claim in the forums.

blaming the system for the players choices is just childish.

The point would be valid if we are looking at people being able to outgear after one or two matches.... There is no indication that winners get full gear in a day and losers take years.... point invalid.

Don't steal and misuse my analogy... Dismissive is defeat.

This I agree with.

If Michael Jordan was the best basketball player of all time but he lost every game because he was too busy dribbling circles around his opponents, would he still be a basketball player? the answer is no.